Team
The W Fund Team
Board of Directors
The W Fund will be guided by a five-member board of directors led by General Manager Linden Rhoads, UW's Vice Provost responsible for commercializing university research, and a veteran of successful Seattle-based start-ups.
General Manager
Paul Jenny
UW Director
UW Vice Provost—Planning & Budgeting
Troy Cichos
Independent Director
Administrative Partner, Madrona Capital
Rudy Gadre
Independent Director
Active Angel Investor and Former General Counsel for Facebook
John Gardner
Independent Director
Dean of Academic Affairs, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
S. Steven Singh
Independent Director
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Concur Technologies, Inc.
Investment Committee
Investment opportunities are analyzed by a 20-member Investment Committee comprised of the most highly qualified investment professionals in the northwest. Investment decisions are made by the Investment Committee, which includes experts in the IT and life science sectors, reflecting the breadth of UW and Washington research-based start-up companies.
Tom Alberg
Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
Software, Wireless, Internet, E-commerce
Brian Arbogast
Senior Advisor at The Boston Consulting Group and former VP at Microsoft
Clean Energy, Software, Internet
Tom Clement
Board Chairman for Pathway Medical Technologies and former Chairman of WBBA
Medical Devices
Neal Dempsey
Senior Partner, Bay Partners
Software, Internet
Lonnie Edelheit
Retired Senior Vice President of R&D, General Electric Co.
Advanced Medical Imaging
Patrick Ennis
Global Head of Technology, Intellectual Ventures
Semiconductors, Materials Science, Computing and Communications
Steve Gillis
Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners
Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines
Greg Gottesman
Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
Software, Internet
Ron Howell
President & CEO, Washington Research Foundation / WRF Capital
Dan Kranzler
Managing Partner, eFund LLC
Joel Marcus
Chairman/CEO/Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Dave Marver
CEO, Spark Medical; former Medtronic exec and CEO of Cardiac Science
Medical Devices, Healthcare
Bruce Montgomery
Former Senior Vice President, Gilead
Biopharmaceuticals
Will Poole
Independent Social-Technologist
Information Technology
Christopher Porter
Serial Medical Device Entrepreneur and Commercialization Consultant at WBBA
Medical Devices
Linden Rhoads
UW Vice Provost—Commercialization
Software, Internet, Display Technology
Luciana Simoncini
Director, Research Commercialization, WRF
Life Sciences
S. Steven Singh
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Concur Technologies, Inc.
Software, Information Technology, Internet
Lucinda Stewart
Managing Director, OVP
Infrastructure Software, Digital Media, Digital Energy
Chad Waite
Managing Director, OVP
Digital Biology, Network Security