Steve Stephansen
CEO, Agoura Technologies, Inc.
http://www.agouratech.com

Panelist

Session 1: Technology Development and Clean Tech Investments
Monday, October, 27, 2008

Steve Stephansen is a founding member of Sand Hill Angels and served as its president for 7 years, and is now President Emeritus. He is an information technology generalist, having experience in displays and video imaging, mobile and middleware software, and semiconductors oriented at memory and embedded computing.

Mr. Stephansen is also the CEO of Agoura Technologies, Inc. a venture-backed company that has developed new high-efficiency polarization films that improve the energy efficiency and performance of LCDs. In addition, he was the CEO of WebV2, Inc., a Siemens AG spinout that introduced a distributed business process software solution for mobile devices. The solution enabled a mobile worker to orchestrate a workflow or business process on notebooks or smartphones with enterprise systems and co-workers.

Mr. Stephansen was also the VP of Marketing, Sales, and Business Development at venture-backed, Information Storage Devices (ISD). ISD introduced a single-chip voice recording and playback product that enabled the creation of a variety of consumer products and new features in cellular phones. He grew sales from $0 to $55M/annum within four years that led to successful IPO and secondary public offerings.

Mr. Stephansen holds an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.