Blue Bear Ventures (BBV) makes early-stage investments in technology companies grounded in rigorous scientific innovations from the world’s leading research universities.

Harvest Management Partners is a boutique investment bank and advisory services company. Main focus is on software, security/cybersecurity, semiconductor (SIP / AI / Photonics), automotive technology and services.

Chairman, HARC, With Alan Kay and Sam Altman.HARC’s mission is to ensure human wisdom exceeds human power, by inventing and freely sharing ideas and technology that allow all humans to see further and understand more deeply.

CITRIS was founded in 2001 from a desire to see innovative technologies put to practical use in improving quality of life for people. CITRIS and the Banatao Institute leverage the research strengths of University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz.

Big Data Spreadsheets, Data Analysis

Quantum and Atomic scale modeling of nanostructures. Acquired by Synopsys (2017)

Foundry @ CITRIS accelerator helps entrepreneurs build companies that make a significant impact on the world. http://foundry.citris-uc.org

What will be the economic route for going from our current high‐carbon low‐efficiency economy to a low‐carbon high‐efficiency economy. The Center for Research in Energy Systems Transformation (CREST) has been established to be the centerpiece for studying and creating the roadmap for this transition

Technology Committee ChairmanCompensation Committee MemberPublic company, acquired by Knowles Inc (2015)

I was with HP for 12 years, worked with many brilliant people who kept me humble, learned to move large organizations, stayed focused on web, mobility and cloud Public Cloud www.hpcloud.com (based on Openstack); Javascript mobile platforms: http://enyojs.com/ http://webos.org/

$25 b business. $1billion R&D Portfolio. R&D Efficiency, M&ANew business incubation: social publishing: www.magcloud.com cloud printing http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/gateway/mobile_printing.html , long tail publishing: http://www.bookprep.com/

my first experiment in understanding Cloud: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2004/apr-jun/nab.html , with Dreamworks Animation

Co founder Computer Division, built the ES1 Supercomputer.What's left is at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain viewhttp://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102685371

The Minitel, probably the most successful, pre web, online servicehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel(The company was then called Alcatel, not yet merged with Lucent)