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2005 Business Strategy Forum Speakers
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Tony Bates, Cisco Systems
Steve Domenik, Sevin Rosen Funds
Quentin Hardy, Forbes Magazine
Phil Keys, Nikkei Electronics
Brad McManus, Panasonic Digital Concepts Center
Hisami Ohshiba,JaM Japan Marketing LLC
Shoichi Osawa, Sony Electronics, Inc.
Scott Swanstrom, Advanced Micro Devices
Hiroshi Tsukamoto, Japan External Trade Organization
Sandra Vaughan, Proofpoint
Dr. Hiroshi Yasuda, Toshiba Corporation

Tony Bates
Senior Vice President, Carrier Core and Multi Services Business Unit
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Tony Bates is the Senior Vice President for the Routing Technology Group, Carrier Core Multi Services Business Unit. In this position, he is responsible for the strategy and execution of Cisco’s High End Router (CRS-1 and the Cisco 12000) and Multi-Service WAN (MGX) product lines. Mr. Bates has been VP/GM of the high-end router business since July, 2000.

Mr. Bates joined Cisco in 1996. During his tenure, he also has served as Director of Marketing for the Optical Internetworking Business Unit, as Manager of Engineering for Internet POP Systems (IPSBU) and as a Technical Leader in the Office of the CTO.  Before joining Cisco, Mr. Bates served as Backbone Engineering Manager for MCI’s Internet Backbone Group, where he drove the backbone engineering strategy for Internet MCI, MCI’s national IP backbone. In all, Mr. Bates has more than 19 years of experience in the telecommunications and Internet industry and has played a major role in shaping and growing the Internet.

Mr. Bates has published twelve IETF RFCs in the areas of Internet Routing and Operations. Mr. Bates also holds seven patents in related layer 2 and layer 3 innovations. He is married and has three children.

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Steve Domenik
General Partner
Sevin Rosen Funds
   
Steve Domenik joined Sevin Rosen Funds in 1995, bringing considerable experience from both established and small companies in the semiconductor and software industries. His current investment interests span high technology. He serves on the boards of Enuclia, Grandis, LightPointe, Luminescent, Mistletoe, NetLogic Microsystems, and OpVista. In the early 1980s, Mr. Domenik was CEO of two high-technology companies in the RFID and software domains, both of which had successful M&A outcomes. He also was the vice president of marketing at Cyrix, an SRF portfolio company where he worked from the early days until after the IPO. Prior to Cyrix, Mr. Domenik was the vice president marketing at Weitek, another venture-backed start up company that went public.

Mr. Domenik traces his passion for young technology companies to his early years at Intel where he worked in marketing and engineering positions and, finally, as the manager of microprocessor design centers in California and Japan. During his tenures at Cyrix and Weitek, Mr. Domenik lived in Japan and Singapore where he established the Asian headquarters for each of those companies. Mr. Domenik holds a BA in Physics and a MSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Quentin Hardy
Silicon Valley Bureau Chief
Forbes Magazine

Quentin Hardy is Silicon Valley Bureau Chief for Forbes magazine. He had been a Senior Editor for Forbes from March 1999 to April 2002, covering the technology industry from the Silicon Valley bureau.

Prior to joining Forbes, Hardy spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal. While based in the Journal's Tokyo bureau from 1991 through 1994, he reported on the Japanese banking crisis and market collapse. From 1994 until 1999, he covered the wireless industry and Silicon Valley culture from the paper's San Francisco office. He also worked at AP/Dow Jones newswire in Tokyo from 1988 to 1991, covering Asian energy markets and natural resources.

Hardy is a regular on "Forbes on Fox," a weekly business news show on Fox News Channel, and he hosts numerous panels on technology and business at events around the US.

Hardy is a graduate of Kenyon College and has a Masters degree from the University of London. In 1995 he was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

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Phil Keys
U.S. Correspondent
Nikkei Electronics

Before joining Nikkei Business Publications in 1998, Phil Keys spent over ten years working in positions in the high technology industry related to the Japanese computer market, with seven of those actually based in Japan. Before joining Nikkei Electronics in June of 2001, Phil spent three years as a staff editor for another NikkeiBP publication, Nikkei Internet Technology. Graduated with a Bachelors Degree from UC Berkeley and also spent one year as an exchange student at International Christian University in Tokyo.

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Brad McManus
Director
Panasonic Digital Concepts Center

Brad manages the Panasonic Digital Concepts Center in San Jose, California, which includes venture investment and the Technology Collaboration Center. Brad has over twenty years of combined experience in building startups and investing in high growth companies. His significant finance and operations experience for early stage companies includes raising over $30 million dollars in funding for venture stage companies and serving as CFO and VP Operations for Startups.com (funded by Redleaf and Garage Technology Ventures), an accelerator services company for fast track startup companies.

