Bridgelux’s board of directors features a high-caliber team of technology, lighting, financial and operations experts who are helping guide the company in its next phase of growth.


Peter Moran, General Partner, DCM
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.


Scott Irwin, General Partner, El Dorado Ventures
Scott Irwin joined El Dorado Ventures in 2000. He focuses on software and infrastructure investments. At El Dorado, he has worked closely with prior EDV investments, including MediaQ (acquired by nVidia) and Torrex (acquired by Applied Materials). Prior to El Dorado, Irwin held software engineering and product management positions with Accenture. His early career experience was with the communications systems division of Rockwell International, later acquired by Alcatel. He received his bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was a Venture Fellow and Welsh Scholar. He currently serves on the boards of not only Bridgelux, but also Convio, Skytide, RipCode, Tower Cloud, TriActive and WebTrends.


Marc van den Berg, VantagePoint Venture Partners
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.

Richard MacKellar, Managing Director, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital
Richard MacKellar is a serial entrepreneur who has worked with the Chrysalix team for more than a decade. As an engineer, MacKellar started his career with NEI Parsons, a division of Rolls Royce that designed turbines and generators for power generation. He worked on Drax, the largest coal-fired power station in Europe and Bruce, the largest nuclear station in the world. For the past sixteen years, MacKellar has been running venture-backed startup companies. Most recently, as president and CEO, he successfully sold BrightSide Technologies to Dolby Laboratories for an annualized return for investors of 45-60%. Prior to this, he was president/CEO of NxtPhase, raising $57 million in venture capital and building relationships with GE, Honeywell and Mitsubishi, as well as the three largest Canadian utilities and three of the larger U.S. utilities.


Jim Diller, VentureTech Alliance
Jim Diller is a semiconductor industry veteran with 20 years of senior management experience. Most recently, he managed an investment fund doing angel investing in start-up companies. Prior to Diller’s investment management role, he was CEO of Altos Semiconductor, a start-up company in thermal and system management that was later sold to Micrel. He has also held various positions at National Semiconductor including vice president of the System Products Group. Diller holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley. He serves on the board of directors of Optichron, Zenasis Technologies and Mach Energy and acts as a board observer at Axiom Microdevices, Tzero and Aquantia.

Heng Liu, Ph.D., Bridgelux CTO & Founder

Mark Swoboda, Brideglux CEO


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Michael A Janse, Executive Vice President / Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, Michael Janse was an associate at Arch Venture Partners from March 2001 to December 2006 and a principal since January 2007. From 1995 to 2000, he served in several capacities within Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. Janse graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and earned master’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.