Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Jennifer Scott Fonstad, Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Steve Perricone, BioFuelBox

Audio Podcast: Under the Lid of BioFuelBox

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Clean tech is the topic discussed between Steve Perricone, CEO of waste management and energy company BioFuelBox, and one of his investors, DFJ veteran VC Jennifer Scott Fonstad. In addition to discussing the company's technology, structure, and applications, they also expound on current stimulus dollars for alternative energy systems.

Jennifer Scott Fonstad Biography

Jennifer Scott Fonstad is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Considered one of the most senior women in venture today, Fonstad invests broadly in early stage companies, most recently taking an early leadership role in clean energy. Additionally, she has been working to change our country?s healthcare system through entrepreneurship. Recent investment successes include Athenahealth, Lumenos (acquired by Wellpoint), and NetZero.

In addition to her investing responsibilities, Fonstad sits on the investment committees for DFJ VinaCapital, DFJ?s partner fund in Vietnam; DFJ Tamir Fishman, DFJ?s partner fund in Israel; and serves as adviser to the DFJ China team.

Fonstad finds much of her inspiration from her family. She and her husband Diego are building the first LEED Platinum certified home in their hometown of Atherton, California. Her oldest daughter has taught her the importance of grassroots efforts through her work with the Atherton GreenSTART program, ...

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Steve Perricone Biography

Steve Perricone is President, CEO, and Co-founder of BioFuelBox Corporation. And he has over 20 years experience in the technology industry, with over half of those years in start-up environments.

Perricone was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for SonicWALL, which he joined when it had less than 20 employees. Perricone was instrumental in the growth of the company, and expanded it to over 450 employees worldwide. He was directly responsible for building the worldwide channel for SonicWALL?s security products from the product line?s inception in 1998. That successful channel and sales organization contributed to near immediate company profitability and aggregate revenues of over $200 million in the first three years.

Prior to SonicWALL, Perricone was a senior executive in two other technology start-ups - Network TeleSystems (acquired by Siemens) and Structured Internetworks.

He is an alumnus of California State University, Chico.

BioFuelBox

Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture

2009-04-29

56min 2sec

ID: 2215

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