Dan Caprio brings over 25 years of experience on legal and policy issues involving the convergence of internet, telecommunications, and technology. He has substantial knowledge and experience in the areas of privacy, cyber security, information security, and the Internet of Things, a term used when everyday objects are connected to the Internet. Mr. Caprio works with clients to define and capitalize on public policy strategies in the United States and Europe. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Caprio served as Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) where he advised the Secretary of Commerce and the White House on technology policy and privacy protection. While at the DoC, he oversaw activities related to the development and implementation of federal privacy laws, policies, and practices. He served as Chairman of the DoC Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) working group and Co-Chairman of the Federal RFID interagency working group. From 2007 through 2011, Mr. Caprio advised the Secretary of Homeland Security on Data Privacy matters. In 2010, Mr. Caprio was appointed as a transatlantic subject matter expert to advise the European Commission on the Internet of Things.

In 2011, Mr. Caprio was appointed to advise the Secretary of Commerce and United States Trade Representative on Information and Communications Technologies and Electronic Commerce matters. From 2007 through 2011, Mr. Caprio advised the Secretary of Homeland Security on Data Privacy matters. In 2010, Mr. Caprio was appointed as a transatlantic subject matter expert to advise the European Commission on the Internet of Things.

William Quigley is a co-founder of Clearstone Venture Partners and concentrates on its Internet and communications related investments. During his first two-and-a-half years with the firm, he worked out of the idealab! incubator and helped launch and lead investments in many idealab! backed companies including Homepage.com, FreePC, FreeMusic.com and Paymybills.com. A number of his early-stage investments have gone public, including MP3.com, Meru Networks, Tickets.com, Emusic and PeopleSupport and many have been acquired.

William’s current portfolio reflects his belief in the enormous opportunity in the consumer Internet (Xfire, Inc, Titan Gaming, RevenueApex) and enterprise markets (AOptix, SoonR, Meru Networks, Novariant). He is a member of the board of directors of AOptix Technologies, Meru Networks, Novariant, SoonR, Xfire, Inc and Titan Gaming.

William spent seven years in a variety of business planning and operational roles at The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney included finance roles at EuroDisney, the Disney Store retail chain and Disney's consumer products merchandise licensing division. He oversaw all finance and business planning activities for Disney’s licensing business unit, the world’s largest consumer products licensor. William also co-managed Disney's merchant banking group where he negotiated and structured equity positions in the company's strategic licensees.

Prior to Disney, William was a Senior Consultant with Arthur Andersen's Financial Services Group where he developed financial and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the media and communications and financial services industries.

William is on the board of DealMaker LA, a Los Angeles based organization promoting entrepreneurial activities in Southern California.

William received his MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School, and holds a BS in Accounting, with honors, from the University of Southern California. He is a Kauffman Fellow and a CPA.

Andrew is a strategy expert in the technology and aerospace markets. Working in multiple Strategic Development roles at The Boeing Company, he developed and deployed numerous initiatives that helped position the firm as the premiere aerospace company in the world.

In Andrew’s current role, he has developed SceneTap’s innovative expansion and growth strategy. Andrew and the SceneTap team are on the forefront of leveraging leading edge facial detection technologies and applying them to both the data analytics and social media industries.

Andrew, who currently resides in Washington, D.C., was born in St. Louis. He has earned an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Master of Global Management (M-GM) from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Dan Caprio brings over 25 years of experience on legal and policy issues involving the convergence of internet, telecommunications, and technology. He has substantial knowledge and experience in the areas of privacy, cyber security, information security, and the Internet of Things, a term used when everyday objects are connected to the Internet. Mr. Caprio works with clients to define and capitalize on public policy strategies in the United States and Europe. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Caprio served as Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) where he advised the Secretary of Commerce and the White House on technology policy and privacy protection. While at the DoC, he oversaw activities related to the development and implementation of federal privacy laws, policies, and practices. He served as Chairman of the DoC Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) working group and Co-Chairman of the Federal RFID interagency working group. From 2007 through 2011, Mr. Caprio advised the Secretary of Homeland Security on Data Privacy matters. In 2010, Mr. Caprio was appointed as a transatlantic subject matter expert to advise the European Commission on the Internet of Things.

In 2011, Mr. Caprio was appointed to advise the Secretary of Commerce and United States Trade Representative on Information and Communications Technologies and Electronic Commerce matters. From 2007 through 2011, Mr. Caprio advised the Secretary of Homeland Security on Data Privacy matters. In 2010, Mr. Caprio was appointed as a transatlantic subject matter expert to advise the European Commission on the Internet of Things.

Bennet Kelley is a leading Internet lawyer who has been in the forefront advising, testifying, lobbying, litigating, writing and/or presenting on cutting edge issues such as spam, spyware, keyword search liability, online marketing, net neutrality, cyber harassment and internet gambling. A thought leader on internet law and policy as host of Cyber Law & Business Report, publisher of Cyber Report and contributor to various law journals and publications. Bennet Kelley served as in-house and outside general counsel for an array of entertainment and technology companies, including ValueClick, ETM Entertainment Network, Hi-Speed Media and SpeedyClick.com. She is an Award winning political columnist for Santa Monica Daily Press and HuffingtonPost.com.

Mr. Yamashita is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Cogentic Advisors, a strategic advisory firm that provides corporate and technology strategy, intellectual property management, strategic ecosystem development, M&A advisory, and investment transaction support to both emerging growth and mature companies in the new media and mobile industry verticals. His recent engagements have included several M&A analyses, mobile ecosystem development, and digital media technology strategy for several major Hollywood studios, large CE companies and various technology startups.

