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CVF Board Members All board members are volunteers who serve without compensation. Coronado Ventures Forum board members for 2006 are:
 Andy Alsop, a CVF Director since 2006, is currently President & CEO of Packet Analytics a venture-backed Network Forensic Search Engine software company based in Santa Fe. Formerly Andy was director of Business Assistance with Technology Ventures Corporation a non-profit business assistance organization serving early stage technology companies. Andy has been a co-founder in four different startups spanning the past fifteen years. His startup experience has given him deep understanding of technology management, business development, operations, finance, human resources, marketing and sales. Andy's previous company, Panorama Point Corporation grew to just under 20 people with offices in New Mexico and Arizona and established its position as New Mexico's premier web communications company serving clients such as Lucent, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Cowboys & Indians Magazine. Andy led the sale of Panorama Point to a top-tier New Mexico search engine optimization and web development firm in January of 2005. Andy graduated with a B. A. in Business Administration from the School of Business & Economics at WVU.
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 Brian Birk, a CVF Advisor and Director since 2005 has over 20 years investment and operating experience. He was a senior manager at The Boston Consulting Group and had stints at GE Capital and Flywheel Ventures. Mr. Birk has held executive positions in three start-up companies which raised over $40 million in venture financing. Mr. Birk joined Fort Washington Capital Partners Group in 2004 as Vice President and Regional Director for Private Equity. Mr. Birk leads Fort Washington's advisory work with the State of New Mexico as well as helps manage the New Mexico Co-Investment Partners Fund, a $46m fund focused on direct co-investment opportunities in the State of New Mexico. Mr. Birk earned a BS in Economics from Carleton College, and his MBA from The Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where hegraduated first in his class.
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 Randy Burge is a CVF past-Chairman, Advisor, and Director since 1997. Randy is currently president of ProActive.Tools, a technology consulting company. Formerly, he was the Director of the Office of Science and Technology at the NM Economic Development Department (NMEDD). He is founder and President of the NM Information Technology & Software Association (NMITSA). He is actively involved in the techno-economic development of the region serving or served on several boards including the Council of Regional Information Technology Assns., Association of Commerce & Industry, LANL Industrial Business Development, NMSU Physical Sciences Institute, Sandia Science and Technology Park, Next Generation Economy, Explora Science Center and Children's Museum, NM Small Business Development Center, and the Swarm Development Group, a spinout from The Santa Fe Institute. He is also a past President of the New Mexico Entrepreneur's Association. He graduated from New Mexico State University and The Economic Development Institute at The University of Oklahoma.
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 Darlene Collins a CVF director since 2007, joined Psilos Group Managers LLC in October 2005. Ms. Collins leverages over twenty years healthcare experience and a national network of government and industry relationships in support of Psilos' investment activities. Ms. Collins focuses on deal sourcing and evaluation and she serves as a strategic advisor to many portfolio companies on market development and growth opportunities in the public sector. She also plays a key role in Psilos public policy initiatives on behalf of our portfolio companies. Her areas of expertise include government and employer-sponsored health benefit programs, information-driven technology, pharmaceutical/health benefit management strategies, disease management initiatives and medical device technology. Prior to joining Psilos, Ms. Collins was an accomplished executive and business management consultant in the areas of best practice evaluation and research, business and market intelligence, customer relationship management and government relations, project management, policy and program technical assistance, and business planning. Managing her own firm, her clients included the World Congress (Strategic Leadership for the Healthcare Industry), the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, PAREXEL International Medical Marketing Services, private companies and organizations (HMOs, outsource vendors, medical groups, industry associations, pharmaceutical firms, PBMs), and the media. Ms. Collins speaks on a variety of topics and often moderates business roundtables and healthcare leadership summits. Collins received her M.P.H. and Credential of Advanced Studies in Health Services Administration from the University of Minnesota, and a Masters in Education from Clarion State University.
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 Michael Doolittle, a CVF Advisor and Director since 2004, is the Director of Venture Banking at Los Alamos National Bank (LANB). LANB's Venture Banking group is focused on providing tailor-made debt financing solutions and deposit services to emerging businesses and their investors throughout New Mexico. Mr. Doolittle's professional background includes over 15 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis and investment management in the U.S., the UK and Europe. He currently serves on the Council of Business Advisors to the Santa Fe Business Incubator. Mr. Doolittle holds a BS in Finance from California State University, Long Beach and an MBA in Finance and New Venture Development from London Business School.
