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Adam Roston, Senior Manager, Microsoft

    Corporate Finance Vertical Advisor

Adam graduated from UCSD in 2003 with a double major in Economics and Philosophy. After college, he spent two years in London and one year in Palo Alto working in Merrill Lynch's investment banking group. After Merrill Lynch, Adam moved to Seattle and has been in Microsoft's corporate development group for the last two years.

Andrew Radin, Senior Associate, Macquarie Private Equity

    Private Equity Vertical Advisor

Andrew Radin is a Senior Associate based in Macquarie's Carlsbad, San Diego office and is involved in the due diligence and quantitative analysis of investments within the Macquarie Funds Group's Fund of Private Equity Funds division. Andrew spends a majority of his time on the Macquarie Clean Technology Fund.

Mr. Radin received a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology at the University of California, San Diego.

Ashvin Bachireddy, Senior Associate, Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Venture Capital Vertical Advisor

Ashvin joined Lightspeed in 2009 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of software applications (SaaS), online services, technology-enabled services, and business services.
Prior to Lightspeed, Ashvin worked for 3i, a leading global venture capital firm, and JMI Equity, a technology-focused private equity firm. He has supported early- and growth-stage investments across online services, on-demand technologies, IT services, and vertical market software -- including Coremetrics, Kronos, Nimsoft, Service-Now.com, Jobing.com, TC3 Health and Activant.

Ashvin has also performed corporate strategy, operational and business development work as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Coremetrics, a leading web analytics provider. Earlier in his career, Ashvin was in the investment banking division at Montgomery & Co. and Citigroup.

Ashvin received a B.S. in Management Science from the University of California at San Diego.

Eric Hu, Analyst, Jeffries & Co.

    Investment Banking Vertical Advisor

Eric graduated from UCSD in 2006 with a BS in Management Science (F.K.A Quantitative Economics). He is currently a senior analyst within the Media Investment Banking Group at Jefferies & Company, where his experience has primarily centered around providing M&A advisory as well as debt and equity financing services to middle market and growth-stage companies within the Internet and Digital Media space. Notable transactions he has worked on include Oak Pacific Interactive's $430 million equity private placement led by Softbank, Oversee.net's $150 million equity private placement from Oak Hill Capital Partners and Quorum Systems' $76 million sale to Spreadtrum Communications.

Prior to joining Jefferies & Company, Eric was a part-time research analyst at Gateway Partners, a boutique M&A advisory firm in La Jolla, CA.

Joe O'Donnell, Associate, 3i Venture Capital

    Venture Capital Vertical Advisor

Joe O'Donnell is an investor for 3i, a $16 billion private equity and venture capital firm with offices in 14 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. He focuses on late-stage, market-leading private technology, media, telecommunications and financial services companies. He helped lead investments into GAIN Capital and Home Decor Products and also works with portfolio companies Fabrik and Forte Design Systems. Joe sits on the Executive Board of NextGen Partners, a pre-partner venture capital and private equity organization.

Prior to joining 3i, Joe was a financial analyst for Montgomery & Co., an investment bank focused on emerging growth technology companies, where he worked with market-leading businesses such as MySpace, DivX and Move Networks.

Joe graduated from UCSD in 2005 with a double major in Mathematics and Economics.

Lauren Edgerton, Analyst, Macquarie Group

    Investment Banking Vertical Advisor

Having finished boarding school on the East Coast, I decided to come back to California for college. While at UCSD, I worked many jobs, most notably serving as a teaching assistant for an Education Studies course and as a trainer, teacher, marketer and private tutor for Kaplan Premier tutoring services. I held two internships while in college. My first one was a reasearch analyst for the San Diego-based boutique investment banking firm, Gateway Partners. My second one was as an investment banking analyst intern at Goldman Sachs in the public sector and infrastructure group in San Francisco. After completing my internship at Goldman Sachs, I came back to UCSD to finish my last quarter, enabling me to earn a BS in Mathematics in December 2007. Afterwards, I took a few months off before starting as an analyst at the Australian-headquartered investment banking firm, Macquarie Capital, in New York.

Matt Schrader, Analyst, Fisher Investments

    Investment Management / Hedge Funds Vertical Advisor

Matt Schrader graduated from UCSD in 2003 with a degree in Management Science. Since graduation Matt has worked at Fisher Investments, a Northern California Money Management Firm. In his current capacity, Matt works as a Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager with a focus on Japan, Industrial companies, and Capital Markets Technology. Matt is also author of the upcoming book Fisher Investments on Industrials.