Prior to co-founding Cogentic, Mr. Yamashita was most recently V.P. of Strategy and Business Development for THX Ltd., a technology licensing and professional services company spun off from Lucasfilm. During his time at Sony, Robert was one of the original founders of the Pro-MPEG Forum, an industry consortium of over 90 broadcasters and equipment OEMs working to advance interoperability in the professional broadcast industry.

Specializing in monetizing technology IP since 1995, representative examples of his work include leading the team that drove DivX into CE (helping to power their IPO in 2006 for over $600M); establishing alliances that created the world’s first networked DVD player in 2002, and launching a new global video format while at C-Cube (1998).

Mr. Yamashita has over 21 years in strategy, business development, alliance management and management consulting with Sony, PricewaterhouseCoopers, DivX, and several semiconductor companies. He also has extensive experience with international standards organizations, including MPEG, IEEE, SMPTE, and others – along with a lengthy publication and speaking history in areas including new media business models, video compression, digital rights management, media processing and management technologies, DSP, and advanced IC architectures.

Mr. Yamashita holds a B.S. with Honors from the California Institute of Technology.

Michael Krieger has practiced high technology business and intellectual property law for more than 20 years. A member of the Los Angeles firm Willenken Wilson Loh & Lieb, his practice focuses on strategic counseling, litigation and preventive methods to both secure and exploit clients' trademarks, patents and other key IP assets. Assisting clients ranging from start-ups to industry leaders in contract, trademark and dispute resolution matters, he also has provided counsel in the university tech transfer arena as well as to the United Nations and other international technology initiatives.

With degrees in mathematics (B.S., Caltech; Ph.D., UCLA) and law (UCLA), Michael was on the MIT Mathematics and UCLA Computer Science faculties and also a Fulbright Scholar prior to practicing law. This technical background led to early contributions to issues of encryption, domain name/trademark disputes, and open source licensing. Likewise his technical, law and academic experience frequently leads to serving as an expert in computer system and related litigation to investigate and "teach" lawyers and courts about the underlying technology.

Lynn Foster is the Founder and CEO of BPT Pharmaceuticals, an early stage company focused on Multiple Sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases. He previously served as Emerging Technologies Director at Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P., one of the largest law firms in the United States. In that position he provided consulting services to clients on Technology Transfer, Patent Licensing and raising capital from Federal Research Grants, Venture Capital, and Strategic Investors.

Lynn has the unique background of more than 15 years of experience with Technology Transfer and the federal grant process as a government manager at both the Federal and State and as an entrepreneur. Lynn previously managed the State of California CalTIP seed grant program that matched federal research and development grants with commercialization funding.

Lynn’s primary technical focus is Nanotechnology. He is the Editor and Co-Author of the best selling textbook, “Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation & Opportunity” (Prentice Hall, 2005). He wrote the first Trade Study on Nanotechnology in 2000 and organized many of the early knowledge conferences and Trade Missions in the field. He has been quoted on technology and finance topics in numerous national and industry publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes and National Public Radio.

Lynn serves on the Executive Committee of the Caltech Enterprise Forum, the Advisory Board of Finaventures, a Venture Capital fund focused on early and mid-stage technology ventures, and the Advisory Board of the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization. He had 21 years of active and reserve service with the US Army including service in the first Gulf War and Bosnia. He holds an MBA and a B.S. in Production and Operations Management.

Stephanie C. Yanchinski is currently Executive Director of First Look West, (FLoW), the Western Region of the DOE’s inaugural National Cleantech Business Challenge for University Students. Covering six states and two territories, FLoW is part of a $2 million, three year program which aims to enhance the commercialization of game-changing technologies universities and national labs as well as nurture young entrepreneurs involved in clean energy. Stephanie Yanchinski also administers the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, a unique program in Los Angeles which is celebrating 25 years of assisting entrepreneurs to start their new ventures.

She was formerly the founding Executive Director of Entretech, a highly respected non-profit assisting the growth of technology companies in Southern California. Over her eight year involvement with Entretech Entretech helped companies raise over $1.5 million in financing. Under her leadership, Entretech ran the annual PricewaterhouseCoopers Entretech Entrepreneurship Award Business Plan Competition which identified fast growth, high tech companies attracting investment and setting trends. She is affiliated with Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL), California’s premier Health and Technology Executive Membership Organization, where she facilitates mentoring programs for executives.

An award-winning writer and marketing and communications specialist, Ms. Yanchinski successfully built and managed a business consulting company serving a diverse clientele in the high tech arena. First established in London UK, she operated successfully in Europe, Singapore and Toronto. In Toronto, she drove the foundation stages of a $20 million medical science incubator, located in the downtown core and ran a $1.5 million CEO mentoring and training program. She was an early founder, and leading Board member of Canada’s largest and most successful biotechnology industry association.

A graduate of McGill University in Canada, Stephanie C. Yanchinski trained as a scientist and pursued medical research in hormone metabolism in Canada and the UK, where she earned a second degree before turning to a career in science journalism. She worked for the leading British science publication New Scientist as Biosciences Editor, where she won Britain’s foremost prize for science reporting. As European Bureau Chief for McGraw Hill’s newsletter Biotechnology Newswatch, and through her writings for Business Week, the Financial Times newspaper, The Times and Guardian newspapers, and European investment newsletters, she tracked the emergence of the biotechnology industry in Europe. She authored Setting Genes to Work, (Penguin Press) and The Biotechnology Revolution, (Lutterworth), two books on the early development of the biotechnology industry.