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 Gary Ebersole, a CVF Director since 2007, has over 30 years experience in the information technology industry. In addition to experience in senior management positions with industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Informix Software and Apollo Computer, Gary has also held executive roles in several enterprise software startups. These include President and CEO of Clustra Systems, CEO of Paremus Limited and President of ANTS Software. In 2002, Gary engineered the sale of Clustra Systems to Sun Microsystems. He specializes in working with early-stage startups, often as the first professional executive manager in these companies bringing a focus on product strategy, marketing programs and sales development. Gary has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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 David Franklin, a CVF Director since 2006, is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Strategic Analytics Inc. Mr. Franklin directs company sales, marketing, and business strategy. Mr. Franklin worked as a financial analyst in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance at Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated. After receiving his MBA, he joined McLagan Partners of Stamford, CT, a leading management consulting firm to the financial industry. At McLagan Partners, Franklin worked with top managers in the institutional equity business for essentially all of the leading global brokerage firms. During his eight years with the firm, Franklin greatly expanded the firm's computerized market share study of the institutional equity business, an ongoing multi-client market study that has been in continuous existence since the 1970s. After being named a Managing Director in 1997, Franklin left McLagan Partners in 1999 to co-found Strategic Analytics. Mr. Franklin is a member of the board of NMITSA, the New Mexico Information Technology & Software Association and the Santa Fe Business Incubator, a leading non-profit facility that houses and supports emerging businesses in the Santa Fe area. Franklin is currently President of the Bob Langsenkamp Foundation, a non-profit that supports Boy Scouts of America. He received his BA in History from Yale University in 1983. In 1991 he earned an MBA with Honors from New York University's Stern School of Business.
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 Todd Hand, a CVF Board member since 2006, is Managing Director & Founder of Talent Capital Group venture-backed recruiting firm started in Boston. Working with venture capitalists and their company founders, Talent Capital Group specializes in finding and hiring "high impact" individuals for emerging growth technology and life science companies. Many of Talent Capital's clients come from technologies out of universities and research labs. Prior to Talent Capital, Mr. Hand was Director of Talent Acquisition at idealab, where he recruited management teams for this incubator's start-ups. He moved there from the Yankee Group, a Boston-based technology market research firm, where he led the company's recruiting department. Since 1994, Mr. Hand has filled hundreds of technology management positions. He has spoken at Harvard, MIT, the Massachusetts Software & Internet Council, the University of New Mexico's Science & Technology Corp., and TVC/TEC. Mr. Hand has committed his firm to helping the entrepreneurial community in New Mexico find and attract world-class technology and life science people for its early-stage companies. Mr. Hand holds a BA in Industrial Psychology from Penn State.
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 Bill Heckel, a CVF Advisor and Director since 1997, is a financial consultant with A.G. Edwards, specializing in tax advantaged investing, wealth accumulation and investment banking. Prior to moving to Santa Fe, Bill focused on the operation and financial restructuring of industrial concerns. He was the CEO of US operations for both Japanese and German international corporations and has been involved in businesses related to specialty gases and chemicals, heavy steel fabrication, aluminum surface diffusion, industrial gases, plastics and contract engineering. Bill is actively involved in a wide variety of Santa Fe community organizations including the Santa Fe Council on International Relations, Historic Santa Fe Foundation, The Opera Guild of Santa Fe, and the Santa Fe National Association of Life Insurance and Financial Advisors, among many others. Mr. Heckel hlds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University and and an MBA in International Management from Penn State University. |
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 Kevin Holsapple, a CVF Advisor and Director since 1998, is the Executive Director of the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (LACDC), a non-profit corporation that promotes community economic development and supports small business development in Los Alamos and the region. LACDC activities include management of the Los Alamos Research Park, the Small Business Center, The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce and the UNM-Los Alamos Small Business Development Center. He accepted his position with the LACDC following nine years with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Holsapple holds a BA in Business Administration from The Indiana University School of Business and an MBA from Arizona State University and The College of Santa Fe. |
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 Michele Huff, a CVF Advisor and Director since 2005, is a member of the California and New Mexico Bars. She has practiced licensing and intellectual property law in the technology arena for the past 20 years, and has worked in a legal/ business capacity with companies both large and small. She spent eight years at Sun Microsystems, and was a co-founder and COO of Kalepa Networks. Ms. Huff is actively involved with non-profits that are focused in the areas of environmental protection, human rights, and education reform, and was elected to the Board of the Santa Fe Public Library. She was born and raised in New York City, received her BA from Colorado College and her JD, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University College of Law. She writes, speaks French fluently, and has a working knowledge of Spanish. |
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 Larry Icerman, a CVF Founder and Director since 1994, is President of Icerman & Associates, an advanced-technology, management consulting firm specializing in all aspects of technology transfer and commercialization. In addition to nine years of research and development management experience, Dr. Icerman has spent a number of years teaching at the university level and is widely published in research and scholarship. He has also served as the founding Director of the New Mexico Research and Development Institute, one of the first state-funded seed capital programs in the US, where he was involved in the early stages of more than twenty-five technology based companies. Larry holds four engineering degrees from MIT, The University of California at San Diego as well as a PhD in engineering sciences and an MBA in finance from San Diego State University. |
