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Dan Lankford, Industry Advisor is a managing director with Capital Valley Ventures, an early-stage information technology and life sciences venture fund that focuses on the region from Lake Tahoe to the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. His primary areas are communications, semiconductors, and energy technology. Dan has years of experience in the telecommunications equipment, software, semiconductor, and energy technology industries, at AT&T/Bell Labs/Agere Systems, and early stage companies. As CEO of BOLDER Technologies he took that company from early stage, through IPO, to commercial operation raising more than $100M in the private and public markets, and building a 100,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility. Previously, he was CEO of AT&T Microelectronics (Agere) - Europe, and built that business from $15M to $250M in revenues in 5 years, becoming one of the leading chip, opto-electronic and power systems suppliers to the European Electronics Industry. Prior to moving to Europe, Dan served as vice president of marketing for AT&T's $2.5 billion worldwide microelectronics business. He has been involved with early stage technology ventures for more than 20 years as an investor, board member, executive, and consultant. Dan is former member of the Colorado Governor's Commission on Science and Technology and former chairman of the American Electronics Association Mountain States Chapter.Dan has a BS in Industrial Engineering (with honors) from Johns Hopkins University, and he received his MS in Management as a Sloan Fellow from Stanford Business School. He has also attended the Senior European Executive Program at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. | 