Dr. Wolfe joined Harris & Harris Group in 2004, and is now President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Director of the company. Prior to Harris & Harris Group, he served as a consultant to Nanosys, Inc., CW Group, and Bioscale, Inc., and was the co-founder and President of Scientific Venture Assessments, Inc. Dr. Wolfe graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. and A.M. in Chemistry and was a NSF Pre-doctoral Fellow. Prior to Harvard, Dr. Wolfe graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Chemistry. He has published over 15 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and works with a number of portfolio companies of Harris & Harris Group, including SiOnyx, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Ensemble Discovery, Nanosys and Nantero.

Dr. Metcalfe is a general partner with Polaris Ventures. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he held three distinguished careers in technological innovation: an engineer-scientist (1965-1979) during which time he helped pioneer the Internet and invented Ethernet; an entrepreneur-executive (1979-1990) where he founded 3Com Corporation, a billion-dollar networking company; and a publisher-pundit (1990-2000) as a columnist and CEO of IDG’s InfoWorld Publishing Company.

Dr. Metcalfe serves on the boards of Polaris-backed start-ups including 1366, Ember, Greenfuel, Infinite Power Solutions, Mintera, SiCortex, and SiOnyx. He is a director-trustee-advisor to Avistar, St. Mark’s School, USC Stevens, MIT, MIT’s Technology Review Magazine, MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the MIT Energy Initiative.

Dr. Metcalfe graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 with two Bachelor’s degrees, one in electrical engineering and the other in industrial management. He later received a Master’s degree in applied mathematics (1970) and a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University. His countless awards and recognition include the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007), the IEEE Medal of Honor (1996) and Bell Medal (1988), and being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995), to name a few.

Dr. Hawley serves on the boards of Eastman Kodak, TTI/Vanguard, and advises various startups and nonprofit organizations. He directs the EG Conference (www.the-eg.com), is one of the founders of www.192021.org, and founded Friendly Planet, a small educational charity that has done helpful things in Cambodia and Bhutan.

Dr. Hawley studied music and computer science as an undergraduate at Yale (where he serves as a trustee) and enjoyed nearly two decades of graduate and faculty work at the MIT Media Lab, where he was among the most visible and active researchers and inventors in all aspects of digital media.

Dr. Hawley has had an industrial career as well, developing the library of digital books at NeXT, including the world’s first significant digital editions of Shakespeare and Webster’s dictionary. He performed pioneering work in digital cinema systems at Lucasfilm, was a computer music researcher at IRCAM in Paris, and cut his teeth in research at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill.

In his spare time, Dr. Hawley plays the piano (he won the Cliburn competition in 2002), and is a photographer of note (he received a Guinness World Record for publishing the world’s largest book, BHUTAN, in 2003). He resides in Cambridge with wife, Nina and dog, Tashi.

Jill Watz is a Venture Partner with Vulcan Capital. She is responsible for strategy and portfolio management in the clean technology sector, with specific emphasis on solar, geothermal, nuclear, advanced materials, and water technologies. Prior to joining Vulcan, she spent twelve years on the technical staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she held senior management and technical research positions in applied energy technology directing multi-disciplinary research projects in the areas of oil and gas exploration and production, geothermal energy, energy storage and conversion technologies, alternative fuels and energy and climate policy.

She also led industrial partnership development for energy technologies and was responsible for developing and managing energy related Cooperative Research and Development contracts between the laboratory and the private sector. She has served as a technical and policy advisor to several state and federal agencies and has worked internationally on energy and environmental technology transfer and deployment with USAID and private companies.

Jill is passionate about developing distributed energy technologies to combat poverty and advises the Millennium Village Project’s Energy Group on new technology development and business strategies. She is a participating scientist at LLNL and is also a member of the advisory council of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. Jill has a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of California at San Diego and S.M. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Saylor’s career spans over 20 years of emerging technology development and commercialization. Prior to joining SiOnyx, he served as a Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for Adobe Systems where he managed Adobe’s award-winning digital video product line. Mr. Saylor joined Adobe from FlashPoint Technology, a digital imaging company he co-founded with a team from Apple Computer, which they built into one of the most prolific licensing firms to serve the consumer digital photography industry. In his early career, Mr. Saylor held a variety of technology management, marketing and engineering roles with Apple, Polaroid and Technicare Corporation. Mr. Saylor holds a BSEE from Northeastern University.