Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Bridgelux, Inc. in January 2010, Bill Watkins has more than 30 years of experience in the technology manufacturing industry. Before joining Bridgelux, Watkins served as chief executive officer of Seagate Technology, the world's leading disc drive and storage solutions company, from 2004 through January 2009. Prior to the CEO position, he was the company's president and chief operating officer, a position he held since 2000. During that time, he was responsible for the company's hard disc drive operations, including recording heads, media and other components, and related R&D and product-development organizations.

Watkins joined Seagate in 1996 as part of the company's merger with Conner Peripherals. In 1990, Watkins established the Conner Disk Division and managed its success through the merger with Seagate. Prior to joining Conner Peripherals, Watkins held executive positions with Domain Technology, where he managed the MINT (Magnetic Information Technology) disc media manufacturing process. Earlier in his career, he was three times part of the management team that took companies public.

Watkins, 57, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from the University of Texas. He currently serves on the board of directors of Maxim Integrated Products, Flextronics and Vertical Circuits Incorporated in addition to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In December, 2006 he was named Knight Commander "Dato" by the Governor of Penang, Malaysia and received Distinguished Friends of Singapore medal from S.R. Nathan, President of Singapore.

Mark Swoboda—President, Bridgelux, Inc. Mark Swoboda is a 26 year veteran in the LED, solid state lighting and semiconductor industries. He was named President of Bridgelux, Inc. in January 2010, leading product development, R&D initiatives and sales and marketing efforts. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2010. Swoboda's vision transitioned the Company from an R&D and chip design business into a vertically integrated solid state lighting product Company. By the end of 2008, Bridgelux had become the first new U.S.-based LED company in 20 years, capable of manufacturing the high performance, high power LED materials necessary to enable solid state lighting at its operations in Silicon Valley. Demonstrating this new business model, Bridgelux released its first higher value, integrated product line in January of 2009—the Bridgelux LED Arrays—delivering high quality and energy-efficient LED solutions for the high growth general illumination market.

Prior to Bridgelux, Swoboda served as Executive Vice President of Philips Lumileds. During his tenure, he led Philips Lumileds' sales, marketing, applications and custom product development teams at the corporate spin-off and joint venture between Hewlett-Packard/Agilent and Royal Philips Electronics. The company pioneered the power LED product class and Luxeon brand to develop high-growth markets and applications in solid-state lighting including automotive forward lighting, mobile phone camera flash, LED backlighting, and general lighting.

Additionally, Swoboda spent 17 years with the Hewlett-Packard Semiconductor Products Group in various sales, marketing, and channel management positions. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University.

As a 20-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, Pete Moran anchors DCM’s investments into semiconductor and component companies. Prior to joining DCM, Moran built his career through several facets of the industry: from semiconductor equipment to semiconductor manufacturing, through management consulting to components distribution. Moran has a track record of outstanding results and exemplary leadership at Arrow Electronics, McKinsey & Co., Hewlett-Packard and KLA Instruments. Moran served on the board and/or advised the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, MIT Semiconductor Program and the TiE Semiconductor SIG Board. Moran received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He also earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a ‘Leaders for Manufacturing Fellow,’ and a master’s degree in business administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Marc van den Berg has more than 25 years of industrial experience serving in executive roles in both technical and business capacities at small, private and large public companies. He joined VantagePoint in 2006 from Venrock Partners, and his 10 years of experience in semiconductor capital equipment and materials at ATMI, Inc., and Microbar, Inc. significantly benefits VantagePoint’s solar technology portfolio companies. Previously, he held technical and operations positions in the Environmental Capital Equipment business at Purus Inc. Earlier in his career, he spent a decade developing advanced lasers as platforms for a broad array of industry applications at XMR Inc. Van den Berg holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University.

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Nelson Chan has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries. He joined the Bridgelux Board of Directors in June 2009 as an independent Director. Prior to joining the Bridgelux Board, Chan served as Chief Executive Officer of Magellan, a leader in the consumer, survey, GIS, and OEM GPS navigation and positioning markets, from 2006 to 2008. At Magellan, Chan, more than doubled annual revenues from $200 million to over $500 million and drove the business to profitability in 12 months. From 1992 through 2006, he served in various senior management positions at SanDisk Corporation, most recently as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Business. At SanDisk, Chan helped drive the business from a startup to over $3 billion in annual revenues. He led SanDisk's entry into the retail business and was instrumental in creating its retail presence through a branded product portfolio. That business has grown to over $2 billion in annual revenues in under seven years with products being available through over 250,000 store fronts worldwide. From 1983 to 1992, Chan held marketing and engineering positions at Chips and Technologies, Signetics, and Delco Electronics. Chan currently serves on the Board of Directors for several privately held companies as well as two publicly held companies, Silicon Laboratories Inc. and Synaptics Inc. Chan holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a masters of business administration degree from Santa Clara University.