Stephan Dolezalek is a Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners. He has spent the last 20 years in Silicon Valley, acting as an entrepreneur, corporate and securities counsel and the last eight years as a venture capitalist. He has assisted more than 100 entrepreneurial companies in all stages of development. Prior to joining VantagePoint, Dolezalek was a partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP acting as managing partner of the Firm's Palo Alto Office, head of their Business and Technology Practice Group and chairman of the Firm's Life Science Practices Group. Dolezalek holds a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and a bachelor's degree in city planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture.