Mr. Doll currently is an independent advisor and private investor. For more than 40 years, he has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer, communications, and internet industries. In the mid 1980s, Dixon cofounded the VC industry's first fund focused on telecom while at Accel Partners. Following his tenure at Accel, Dixon founded DCM, formerly (Doll Capital Management), where he built a top global VC firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo. DCM is widely regarded as the first Silicon Valley venture firm to successfully invest in China, Japan and the US. His diverse experience also includes strategy consulting, teaching, authoring two books, regular Bloomberg Television appearances, economic policy leadership, serving on public boards like DirecTV, non-profit fundraising, TED Talks and innovative philanthropic accomplishments.

In 2021, Mr. Doll received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Venture Capital from the U.S. National Venture Capital Association. He was named to the Forbes Midas List for four consecutive years and received the 2013 Special Achievement Award in VC from the International Business Forum. Dixon was elected to the Board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2005 serving on the Executive Committee and as Chairman in 2008/9. Under Dixon’s leadership, the NVCA developed a widely embraced set of recommendations (NVCA 4-Pillar Plan) to stimulate liquidity in the U.S. venture capital industry. This plan resulted in bipartisan Congressional support for new job creation legislation and simplification of the IPO process for young emerging companies. Known as the JOBS Act, President Obama signed it into law in 2012.

Dixon received his B.S. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University plus M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.

Mr. Friedman is a Senior Advisor and former Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a firm he joined in 2006. Prior to his current role in the Aerospace/Space/Defense Advisory business, he led business development for its Asset Management division and ran an Aerospace, Defense and Security long/short fund. He is active in venture capital, with a focus on global New Space and other high technology companies. He is currently, or has previously served, as a Board member, Advisory Director and Founder of several New Space Companies, both in the US and in Israel.

Mr. Friedman was previously a Senior Consultant at Accenture. He began his Wall Street career and spent more than a decade as a sell-side Aerospace and Defense Electronics analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Morgan Stanley (ultimately achieving #1 Institutional Investor status in both categories). He subsequently ran the 200-person North American Equity Research department at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Friedman then became a buy-side investor and was head of the New York Active Equity business at Morgan Stanley (where he was a member of the $400 billion Risk Management Committee of MSAM). He later became a Senior Portfolio Manager and CIO at John Levin and Company. Phil is also a retired Partner at Permanens Capital, an outsourced CIO and multi-family office asset management firm.

Mr. Friedman received a BA from Rutgers University in 1978 where he was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. He received his Masters of Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with highest honors. Phil passed his CPA exam in New York.

Ms. Armstrong is a veteran equity investor with over 30 years of professional investment management experience. Arden has built successful portfolios for a wide range of clients in institutional separate account management, mutual funds, and hedge funds. As a private investor, Arden has also invested in a wide range of private companies.

Ms. Armstrong spent 16 years at Miller Anderson & Sherrerd and Morgan Stanley (which acquired Miller Anderson in 1996). There, as a US equity portfolio manager and Managing Director, she headed the Small and Mid-Cap Growth Investment team, which managed institutional separate accounts and mutual funds totaling over $6 billion.

Subsequent to leaving Morgan Stanley in early 2002, Ms. Armstrong co-founded Redstone Investment Management, LP, a long short equity hedge fund that raised over $800 million dollars in small and mid-cap growth assets. At Redstone, she had portfolio management responsibility for selecting long and short investments in the Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, and Telecom sectors. As Managing Partner, Arden acquired deep knowledge of the investment management business along with a broad range of business management experience.

Ms. Armstrong graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982 with a BA in Economics. She first joined American Management Systems, then Evans Economics as a research analyst. In 1986 she received her MBA from The Wharton School. Arden is a holder of the CFA designation.

Andrea Fischer Newman served as Senior Vice President – Government Affairs for Delta Air Lines from 2008 -2017, including responsibility for International, Regulatory, Federal, State, and Local government affairs. From 2001-2008, she was Senior Vice President – Government Affairs for Northwest Airlines and oversaw the regulatory approvals required for the Delta-Northwest merger in 2008. Ms. Newman joined Northwest in 1995, also serving as Vice President for State & Local Government Affairs and as Managing Director – Law and Government. Prior to her airline career, she was a Senior Counsel and Senior Partner at Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone from 1988 to 1994. She currently serves on the Boards of three private equity backed companies.

Ms. Newman's public service includes serving in President Ronald Reagan’s Administration as Special Counsel to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Logistics and Deputy Assistant to Vice President George H.W. Bush. She has been appointed to the Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity and the National Board for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. She is a member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel first appointed by President George W. Bush and reappointed by President Trump. Ms. Newman was an elected member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1995 thru 2018. She has been a Vice President of the Detroit Economic Club, a Director of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. She also served as a board member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), and as a member of the Michigan Strategic Fund from 1987- 1990.

Michael Huerta served as Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 2013 to 2018.  He joined the agency in 2010 as Deputy Administrator.  He currently provides strategic consulting services in the aerospace, aviation and transportation sectors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines, Inc.

During his FAA tenure, Michael redefined the FAA's regulatory relationship with the aviation industry to achieve greater levels of safety through increased collaboration and widespread sharing of data. He led the agency's efforts to modernize the nation's air traffic control system while preparing the way for the safe integration of commercial space operations and small unmanned aircraft systems.  He is also well known for eliminating the decades-old ban on the use of portable electronic devices aboard airplanes during takeoff and landing, making it possible to use many devices from gate to gate.

Prior to joining the FAA, Mr. Huerta served in executive positions at Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Port of San Francisco and the New York City Department of Ports, International Trade and Commerce.

Mr.Huerta holds a BA from the University of California, Riverside and an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.