Charlie Bass
Charlie Bass received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii in 1972. After graduation, he accepted a position teaching computer science at UC Berkeley, and in 1975, he joined Zilog, a microprocessor company which developed the Z80; an architecture employed in literally billions of embedded applications. In 1979, he co-founded Ungermann-Bass, the first networking company to deliver computer independent local networks and the first to go public in 1983. From 1983 to 1997, Dr. Bass was the Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. In 1989, he formed Bass Associates, a venture capital company specializing in early stage investments, which he managed until 2001.
Reijiro Samura
Reijiro Samura is a Managing Partner of Ant Capital Partners Co., Ltd. Prior to joining Ant Capital Partners in 2005, he was a chief manager of the Credit Products Investment Group at Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation beginning in 1990. His previous experience included corporate finance, aircraft finance and import finance at the Export-Import Bank of Japan and West LB Asset Management in Chicago. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Osaka University, Japan.
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