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Management Team

Ken Hausman and Bob Young are Managing Directors of Mirador Capital . Mr. Hausman has extensive experience in venture capital, as a successful entrepreneur and in working with NASDAQ for over eight years. He has served on NASDAQ's President's Advisory Board for five years. Mr. Young has extensive experience in venture capital, investment banking and as an entrepreneur.

As a foundation to its business model, Mirador uses its unique and extensive global corporate network to help executives of large corporations build and strengthen relationships with key business, government and academic leaders. Mirador hosts leading executives at networking events primarily held in New York City and Silicon Valley. The firm has organized business-networking dinners featuring the CEO of Philips, the CEO of the Legend Group (largest PC manufacturer in China), the CEO of Satyam (NYSE:SAY), the CTO of Hewlett Packard and the President of AT&T Labs. Founders, CEOs, CIOs, and other "C-level" and key executives from leading corporations participate in these events. Mirador has also created social events such as high-end wine dinners featuring rare, hard to find wines. These events have had outstanding success in attracting high-level executives. While these wine dinners are ostensibly social, they provide a relaxed forum in which executives can build relationships and further significant and meaningful business objectives.

Mirador includes in its events, CEOs of the portfolio companies of the VCs with whom it is partnered. The response from these early stage companies has been overwhelmingly positive.

Mirador's Advisory Board members include Jim Guzy, Sr., co-funding founder of Intel Corporation and Board member from the start.

Ken Hausman
Managing Director

Mr. Hausman is Managing Director of Mirador Capital . Prior to founding the Mirador Capital , Mr. Hausman served as a Managing Director of Osprey Ventures, a $93M venture capital fund. Mr. Hausman is also cofounder and Managing Director of Mentor Venture Partners, an early stage venture investment partnership. Mr. Hausman has been active in the software and information processing industry since the early 1980s.

Prior to Mentor Venture Partners, Mr. Hausman worked with The NASDAQ Stock Market and served on their President's Advisory Board from 1998 to 2002.

Mr. Hausman previously worked at Ingres Corporation where he held a variety of positions in engineering and support, including serving as senior manager of the Open Systems Group and, as required, acting as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to Ingres, Gene Kleiner hired Mr. Hausman as the first full-time employee of ReSound Corporation (NASDAQ:RSND). At ReSound, major actions included developing marketing strategy, product specifications and schedules, completing business plans, raising several million dollars through several financing rounds, negotiating technology agreements and fulfilling the functions of the Chief Financial Officer. Prior to ReSound, Mr. Hausman spent five years at Hewlett-Packard in sales and marketing positions.

Mr. Hausman has B.A. degrees in Economics and Human Biology from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from U.C.L.A.

Mr. Hausman is also a past President of The Churchill Club, is a TIE charter member and a member of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club and a former member of the board of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA). He is also a board member of the Northern California Kidney Foundation and The Boys and Girls Club, and has served on the advisory boards of Garage Technology Ventures and Viador, Inc (NASDAQ:VIAD). He holds board or board observer positions on several companies including MarketWire, an investee of Sequoia Capital, and is a founding advisor to UCLA's Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium.

Robert A. Young
Managing Director

Bob Young is a co-founding Managing Director of Mirador Capital LLC.

Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Curl Corporation, an Internet infrastructure software company. Prior to that, Bob was a senior partner and Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment bank. He had corporate finance responsibility for information technology companies. He had previously served as the Managing General Partner of Dillon Read's venture capital funds from 1987 to 1994. During this period the funds invested over $300 million in start-up companies in information technology, biotechnology, energy and financial services. Bob's personally directed investments were among the most successful in the funds, including SanDisk, Tessera, Virtual Machine Works and Team Bank. From 1991 to 1995 Bob was also a Director of Barings Private Equity Partners, a global private equity firm headquartered in London.

Bob started his business career with IBM where, over an18 year period, he held a number of management and executive positions in sales, marketing, engineering and general management. His last position at IBM was as President, IBM Instruments, a fully integrated global company with operations in the US and several European countries. IBM Instruments' products consisted of a broad range of scientific instruments and real-time scientific computers.

Bob is a founding investor and Director of Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA), the leading semi-conductor interconnect technology company. He is also a Director of ATI Technologies (NASDAQ: ATYT), a leading producer of 3-D graphics and multimedia products for personal computers and consumer electronics. Bob is also a Director SRC Computers, a producer of re-configurable, high performance computers, Jatheon, a provider of network appliances for messaging compliance management, NL Nanosemiconductor, a company producing quantum dot lasers for optical clocking of integrated circuits and computer interconnect applications and Open-xchange, which offers an open source exchange server product. He is an advisor to PolyTechnos, a European venture capital firm headquartered in Munich.

Bob has served on the visiting committees of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.