Village Enterprise Fund - Board of Directors

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Jay Friedrichs is a General Partner of Cypress Growth Fund in Menlo Park. He has been involved in financing and building small enterprises for more than thirty years. Village Enterprise Fund provided Jay with an opportunity to rekindle his international interests and apply his financial experience to encourage entrepreneurship globally. Jay received his undergraduate degree as well as his MBA from Stanford.

Deborah A. Hall brings considerable marketing expertise from managing her own consulting practice and through her prior work with Metaphor Computer Systems, Banner Blue Software, and the Boston Consulting Group. She has leadership roles with Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and the Girl Scouts of Northern California, and served as VEF Board Chair for nearly 10 years. Debbie received an undergraduate degree from Duke and an MBA from Stanford.

Woody Hobbs has served as President and CEO of Phoenix Technologies since September 2006. He held the same positions at Intellisync prior to its acquisition by Nokia. Woody has worked as a consulting executive for the venture capital community and a strategic systems consultant to large corporations. His career also includes tours of duty at Tesseract Corporation, Charles Schwab, and Service Bureau, a division of IBM.

Larry Langdon serves as VEF Board Chair and is a Partner and Director of Global Tax Services for Mayer Brown Rowe and Maw, LLP in Palo Alto. Larry is the former Commissioner of Large and Mid-sized Businesses for the IRS and a former Vice President of the Hewlett-Packard Company. He currently serves on eight nonprofit boards. Larry has law degrees from Ohio State and New York University.

Tracea Roman leads Strategic Planning for the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Previously, she worked in Strategy & Corporate Development at Hewlett-Packard Company, and held positions in Equity Research, Investment Banking, and Corporate Strategy & M&A at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Tracea earned her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Finance & Economics from New York University.

Tim Tight is the West Coast Partner of SCIUS Capital Group, an investment bank focused on early stage companies. Tim was Co-founder and CEO of Edge Capital Access, and held executive positions at Immersion Corporation, Diablo Research, Whisper Communications, Raychem, and Metcal. He has an MBA and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a BS in Physics from Denison University.

Christopher Wuthmann is Principal of Renew Property Services, a commercial and residential real estate consulting and development firm based in San Carlos. Chris is active in Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Carlos. He has a BA from Williams College, an MAR from Yale Divinity School, and an MBA from Wharton.

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