Denis brings 25-years semiconductor experience to Enpirion with a strong background in general management and marketing. Prior to joining the company, Denis was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Mobility Group at LSI Corporation. In that role he had full P&L responsibility for the mobile phone and mobile entertainment businesses.

Denis has held numerous executive-level positions at Agere Systems, including Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Telecommunications Division; Vice President and General Manager of the Media Connectivity Division; VP of Business Strategy for the Consumer Group; Vice President of Sales and Applications for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and General Manager of the Wireless Infrastructure Division.

Denis has also held management positions with Analog Devices and Intel Corporation. He earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in New Jersey and a master's degree in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.

Ashraf is a world renowned leader and expert in power electronics, power management and power technologies. Having been continuously involved in research, design and commercial development in the power field for over 20 years, he brings many technical, managerial and leadership qualities to his role.

Prior to founding Enpirion, he led the power management R&D effort at Bell Laboratories as Director of Power Management Research (Lucent/Agere). During this period he laid the vision for a research effort with the ambitious goal of creating the technology pieces needed to create, for the first time, true power management on a single chip. These efforts combined multiple disciplines from power semiconductors, RF circuits, high-speed power topologies, magnetic design to package technology in a highly coordinated development to achieve a commercially viable yet breakthrough technology enabling high performance in a single chip in an economical manner. Prior to that as Department Head, Power Systems Research, his development efforts in power systems applications ranged from high-density dc/dc power modules to planar high density magnetics to custom dc/dc converters to high power rectifiers and battery plants for telecommunications energy supplies. These technologies and others formed the cornerstone for many product lines delivered by Lucent's (previously AT&T's) Power Systems Division driving highly differentiated products in the market place commanding leadership market share and revenues. He also held various engineering and instructor positions at Virginia Tech and Cairo University.

Dr. Lotfi has authored a very large number of publications in the field of power in leading journals and specialized meetings and is inventor on 39 U.S. patents with 25 pending directly related to power technologies and products. He received the BS degree with honors from Cairo Univ. in 1984, the PhD degree from Virginia Tech in 1993 and an executive MBA from Northeastern Univ. in 2001.

Eric is a General Partner at Canaan Partners.

Since he co-founded Canaan in 1987, Eric has generated numerous positive investment outcomes from his active investor role in companies such as Argon Networks, Capstone Turbine, Copper Mountain Networks (acquired by Tut Systems), Diffusion Software, Frame Technology, International Network Services, Kalpana, ONI Systems, Spectrian and Visigenic Software.

Eric is leading Canaan's portfolio of investments in the power, energy and semiconductor sectors. He became an early investor in energy-related clean technologies, starting with Transphase Systems in the early 1990s, an innovative energy storage technology firm addressing efficient energy usage within large commercial facilities. Eric spearheaded Canaan's investment in the startup phase of Capstone Turbine, the world leader in the microturbine power generation equipment marketplace. As an active Board member for 13 years, Eric helped transform Capstone Turbine from an engineering project into a publicly-held leader in the distributed power generation industry. Eric has also been a director of Enpirion, an early stage company that manufactures high-efficiency, intelligent power supply modules for electronic systems ranging from mobile consumer devices to servers and infrastructure systems. Most recently, Eric has been advising Zolo Technologies on the development of strategic relationships for deploying their optical measurement technology in established power generation markets.

Prior to Canaan, Eric was a Senior Vice President of GE Venture Capital where he initiated a number of successful investments in companies such as Nellcor and Octel Communications. Prior to GE Venture Capital, Eric held a variety of sales, marketing and operations management positions within two GE power-related industrial product businesses. Eric holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a MBA from Northwestern University.

Eric recently served for five years as Silicon Valley's VC industry representative on Nasdaq's Listing and Hearing Review Council. He also is a member of Advisory Council of Cornell University's entrepreneurship initiative, Entrepreneurship@Cornell. He currently sits on the boards of Cortina Systems, eBates Shopping, Enpirion and Lancope.

Frank, a noted semiconductor industry expert, served as the Vice President and General Manager for the Micromachined Products Division at Analog Devices until his retirement. Previously, he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of the Transportation and Industrial Products Division. Before his work at Analog Devices, Mr. Weigold was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Unitrode, a New York stock exchange company. He also served as the President of Silicon General, and spent more than a decade in various leadership positions at TRW. Mr. Weigold has been a pioneer in semiconductor technology dating back to his first job out of college at Westinghouse, where he worked as a development engineer on silicon rectifiers, transistors and SCR's and published several technical papers describing inventions of those products.

Mr. McGinn is a General Partner at RRE Ventures and brings a 30-year career in the global communication systems, networking and technology industries to the firm. He is a member of the Business Council, and Director of the American Express Company and the Mountain Top Foundation. He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive of Lucent Technologies. While at Lucent, Mr. McGinn oversaw and directed engineering, research and investments of more than $4 billion annually at Bell Labs, Lucent's research and development arm.

At Lucent, Mr. McGinn was involved in the acquisition of, or investment in, over 30 technology companies. He conceived of and led the investment by AT&T in Sun Microsystems in 1987 and continued to build and acquire technology companies, including the acquisition of Ascend Communications. In addition, he devised and guided the creation of Agere Systems, a leading supplier of semiconductors and optoelectronic components for the communications industry, which went public in 2001.

Previously, while President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T's Network Systems Group and President of AT&T Computer Systems, he was responsible for the strategy to accelerate growth and globalization of AT&T Network Systems, as well as responsible for R&D and systems engineering. He also served as president of AT&T's Data Systems Group with responsibility for strategy and business development.

Mr. McGinn holds a BA from Grinnell College.

Hemant Kanakia is a partner at Columbia Capital.

Hemant joined Columbia Capital in 2004 and focuses primarily on technology investments. He was previously founder and CEO of Torrent Networking Technology (acquired by Ericsson), a Columbia Capital portfolio company. Hemant also co-founded and invested in Photuris, Inc. Prior to joining Columbia, Hemant served on the Board of Directors of Photuris, Viagate, Price Hawk, Gemplex (acquired by VSNL in 2003), and Torrent Networking Technology. He has also served or is currently serving on the boards of the International Red Cross Washington DC, the Board of Advisors for University of Maryland's School of Engineering, the Board of Visitors, Virginia Tech and the ICEO-TiE DC chapter. Prior to starting his first company, Hemant worked in AT&T Bell Laboratories (1990-1996) and Tata Consultancy Services, India (1975-77). Hemant received his B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his M.S. degree from Case Western Reserve University, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Rob Herb is a Venture Partner at Scale Venture Partners

Rob Herb focuses on semiconductors and components, primarily for consumer electronics and enterprise systems. He sits on the board of directors of Ageia, Astute Networks, Enpirion, and NComputing. Rob also serves on the board of MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS).

Rob joined Scale Venture Partners in 2005 following more than 20 years with AMD in a number of sales, marketing and general management positions. For the last four years of his tenure with AMD, Rob was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, working in the Office of the CEO. In that capacity he led the worldwide sales and marketing team and directed AMD's go-to-market strategy across all product lines.

Rob has a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois.