Advisors
Illuminate benefits from a world-class Business Advisory Council made up of more than 40 of the most successful members of the global high tech ecosystem - all of whom work closely with the firm and with the founding teams in our portfolio.
Advisory Council members come from four categories of experience – each with relevance to our enterprise tech focus:
- Tech entrepreneurs that have achieved large, successful outcomes in the enterprise space
- Corporate executives and board members of market-leading enterprise technology companies
- Investors and service providers experienced in achieving strategic exits
- Educators and non-profit Execs that mentor, educate and fund tech entrepreneurs, with a focus on diversity
Nancy Albertini
Co-Chairman Kingsley Gate Partners; Prior Co-Founder & Managing Partner Pagemill Partners, Founder Albertini Group and Taylor Winfield; Prior Board Member VT&T, Sr Exec RCA, Advisory Board Member Monitise.
Radha Basu
CEO iMerit Technology, Dean’s Professor & Director Frugal Innovation Lab Santa Clara Univ; Prior IPO CEO SupportSoft.com, GM Hewlett-Packard; Prior Co-Founder Anudip Foundation, Board Vice Chair ReSurge Int’l.
Gerard Brossard
CEO Denison Consulting, LP, Board Advisor & Early Investor enterprise SaaS start-ups; Prior COO Rimini Street, EVP & GM Rackspace Solutions & Services and Enterprise Apps & OpenStack Public Cloud, EVP & MD EarthLink, CEO Rich Media Mgmt & BPM Hewlett Packard, SVP Visa.
Edgard Capdevielle
CEO Stealth Startup, Investor & Advisor Various Startups; Prior CEO Nozomi Networks, EIR Charles River Ventures, VP Product Management & Marketing Imperva, Founder & Managing Director Cloud Strategy Group, VP of Product Management Nirvanix, also prior Brocade Comm Systems, Orbital Data, Outlook Ventures.
Janice Chaffin
Independent Board Director Synopsys, Informatica & PTC, Advisory Board Member UCLA Anderson School of Management, Board Member CareerBuilder; Prior VP Enterprise Marketing & Solutions HP, Group President Consumer Business Symantec.
Caretha Coleman
Board Director Mahmee & The RealReal, Board Member Sobrato Foundation, KIPP Public Schools N. California & The Leverage Network; Prior Chair Dignity Community Care (Dignity Health), Executive Hewlett-Packard, CAO Interval Research, CHRO Software Publishing Corp.
David Coulter
Special Limited Partner Warburg Pincus, Board Member Varo Money, ModivCare & Innovu; Prior Chairman & CEO BankAmerica Corp, Managing Director & Vice Chair Warburg Pincus, Vice Chair J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Claudia Fan Munce
Board Member Best Buy, BMO U.S. & Arteris, Venture Advisor NEA, Chairwoman Emeritus NACD N. California Chapter, Lecturer in Management Stanford GSB; Prior Managing Director & VP IBM Venture Capital Group & Corp Development, Chairwoman Global Corporate Venturing. Prior Board Member CoreLogic, Bank of the West, Parity.Org, NVCA & LAVCA, Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Liz Fetter
Board Director High Barr Media, Fox Factory & McGrath RentCorp, Founder & Managing Partner Abundance Hill Enterprises; Prior IPO CEO Northpoint, President & CEO NxGen Modular, Jacent Technologies & QRS Corp; Prior Board Director NACD N. CA, Cloudstructure, Alliant Int’l Univ, Symmetricom, Quantum & Ikanos Communications.
Celeste Ford
Managing Director Stellar Ventures, Board Chair & Founder Stellar Solutions; Prior Trustee Univ of Notre Dame, Board Simpson Strong-Tie, Iris Automation & CHG-Chemring, Advisory Council Member Enterprising Women.
Earl Fry
Board Member Backblaze & Central Pacific Financial Corp.; Prior CFO & EVP Informatica, CFO Omnicell, C*ATS Software & Weitek Corp, Sr Auditor Ernst & Whinney, Controller VLSI Technology; Prior Board Member Hawaiian Airlines & Xactly Corp.
Ken Goldman
Board Member RingCentral, Zuora & Value Reporting Foundation, Trustee Cornell Univ; Prior President Hillspire LLC, CFO Yahoo!, Fortinet, Siebel Systems, Excite@Home, Sybase & Cypress Semiconductor.
Nancy Heinen
Chair First Place for Youth, Board Member Empower Work & SV2 Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, Advisor Duarte Inc., Lab4U & UC Berkeley Center for Law & Business, Advisory Board Northern California Innocence Project; Prior SVP & General Counsel Apple, VP & General Counsel NeXT, Attorney Tandem Computers; Prior Board Member Verb Technology & Teen Success.
Sabrina Horn
Certified Executive Coach, CEO HORN Strategy LLC, Author Make it, Don't Fake it, Advisor Oppenheimer Energy, Sr Advisor Tech Practice Finn Partners; Board Member TadHealth, 4CRisk.ai & Boston Univ Alumni Council; Prior Managing Partner Finn Partners, Founder, President & CEO HORN Digital.
Amal Johnson
Board Member Intuitive Surgical, Essex Property Trust; Prior GP Lightspeed Venture Partners, President Baan North America, ASK Mfg Systems, GM IBM, MarketTools' Prior Exec Chair Author-it, Board Member Mellanox Technologies, Chair CalAmp.
Robin Joy
Operating Advisor Bessemer Venture Partners, LP Operator Collective; Prior SVP Global Alliances & Partner Dev DocuSign, VP Marketing Caring.com, Dir QuickBooks Marketing Intuit; Prior Board Member Acumatica.
