7:30 – 8:00am – Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 9:30am – Program
Room 190, Stanford Law School

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A seminal study of the boards and board members of the largest and most influential companies in our region will be reviewed and discussed. The study, jointly sponsored by Lonergan Partners and SVDX, examines the demographics and identity of Silicon Valley boards. We will discuss such topics as gender, age, compensation, tenure, country of origin and education of the 1,000+ people who serve on the boards of the “Silicon Valley 150.”

	Kambiz Hooshmand is an experienced tech executive and board director who currently serves as chairman at Infinera. Kambiz also served as the CEO of Applied Micro Circuits from 2005 to 2009. Prior to that, he was an early executive at Stratacom here in Silicon Valley, a company Cisco bought in 1996. Kambiz was the SVP and general manager of one of Cisco’s largest divisions.
	David Larcker holds the James Irvin Miller Professorship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the director of the Corporate Governance Research Initiative at the Stanford GSB and senior faculty of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. David’s work can be viewed here.
	Dotty Schaffer leads the board recruitment and semiconductor practices at Lonergan Partners. Dotty is one of the technology market’s most statured board recruiters, having led projects for some of Silicon Valley’s most important technology companies. She is a 25-year veteran of the technology recruitment industry, having served as a consultant at both Heidrick & Struggles and at Hall Kinion.
	Mark Lonergan (moderator) is the current president of the Silicon Valley Directors Exchange (SVDX), the leading learning and networking organization for active corporate directors in Northern California. Mark is also the founder and managing partner at Lonergan Partners, Silicon Valley’s largest independent executive search firm. Mark is a 23-year veteran of the executive search industry where he has led over 200 projects to recruit CEOs and technology company board directors. Mark is the former managing partner of Heidrick & Struggles Silicon Valley.