Building an effective Board is paramount to building a strong company. The panel discusses the best practices for building a high performance Board. The group explains why boards matter, the sources of conflict and tools for conflict resolution, the importance of CEO evaluation and other related topics. Recorded on October 30, 2008 and held at the Pillsbury Law firm in Palo Alto, CA, this podcast runs 92 minutes.

Chris Rust
Chris Rust is a General Partner at USVP. He focuses on seed and early stage investments in the IT sector. Chris is currently a Director of Akros Silicon, Dilithium Networks, Dune Networks, StrataLight, VeriWave, and Zannel. He also serves on the VC Advisory Board for the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and is a member of the communications and networking societies of the IEEE.

Allison Leopold Tilley
Allison Leopold Tilley focuses on the representation of technology companies in securities and venture capital transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements, public offerings, venture funds and joint ventures. She has significant experience representing acquirers and target companies. Allison is co-head of the firm's Corporate Securities & Technology practice, leader of the Silicon Valley Business and Technology Group and co-leader of the Southeast Asia team.

Danial Faizullabhoy
Danial Faizullabhoy is the President and CEO of BroadLogic. He brings breadth and depth of running an early stage semiconductor company through his experience as a Vice President General Manager at Adaptec and experience as a Venture Capitalist at Walden International.

Pascal Levensohn
Pascal Levensohn is the Founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners. He has written three major white papers on the subject of VC board governance best practices, which are freely available at www.levp.com/news. An avid blogger, Pascal posts about current events at www.pascalsview.com.

Steve Reale interviews Bill Hildebolt from ExpoTV on how to successfully raise money from and work with angel investors. In a free-flowing, two way discussion, they cover a wide variety of topics including how to identify and close angels, how to properly structure the investment for both short and long term success and even differences between angel investing on the east and west coast.

Bill Hildebolt
Bill Hildebolt is the President and Co-founder of Expo TV where he oversees Finance, Operations and Business Development. He helped design the company's landmark Videopinions^SM product and has been leading the company's push into content syndication. Prior to co-founding Expo in 2004, Bill spent over ten years in finance. Most recently, he was a Principal at General Atlantic Partners, a technology focused private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. You can read very sporadically written blog posts from him at the Collision of Commerce and Media and Life As a Start-up.

Steve Reale
Steve Reale is a General Partner at Levensohn Venture Partners where he focuses on enterprise software, communications and semiconductor technologies. Steve also actively researches the clean-tech investment space.