Silicon Valley Institute
Empowering Entrepreneurship and Innovation
About Faculty Members
SV Institute’s faculty members are renowned industry leaders and experts in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area who have diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please meet some of our faculty members below:
Bob Bozeman
General Partner, Eastlake Ventures
Former President, Altos Acer Americas
Cesar Castro
Senior Director, Salesforce
Advisory Board, Diabetes Hands Foundation
Derene Allen
Principal, Santiago Solutions Group
Former Director, American Express
Dave Epstein
Advisor, Epstein Advisors
Former CEO, Sol Voltaics AB
Hap Klopp
Executive Chairman, Obscura Digital
Founder & Former President, The North Face
John Stoddard
Consultant, Innovation + Design Consulting
Former Senior Designer, IDEO
Kiran Gange
CEO, CustoLogix, Inc.
Former Senior Strategy Analyst, Fry's Electronics
Mark Cavender
Founder & Managing Director, Chasm Institute
Former Director of Marketing, Oracle Corp.
Scott Underwood
Partner & Co-founder, Innovationship, LLC
Former Storyteller, Historian & Enthusiast, IDEO
Don Proctor
Senior VP, Cisco Systems
Trustee, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Henry Ines
COO, GoChain
Former Partner, DraperDragon and DFJ Dragon Funds
Jose Lopez
Corporate Associate, Gunderson Dettmer
Francois Levannier
Founder & Owner, Love Your Life and Business
Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer, City of Palo Alto
Former CIO, O'Reilly Media
Kern Peng, Ph.D.
Engineering Manager, Intel Corporation
Adjunct Faculty, Stanford, SCU, USF & SJTU
Laurent Sellier
VP of Product, Eventbrite
Former Director of Product Management, Twitter
Paul Campbell
CEO, Start-Up Genie, LLC
VP of Innovation, Schneider Electric
Michael Tchong
Founder, Social Revolution LLC
Founder & Publisher, Ziff-Davis/MacWeek
Sal Giambanco
Special Advisor, Omydar Network
Former VP of HR & Administration, PayPal & eBay
Tom Klein
General Counsel & Senior VP, Persistent Systems, Inc.
Former Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP
John Pavolotsky
Associate Director (Law & Policy Group)
Intel Corporation
Counsel, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Contact us today for more information!
For more information or to request a proposal on a customized program, or to enquire about how we can represent your organization in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area, please contact us today.