Bernard Haber Douglaston, Queens, Aug. 19, 2007 The writer, a structural engineer, is emeritus partner of Hardesty & Hanover, a bridge design firm.
John Hadl, founder and chief executive at BrandinHand, becomes partner emeritus at FRWD.
Mr. Gupta, then 59, was an eminence grise in the worlds of international business and philanthropy, juggling his work as a senior partner emeritus at McKinsey, the elite management consulting firm that he once ran, with his public company directorships, investment activities and charitable pursuits.
"As the needs of the government come more into focus, there's no question in my mind that venture capital companies will be backing companies whose technologies are needed by the government," said Floyd Kvamme, co-chairman of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a partner emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers.
Ray Rothrock is chairman and CEO of RedSeal and partner emeritus Venrock.
Some of the disclosed backers include Russell Siegelman, a partner emeritus from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, David Eisner, and Steadfast Venture Capital.
John Jarve, partner emeritus at Menlo Ventures says he invested because "creating an online marketplace for funding middle-market commercial real estate development projects is an enormous opportunity.
[Firm co-founder] Kate [Mitchell] stepped back in the middle of the last fund; she's now a partner emeritus and advisor.
Emeritus Assisted Living has partnered with Dr. Paul Nussbaum, a neuropsychologist advocating social, mental, spiritual, nutritional and physical ways to promote brain health, to make its 180 homes "brain health centers for the community," said Chris Guay, a divisional director of operations.
They are joined on the board of directors by Mark Leslie, former CEO of Veritas, Bill Meehan, Director Emeritus at McKinsey, Shirish Sathaye, Partner at Khosla Ventures and former VP of Engineering and CTO of FORE Systems and Alteon WebSystems and Mike Volpi, partner at Index Ventures and former head of M&A, Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of the Routing Technology Group at Cisco.
