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Keynote Speakers
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Robert
E. Grady Managing Partner, Carlyle Venture Partners www.carlyle.com |
Robert E. Grady serves as managing
partner for Carlyle’s U.S. venture operation, Carlyle Venture Partners.
In addition, Mr. Grady coordinates Carlyle’s global venture capital
group, which has over $1.7 billion under management in five funds. He is
based in San Francisco.
Mr. Grady is a former Director of
Blackboard (Nasdaq: “BBBB”) and currently serves on the Board of
Directors of Carlyle portfolio companies AuthenTec, Ingenio, Panasas,
Secure Elements, Verari Systems, and USBX. Mr. Grady is a member of the
Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
and is the Chairman-elect of NVCA for 2006.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Grady was
a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee at Robertson
Stephens, the San Francisco-based technology investment bank. At
Robertson Stephens, he invested in or led financings for such technology
and market leaders as InVision Technologies (acquired by General
Electric, NYSE: "GE"), Eltron (acquired by Zebra Technologies, Nasdaq: “ZBRA”),
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: “FLIR”), Align Technologies (Nasdaq: “ALGN”),
Printrak (acquired by Motorola, NYSE: “MOT”), Barringer Technologies
(acquired by Smiths Group plc), OSI Systems (Nasdaq: “OSIS”), Protection
One (sold to Westar Energy, NYSE: “WR”), Simpson Manufacturing (NYSE:
“SSD”), Fritz Companies (sold to United Parcel Service, NYSE: “UPS”),
and many others.
Mr. Grady served from 1994 to 2004 on
the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where
he taught a course on "Investing in Highly Regulated Industries."
Prior to moving to California in 1993,
Mr. Grady served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to President
George H.W. Bush and as Executive Associate Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). He had previously served as Associate
Director of OMB for Natural Resources, Energy and Science (1989-1991);
Chief Speechwriter and Senior Advisor for the successful 1988
Bush/Quayle Presidential Campaign (1988); Director of Communications for
New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean (1983-1986); and Legislative
Assistant and then Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Millicent
Fenwick (1979-1982).
Mr. Grady is a graduate of Harvard
College and of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
He was appointed by President George W.
Bush to be a member of the Advisory Committee on Trade and Policy
Negotiations (ACTPN), by the Administrator of NASA to be a member of the
NASA Advisory Council's Task Force on the cost and management of the
International Space Station, and by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to
the California Commission on Military Base Support and Retention. He is
a Trustee of Environmental Defense and is Chairman of the Board of
Resources for the Future.
