Audrey MacLean

MacLean has founded and invested in more than two dozen companies creating more than $5 billion in market value in the past twenty-five years, and has been a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the School of Engineering since 1995. She has been featured on Forbes’ Midas Touch List, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and Business Week’s Top 50 Business Women in America. In a Forbes’ cover article she was dubbed, “The One To See In Silicon Valley”. MacLean was a founder of Network Equipment Technologies in 1983. The market share leader in Wide Area Networking went public in 1987. In 1988 she co-founded and was CEO of Adaptive which merged with N.E.T. in 1993. Other companies that went public where she was a seed investor, director or advisor include: AdForce, dsl.net, Pete’s Brewing, Pure Software and Selectica. Those which were acquired include: Achieva sold to Kaplan, Amplitude sold to Critical Path, Applied Discovery sold to LexisNexis, Avidia sold to Pair Gain, Centrality sold to Sirf, Firefly sold to Microsoft, InternetMiddleware sold to Network Appliance, Ironport sold to Cisco, Radiance sold to Comcast and specialtyMD sold to Chemdex. In addition to her Coraid board role, she currently serves on the board or advisory board of a number other start-ups including: Andalou, BeyondCore, Finesse, Loopt, Luxe, mOasis, Queplix, Skybox, SolumTech, and StarMaker. She serves on the board of the Center for Venture Education and the University of Hawaii, Maui College.