Tom Schulz
Dipl.-Informatiker, MBA

Portola Valley, CA & Salzburg, Austria

Mariana Bozesan

Professional

Since 2003: Co-founder and CEO of Sageera Institute LLC, an Internet publishing and marketing company for educational and entertainment content.

Since 1998: Angel Investor in German and U.S. start-ups, focusing on Internet technology and services. Active member of the Munich Business Angel Network (MBA AG). Member of The Angels' Forum, Palo Alto, a professional business angel group.

Since 2004: Member of the managing team of The Halo Fund, a venture capital fund co-investing with The Angels' Forum.

Since 1998: Advisory Board Member, Earlybird Venture Capital, Munich/Palo Alto

1995-98: Co-founder and member of the Executive Management Board, Cybernet Internet-Dienstleistungen AG, Munich, Germany's first publicly traded Internet company (NASDAQ:ZNET and Neuer Markt, Frankfurt, WKN 906623); national and international Internet service provider for business-to-business applications

1994: Founder, Infobahn International GmbH, Munich; multimedia services, consulting and technology transfer for CORBA and JAVA, Internet middleware

1994: Co-founder, BayNet World, Inc., Palo Alto; Internet services for the real estate market in the Silicon Valley

1991: Co-founder, Metallguß Schulz GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin; reprivatisation and restructuring of an aluminum foundry, East-Berlin

1990-94: Management consultant, Boston Consulting Group, Munich & San Francisco; Concentrated on projects in information technology, finance and restructuring of companies in East Germany

Education

1993: MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California

1989: Master's degree in computer science (Dipl.-Informatiker), University of Karlsruhe, Germany; presented thesis "Hypermedia-Expert-Systems" on several conferences and on national TV

1985-86: Exchange student at Stanford University, California; RISC technology, compiler construction, parallel computing; reseach intern, Digital Equipment Corp., Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto

1983-84: Exchange student at the Computer Science Dept., Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland