Marianne Wu Mohr Davidow from 2005 after a successful career as a developer, consultant and start-up executive. Her interests are driven by where new approaches can transform a market. She is focused on cloud, infrastructure, and cleantech. She has spent her entire career straddling the intersection between technology and business and is driven in her pursuit of companies that combine both to drive significant change. There are moments, she says, when technology and the marketplace are changing in just the right way that the entrepreneur who brings them together can have a huge influence over the future of an entire industry. Marianne earned her Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics at the University of British Columbia and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She is on the Board of Advisors of the Asian American Multi-technology Association (AAMA) and the Cleantech Open She was named one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence and one of the Top 10 Women in Cleantech.
Clean technology
Buddy Arnheim: Legal Structure of Investments
Buddy Arnheim, Partner Perkins Coie’s Business practice, focuses his practice on the representation of emerging growth companies, venture capital funds and investment banks. Buddy is widely acknowledged as a leading practitioner in the areas of corporate and securities law and corporate governance matters. He has been involved in hundreds of transactions such as public equity and debt offerings, merger/acquisition transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructurings and spin-off transactions. His clientele includes startup and well-established emerging growth companies, primarily in the software, information technology, Internet, fixed and mobile communications technology, cleantech and life sciences sectors. He heads the firm’s Emerging Company practice and Co-Chairs both the firm’s Israel and Cleantech practice groups. Recently, Buddy became an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship. Buddy has lectured at various professional and industry seminars as well as at nationally recognized universities. He co-authored “The Public Company Handbook: A Practical Guide for Officers and Directors,” published by Bowne Financial Printing.