Advisors
George Hoyem
Advisor
George Hoyem is currently a Managing Director with Blueprint Ventures. George brings more than 20 years of entrepreneurial, operations and venture experience in high technology companies. He has backed, supported, and served on the boards of over a dozen emerging technology companies. Prior to Blueprint, George headed the Silicon Valley investment operations of Redleaf Group, and was also a Partner at El Dorado Ventures. Prior to his investment career, George served in senior executive roles at Verifone, Hewlett-Packard, Visix, American Management Systems, Federal Data Corporation and Tektronix. George holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration with a minor in computer science from Western Michigan University.
Rex Jackson
Advisor
Rex Jackson is currently Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Avago Technologies, a $1.8B provider of analog, mixed-signal and optoelectronic components serving customers in the wired and wireless communications, industrial, automotive, consumer electronics and computing markets. Prior to joining Avago, Mr. Jackson served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a $1.1B provider of electronic design automation software and services to the semiconductor industry. Previously, Mr. Jackson served in a variety of senior management, legal, investment and business development roles. Mr. Jackson received his A.B. degree from Duke University, and his J.D. degree from Stanford University.
Dr. Hau Lee
Advisor
Hau Lee is the Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor of Engineering Management Science at Stanford University. Hau is an internationally recognized expert in supply chain management and is a co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum. He is the founder of two technology companies and serves on the boards of several private companies. Hau received his BS from Hong Kong University, an MS from the London School of Economics and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Dr. David F. Pyke
Advisor
David F. Pyke is the Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of the Science of Administration and associate dean for the MBA Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has served as an expert witness on supply chain management for securities cases and is also Co-Research Director for e-Business and Supply Chain at the Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. His research interests include manufacturing strategy, supply chain management, pricing and supply chain management, inventory management, production planning and control, reverse logistics, e-commerce, and manufacturing in China. Professor Pyke earned his undergraduate degree at Haverford College and his MBA at Drexel University. He obtained both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.