The Tech Awards Judges
Environment
Dorothy Glancy, Chair
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
Dorothy Glancy was counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights during the Watergate investigations. Recently, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court appointed her to the Court Technology Advisory Committee of the California Judicial Council. She is a life member of the American Law Institute and served as an advisor to the Restatement, Third, of Property: Servitudes. She has served on the Council of the American Bar Association Section on Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of California. She also served on the Professional Development Committee of the Association of American Law Schools and chaired several sections, including those regarding Property Law, Environmental Law, and Defamation and Privacy. She is admitted to the bar both in California and in the District of Columbia. The Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded her a research grant to direct a legal research project regarding privacy and Intelligent Transportation Systems. She currently serves as a consultant in the development of Vehicle Infrastructure Integration, a national vehicular communications system. She has published articles about intelligent transportation systems, historic preservation, land use, the law of privacy and the judicial work of Justice William O. Douglas. She specializes in property law, intellectual property, administrative law, natural resources, land use, and privacy law. - subjects she has taught at Santa Clara University since 1975. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and J.D from Harvard Law School. A founding member of the Harvard Women's Law Association, Dorothy Glancy was awarded a Stevens Traveling Fellowship that took her around the world to interview women political leaders. She was also a post-graduate Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard University. Her previous activities included private law practice in Washington, D.C.; visiting professor, University of Arizona; and assistant general counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.
Mike Denzel
General Partner
McKenna Ventures
Mike Denzel is a General Partner of McKenna Ventures, an early stage investment company. Mike currently splits his time between looking for new investments and working with the portfolio companies. Mike screens early-stage companies and performs due diligence on prospects. After investment, Mike acts as an advisor to the company or takes a board position, depending on the needs of the company.
Prior to joining McKenna Ventures, Mike led a team of world-class marketing professionals at Quantum Corporation, the world leader in the ultra-competitive desktop hard disk drive market. At Quantum, Denzel was responsible for P&L for the OEM business. In this role, he was responsible for customer satisfaction at Apple, Acer, Compaq, Dell, eMachines, Gateway, HP, IBM and NEC, as well as other leading PC manufacturers. During his leadership, unit shipments almost doubled to a 20 million unit annual rate representing $1.8 billion, expanding Quantum's dominant position in the desktop PC OEM business. Denzel's team achieved unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction combined with consistent profitability.
Prior to Quantum, Mike worked at Maxtor Corporation in a series of jobs of increasing accountability in the Sales and Marketing areas, at a time when Maxtor was the world's largest hard disk drive company. Early in his career, Denzel worked at Varian Associates, excelling in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations and Marketing.
Mike supports the community by serving on a school board, church board, and coaching youth sports. He is also as active supporter of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County and other local charities, along with his wife, Meghan.
A native of Western New York, Denzel earned his BS in Industrial Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MBA at Santa Clara University.
William Eisinger
Professor of Biology
Santa Clara University
William Eisinger is Professor of Biology at Santa Clara University. He earned his undergraduate degree at Hiram College (BA) and graduate degrees from Purdue University (MS) and the University of Miami (PhD). In addition to his on going research at Santa Clara, he worked as a Research Associate and Senior Scientist at Stanford University, as well as, a visiting scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz. The primary focus of his research has been on the regulation of plant growth and development by hormones and light. Since 1999 he has developed a program of soil chemistry and rainforest ecology education in Trinidad. Dr. Eisinger lives in San Jose with his wife and daughter.
Brad Mattson
Partner
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Brad Mattson is a well known executive and entrepreneur in the Semiconductor Equipment Industry. In April 2005, he was listed as one of the Top 50 most influential people in the Semiconductor Industry, including 3 levels in the semiconductor food chain. This list included such luminaries as Gordon Moore, Jim Morgan, Jack Kilby (inventor of the IC), Andrew Grove, and Craig Barett, CEO of Intel. In the Semiconductor Equipment segment of the Industry, Mr. Mattson was ranked as the 8th most influential person.
Currently Mr. Mattson is the Chairman of the Board of ZOOM. Before that he was founder, CEO and Chairman of Mattson Technology where he developed the Aspen platform and Strip system, and from which he retired in 2001. Previous to that he was founder, CEO, and Chairman at Novellus Systems where he developed and introduced the Concept One system which launched the Company. Prior to that Mr. Mattson held various management, marketing, and technical positions at Applied Material and LFE Corporation.
Mr. Mattson has degrees from Santa Clara University and San Jose State University. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Santa Clara University and of the Board of Directors of SEMI, the leading Semiconductor Equipment Industry Association. Mr. Mattson has been honored with the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1988, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from San Jose State University. He also holds 12 patents in various semiconductor equipment and process related areas.
Ed Maurer
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Santa Clara University
Ed Maurer holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, a Masters in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington. He joined the faculty of the SCU civil engineering department in September 2003 and his general areas of expertise are in water resources and hydrologic modeling. Ed's past experience includes work experience in municipal water supply and wastewater engineering, climate change studies, water resources studies in support of western tribal water rights, and rural community water supply projects in Peru. His most recent research is in simulating large scale hydrologic dynamics, looking for potential improvements in long-lead forecasting, and studying regional hydrologic effects of climate change.
Barbara (Bobbie) Winn
Project WILD Coordinator
Department of Fish and Game
B.S. Design/family and Consumer Science, minor in Life Science-University of California, Davis; Graduate studies Art Education-California State University Sacramento; certified Early Childhood Education.
Past 12 years employed with California Department of Fish and Game as the California Project WILD Program Coordinator. Responsible for statewide implementation of Project WILD (an international K-12 Environmental Education program) and creation of state specific wildlife education material.
Past experience includes:- 8 years at Cal Expo as Exhibit Supervisor, 8 years Pre-school provider and teacher, and 5 years in Elementary education.
- 4-H program work for 30 years as program leader, county resource leader and coach of regional Nature Bowl teams.
