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Edgar Hotard, Venture Partner
Edgar Hotard is a Venture Partner with ARCH devoting a substantial amount of his time to developing
relationships in Asia and particularly in China for ARCH portfolio companies. Mr. Hotard also serves as
Senior Advisor to the Monitor Group, a strategy-consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, MA and as
Senior Advisor to MPM Capital regarding China investments.
In 1990 Mr. Hotard was elected President of Praxair a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Carbide
Corporation where he also served as Corporate Vice President. In 1992, he co-led the spin off of
Praxair from Union Carbide. He retired in 1999 from Praxair as President and Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Hotard is a member of the board of directors of Global Industries, Inc., as well as a board member
for two privately invested companies. He is a co-founder of the China Economic and Technology Alliance
and the founding sponsor of a joint M.B.A. program between Renmin University in Beijing, China and the
School of Management of the State University of Buffalo, NY.
He is also a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the U.S. China Business
Council. Mr. Hotard was the year 2000 recipient of the Great Wall Award from the municipality of
Beijing, China. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.
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Hong Hou, Venture Partner
Semiconductors Chemicals/Specialty Materials Optics
Hong Hou, Ph.D. is a Venture Partner with ARCH and serves as a board member for Crystal IS. Dr. Hou specializes in semiconductor, optoelectronic, and advanced
materials businesses. He is President and COO of EMCORE Corp. (EMKR), where he developed their transceiver and high-speed vertical-cavity laser businesses.
Previously, Dr. Hou was a co-founder and CTO of EMCORE PhotoVoltaics. Prior to his roles at EMCORE, Dr. Hou was a principal member of the technical staff at
Sandia National Laboratories and at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Hou holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego,
an M.S. in Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a B.S. in Electronic Science from Jilin University. He has also completed Executive Management
courses at Stanford Business School.
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George Kadifa, Venture Partner
Software/Applications Communications Electronics/Instrumentation
George Kadifa joined ARCH as a Venture Partner in mid-2007 and is focused on information technology opportunities including software, enterprise applications,
communications, infrastructure, networking and systems development. He also lends his considerable expertise to portfolio executive teams, advising on strategy,
product development, and execution. He currently works with the portfolio companies, Univa and MobileVerbs.
Mr. Kadifa has a distinguished 25-year technology career serving in chief executive and other senior management positions as well as in management consulting,
research and development. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Global Delivery at IBM Global Technology Services. Mr. Kadifa joined IBM as a part of its
2005 acquisition of Corio, Inc. where he was the Chairman and CEO. Mr. Kadifa led Corio, a top application services provider (ASP) and a Kleiner Perkins-backed
company, from start-up in 1999 through an IPO in 2000, and a subsequent sale to IBM in 2005.
Prior to Corio, Mr. Kadifa was Senior Vice President of the Industrial Sector at Oracle Corporation, directing the company's largest and most profitable vertical
sector. In addition, he was a management consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton serving Fortune 500 clients. Prior to Booz-Allen, Mr. Kadifa was a Development
Manager at Xerox, leading strategic initiatives and software development, in addition to obtaining two U.S. patents in operating system and user interface software
and receiving the Xerox Inventor award. Mr. Kadifa started his career on the research staff at Fairchild Semiconductor.
He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and a B.S. from the American University of Beirut.
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Ken Bradley, Venture Partner
Nanotechnology Medical Instrumentation Optics
Ken Bradley, Ph.D., joined ARCH in January 2008 as Venture Partner in Chicago. Dr. Bradley has a rich background in discovering and developing nascent
technologies and is supporting ARCH's life and physical sciences teams with a special focus on micro- and nanotechnologies.
Dr. Bradley most recently served as CEO of Arryx, a start-up company commercializing Holographic Optical Trapping technology for laser-based
micro- and nano-scopic instrumentation in the life sciences sector. Arryx was acquired in 2007 by Haemonetics, a $2 billion firm headquartered in
Massachusetts and developing blood management technologies that are key components of collection, surgery and transfusion services. Dr. Bradley
continues to serve as Vice President of Development for Haemonetics.
Previously, Dr. Bradley founded and served as President of Phoenician Market Places, Inc., a technology innovation consultancy that fostered start-up
companies by connecting laboratory advances with market opportunities. The consultancy's specialization included technology developed in academic and
government research facilities and in early-stage commercial environments where there is large uncertainty in choosing optimum development paths.
Dr. Bradley began his career as an associate of Schlumberger-Doll Research and as a NATO Traveling Scholar. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Experimental
Condensed Matter Physics, he conducted research at MIT as a post-doctoral fellow and then served as a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory.
Dr. Bradley was an early member of the scientific staff at Nanophase Technologies, a nano-materials firm and an ARCH Venture Fund I and II portfolio
company. He also held business development and general management roles in financial and data publishing.
Dr. Bradley received his post-doctoral training at MIT. He holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Brown University and a B.A.
in Physics from Cornell University.
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Tom Brennan, Venture Partner & Entrepreneur in Residence at Sandia National Laboratories
Clean Energy Innovations Semiconductors Chemicals/Specialty Materials Optics
In April 2008, Tom Brennan joined ARCH as a Venture Partner with special focus as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Sandia National Laboratories
(SNL), a position supported by a Department of Energy grant awarded to ARCH early in 2008. For further information, read the Department of Energy press release.
Mr. Brennan began his career as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs, then joined SNL in 1986 where he became a senior member of the
technical staff focused on the material growth of III-V semiconductor materials and devices. Mr. Brennan's work included the growth of some of the
first 'vertical cavity surface-emitting laser' (VCSEL) material at Sandia and in the U.S., and the development of new and unique VCSEL manufacturing
techniques.
In 1994, Mr. Brennan and a colleague from SNL collaborated with ARCH Managing Directors, Clint Bybee and Keith Crandell, to license the VCSEL technology
from SNL and co-founded MicroOptical Devices. Mr. Brennan was Co-President of MODE through December 1997 when EMCORE Corp. acquired MicroOptical Devices
and established a new business unit called EMCORE Photovoltaics, which Mr. Brennan started-up and led as its General Manager.
In 2001, Mr. Brennan was named President and CEO of Zia Laser, a spin-out from the Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico,
which developed quantum dot laser diodes. He also served as Chairman of Medical Lighting Solutions, which uses solid state lighting to treat disease.
Mr. Brennan holds an A.S. in Chemistry from the Florida Institute of Technology, a B.S. in Biochemistry from Monmouth College, and an M.S. in Material
Science from Steven’s Institute of Technology. He has published more than 120 articles and holds twelve patents issued and pending. Mr. Brennan is a
Commissioner for the State of New Mexico in the Economic Development Department and serves on the board of directors for Accion NM, a global not-for-profit
micro-lending firm that promotes entrepreneurship.
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