Advisory Board
Leaders in technology, finance, government and academia sectors advise New Venture Partners on critical issues.
Stewart Davies, Chairman
Stewart Davies is formerly CEO of BT Exact, British Telecom’s research, technology and IT operations unit. During the 1980s he developed designs for early digital switching systems and by 1994 he was responsible for the integration of BT’s national networks and associated customer service systems. In 1996 he led systems delivery across the BT Group and, following this, was further promoted to director for BT’s network strategy, architecture and design. He currently serves as Chairman of the East of England Science and Industry Council, a Director on the Board’s of several venture-backed companies and is a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Sir Peter Bonfield
Sir Peter Bonfield is formerly CEO of British Telecom, the world’s fifth largest telecommunications company, served in a number of senior management roles including Chairman and CEO of ICL plc. where he introduced the Fujitsu Group as a major shareholder and one of the largest mainframe computer makers outside the U.S. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NXP, a Director on the Boards of Sony Corporation, L.M. Ericsson, Mentor Graphics Corporation and TSMC, where he is also Chairman of the Audit Committee. Sir Peter is on the Supervisory Board and a Member of the Citigroup International Advisory Board and a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he teaches in the Management of Technology Program. His book, ’Open Innovation’ (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), is a seminal work articulating an innovative paradigm suggesting that companies must access external and internal paths to bring technologies to market. Scientific American magazine named him one of the top 50 technology and business leaders for 2003 in recognition of his research on industrial innovation.
Sir Richard Dearlove
Sir Richard Dearlove is a career intelligence officer and was head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004. He became Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge University in August 2004, and is the Chairman of Trustees of the Cambridge Union Society.
Paul Horn
Dr. Paul Horn, formerly senior vice-president and director, IBM Research, retired from IBM in September 2007 after 28 years with the company. For nearly 12 years he was responsible for IBM’s 3,000 researchers at eight labs worldwide. In 2002, he was named as one of America’s top technical leaders by Scientific American Magazine. He is a member of numerous professional committees, including the Clarkson University Board of Trustees, the University of California - Berkeley Industrial Advisory Board, the Gallaudet University Advisory Board, and is a trustee of the New York Hall of Science and the Committee for Economic Development. He was recently named a Distinguished Scientist in Residence at New York University working with the Stern School of Business, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Daniel C. Stanzione
Dan Stanzione is President Emeritus, Bell Laboratories, and serves on a number of corporate boards. He retired from Lucent Technologies where he was Chief Operating Officer from 1997 through 1999. Prior to this, he led Lucent’s Network System business, which had responsibility for Lucent’s business with carriers around the world. He also was the President of Bell Laboratories, responsible for R&D at Lucent, a position he held from 1995 to 1999. A Fellow of the IEEE, he has published papers on computer simulation, microprocessors, and software design, and has been granted four patents. He serves on the boards of Quest Diagnostics and Internap Network Services.
Peter Wheeler
Peter Wheeler is Chairman of IPValue, a leading business services company that partners with major global companies with deep research commitments to manage their intellectual property commercialization activity. He was one of the founders of the company in late 2001 while at iFormation Group, a joint investment vehicle of Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic Partners and The Boston Consulting Group. He spent fifteen years with Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and Managing Director and helped establish the firm’s Investment Banking business for Asia outside of Japan. Mr. Wheeler also sits on the Board of Climate Change Capital and the Supervisory Board of Actis, the emerging markets private equity firm.