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THOUGHT LEADERS 2008


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Mark Anderson
CEO
Strategic News Service


Robert Anderson
Director Tech Transfer and Intellectual Property
Illinois Institute of Technology


Mark Atkins
Chairman, President, & CEO
Invention Machine Corp.


Nitash Balsara
Co-Founder and Scientific Chairman
Seeo Inc.


Prith Banerjee
SVP, Research, and Director, HP Labs
Hewlett-Packard


Pierre Bellanger
Founder
Skyrock, Paris


Erik Blachford
CEO
TerraPass, Inc.


John Bower
CEO
uBoost


Hugh Bradlow
Chief Technology Officer
Telstra Corporation Limited


Mary Branscombe
Independent Journalist


Larry Brilliant
Executive Director
Google.org


David Brin
Author, TV Personality and Physicist


William Brindley
CEO
NetHope


Sheldon Brown
Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts; Professor of Visual Arts; and
Head of New Media Arts, Calit2, UC-San Diego


Jonathan Bulkeley
CEO
Scanbuy Inc


Richard T. Carson
Professor and former Chair, Department of Economics
University of California - San Diego


Rajeev Chand
Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst, Wireless
Rutberg & Co.


Mike Cheiky
President, Founder, and Director
Transonic Combustion Inc.


J. Hamilton (Hank) Coleman
CEO and Director
Open Labs Inc.


Michael Copeland
Senior Writer
Fortune Magazine


Yi Cui
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University


Russell Daggatt
Founding General Partner
Denny Hill Capital


Stephen Di Biase
SVP and Chief Scientific Officer for Research Development and Engineering
JohnsonDiversey


Thorgeir Einarsson
Founder and CEO
Afriversity


Kamran Elahian
Chairman and Co-founder
Global Catalyst Partners


David Engle
Director of Operations, SNS Project Inkwell; and
Superintendent of Schools, North Platte Public Schools (Nebraska)


Stephen Evans
Presenter, Business Daily
BBC World Service


Cynthia Figge
Partner and Co-founder
EKOS International


Mark Foster
Partner
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP


Mike Gering
President
Global Solar Energy


Dave Grannan
President and CEO
vlingo


Thomas Greaves
Chairman
The Greaves Group, LLC


Robert Hagerty
Chairman of the Board, CEO, and President
Polycom


Per-Kristian Halvorsen
Chief Technology Officer
Intuit


Bruce Harned
President
MarketFit Associates


Lee Hartwell
Nobelist
President & Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center


William Haseltine
Chairman, Haseltine Global Health LLC
Founder, Human Genome Sciences


Brian Higbee
Global Partner Manager, Global Strategic Partners Sales
Symantec


William Janeway
Senior Advisor
Warburg Pincus (Cambridge, U.K.)


Tim (TJ) Johnson
CEO
High Throughput Genomics Inc.


Donald Jones
Vice President, Business Development
QUALCOMM, Inc.


Lillian Kellogg
Vice President
ENA


Vinod Khosla
Co-founder, Daisy Systems; Founding CEO
Sun Microsystems; Founder, Khosla Ventures


Jim Marggraff
Chairman and CEO
Livescribe


James McCarthy
Professor of Oceanography
Harvard University


Kelly Millsaps
Chief Technology Officer
Avanade


David Morris
Director, Chair, and President
EcoVerdance


Elon Musk
CEO & CTO of SpaceX and Chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity
Chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity


Peter Neupert
Corporate Vice President, Health Solutions Group
Microsoft Corp.


James Peoples
VP Marketing
GrassRoots Marketing Inc


Michael Pfeffer
Managing Partner
Kolohala Ventures


Justin Rattner
Vice President and Intel Senior Fellow, Director,
Corporate Technology Group, Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corp.


Sidney Rittenberg
Founder
Rittenberg Associates


Lyndon Rive
Founder, CEO
SolarCity


Ron Roberts
Supervisor
San Diego County Board of Supervisors


Shane Robison
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer
Hewlett-Packard


Geordie Rose
Founder and CTO
D-Wave Systems Inc.


Gary Roshak
Vice President, Mobile Advertisers and Publishers
Yahoo! Inc.


Roy Schoenberg
CEO
American Well Systems


Chetan Sharma
President
Chetan Sharma Consulting


Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, The FiRe Lab
University of California - San Diego


Doug Smith
Chief Information Officer
Martin's Point Health Care


Bill Spencer
CEO
Hawaii Oceanic Technology Inc.


Bruce Sterling
Science Fiction Author


Erik Straser
Lead, Cleantech Investment Team
Mohr Davidow Ventures


Jeb Terry
President
Aberdeen Investment Management


John K. Thompson
President & CEO
Marketing Sciences


Martin Tobias
Past CEO
Imperium Renewables


Mark Turrell
CEO
Imaginatik


Curtis Wong
Principal Researcher and Group Manager
Next Media Research, Microsoft Corp.


Jerry Woodall
National Medal of Technology Laureate; and
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University




FiRe Participants                                    




Jack Abbott
CEO/Chief Client Advocate
Interactivate, Inc.


Stephen Alexander
Chief Financial Officer
Global Solar Energy


Amy Bernstein
Deputy Editor, strategy+business
Booz Allen Hamilton


Simon Bisson
Independent Journalist


Randolph Blotky
CEO
Technology Convergence Partners LLC


Rob Branson
Director of Global Infrastructure Technology, IT Division
PACCAR


John Breshears
Associate Partner
ZGF Architects


Ross Bringans
Manager, Electronic Materials & Devices Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center


Steve Broback
President
Parnassus Group


Paula Brock
Chief Finanial Officer
Zoological Society of San Diego


Donald Budinger
Chairman and a Founding Director
The Rodel Foundations


William Budinger
Founding Director
The Rodel Foundations


Martin Cardoe
Group Marketing Director
3i Group


Ty Carlson
Architect, SiArch
Microsoft Corp.


