Board of Directors

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A. Mike Spence

Spence is an economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the subject of signaling in markets with asymmetric information. Spence sits on the boards of Nike, General Mills, and Siebel Systems. He has authored three books and about 50 articles in professional journals.

Spence has held professorships at both Stanford Business School and Harvard. He was Dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business from 1990 to 1999 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard from 1984 until 1990. Spence earned a B.A. in philosophy at Princeton summa cum laude and was selected for a Rhodes Scholarship. He was awarded a B.A. from Oxford in mathematics and earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard.

Greg Sands

Greg Sands is Partner at Sutter Hill Ventures where his expertise lies in Internet software and services. Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures from Netscape Communications where he was the company's original product manager. While at Netscape, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched its initial products. He then created and led the Suitespot business unit around Netscape's suite of server products.

He worked previously at Cisco Systems and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting). He earned a B.A. in government from Harvard College and received an MBA at Stanford.