Guy Kawasaki - Managing Director
kawasaki@garage.com
Guy Kawasaki is a founder and Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures. Prior to this position, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. and sits on the board of BitPass, FilmLoop, and SimplyHired. A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computer companies, Guy was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is also the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Guy holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from UCLA, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Bill Reichert - Managing Director
reichert@garage.com
Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Joyce Chung - Managing Director
joyce@garage.com
Joyce Chung has over 10 years of operating experience in technology companies and 10 years of venture capital investing experience. She was a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital, a $125 million early stage venture fund. At Cardinal, Joyce was responsible for investments in Chipcon (acquired by Texas Instruments), Mobilygen, Valista, and Zilliant. She continues to co-manage the current Cardinal portfolio. Prior to forming Cardinal Venture Capital, Joyce managed venture investments for Adobe Ventures. Her portfolio companies included Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN), DigitalThink, Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), and Virage. Joyce also held operating roles at Adobe Systems, Sony Corporation, and Cambridge Technology Group. She received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Joyce is active at the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and is on the board of the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA), Chair of the Northern California chapter of AMITA and Member of the Executive Council of Astia.
Henry Wong - Venture Partner
henry@garage.com
Henry H. Wong has been a prolific and successful entrepreneur, executive, and venture investor in Silicon Valley for over 25 years. Henry applies his operational experience, investment talent, and China expertise to advise, invest in, and build high technology companies with a global vision. He is the founder of Diamond TechVentures and was a venture partner at Crystal Ventures, where he was actively involved with companies including SMIC, LGC Wireless, Infinera, and Exavio. As an entrepreneur, Henry has had several significant successes, including SS8 Networks Inc., where he was the founder, CEO and Chairman, as well as IP Communications, XaQti Semiconductor, CNet Technology Inc., and Combinet (ISDN Systems), all of which he co-founded and led. In 2002, Henry was a finalist for the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year Award.” He is an advisor to several non-profit organizations and is active in community organizations. Henry holds a B.Sc. degree in Business from the University of Utah and a MBA in Telecom Management from Golden Gate University.
Mohanjit Jolly - Venture Partner
mjolly@garage.com
Mohanjit Jolly has been with Garage Technology Ventures since 1999. While at Garage, Jolly has worked with over 20 companies, including LeftHand Networks, PureSight, WhiteHat, Xora, PhoneBites, Kaboodle and Vigilistics. Prior to joining Garage Technology Ventures, Jolly helped launch the Mattel/Intel joint venture, Intel Play. He also spent three years in both engineering and business development roles with Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of high-resolution reconnaissance systems for both military and commercial use. While earning his M.B.A from the Anderson School at UCLA, Jolly helped found ViaSpace, a technology incubator in Southern California in conjunction with Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jolly earned a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, with a specialization in electric propulsion systems.
Advisory Board
Dr. Ed Beardsworth
Edward Beardsworth is a marketing strategy and business development consultant with over twenty five years in the electric utility and energy industry. Ed currently serves as a lead technical resource at Jane Capital Partners, consulting in programs that advise major energy corporations on strategic technology ventures. Previously he conducted UFTO, a ten year multi client study on behalf of a select group of energy utilities and vendors, seeking out technologies of interest and facilitating collaborations among utilities, government and private companies. He is a strategic advisor to Nth Power, a venture capital fund that specializes in energy utility-related technology, and also to the Cleantech Group, which pioneered the concept of cleantech as a investment theme. He has worked at the Electric Power Research Institute and at the Brookhaven National Lab. Ed received his Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University.
Mike Cassidy
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Xfire helps gamers play online with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also an instant messenger and peer-to-peer file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has nearly 9 million registered gamers in over 100 countries. Viacom/MTV acquired Xfire for $110 million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $500 million. Stylus Innovation’s flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice. Mike studied jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music. Mike has a BS (‘85) and MS (‘86) in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School in 1991.
John Dean
John Dean is the Managing General Partner of Startup Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. John has worked with Garage since Garage started in 1998, and Startup and Garage have invested in two portfolio companies together. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, John had 20 years of experience as CEO of five financial services companies. Most recently, from 1993 to 2001, he served as the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, a leading provider of financial services to early-stage technology companies and venture capital firms. John grew Silicon Valley Bank’s market capitalization from $65 million in 1993 to over $3 billion in 2000. Also, he led the creation of the company’s own venture investment business, starting with the Bank¹s investment in the original Garage. He brings a wide network of industry contacts to the Fund, notably in Silicon Valley and Hawaii.
Mark Goines
Mark served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Division of Intuit including Quicken, Quicken.com, Quicken Insurance and Quicken Mortgage. Mark also served as VP of New Products for Charles Schwab & Co, innovating in online investing. Additionally, he co–founded and was Chief Marketing Officer at PassMark Security, an advanced authentication services provider that he helped sell to RSA in 2006. Goines today focuses on investing in technology companies and also serves on the board and as an investor in four other ventures including Credit Interlink, Nolo.com, BullRun Financial and Mint.com, a consumer online financial management company.
Dr. Edward “Skip” Stritter
Skip Stritter currently serves as a member of the Technical Committee, a group created to advise the Department of Justice in the Microsoft anti-trust case. Prior to this, he served as head of Cisco Systems’ new business development for broadband wireless data communications. Skip began his career at Bell Labs. From 1976 to 1979, Skip worked at Motorola, where he was chief architect of the Motorola 68000, the first 16-bit microprocessor. Skip was a co-founder of MIPS Technologies, Inc., and again redefined the microprocessor business by delivering the first commercial Reduced Instruction Set Chip (“RISC”) microprocessor. In 1993, Skip founded NeTpower, making workstations and servers for the Microsoft Windows NT market and in 1996, Skip founded Clarity Wireless, a company based on new high data rate digital radio technology. Clarity was acquired by Cisco in November 1998. Skip is a frequent seed round investor, and he also serves on the Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Skip earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Tom Sweeney
Tom is a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures Canada. He was previously the Managing Director & CEO of Accel Ventures LP, a management consulting and venture capital advisory firm specialized in strategic consulting for emerging companies. Prior to Accel Ventures, Tom was based in Toronto as the CEO of Classwave Wireless, a global innovator in the delivery of voice and data services to mobile devices through wireless access points. Tom was selected as a finalist for the Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2000. Prior to Classwave, he worked in San Francisco with Mitchell Madison Group - a global management consulting firm. Tom was the CEO and founder of Abilon Inc., a New-York and Montreal-based company that was amongst the first companies in North America to develop business-to-business IP- enabled applications. Tom’s career began with the Canadian air force in Europe leading tactical evaluations and as a NATO forces package lead. Tom graduated from Royal Military College with a Bachelors of Engineering and Management (summa cum laude).
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