| Everybody at Whiteboard are experienced Entrepreneurs. Most of us are serial Entrepreneurs with a history of starting and building companies with-in different areas.
Many of us hold advisory board positions, and/or are active angel investors and have been working hands-on in a large number of early-stage companies in different segments. Some of us have combined this with consulting for some of the major brand names, to help them build and grow their business'. Mark Cameron WhitePartner/Founder
Mark Cameron White is senior lawyer and have represented companies such as HotMail, ClassmatesOnline, Nuvomedia, Native Minds, 3ware, SurfMonkey.com, garageband.com, Betasphere, the EDA Consortium and AirFlash and venture capital funds such as New Enterprise Associates, Nexit Ventures and Selby Ventures.
Mark Cameron White started his legal career as an attorney in the Silicon Valley offices of Cooley Godward and Fenwick & West.
Mark Cameron White co-founded a number of law firms in Silicon Valley; White & Lee in 1996, White & Altman, and the firm of Carr, DeFilippo, White & Ferrell. Prior to his legal career, Mr. White worked as the Managing Director of the International Trade division of the Harper Group, a Fortune 500 company and was the founder of Campamericana, an international travel operator based in Brussels, Belgium.
Steve PalladinoPartner/Founder & Head of Business Development team
Steve Palladino has over 25 years of leadership experience in sales, executive management, and international business development. In these capacities, he has exceeded goals in revenue growth, people development and customer satisfaction. He brings a unique perspective to client engagements because of his diverse company experience ranging from seed stage startups to large teams in global 500 corporations.
He has been involved in all aspects of growing technology-based businesses and has held senior management roles with Motorola, IBM, Epiphany, Cap Gemini, CBS, and others, as well as several venture-backed start-up organizations.
Steve's engagements derive from a career that required him to do business across three continents helping technology-based business achieve and grow revenue. Demonstrated track record of transforming company performance in areas of market expansion, sales and channel management.
Nicolai WadstromPartner/Founder
Nicolai Wadstrom is a serial entrepreneur with hands-on experience in management, technology and business development. Very strong interest in technology and constantly keeping technology experience and knowledge up-to-date with a focus on technology related business’ and the Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment (TIME) sector in particular.
Since 1995 he have been starting, running and advising a number of early-stage companies, ranging from enterprise software, computer games, internet, media and professional services. He have been a founder, angel investor, advisor, CEO, CTO and Chairman in a number of early-stage companies.
Besides his entrepreneurial experience he have management and technical expertise in roles such as Interim Management, Project Management, High-Level architecture for some of the major international and European brands, such as IBM and Orange (France telecom).
Jorge Zavala
Jorge Zavala, a Mexican Native, has been a hi-tech engineer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and speaker related to industrial automation, software and knowledge management. He is currently the CEO of TechBA Silicon Valley, a business developed program of the US Mexico Foundation for Science sponsored by the Minister of Economy of Mexico that has offices around the world to help Mexican companies to reach the global market.
The TechBA program has introduced more than 450 companies to new markets in USA, Canada and Europe.
Jorge has been very actively in promoting the development of entrepreneurship, venture capital and business development strategies that are used in Mexico as a tool to position local companies in new markets.
Advisory NetworkOur advisor network consists of a number of senior entrepreneurs from that have been part in building some of the major innovate and disruptive companies in Silicon Valley. Martin EberhardWhiteboard Accelerator Advisory Network
Marc TarpenningWhiteboard Accelerator Advisory Network
A co-founder of Tesla Motors, with a long experience in creating technology companies. Some recent experience include:
"The recent dramatic creation of wealth and prosperity brings unprecedented challenges in the form of global climate change and resource depletion. Fortunately, we also now have unprecedented technology. We can halt the destruction of the environment not by slowing down development, but by pushing forward a new wave of technological innovation and growth."
Interest is in new technologies in the areas of: • Personal transportation using energy other than oil • Energy storage • Solar power generation • Decentralized clean power generation • Large-scale water desalinization • New nuclear technologies • Information systems focused on energy generation, storage and distribution • Government policy on energy, transportation and water
Specialties Company fund raising, software systems, embedded computing
Peter HerzWhiteboard Accelerator Advisory Network
Experienced executive, investor, advisor and board member in early stage and mezzanine technology companies. Previously, founding CEO of 3ware, a privately held, venture backed packet switched storage controller company funded by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), US Venture Partners, Selby Venture Partners, QTV Capital and others. Acquired in April 2004 by AMCC for $150 Million in cash.
Currently CEO of WUCO Capital, providing consulting and advisory services. Additionally, serving on the board of directors of IPextreme & Kendall Investments.
Specialties
Ian Patrick SobieskiWhiteboard Accelerator Advisory Network
Ian Sobieski, is a founder and managing director of the Band of Angels Fund, L.P., a $50M venture fund raised in 1999 exclusively from major institutions, and has helped lead the Band of Angels since 1997. Immediately prior to joining the Band, Ian served as VP Sales and Business Development and board director at internet start-up Evite.com and in engineering positions at medical device company Enact Health Management and Kaman Aerospace.
Ian has managed more than 80 direct investments totaling $60M in invested capital, has served on sixteen boards of directors. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Aeronautics from Stanford University, a B.A. degree in Philosophy and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech. Ian is the Vice Chairman and founding board member of the Angel Capital Association and is a member of the Young Venture Capitalists Association, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the National Ski Patrol Alumni Association.
He is the author of a dozen technical publications and is a Fellow and was an appointed Lecturer in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a frequent contributor to articles on entrepreneurship and venture financing including Congressional testimony on tax credit issues.
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Martin Eberhard learned to drive on a farm in Kansas when he was just 13 years old. There began a lifelong fascination with, and love of, cars and driving. So much so that Martin can still remember every car he's ever purchased, how much it cost, and how many miles were on it when he got it.
It's this passion, along with 20 years of start-up, management, and development experience that Martin brings to Tesla Motors. He was a co-founder of two successful start-ups (serving as Chief Engineer at one, and CEO at the next), and considers himself the "customer's advocate," obsessed with making the user experience natural, familiar, and comfortable. Prior to co-founding Tesla Motors, Martin and Marc Tarpenning co-founded NuvoMedia in 1997. NuvoMedia created the market for electronic books with the 1998 launch of the Rocket eBook and the necessary infrastructure to sell and deliver electronic content securely over the Internet. As CEO of NuvoMedia, Martin lectured around the world, from New York to Buenos Aires, and raised $27 million in three rounds between 1997 and 1999. In 2000, he negotiated the sale of the company to Gemstar-TV Guide International for $187 million. Before NuvoMedia, Martin was co-founder and Chief Engineer of Network Computing Devices and developed high-volume terminals for Wyse Technology. Martin graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering. Martin lives in both Northern and Southern California with his college sweetheart, Carolyn, and their two children, along with an old Siamese cat. He loves hang gliding, paragliding (a hobby ended by directors and officers insurance), and taking long drives in the mountains to watch the sun set.