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 Greg Kulka, MBA, CFA, a CVF Director since 2003, is Director - Alternative Investments Portfolio at the New Mexico State Investment Council (NMSIC). Most of his career (24 years) was spent at a suburban Chicago property & casualty insurance company managing both equities and fixed income assets. His duties at the NMSIC consist of overseeing two private equity programs with total commitments of $1 billion. These are divided between a national program, whose selection criteria is strictly top tier performance, and a New Mexico regional program, which has the competing goal of encouraging economic development within New Mexico. He also manages other so-called "differential rate" programs that also have economic development goals. The highest profile of these programs is the film investment program whereby the State Investment Council invests in projects that are filmed substantially in New Mexico and that hire at least 60% of their production crew from within New Mexico. The state has invested $20 million in three film projects: Suspect Zero, Blind Horizon and Elvis Has Left the Building. Mr. Kulka has a BA in physics from the University of Colorado and a MBA in finance and economics from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). |
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 Belinda Padilla, a CVF Director since 2005, is is currently the Program Manager of the Development Office within the Technology Transfer (TT) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Belinda's group is responsible for identifying, nurturing and marketing opportunities for commercialization through education, training, networking and mentoring programs. In addition, Belinda's group has a specific responsibility to support Laboratory entrepreneurs and encourage new business development in Northern New Mexico. Belinda has been at the Laboratory for twelve years, working with a broad range of LANL staff and within a wide variety of LANL programs to facilitate technology commercialization, most recently focusing on nurturing start-up companies based on LANL technology or expertise. Since 1997, Belinda and her team have supported over 300 clients and worked with over 80 new start-up companies in Northern Mexico. Belindas most well-known accomplishment is the establishment of an MBA internship program at LANL for mid-term MBAs interested in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Candidates are selected from both in-state universities and top-ten business schools such as Stanford and Harvard University and Babson College. Ms Padilla earned both a BBA Marketing and Executive MBA from the University of New Mexico. Belinda has been recognized by the Santa Fe New Mexican and the NM Business Weekly as one of NM's top technology leaders, and received Distinguished Performance Awards from LANL's Director in 1996 and 1998.
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 Gary Seawright, a CVF Director since 2005, has 28 years of experience in entrepreneurship; technology and business management; and biomedical research. Gary is now the founding President of AmeriCulture, Inc., an aquaculture company which uses sustainable technology and renewable energy to cultivate tilapia, one of the most consumed seafood species in the US. Prior to AmeriCulture, Gary was the founding CEO of Amtech Corporation (now a division of Transcore), which develops, manufactures and markets the world's leading line of radio-frequency identification (rfid) products for the transportation industries. Gary participated in the rfid development project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and led the research team in transferring the technology out of Los Alamos into the private sector. In five years, Amtech went from a garage startup to a public company and eventually grew to more than $100 million in annual sales and 300 employees in its Albuquerque, NM facilities. During his career, Gary has also served as a Captain in the US Air Force, Assistant Professor of Virology, Veterinary Officer at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories, and Project Leader and Program Manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has conducted research and published papers in the fields of virology, microbial and diagnostic immunology, radio-telemetry, and various applications of rfid technology, and has been a speaker at numerous scientific and entrepreneurial meetings and conferences in the US and abroad. Gary holds a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University and MS and Ph.D. Degrees in Virology/Veterinary Science from the University of Wisconsin.
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 Francine Sommer, a CVF Director since 2006, is a Special General Partner of Village Ventures Fund II, responsible for investments in New Mexico. Ms Sommer has over 20 years of experience in the venture capital industry. She is a founder of the predecessor to newyorkangels.com and is a past President of the Venture Investors Association of NY. She was during the Giuliani administration on the Board and Executive Committee of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. She was the 2005 Chairperson of the Board of New Mexico Private Investors (NMPI) and Chairs its Screening Committee. She also serves on the the Board of Directors of The Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe.
She was formerly Senior Vice President, Head of the Angel™ Funds Group, Wit Capital, General Partner, Gabelli Multimedia Partners, Managing Director, First Security Management, President of 655 Associates and Vice President, Research & Science Investors. Ms Sommer is a graduate of the Columbia Business School.
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 Tom Stephenson, a CVF Advisor and Director since 1998, is Managing General Partner for Verge, a New
Mexico based technology seed fund. Prior to founding Verge in 2003, he was a General Partner for Murphree Venture Partners, managing their New Mexico office. Before returning to New Mexico to join Murphree, Tom served as Director of Education and Research at the Austin Technology Incubator where he prepared entrepreneurs for the raising of angel and venture capital, evaluated businesses for entry into the incubator and provided business consulting to incubator companies. Currently, Mr. Stephenson serves on the board of MesoFuel Inc. and is Past Chairman of the New Mexico Information Technology & Software Association. He has served as past Chairman of The University of Texas' Graduate Business Network and serves on the External Advisory Board of the LANL IBD Division, and as a member of the Board of the Physical Sciences Institute at New Mexico State University. Mr. Stephenson holds a BA in Physics from Rice University and an MBA in Information Management and Technology Transfer from The University of Texas at Austin.
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