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Sophie Vandebroek is Xerox's chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group, responsible for overseeing Xerox's research centers in Europe, Asia, Canada and US as well as the Palo Alto Research Center. Previously, Vandebroek was chief engineer of Xerox Corporation and vice president of the Xerox Engineering Center, technical advisor to Xerox's chief operating officer, and director of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada. She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Belgian-American Educational Foundation, as well as a Fulbright Fellow. She holds 12 US patents. Vandebroek is a member of the board of directors of Analogic Corporation and Nypro Corporation and is a member of the US National Academies Committee on Science, Technology and Law. She is a trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and serves on the engineering advisory council at MIT.

Andrew W. Verhalen joined Matrix Partners, a venture capital partnership
in 1992. Since then he has led Matrix’s involvement in dozens of successful
technology companies, including Phone.com, which went public in 1999;
SiTera, which sold to Vitesse; and Alteon Websystems, which listed its shares
on Nasdaq before being acquired by Nortel Networks. Before joining Matrix,
Verhalen helped start Grand Junction Networks, an Ethernet switch business
that is now a major division of Cisco. Previously he worked for 3Com, where
he built a new division focused on network adapters and hubs. Prior to that,
he managed marketing for Intel’s flagship microprocessor, the 8086. Today
he is working with a few young companies: Ambarella provides HD video
and image processing solutions; Panzura provides enterprise cloud storage
controllers; Sila Nanotechnologies is developing advanced battery materials.
Verhalen received a B.S. in electrical engineering, M.Eng. in electrical
engineering and M.B.A. all from Cornell.

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