Honorary Chairs

Early Stage East

2009 Senator Thomas R. Carper (D-DEL)
2007 William A. Scari, Jr., Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP
2006 Glenn Rieger, Partner, NewSpring Ventures and NewSpring Capital
April Young, Senior Vice President/Managing Director, Comerica Bank
2005 Andrea Kaufman, Partner, Nowak Biddle Venture Partners
Rob McCord, Managing Director, PA Early Stage Partners
2003 Brenda R. Gavin, Managing Partner, QuakerBio Ventures
Donald Franceschini, retired Vice Chairman and Director of Sara Lee Corporation
2002 E. Rogers Novak, Jr., Co-Founder, Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Jamie Hamilton, Partner, President, Corlante, Inc
2001 Frank Bonsal, Co-Founder & General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Josh Kopelman, President & Founder, Half.com
2000 P. Kevin Kilroy, CEO, Bluestone Software (sold to Hewlett Packard)
John Martinson, Managing Partner, Edison Venture Funds
1999 Pete Musser, founder, former Chairman & CEO, Safeguard Scientifics, Inc
Steve Walker, founder, Trusted Information Systems / Steve Walker Associates
1998 Frederick J. Beste III, Founder, CEO Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds
Richard W. Vague, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Juniper Bank
Bio Life Tech 

2008
2007
Alan Levin, Director DEDO
Eva M. Jack
, Director, Business Development of MedImmune
2006 Zev Scherl, General Partner, New Spring Capital
2004 Gerald A. Shaafsma, General Partner, Anthem Capital
David C. U’Prichard, Partner, APAX International
2003 P. Sherrill Neff, Managing Partner, Quaker BioVentures
2002 Frank A. Bonsal, Jr., Founding Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Russell L. Gantt, Vice President, Licensing, North America, AstraZeneca