Campbell has been a law professor at Stanford University and, more recently, the Dean of Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He was elected five times to represent the Silicon Valley area of California in Congress.

A native of Chicago, Campbell earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics at the University of Chicago, and a law degree from Harvard in 1976. He returned to the University of Chicago, earning a PhD in economics there in 1980. His dissertation was the first quantitative measurement of discrimination against women in federal civil service employment.

From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Lowenthal was Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's WAN Access Products Division. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Lowenthal was Vice President of Research and Development for StrataCom, a telecommunications product development and manufacturing company. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Lowenthal was co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Stardent Computers, a high performance computer company in Sunnyvale, California. Prior to Stardent, Mr. Lowenthal was Vice President of Engineering for Convergent Technologies of San Jose.

Mr. Lowenthal is also a former Mayor of Cupertino, California and has chaired the boards of several organizations including the Rotary Club of Cupertino, Cupertino Community Services, Fremont Union High Schools Foundation, and the Santa Clara County Libraries Joint Powers Authority. He is chair-elect of the YMCA’s of Santa Clara Valley.

Mr. Lowenthal has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He is 55 years old and lives with his wife Ellen in Cupertino, California. He is a father of 2 and an avid golfer and bicyclist. He is a member of the Cupertino Rotary, the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Dr. Specker has an exceptionally strong technical and business background and an in-depth knowledge of the electricity industry. His 34-year career has spanned nearly every dimension of the business. Prior to joining EPRI in September 2004, he served as president of Specker Consulting, LLC, where he provided operational and strategic planning services to technology companies serving the global electric power industry.

In January 2003, Dr. Specker retired from General Electric (GE) after 30 years of leadership in various executive roles, including president of GE's Nuclear Energy division, president of GE Digital Energy, and vice president of global marketing for GE Energy.

Dr. Specker began his career in 1970 as a nuclear engineer for the Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He holds a B.S. in engineering science and an M.S. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, all from Iowa State University.

Prior to Prosper, Mr. Larsen co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of E-LOAN. Under Mr. Larsen's leadership, E-LOAN closed over $27 billion in consumer loans, and was consistently ranked as one of the nation's most trusted consumer brands. E-LOAN earned consumers' trust by taking radically pro-consumer actions such as being the first company to provide consumers with access to their credit scores, and playing a critical role in the passage of the strongest consumer financial privacy protection law in the nation. Mr. Larsen led E-LOAN through a successful IPO in 1999, and oversaw the company's acquisition by Popular, Inc. in 2005.

Mr. Larsen holds an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University and a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University, where he was named the 2004 Alumnus of the Year.

MacGregor came to the Business Journal in August, 2007, from a sister publication, the San Francisco Business Times. As director of advertising sales there, he won the parent company's Eagle Award three of the past four years. That's the highest honor from American City Business Journals, which owns 41 business journals. MacGregor, 38, grew up near Toronto, and graduated from Bishop's University in the province of Quebec. His career took him west, as a sales consultant in Vancouver, British Columbia, at Seaboard Advertising and Rogers Broadcasting. Later, he was general manager of Obie Media Corp. in St. Louis before joining the San Francisco Business Times in 2002.