Rory Moore was the seed round investor, co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: PSMI), one of the world’s leading providers of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for the wireless communications and aerospace markets. Peregrine ships millions of chips every week…
Thompson co-founded & ran CommNexus San Diego, (formerly San Diego Telecom Council) a non-profit network of communications, government, and defense industry companies. A familiar face in the boardrooms of a number of innovative San Diego concerns, Thompson will call on…
Vice Admiral Walter J. Davis, USN (Ret) was Navy N6, Director Space systems, Information Warfare systems, Command and Control Systems, and Modeling and Simulation where he directed Navy’s $3.5B IT budget. He is former VP for Business Development at GDE…
Steve Poizner has been a successful high tech entrepreneur for over 30 years, founding and running three successful, disruptive companies Strategic Mapping, SnapTrack, and EmpoweredU. Currently, Mr. Poizner serves as CEO and Chairman for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation…
George Chrisikos led advanced technology development efforts at Qualcomm Inc. since 2008, leading to global standardization, licensing, and adoption by OEM and network operator customers. In particular, key solutions have provided a differentiator to Qualcomm SoC products and have been…
Ziad Mansour served as Senior Vice President of Engineering leading the Digital Hardware group in Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) division. In this role, Mansour provided technical and management leadership for a cross functional engineering team, spread across the U.S. and…
Kiva Allgood, is a Managing Director for GE Ventures, New Business Creation. Within GE Ventures, New Business Creation is focused on bringing together GE businesses with external parties, entrepreneurs and experienced management teams to accelerate the creation of new companies…
Andy Ballester was a co-founder of GoFundMe. We are changing the way the world gives. Every day, members of our giving community come together to support one another and the causes they care about most. Our campaign organizers have raised…
Charles leads the software department for Qualcomm Research. He also oversees Qualcomm Research’s robotics program. While at Qualcomm, he has been involved in the research and development of most of the modern cellular radio standards, including CDMA, UMTS, UMB and…
Greg has 26 years of hands-on, in-the-trenches experience starting, financing, operating and building successful venture-backed tech companies in San Diego. He’s grown companies from inception (co-founding two of them) to 300 employees, and in the process raised nearly $300 million…