Conrad Burke brings over 17 years of proven expertise guiding innovative semiconductor and optical technologies into the commercial market.

Prior to Innovalight, Conrad was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Bookham Inc. Before Bookham, Mr. Burke was a venture partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, a leading US-based venture capital firm. His career has spanned research and development, product management, marketing, sales, general management and operations in major global organizations, NEC, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. He was also the first executive hire at OMM Inc., a venture backed startup based in San Diego, California focused on developing MEMS based optical switching systems. He has deep international experience having lived in and run major divisions of these large companies in Germany, UK and Japan.

Conrad represented Innovalight at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in 2006 to receive The Technology Pioneer Award for Environmental and Energy Technologies.

Terry Clark formed Finelite in 1991 as a privately held independent company. Finelite designs and manufactures high performance, environmentally sustainable lighting systems for offices and educational facilities.

Mark Thompson has been a President and Chief Executive Officer of Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. since May 4, 2005. Dr. Thompson is responsible for all manufacturing, technology and quality initiatives at Fairchild.

As San Francisco’s youngest mayor in 100 years, Gavin Newsom has brought fresh ideas and renewed energy to the City and County. He has earned a reputation as an innovator on issues ranging from homelessness to the environment, healthcare to education.

He was early.

Unconventional for an elected official, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom arrived - not late, not on-time, but early for our meeting at 1590 KLIV for a special taping of "The CEO Show" with more than a dozen Silicon Valley CEOs.

The unfortunate attitude of too many in public office follows from California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh's famous maxim that "The biggest waste of time is to be on time." I much prefer Louis XIV's refrain that "Punctuality is the politeness of kings."

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Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor, appeared on a special taping of "The CEO Show" on Thursday March 6 with show host and Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino. A live studio audience was on hand to ask questions.

See photos from this event.

Founder, CEO and Board Chair of Numenta, Donna Dubinsky's career spans many technologies and her insights into the past, present and future of computing and of our Valley make for a fascinating show.