Directorships of Public Companies

Intersil Corp. (ISIL - NASD)
STATS ChipPAC
   (Acquired by Temasek Holdings, 2007)


Portfolio Companies:

Directorships of Private Companies
  now Acquired

Ascendent Systems, Inc.
   (Acquired by RIM in 2006)
PathScale, Inc.
   (Acquired by QLogic in 2006)
Tarari, Inc.
   (Acquired by LSI in 2007)
Quorum Systems, Inc.
   (Acquired by Spreadtrum Communications, 2008)


Directorships of Current Private
  Companies

3Leaf Systems, Inc.
Calient Networks, Inc.
Devicescape, Inc.
Hammerhead Systems, Inc.
NEXX Systems, Inc.
Novera Optics, Inc.
Pivotal Systems, Inc.
Quartics, Inc.
Scoperta, Inc. (In stealth mode)
SKY MobilMedia, Inc.


Areas of Investment Focus

Systems, Semiconductors and Components
Mobile Solutions and Wireless Internet
Clean Energy and Advanced Materials

Robert W. Conn is a Managing Director at Enterprise. At Enterprise, Bob’s investment focus covers the areas of semiconductors, components and systems, technologies that enable mobility and consumer applications, specialized materials and energy. Since joining in 2002, four of Bob’s EPVC companies have been acquired by public companies in M&A transactions. Bob himself was a startup entrepreneur, having co-founded Plasma & Materials Technologies, a venture-backed company he spun out of UCLA that had its successful IPO on Nasdaq in 1995. He served as board chairman and chief technologist. Bob is on the board of the San Diego Venture Group as part of the community effort to network entrepreneurs, venture investors, service providers and public companies in the region.

Prior to joining Enterprise Partners in 2002, Bob was the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego where he led the School through an unprecedented period of growth. The School is now ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the top 10 engineering schools in the country. Bob worked to create major centers in key technical areas and these included the Center for Wireless Communications, the Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He cultivated partnerships with industry and the venture capital community and established the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement.

Bob was Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UCLA from 1980 to 1993 and was the founding director of the Institute of Plasma Physics and Fusion Research at UCLA. He began his career on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, where he held the Romnes Faculty Professorial Chair in Applied Physics.

Bob is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Over the years he has received numerous awards including the E. O. Lawrence Memorial Award, presented on behalf of the President by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Association of Engineering Education, and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the California Institute of Technology. He has served on numerous advisory committees for the Federal Government, the Congress, and the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council in areas of science policy, energy development and national security.

Bob received his B.S. in chemical engineering and physics from Pratt Institute and his M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering science and applied physics from the California Institute of Technology.