CONNECT’s Board of Directors is a virtual who’s who of San Diego. This list presents successful entrepreneurs multiple times over, internationally respected and regarded innovators, and highly sought after executives. The Board of Directors represents the best San Diego has to offer both professionally as well as philanthropically. They now through CONNECT give back to San Diego. CONNECT thanks our Board of Directors for their time and support.
CONNECT ASSOCIATION C6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Ted Roth : Roth Capital Partners (Chair)
Julia Brown : UC San Diego Board of Trustees
Karen Dow : Sughrue, Mion, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
David Hall : Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Greg Horowitt : Global CONNECT
Nick Leibham : K&L Gates, LLP
Tyler Orion
Duane Roth : CONNECT
Bill Walton : San Diego Sport Innovators
CONNECT FOUNDATION C3 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Catherine Mackey : MindPiece Partners (Chair)
Paul Laikind : ViaCyte, Inc. (Chair Elect)
Trindl Reeves : Barney & Barney LLC (Vice Chair)
Marco Thompson : Express Ventures (Vice Chair)
Taylor Stevens : Morrison & Foerster LLP (Secretary)
Bob Sullivan : Rady School of Management, UC San Diego (Treasurer)
Jordan Becker : BAE Systems
Dave Bialis : Cox Communications
Bill Carpenter : DriveCam
Karen Dow : Sughrue, Mion, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
David Down : KPMG
John Dunn
Sanford Ehrlich
Nathan Fletcher : Qualcomm Incorporated
David Hale : Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC
Mike Hird : Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Phil Jelsma : McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Stath Karras : Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
Michael Kinkelaar : Procopio Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Tyler Orion
Duane Roth : CONNECT
Ted Roth : Roth Capital Partners, LLC
Mary Walshok : UC San Diego Extension
David Webb : The Scripps Research Institute
CONNECT FOUNDATION C3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Catherine Mackey : MindPiece Partners (Chair)
Paul Laikind : ViaCyte, Inc. (Chair Elect)
Trindl Reeves : Barney & Barney LLC (Vice chair)
Marco Thompson : Express Ventures (Vice chair)
Taylor Stevens : Morrison & Foerster LLP (Secretary)
Bob Sullivan : Rady School of Management, UC San Diego (Treasurer)
Mike Hird : Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Chair of Nominating & Governance Committee)
David Down : KPMG LLP (Chair of Audit Committee)
Dick Atkinson : University of California
Chris Baker : SDG&E
Jordan Becker : BAE Systems
Dave Bialis : Cox Communications
Phil Blair : Manpower Inc.
Rick Bregman : Bank of America, San Diego
David Brenner : UC San Diego School of Medicine
Bruce Breslau: Union Bank
Julia Brown : UC San Diego Board of Trustees
Sandra Brown : UC San Diego
Barbara Bry : Blackbird Ventures
Malin Burnham : Burnham Foundation
Ross Burningham : DLA Piper
Mark Cafferty : San Diego Regional EDC
Bill Carpenter : DriveCam, Inc.
Jerry Caulder : Finistere Ventures, LLC
Amanda Clardy : Life Technologies
Luiz Cruz : Verizon Wireless
Michael Cunningham : SDSU
Bill Davidson : Qualcomm Incorporated
Ray Dittamore : Retired, Ernst & Young LLP
Karen Dow: Sughrue, Mion, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
David Down: KPMG
John Dunn
Sandy Ehrlich
Carl Eibl : Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Peter Farrell : ResMed
Stan Fleming : Forward Ventures
Nathan Fletcher : Qualcomm Incorporated
Scot Ginsburg : Hughes Marino
Dan Goldin : The Intellisis Corporation
David Hale : Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC
David Hall : Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
David Hayhurst : San Diego State University
Mike Hird : Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Tim Holl : Ernst & Young LLP
Greg Horowitt : Global CONNECT
Anthony Insogna : Jones Day
Irwin Jacobs : Qualcomm Incorporated
Phil Jelsma : McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Kim Kamdar : Domain Associates, LLC
Katherine A. Kantardjieff : Cal State San Marcos
Stath Karras : Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
Lou Kelly : Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT)
Pradeep Khosla : UC San Diego
Michael Kinkelaar : Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
Mike Krupp
Carl Kukkonen : Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Nicholas Leibham : K&L Gates LLP
Rob McCray : Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance
Jason Minter : NDIA San Diego Chapter
Diego Miralles : Johnson & Johnson
Bill Molloie : PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Rory Moore : CommNexus San Diego
Glenn Mosier : UBS Financial Services
Tina Nova : Genoptix, Inc.
Tyler Orion
Eric Otterson : Cooley, LLP
Joe Panetta : BIOCOM
Cub Parker : Retired, Imperial Bank; Tech Coast Angels
Dan Pegg : Retired, San Diego Regional EDC; Qualcomm Incorporated
Gary Phillips: Tech Coast Angels
Peter Preuss : The Preuss Foundation
David Pyke : University of San Diego
Gwen Rosenberg : Senomyx
Duane Roth : CONNECT
Ted Roth : ROTH Capital Partners, LLC
Camille Saltman : MD Revolution
Jerry Sanders : San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
Jim Schaeffer : Merck Research Laboratories
Peter Shaw : Shaw Management Advisors
Bhasker Shetty : Pfizer Inc.
Abby Silverman Weiss: Dispute Resolutions
Bob Slapin : San Diego Software Industry Council
Larry Smarr : Calit2, UC San Diego
Andrew Spector : SAIC
Chris Steinhardt : Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
David Titus : San Diego Venture Group
D. James Umpleby : Solar Turbines Incorporated
Mary Walshok : UC San Diego Extension
Bill Walton : SD Sport Innovators
Jim Waring : CleanTECH San Diego
Marty Waters : Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
David Webb : The Scripps Research Institute
Steve Williams : SENTRE Partners
Scott Wolfe : Latham & Watkins LLP
Buzz Woolley : Girard Capital Inc./Girard Foundation
