Mr. Loy founded Flywheel Ventures in Silicon Valley in 1999 and established the firm's current headquarters in Santa Fe in 2000. Flywheel's mission is to accelerate the creation of value in seed-stage and early-stage technology ventures located from the Rockies to the Pacific. The firm pursues this mission through a "hands-on" investing strategy in which the active engagement of Flywheel's team, in collaboration with entrepreneurial managers, can itself play a key role in growing the economic value of portfolio companies.

During his career, Trevor has founded, managed, advised, invested in, or otherwise participated in the growth of more than 20 technology ventures. His specific experience includes entrepreneurial, executive, investment, advisory, strategy, and technical roles with ventures such as Brooktree (now, via acquisition, part of Conexant Systems); Gigabeat (backed by the venture firm Kleiner Perkins and now, via acquisition, part of Roxio); Intel Corporation (where he managed a team of designers working on portions of the Pentium and Pentium II microprocessors and won the Intel Quality Award for his innovations in the semiconductor manufacturing process); ParkingNet; Teradyne; and Visio (now, via acquisition, part of Microsoft).

Trevor has also dedicated substantial time and resources to several entrepreneurial efforts in the non-profit and educational domains. He is a board member of the Gap Fund at Stanford University, where he chairs the investment decision process, and on review committees for the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Association (NCIIA) and the National Association of Seed Venture Funds (NASVF). He has participated in and sponsored several Kauffman Foundation programs to educate angel investors. Trevor has judged business plans at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and is involved in the growth of entrepreneurship programs at New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico. Previously, he was instrumental in working with Professor Tom Byers to build the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which has pioneered entrepreneurship education aimed at engineering and science students. Finally, Trevor is a co-founder of Social Venture Partners New Mexico, an engaged philanthropy group that invests in entrepreneurial non-profit ventures.

Formally trained as an engineer, Trevor holds an MS in Management Science and Engineering, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and a BS in Electrical Engineering, each from Stanford University. He has also studied in the executive education program at Harvard University and at the Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation in Kyoto, Japan, and is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute, an educational program run by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

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Last Updated: Mon, Oct 30, 2006