As an institutional investment manager, Brad directed $100 million in high growth equity portfolios at Harris Trust in Chicago and $180 million at Guild Investment Management in Los Angeles (which he co-owned). Brad earned a BS in finance and economics and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.

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Hisami Ohshiba
Marketeer/Managing Member
JaM Japan Marketing LLC

JaM’s founder, Hisami Ohshiba was a pioneer among the male-dominated advertising world in Japan, and is a 16-year veteran of Dentsu Young & Rubicam (DYR). She was responsible for introducing Clinique to the Japanese market, from creating brand image to marketing activity that included magazine and newspaper advertising, TV and radio commercials, PR and research. As a result, Clinique became the dominant foreign cosmetic brand in Japan. After moving to the U.S. in 1995, Hisami was Account Supervisor of DFS Group Limited (Duty Free Shoppers) for McCann-Erickson Advertising, Supervisor of International Marketing for Fulcrum Direct, a clothing catalog company, Marketing VP for Onna.com, an Internet lifestyle website for Japanese women, and founded JaM Japan Marketing.

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Shoichi Osawa
Senior Business Planner,Strategic Technology Partnerships
Sony Electronics, Inc.

Shoichi Osawa is the Senior Business Planner with the Strategic Technology Partnerships Group at Sony Electronics. The group is located in the Silicon Valley and acts as both a market technology research arm for multiple Sony business units, as well as a strategic partnering unit. Since joining the team in 2001, Shoichi has been engaged in establishing strategic relationships with technology companies; mainly in the processor, digital imaging and content distribution fields.

During his 16-year career at Sony in Japan and US, Shoichi has held multiple positions, including business planning for internet services and product planning for portable consumer devices, as well as being the spokesman for new technology development.

Shoichi received a BA in Linguistics/ English Education from Yokohama National University and an MBA from University of California, Los Angeles.

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Scott Swanstrom
Director of System Architecture, Platform and Infrastructure Development, Microprocessor Solutions Sector
Advanced Micro Devices

Scott is the director of the System Architecture Group within AMD's Microprocessor Solution Sector and has responsibility for driving a cohesive technical direction for AMD Opteron64™, Athlon64™, Turion64™, and Sempron™ microprocessor based PC hardware platforms.

Scott has been with AMD since 1990 in increasing levels of responsibility including establishing the internal platform development team, acting as principle platform architect for the Athlon64™ and Opteron64™ microprocessor based platforms and defining the original Hypertransport electrical specification.

Scott holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Washington State University and holds numerous patents covering various areas of PC system operation.

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Hiroshi Tsukamoto
President
Japan External Trade Organization

Since joining the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1968, Mr. Tsukamoto has held various positions, including First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia, and Director-General of the General Coordination Department of the Osaka Bureau of International Trade and Industry.  In 1992 Mr. Tsukamoto assumed the post of president of JETRO’s New York office, and in 1997 held the position of president of the Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ). He assumed his current position in 2002. Mr. Tsukamoto holds a degree in Law from Kyoto University.

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Sandra Vaughan
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Products
Proofpoint

Sandra Vaughan brings to Proofpoint nearly two decades of experience leading global marketing organizations for some of the world’s foremost technology corporations. Ms. Vaughan has extensive experience in every facet of technology marketing—corporate, product, field, and international—with a proven track record of developing and sustaining leading brands. As Senior Vice President of Marketing & Products for Proofpoint, Ms. Vaughan is responsible for developing marketing and product strategy and leading an organization that can deliver the products, programs and results required to make Proofpoint the unquestioned leader in enterprise message protection.

Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Vaughan was Senior Vice President of Marketing for BroadVision, Inc., a global provider of portal and e-commerce applications, where she was a key member of the executive team that grew the company from $2 million to more than $400 million in annual revenue in just five years. During this time she was responsible for building and managing the company’s marketing infrastructure, which included product marketing, product management, advertising, public relations, analyst relations, marketing communications, partner marketing, customer programs and field marketing. She also personally launched BroadVision’s marketing operations in Asia Pacific, which helped to grow revenue in that region from $10 million to $40 million in less than one year.

Before joining BroadVision, Ms. Vaughan held leadership positions in international marketing, field marketing, and strategic marketing at Sybase and in marketing and sales at Oracle Corporation. Ms. Vaughan earned her B.S. degree from University of California, Davis.

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Hiroshi Yasuda
General Manager of Alliance & Strategy Group, Semiconductor Company
Toshiba Corporation
   
Dr. Hiroshi Yasuda is General Manager of Alliance & Strategy Group at the Semiconductor Company of Toshiba Corporation. Since joining Toshiba, he has been engaged in vaious assignments mainly in the semiconductor field, including development of memory products, business planning of international operation, corporate business development, etc.

He was located in Silicon Valley during 1991 though 1993, managing the Strategic Alliance Office at Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc. Dr. Yasuda holds a BS in Applied Physics from University of Tokyo, MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and PhD in Management & Industrial Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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