|  Terry
D. Carlone, J.D., President
Mr. Carlone is an attorney and entrepreneur who has
founded or co-founded several venture-backed companies.
In addition, he is founder and shareholder of Capital
Law Group, a Sacramento-based firm that specializes
in representing high tech and biotechnology startup
and emerging companies in all stages of corporate growth
and development, including entity formation and organization,
capital formation and offerings, mergers and acquisitions,
corporate partnering, intellectual property protection
and strategies, technology transfer and licensing. He
acts as General Counsel to, and/or serves on management
committees or advisory boards for, several high tech
and life sciences companies. He also is a member of
the board of directors of Altergy Systems, AngelStaffing,
Inc., Bays-Brown Laboratories, Milagen, Inc., and NutraGenomics.
Mr. Carlone has practiced law with the Sacramento office
of McDonough, Holland & Allen, where he headed the
expansion of McDonough's high tech and biotechnology
business; Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul, where he
was chairman of the firm's Technology and Intellectual
Property Group; and Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP), in both San Francisco and Washington
D.C., where he was one of three founding attorneys of
the firm's Washington, D.C. office in 1980. He also
was both senior in-house legal counsel (1988-1990) and
corporate real estate asset manager (1990-1995) for
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., a publicly traded corporation
based in Honolulu. Mr. Carlone was a licensed Hawaii
Real Estate Broker from 1990 to 1995.
Mr. Carlone received his B.A. from Northwestern University
in 1973 and his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1976.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, District
of Columbia Bar, and Hawaii State Bar Association. He
also is actively involved in the community. He is a
member of the Sacramento Angels and serves on the board
of directors of the Golden Capital Network (Executive
Committee, 1999-Present), and has served on the boards
of Access Capital (1997-1999), the Sacramento Entrepreneurship
Academy (1997-1999), the Sacramento Valley Forum for
Growth Companies (1997-1999, Chairman 1999) and the
Sacramento Region Chapter of the International Association
for Corporate Growth (2000-2001). He frequently lectures
or serves as a panelist on investing in technology-based
startups, capital formation, intellectual property creation
and protection, technology transfer, licensing, strategic
alliances, and other issues important to startup and
emerging growth companies and the people who invest
in them.
|
Raymond
L. Rodriguez, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
