Board of Managers

Board of Managers

David Bergeron

Dave Bergeron is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for SVTC Technologies. Bergeron recently served as Executive-in-Residence at Tallwood Venture Capital, where he evaluated semiconductor chip products and equipment opportunities. Prior to joining Tallwood, Bergeron held senior management positions at Applied Materials, Candescent Technologies and IBM Microelectronics. These positions included VP and General Management responsibilities for a semiconductor equipment product line; semiconductor fab operation management responsibilities, including CMOS DRAM and CMOS LOGIC product development; and multiple technology product integration responsibilities supporting an advanced display opportunity. Bergeron has authored 17 U.S. patents grants and has published more than 30 technical bulletins and papers. Bergeron received a BS in Physics and an MS in Applied Mathematics from Georgetown University.

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Robert Morse

Robert L. Morse, Jr. is a Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and is responsible for investments in the Technology industry group. Prior to joining Oak Hill in 2001, he worked at GCC Investments, a growth private equity firm, as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners and in business development at Loudcloud, Inc. Morse earned a BSE degree, summa cum laude, in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

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William Pade

William J. Pade is a Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners and has responsibility for investments in the Technology industry group. Prior to joining Oak Hill in 2004, he spent 26 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was most recently a Director and the Managing Partner of McKinsey's Silicon Valley office, which is the center of the McKinsey global high technology sector. Prior to that, Pade was based in London, where he led McKinsey's high technology and telecom practice in Europe. Throughout his career at McKinsey, Pade worked with a number of leading enterprise software, computer hardware and communications companies. He earned a BA degree, cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.

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Luis Arzubi

Luis Arzubi's vast past experience – more than 30 years in various engineering, management and executive roles with IBM – brings a distinctive and valuable technologist and customer point of view to Tallwood's practice.
Before joining Tallwood, Arzubi was a member of the executive team for IBM's Microelectronics Division. Most recently he served as Vice President and General Manager for the division, where he was responsible for all the semiconductor business segments. During the 1990s he played the key role in moving IBM Microelectronics into the OEM business and making it succeed.

Earlier, Arzubi was the General Manager for IBM's Burlington, Vermont, site, where he was responsible for two mega fabs and the development lab. From 1986 through 1991, Arzubi was Lab Director at IBM's General Technology Division, where he was responsible for all of IBM's non-bipolar semiconductor technologies and product development activities.

Arzubi currently serves on the boards of directors of Amulaire Thermal Technology, Cavendish Kinetics and T-RAM Semiconductor. He is the inventor of five key memory patents and has published more than two dozen technical papers.

Arzubi holds a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Littoral in Argentina.

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George Pavlov

George Pavlov brings broad experience in venture capital, private equity, operations and technology to Tallwood. His ability to take a high-level business perspective helps him guide portfolio companies through complex decisions. Pavlov spends a portion of his time thinking about how Tallwood can expand beyond its early stage venture practice, which helps the firm plan for the future.

Prior to joining Tallwood, Pavlov was CEO of eTime Capital, a troubled enterprise software and services company that he restructured to achieve optimal liquidation. Earlier, he was General Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Mayfield, a venture capital fund. Before that, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Blum Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm and registered investment advisor. Pavlov also held several financial and sales management positions at NeXT Computer, where he prepared industry and company strategic overviews, developed an expanded distribution strategy and managed customer satisfaction programs.

Pavlov serves on the boards of directors of Amulaire Thermal Technology, Astute Networks, Audience Inc., Calypto Design Systems, Crossing Automation Inc. and M2000.

Pavlov holds a BS in Accounting from Boston College.

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