Board of Directors

Steve Bennet, Member Sandhill Angels, Former Partner Outlook Ventures

Steve is founder and managing director of Bodega Partners, a venture catalyst and management consulting firm, which aids early-stage companies in strategic planning and business development. In the past 12 years with Bodega, he has helped over 75 companies meet their strategic and financing goals. He has taken the CFO role in over a dozen of these companies, including Fliqz, Orbital Data, Greystripe, Valchemy, iControl Networks, Pharmacy TV Network, Rentals.com, GolfWeb, Tribeworks, and Biological Components Corporation. 

Prior to and concurrent with Bodega, Steve was a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures and held various financial management positions at Bay Logics, Digital Microwave, and Arthur Anderson. Steve is currently on the faculty at San Jose State University, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship. He is also an active angel investor and on the board of the Sand Hill Angels.

Steve earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA. He is also a licensed CPA.


Neal Pilson, President Pilson Communications, Former President CBS Sports

Neal H. Pilson, a senior industry executive and former president of CBS Sports, formed his own sports television consulting company, Pilson Communications, Inc., on June 1, 1995. Located in suburban Chappaqua, New York, PCI is active in all areas of sports television, media and marketing, and provides representation, negotiation, and packaging services for U.S. and international companies and organizations. Pilson was recently included among the top 20 most influential media executives by the Sports Business Journal and was the only independent consultant on the list.

In two terms as President of CBS Sports (November 1981 - September 1983 and December 1986 - March 1994), Pilson was responsible for negotiating broadcast agreements for all of CBS's major sports franchises including the NFL, the NCAA Basketball Tournament, The Masters, PGA Golf, the U.S. Open Tennis, college football and basketball and he handled the acquisition of domestic television rights to the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games. During his tenure, the CBS production unit won major Emmy Awards for coverage of the Final Four, NFL Football, Major League Baseball, the Daytona 500 and other events, as well as a George Foster Peabody Award for The Masters. In December 1994, the International Olympic Committee awarded Pilson the Olympic Order, the highest honor given by that organization.

Pilson received an A.B. in history from Hamilton College in 1960, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and played varsity basketball, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1963. He is the former Chairman and President of the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association and was a Board member of the USA Hockey Foundation and the Greater New York Chapter of the March of Dimes. In May 1991, he received the March of Dimes Sports Luncheon Founder’s Award. He also served on the Advisory Committee for The Caption Center in Boston, is a former Ardsley (N.Y.) Village Trustee and remains active with the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association based in Chicago.

 

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