Michele Klein
CEO Jasper Ridge Inc, Board Member Aviat Networks, Intevac, Rockley Photonics & Gridtential Energy; Prior CEO & Founder Boxer Cross & High Yield Technology, Sr Director Applied Ventures (Applied Materials), Exec Knoll & HP.
Tom Kosnik, Ph.D.
Partner FoundersX Ventures, Consulting Professor NUS Overseas Colleges, Adjunct Professor Stanford Univ, Board Member Markable AI; Prior MD TCG Advisors, Visiting & Asst Professor Harvard Business School, Consultant, American Mgmt Systems.
Jean Kovacs
Partner Hillsven Venture Capital, Co-Chair Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association; Prior IPO EVP & Co-Founder Qualix Group, M&A CEO & Co-Founder Comergent Technologies, President HBSAA N. California, Director Frame Technology; Prior Board Member ALW & Survox.
Kira Makagon
President & CMO RingCentral, Board Member Calix; Prior Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer Octane Software (acq. by Epiphany for $3B), Founder & CEO/President Red Aril & NebuAd, President Ventures & Alliances & EVP Mktg & Biz Dev Exigen Group, VP Products Scopus Technology (IPO & acq. by Siebel Systems).
Amy Millman
Managing Partner StageNext LLC, Founder Springboard 2000 EnterprisesEIR Georgetown Entrepreneurship & Yale Univ; Prior Co-founder and President Springboard Enterprises; Prior Board Member Women in Bio, Exec Director Nat’l Women’s Business Council, Advisory Board Dell EIR.
Carol Mills
Board Member Entertainment Partners, Zynga and RELX; Prior CEO Acta Technology, Corp VP & GM HP, EVP Juniper Networks; Prior Board Chair/Director Xactly, WhiteHat Security, Alaska Communications, Ingram Micro, Adobe, Blue Coat & Tekelec.
Rebecca Norlander
Founder Stealth AI Startup, Board Trustee Boston Univ; Prior VP Software Personal Systems HP, CEO Samepage Health & Co-founder/CEO Health123, GM Microsoft; Prior Advisory Board Lyfebank, Board Director AAUW.
Donna Petkanics
Prior Partner Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Board Alzheimer’s Association of NorCal, Board Member WSGR Foundation; Assisted hundreds of VC-backed companies with successful IPOs & M&A negotiations.
Danielle Porter
Prior CFO & Board Bungie, CFO Flowroute & Lighthouse eDiscovery, Chief of Staff to the CFO T-Mobile, VP Int’l Finance & GM Clearwire, Senior finance positions at drugstore.com, Nextel Int’l Wireless, and AT&T Wireless.
Ron Rasmussen
CTO Arkestro; Prior Founder & CTO Latitude 39, CTO Xactly Corp, VP Eng Quova & Lithium Technologies, CTO & VP Eng KnowNow, SVP Eng & Ops Digital Impact, Architect/Sr Eng HP.
Janice Roberts
Partner BGV, Board Member NETGEAR, MivervaCQ, Totango, Uneeq, Zebra Technologies & RealNetworks, Advisory Board Member INSEAD; Prior MD/President BICC Data Networks, Managing Director Mayfield Fund.
Judy Robinett
Founder & President JRobinett Enterprises, Author of Crack the Funding Code & How to Be a Power Connector, Board Member Resilinc; Prior CEO IPO MDI Group, Managing Director Golden Seeds, Exec Director InVectus (Daisyclip), Director Willowbend Partners.
Doug Rybacki
CPO Brevity; Prior Chief Product Officer Vanilla, Chief Product & Technology Officer UpKeep and Conga, Senior Director of Product Management Docusign and LexisNexis.
Avanish Sahai
Fellow Stanford Center on Longevity, Board Member Birdie, Flywl & Meta Brazil, VC Partner SynapseVC; Prior Corp VP Google, Global VP ServiceNow & Salesforce.com, Sr VP Demandbase & InsideSales.com, Co-Founder Escalon Services & CareVault; Prior Board Member HubSpot.
Sonali Sambhus
CTO Butter Payments, Fractional CTO & Startup Growth Advisor Thrive Ventures, Board Member AvidXchange; Prior SVP/Head Developer & ML Platform Square, VP Eng Vuclip, Head Consumer Eng Realtor.com, Co-Founder 10jumps.
Lucy Sanders
CEO & Co-Founder NCWIT (National Center for Women & IT), Trustee Center for American Entrepreneurship, Colorado School of Mines & Int’l Computer Science Institute, Exec-in-Residence ATLAS Institute Univ of Colorado Boulder; Prior VP R&D & CTO Avaya Labs.
Leyla Seka
Co-Founder Side Project HQ & Black Venture Institute, Chair Operator Collective, Board Member UC Berkeley Coleman Fung Institute & Girls Who Code, Member Board of Trustees Oakland Museum of California; Prior COO Ironclad, EVP Salesforce (Mobile & AppExchange), Prod Mgr Vivant; Prior Board Member SetSail & Proofpoint, Advisory Board Xero.
Steve Strandberg
Co-Founder & Managing Partner Albany Road Real Estate Partners, Trustee US Ski & Snowboard Fdn, Director Crescent Capital BDC; Prior MD & Co-Founder WestBridge Ventures, MD ARAMEX Co., Tech Investment Banker Morgan Stanley, DLJ & Merrill Lynch.
Shanna Tellerman
CPO Lennar, Member YPO; Prior Founder & CEO Modsy & SimOps/Wild Pockets, Partner Google Ventures, Prod Line Mgr Cloud Platform & Services Autodesk, Entertainment Tech Center Carnegie Mellon University.
