SPRINGBOARD’S FIRST FORUM

About Silicon Valley: 2000

Co-hosted by Springboard Enterprises and Oracle Corporation, the Springboard: Silicon Valley 2000 program featured 26 of the most promising high-growth, women-led companies from the west coast. The Forum was held on January 27, 2000 at the Oracle Corporation headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA showcasing the entrepreneurs before an audience of the area’s top corporate, angel, and venture investors.

Co-Hosts

• Springboard Enterprises

• Oracle Corporation

Sponsors

• Oracle Corporation

• Grant Thornton

• Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP

• Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

• Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

• PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Scient

• Silicon Valley Bank

• Telecommunications Development Fund

• Three Guineas Fund

• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Supporting Organizations

• BARTA

• Northwest Capital Network

• Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum

• LARTA

• Stanford University Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

• National Venture Capital Association

• Haas Business School, Berkeley

Forum Committee

Chairs

• Denise Brosseau, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

• Kay Koplovitz, National Women’s Business Council

Co-Chairs

• Amy Millman, National Women’s Business Council

• Karen Bixby, Bixby Alexander

Members

• Blakesley Atkin, Independent Consultant

• Carmen Chang, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

• Julie Constantin, Constantin Partners

• John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

• Larry Ellison, Oracle Corporation

• Barbara Kamm, Silicon Valley Bank

• Tracy Lefteroff, PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Don Lucas, Oracle Board of Directors

• Deborah Ludewig, Cooley Godward

• Cate Muther, Three Guineas Fund

• Michelle Nance, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

• Jim Robbins, San Jose Software Business Cluster

• Heidi Roizen, SOFTBANK Technology Ventures

• Willa Seldon, Viridian Capital

• Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Dean of the Haas Business School, UC Berkeley