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.

Mr. Harris led the creation of RedShift Ventures in the Spring of 2006. He currently serves on the board of directors of several RedShift portfolio companies, including: DigitalBridge Communications, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Novariant, TerraGo, and VBrick. Mr. Harris has worked with a number of successful technology companies, including: Cronos Integrated Microsystems (acquired by JDS Uniphase), MDLinx (acquired by a division of Sony) and Woodwind Communications (acquired by Vina Technologies).

Prior to forming RedShift Ventures, Mr. Harris served as a Managing Director with SpaceVest and a Program Manager for the Dingman Center. In addition, Mr. Harris is a former practicing attorney, specializing in civil litigation and intellectual property law.

Ms. Sargent has worked in several established and emerging technology markets, including: Solar Energy, Integrated Circuit: Design and Manufacturing, Embedded Systems Software, Capital Equipment for Semiconductor, LED, LCD, MEMS, HDD and Nano-Biotech manufacturing.

Currently, Ms. Sargent is working with Crosslink Capital Ltd. as a member of the Energy and Core Technology/Semiconductor Practice. Prior to Crosslink, she was the founding CEO of Oerlikon Solar, a leading provider of end-to-end Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar solutions based in Switzerland. Ms. Sargent also served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager at Veeco Instruments where she led the Metrology and Instrumentation Business and Corporate Development office. Earlier, Ms. Sargent served as CEO of Voyan Technology, an embedded systems provider serving the Communications and Semiconductor industries. She also held various senior management positions at GaSonics, now part of Novellus, and Tencor, now KLA-Tencor.

Ms. Sargent earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from Northeastern University and was a Carl S. Ell Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is the author of several technical and marketing publications and holds a patent for determining sequences of polynucleotides. Ms. Sargent is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of Northeastern University’s College of Engineering and the Bio Nano Centre based in London, England, which is a joint venture of Imperial College London and University College London.

Dr. Russo currently serves as Chairman and CEO of GEO Semiconductor, and as Lead Director of three other venture-funded technology companies, including Beam Networks (www.beamnetworks.com), FONOLO (www.fonolo.com) and SBG Labs (www.sbglabs.com). Dr. Russo founded as well as served as Chairman and CEO of Silicon Optix, a privately held fabless semiconductor company focused on high quality video processing. Prior to that, Dr. Russo was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Genesis Microchip (acquired by ST Micro in 2007) through 2000, including its successful NASDAQ IPO in 1998. Previously held positions include General Manager of GE’s Microelectronics Center (RTP, North Carolina), Senior Manager in GE’s Industrial Electronics Group (Charlottesville, Virginia) and Head, Microsystems Research at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton, New Jersey).

Dr. Russo received his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from McGill University and his MSc and PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley. He holds six U.S. patents, is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received numerous RCA and industry awards, including the IEEE Centennial Medal and the 2006 Tech Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum. Dr. Russo is also a member of the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA) Emerging Company CEO Council and participates in its EDA sub-committee.

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.

Dr. Carey is an expert in optical physics and the interaction of materials with ultrashort laser pulses. Dr. Carey played a key role in the discovery of the unique optoelectronic properties of pulsed laser microstructured silicon, the study of which formed the basis for his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard and led to the founding of SiOnyx. Dr. Carey is an author of over 20 papers and conference proceedings, a named inventor on 12 US and international patents, and has presented at numerous international conferences. Dr. Carey also holds a BSE from the University of Michigan.

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.