Geoff Carss
Vice President - Sales and Marketing
Imaginatik plc


Mary Clark
Executive Assistant
The Rodel Foundations


Jose Collazo
President and CEO
BT Infonet


Bruce Conway
Partner
Alex Conway Investments


Lanier Davenport
Founding Partner
EcoVerdance


Matthew Davies
Producer, Business Programmes
BBC World Service


Stan DeLaney
Thematic Researcher
Morgan Stanley


Shane Eliason
VP Sales
Symantec


Richard Elkus. Jr.
Director
Lam Research


Greg Ellis
Founder
Sharp English


John Fallisgaard
President
Jet City Electronics


Chenoa Farnsworth
Partner
Kolohala Holdings


Matthew French
Marketing Director
Service-now.com


Scott Gardner

Advantage Engineering


Dan Gillmor
Founder and Director
Center for Citizen Media


Alexander Gounares
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Corp.


Ilan Gur
Co-Founder and Director
Seeo Inc


Simon Hackett
CEO
Internode (Adelaide)


John Hagel
Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation
Deloitte Touche USA LLP


Jeanette Hammock
CTO
TrueNorthLogic


Kip Harrell
Associate Vice President, Professional and Career Development
Thunderbird School of Global Management


William Harris
President and CEO
Science Foundation Arizona


Lynne Hill
General Manager, Parallel Computing Platform
Microsoft Corp.


Matthias Hohensee
Senior U.S. correspondent
Wirtschaftswoche


Christopher Ireland
Partner
TBD


Reese Jones
Fellow
University of California - Berkeley


Davin Juusola
VP Research and Development
Info-Tech Research Group


Kosmo Kalliarekos
Senior Member, Baring Private Equity Asia; and
Past Founding Partner, The Parthenon Group


Erin Keleher
Marketing Communications Manager
Vlingo Corp.


Billie Jo Kerns
Vice President, Strategic Planning and Business Development
High Throughput Genomics


Anita Killian
Partner
Wellington Management Company, LLP


Dennis Knight
Executive Vice President and COO
Accelegrow Technologies Inc.


Harel Kodesh
Group President, Products
Amdocs


Tom Krazit
Staff Writer
CNET Networks


Richard LeFaivre
Venture Partner
OVP Venture Partners


Jih-Fen Lei
Director of Research and Technology
NASA Glenn Research Center


Alex Letts
Chief Executive
RI3K


Michael Lew
Vice President of New Materials and Nanotechnology Research
ThinkPanmure


Alan Mattamana
Principal
Polaris Venture Partners


William Melton
Managing Director
GIV Venture Partners


Phillip Missimore
Senior Vice President, Technology Practice
Waggener Edstrom Worldwide


Douglas Myers
Executive Director
Zoological Society of San Diego


Gregory Ness
Vice President
Blue Lane Technologies Inc.


John O'Holleran
Vice President of Business Development
ICR


William Paiva
Venture Partner
Sevin Rosen Funds


John Petote
CEO/Founder
CIO Solutions Inc.


Swain Porter
CEO
Catalytic Software Inc.


Lee Race
Senior Vice President
Hill & Knowlton


David Remy
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect
uBoost


Gary Ritner
President
Ritner & Company


Michael Rocke
Vice President of Business Development
Transonic Combustion Inc.


Martin Rutte
President
Livelihood


Rajiv Salimath
President and CEO
Amperion


Ricardo Salinas-Pliego
CEO
Grupo Salinas


Alex Samano
Director, Product Planning
T-Mobile USA, Inc.


Ian Sandy
Principal Advisor
Shell


Parna Sarkar-Basu
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
Invention Machine


John Schaffer
CEO
Covestic Inc.


Ido Schoenberg
Chairman and CEO
American Well Corp.


Robert Scoble
Managing Director
Fast Company TV


William Soward
CEO
Adaptive Planning


Stephen Sparkes
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley


David Steakley
Investor
DGSRSA LP


Cecile Thomas
Principal and Co-Founder
Silverstein Thomas Rice and Associates


Lance Ulanoff
Editor-in-Chief and VP of Content
PC Magazine Network


Marcel Vinay
CEO
Investment Media Group


Bob Warshawer
President
Black Rock Cable


Scott Wiedeman
Chief Scientist
Global Solar Energy


Jonathan Wilkie
Owner and President
Nicollet Technologies Corp.


Richard Wolfe
President
Hi-Vision America, Inc.


Victor Wong
Co-Founder and Chairman, Open Labs Inc.; and
CEO, HItStems


Jean Wooldridge
President, St. Cloud Communicaton
Research Affiliate, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center


Howard Wright
Director, Futures Strategy
Pitney Bowes


Charlotte Yarkoni
CEO
Xeround


Nick Zaharias
Managing Director
FCG LLC




FiRe Event Staff                                    
Berit Anderson
FiRe Volunteer
Strategic News Service


Sally Anderson
Editor-in-Chief and Production Manager
Strategic News Service


Sharon Anderson- Morris
Director, SNS Programs
Strategic News Service


Debarshi Das
SNS/Rodel Foundations Intern
Thunderbird School of Global Management


Matthew Keller
SNS/Rodel Foundations Intern
Thunderbird School of Global Management


Sam Leigh
Administrative Assistant
Strategic News Service


Lynne Mercer
Comptroller and Circulation Manager
Strategic News Service


Brent Morris
FiRe Volunteer
Strategic News Service


Scott Schramke
IT Director
Strategic News Service


Gustav Normark Toppenberg
Staff
Strategic news Service


Kelly Webb
Assistant to the Director
Strategic News Service



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