David Cremin - Managing Director, DFJ Frontier
Mr. Cremin leads fund management, fundraising and portfolio management efforts. Prior to Frontier, he was a founding partner of Zone Ventures in Los Angeles. As an entrepreneur, he served as founder and CEO of Vis-à-Vis Entertainment, a music publishing and digital media company. He also spent several years touring as a professional musician and recording for RCA Records, Atlantic Records, Elektra Records and EastWest Records.
Mr. Cremin holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Nancy Floyd - Managing Director, Nth Power
Ms. Floyd has led Nth Power’s investments in Silicon Energy (Nasdaq: ITRI), Northern Power (Nasdaq: DESC), Smartsynch, Serveron, SpectraSensors and Propel Biofuels. Prior to founding Nth Power, Ms. Floyd built, managed and negotiated the sale of two high-growth energy and telecommunications companies: NFC Energy Corporation, one of the country's first wind development firms utilizing advanced technology developed by NASA and Sandia Labs, and PacTel Spectrum Services, a network management company for private voice and data networks and a subsidiary of Pacific Telesis.
Ms. Floyd currently sits on the boards of ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy) and the Center for Resource Solutions. She has been an advisor to the National Renewable Energy Lab, was a board member of Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, Switzerland and is an active member of E2. She also helped organize the Northwest Business Leaders for Clean Energy campaign and was also appointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Economic and Community Development Commission.
Ms. Floyd holds a masters degree in political science from Rutgers University (1977), where she was an Eagleton Fellow. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from Franklin and Marshall College (1976), where she currently serves as a Trustee.
Gerry Langeler – Managing Director, OVP Venture Partners
For over 17 years, Mr. Langeler has served as a Managing Director with OVP Venture Partners. From 1981 to 1992, he was co-founder of Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) where he served as President. Mr. Langeler is the author of The Vision Trap (Harvard Business Review, 3/92), which continues to be widely used in business schools and corporate training sessions. He also authored a chapter in Venture Capital Best Practices, Aspatore Books, 2005.
Mr. Langeler serves on the Board of Directors of Advanced Inquiry Systems, Carbonflow, Collaborative Software Initiative, EnerG2, GainSpan, Max-Viz and Viral Logic Systems Technology. He is also the backup OVP partner on Serus and Tigo Energy. He holds an AB, Chemistry from Cornell University, and a MBA from Harvard.
Eric Rosenfeld - Managing Partner, Capybara Ventures
Mr. Rosenfeld is a managing partner of Capybara Ventures, a seed capital fund focused on growing early-stage technology-based businesses in Oregon and SW Washington. He also started and co-manages the Oregon Angel Fund, an annually renewing, highly participatory fund of 60 angel investors. The two venture funds have helped launch and grow over 20 local growth companies in the past 5 years and have attracted over $100M in co-investment and follow-on investment. Mr. Rosenfeld and his partners review over 200 business plans annually and are dedicated to identifying and cultivating the next generation of growth companies in Oregon. Mr. Rosenfeld was a research analyst at SRI International, a member of the executive team at Mentor Graphics, a principal owner of Second Story Interactive Studios, and a research fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves on the boards of the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (chair), Catlin Gabel School, Oregon Symphony, Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, and several portfolio companies. Mr. Rosenfeld received his MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and degrees in Industrial Engineering and American Studies from Stanford University.
Gregg Semler – Managing Director, Pivotal Investments
Prior to founding Pivotal Investments, Mr. Semler was a clean technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of chief executive experience at advanced technology companies. His experience includes successfully financing high-growth companies, executive recruitment, management of product development efforts, acquisitions, strategic alliances, OEM partnerships and direct-to-consumer marketing and distribution. Mr. Semler has been operating clean technology companies since 2000, most recently as president and CEO of ClearEdge Power, a privately financed company creating fuel cells for industrial and residential power applications. Before that, Mr. Semler was the President and Chief Executive Officer of PolyFuel.
Mr. Semler earned a Master of Business Administration from The Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University.
Drew Smith – Corporate Development, Tripwire, Inc. & Angel Investor
Mr. Smith has extensive experience in venture capital investing, mergers and strategy consulting. He was with Intel for 12 years, most of it with Intel Capital, where he led investments in 20 companies, supervised investors on another 20, supported M&A efforts, and oversaw corporate development strategy for several divisions. Mr. Smith’s experience spans multiple industry sectors, from Internet software and services, to communications systems and components, to notebook subsystems such as batteries and displays. Prior to Intel, Mr. Smith was with McKinsey & Company where he focused on corporate and marketing/sales strategy for a range of industrial clients.
Mr. Smith is on the board of Social Venture Partners Portland, a member-based organization that pools financial contributions and expertise to provide strategic assistance to local nonprofits.
Mr. Smith holds an M.B.A., summa cum laude, from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.
