For more than 35 years, Dixon has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer and communications industries. In recognition of his accomplishments in venture capital, Dixon was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture investors on its Midas List for the past four years, as well as one of the top 100 personalities involved in creating the information highway by Upside Magazine. In April, 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association in Washington, D.C., where he also serves on the Executive Committee.

Since the early 1980s, Dixon has been a telecom and Internet venture capital pioneer. In 1996 he launched DCM - Doll Capital Management, an early stage technology venture capital firm which currently has more than $1 Billion under management, headquartered in Menlo Park, California. DCM has backed such well known entrepreneurial companies as About.com, @Motion, Clearwire, 51job, Foundry Networks, Internap, Ipivot, Neutral Tandem, PGP Corp., Recourse Technologies, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, and Sling Media. DCM has become widely recognized as one of the top Silicon Valley venture firms actively investing in China and Japan. In the mid-1980's, Dixon cofounded the venture capital industry's first fund focused exclusively on telecommunications opportunities. Those funds he organized launched such noteworthy companies as Alantec, Bridge Communication, Centillion Networks, Network Equipment Technologies, Optilink, Picturetel, Polycom, and UUNet.

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Dixon was the founder and CEO of an internationally recognized strategic consulting firm focused on telecommunications and computer networking. From 1972 to 1980, Dixon also served as a faculty member of the IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City, and then served on the IBM Networking Systems Organization's External Advisory Board from 1983 to 1991.

He has authored two books, and traveled extensively to six continents to give highly sought after lectures and conference presentations. Through their family foundation, he and his wife, Carol, give generously to numerous educational and philanthropic organizations such as the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco Symphony, Kansas State University, the University of Michigan Business School, the Papal Foundation, the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the University of San Francisco where he currently serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee. He also serves as a trustee or advisory board member for each of these organizations. He received his B.S.E.E. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.

Mr. Hawk is president of Hawk Communications whose mission is to help develop high technology companies. In 1997 he retired as President and CEO of U S West Multimedia Communications, Inc. where he was responsible for the Media 1 cable business and the Time Warner partnership. From 1986 until 1995, Mr. Hawk was president of the Carrier Division of U S West Communications, Inc. Prior to that Mr. Hawk was Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Planning for CXC Corporation, a high technology start up and before that was Director, Advanced Systems Development for American Bell.

From 1997-2002 Mr. Hawk served as a Special Limited Partner of Crosspoint Venture Partners. During that time he served on the boards or advisory boards of fifteen companies that went public. Mr. Hawk previously serves as a director of Covad Communications [Nasdaq] and is a current director for Centillium Communications [Nasdaq] and several private high technology companies. During the past fifteen years Mr. hawk has worked with the CEO's and officers of eighty high tech companies as a board member, advisor and investor.

Rian J. Wren is a telecommunications industry veteran and pioneer of IP telephony. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Telephony for Comcast Cable, Wren was responsible for the overall delivery of telephony services for the country's leading cable and broadband communications provider until joining Neutral Tandem in February, 2006.

Wren joined Comcast in 1999 and was named CEO of Broadnet, Comcast's international wireless company in 2000. After returning to Comcast Business Communications (CBC), he served as the business unit's President where he had management and leadership responsibility for providing network solutions to Comcast's business customers.

Prior to joining Comcast, Wren held several senior management positions at AT&T, including President of the Southeast Region, and worked in the Consumer, Business, Network Services, and Network Systems Manufacturing organizations for more than 20 years.

Wren holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford University.