Shaoher Pan, Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Shaoher Pan is Spatial Photonics’ founder and the current Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter and Board director of The Society For Information Display (SID), an international display community for the professionals in all of the technical and business disciplines that relate to display research, design, manufacturing, applications, marketing, and sales. Dr. Pan is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association (SCEA).

Prior to Spatial Photonics, Dr. Pan also founded XHP Microsystems - now Miradia - and served as its president & CEO since its inception. Prior to starting XHP, Dr. Pan held a variety of positions at Applied Materials, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, most recently as senior manager in corporate engineering for Applied Materials’ Etch & Deposition technologies. Earlier, Dr. Pan was a research scientist for IBM Corporation. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Pan was a research assistant professor in the Physics Department of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Pan received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the City University of New York and MBA from Santa Clara University. Dr. Pan holds more than 40 US patents primarily in semiconductor manufacturing and display devices.

John Doerr

John Doerr joined Intel in 1974 just as they invented the famous "8080" 8 bit microprocessor. At Intel, he held various engineering, marketing and management assignments, and was one of their top-ranked sales executives.

In 1980, he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec.

John was the founding CEO of Silicon Compilers and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Google, Intuit, Amazon.com, Homestore.com, and Sun Microsystems. His privately held company board seats include Good Technology, and Segway. He holds patents for computer memory devices he invented as a design engineer at Monsanto. Recent interests include education, the Internet and biotechnology genomics.

John was born one of five children and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla, consistently named the Silicon Valley's most successful venture capitalist, was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors.

In 2003 Forbes magazine named Vinod Khosla "The Man with the Golden Touch" when they put him at the top of their list of tech's best venture investors. Vinod has an uncanny talent for identifying emerging trends and opportunities. Khosla was the backer of some of Kleiner's most successful investments, including Juniper, now a public company, and Cerent and Siara Systems, which in 1999 were sold for $11.2 billion in total.

In addition to eASIC, Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, Centrata, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, QWEST Communications, and Zettacore.

He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Vinod Khosla has been a General Partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since 1986.

Leslie L. Vadasz

Leslie L. Vadasz joined Intel in 1968 as part of the founding team;, he held various engineering and general management positions. He was elected to Intel’s BOD in 1988. He retired in June, 2003 as an Executive Vice President of Intel Corporation and President, Intel Capital. He retired from the Board in June 2004.

Vadasz served on the Presidential Advisory Committee for Information Technology (PITAC) from 1997 to 2002, and on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council from 1991 to 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1977 for "leadership in the development of semiconductor memories and microcomputer components."

He graduated from McGill University, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in EE in 1961; and completed AMP at Harvard Business School in 1990. Prior to joining Intel, he worked at Transitron Corporation and Fairchild Semiconductor Company.

Roger Borovoy, Esq.

Roger Borovoy is of counsel to Fish & Richardson P.C. Mr. Borovoy is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and admitted to the bar in California and Massachusetts.  Mr. Borovoy practices in the fields of patent infringement, unfair competition, trade secret protection, software copyrights and licensing.

Between 1963 and 1974 he served as patent counsel for Fairchild Camera Instrument Corporation and represented Robert Noyce, the inventor of the integrated circuit when Texas Instruments unsuccessfully asserted that Mr. Kilby was the first inventor and therefore it should own the Noyce invention.

Between 1974 and 1983, he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Intel Corporation. At Intel, he defended a suit by AT&T against Intel and eight other companies for patent infringement of the patent covering the basic silicon transistor manufacturing process.

Between 1983 and October 1987 he joined Ben Rosen and L.J. Sevin in the venture capital partnership which started Compaq Computer and Lotus Development (1-2-3). Together, they raised and invested $60,000,000 in high technology electronics start-up companies. Mr. Borovoy is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. Chemical & Electrical Engineering and Business 1956, and of  Harvard Law School , J.D., 1959.