H5 is privileged to receive the advice and support of our outstanding Strategic Advisory Board:
Professor Arthur R. Miller
Arthur R. Miller is University Professor at the New York University School of Law. Formerly, he was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught from 1971 to 2007. He is widely recognized as the leading authority on civil procedure, a subject on which he has written or co-authored more than 25 books. He is also nationally known for his work on copyright, unfair competition, and privacy rights. Professor Miller also carries on an active law practice, particularly in the federal appellate courts. He has argued in all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as in the U.S. Supreme Court. He has served on several important advisory panels, including the U.S. Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and the American Law Institute’s Project on Complex Litigation.
Professor Miller is a critically acclaimed legal writer and commentator. For many years, he was the legal editor of ABC’s Good Morning America. He hosted a weekly program on Courtroom Television Network for several years and appeared frequently as an analyst on other Court TV programs. He won an Emmy award for the PBS series The Sovereign Self. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Harvard Law School.
Paul J. Polking, Esq.
Paul Polking is the retired executive vice president, general counsel, and member of the Management Operating Committee for Bank of America Corporation and its predecessor companies. Mr. Polking began his 34-year tenure with Bank of America in 1970, when he joined NCNB Corporation as the bank's second lawyer. He was named general counsel in 1988 and served in that capacity until retiring in 2004, at which time he presided over a legal department numbering over 230 attorneys.
NCNB, then NationsBank and now Bank of America, is widely credited with helping to dismantle geographic restrictions on banking. As the bank's general counsel, Mr. Polking was instrumental in enabling its first out-of-state acquisition, which not only triggered 70 additional acquisitions for the bank in the following 20 years, but had significant impact on the financial services industry, leading to the modern day consolidated banking system.
Mr. Polking is chairman of the Advisory Council for the Notre Dame Law School and a member of the board of advisors for the University of North Carolina School of Law Banking Institute. He has also served as an advisor to the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and as chairman of the Lawyers Council for the Bankers Roundtable.
Mr. Polking received the Leadership Award from the University of North Carolina Law School Center of Banking and Finance in 2004 and the President's Award from the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers in 1999. He is a member of the state bars of North Carolina and Iowa, as well as the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his B.S. from the University of Notre Dame and J.D. from the Notre Dame Law School.
S. Allen Lackey, Esq.
S. Allen Lackey is the retired vice president and general counsel of Shell Oil Company. His 32-year career at Shell encompassed a wide variety of legal and business assignments. After participating in a major restructuring of Shell's U.S. operations, he served as a member of the boards of directors of Shell's principal businesses and was a director of the joint venture company that held the U.S. marketing and refining assets of both Shell and Texaco.
As Shell's general counsel, Mr. Lackey was concerned with the cost and inefficiencies associated with complex litigation. This concern led to efforts to replace the standard hourly fee with incentive-based fees and the creation of a document management group to reduce costs and improve production procedures. Mr. Lackey has maintained his involvement with the energy industry since his retirement in 2000 by serving as an arbitrator and expert witness in oil and gas matters.
Mr. Lackey has served as president of the Association of General Counsel, chairman of the Civil Justice Reform Group, and chairman of the American Petroleum Institute General Committee on Law. He has also served on the boards of the American Jurisprudence Society and the Houston Bar Foundation and the University of Houston Bar Foundation.
Raymond L. Ocampo Jr., Esq.
Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. is the former senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Oracle Corporation, where he served as its chief legal counsel for more than a decade. During his tenure at Oracle, the company’s annual revenues grew from $50 million in 1986 to $5 billion in 1996. Before joining Oracle, Mr. Ocampo practiced at San Francisco law firms for 10 years, where he specialized in antitrust and complex litigation.
In 1997, Mr. Ocampo helped found, and for two years thereafter served as executive director of, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, which for the past 10 years has been rated the leading intellectual property law program in American law schools. Mr. Ocampo has spoken and written frequently on business and legal issues involving the intersection of law and technology, especially software, Internet, and information technologies.
Mr. Ocampo is chairman of the board of the Asian Pacific Fund, a San Francisco-based community service agency, and has served on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Earthjustice, and the Computer Law Association. He was the 2001-02 chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science & Technology Law, and currently serves on the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He is a past member of the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession.
He received his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley). Mr. Ocampo currently sits on H5’s Board of Directors.
Stanley Stroup, Esq.
Stan Stroup is the former general counsel and executive vice president of Wells Fargo & Company. Mr. Stroup has over 30 years of experience in the legal and government relations issues facing the financial services industry. In 1986 he became vice president and assistant general counsel at the former Norwest Corporation, which merged with Wells Fargo in 1998. Previously, he worked for several leading banks, including the Bank of California and First National Bank of Chicago. He graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota, where he also earned a law degree, magna cum laude.
Edward A. Kangas
Edward Kangas is the non-executive chairman of the board of Tenet Healthcare Corporation and a member of the board of directors of EDS. He is the former chairman and CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International. In his 33 years with the firm, Mr. Kangas developed expertise in financial and strategic consulting, auditing, and corporate finance.
Mr. Kangas was elected Managing Partner and CEO of Touche Ross in 1985. In 1989, he was one of the chief architects of the firm’s merger with Deloitte Haskins & Sells. From 1989 to 1994, he served as Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche (USA), spearheading the merger integration of the firm’s U.S. operations. Mr. Kangas also spent five years as the National Director of Management Consulting, now known as Deloitte Consulting. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Eclipsys Corporation, Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., and Oncology Therapeutics Networks.
Mr. Kangas is the chairman of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania He earned a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Kansas.
John C. Dean
John C. Dean is the former chairman and CEO of Silicon Valley Bancshares and Silicon Valley Bank, its wholly owned subsidiary. During Mr. Dean’s eight years as CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, from 1993 to 2001, its assets grew from $935 million to $5.5 billion; employees from 235 to over 1,000; and market capitalization from $63 million to a peak of over $3 billion. Previously, he was the CEO of four regional banks.
With 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Dean is a widely respected authority on venture capital funding and technology start-up companies. He is currently the managing general partner of Startup Capital Ventures and managing director of Tuputele Ventures Fund, a small private equity firm focused on Silicon Valley and Hawaii. He is an investment director for several other venture capital firms, including Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Authosis Capital, Institutional Venture Fund (IVP), Leapfrog Ventures, and Walden International. He also serves on the Board of Directors of H5 and other fast-growing companies.
In 2001 Mr. Dean was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the "50 Most Powerful Dealmakers.” In 1997 he was named by Business Week as one of Silicon Valley’s top 25 "Movers and Shakers." He earned a bachelor’s degree from Holy Cross College and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa.
Professor Michael A. Cusumano
Michael Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he teaches courses on strategic management, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship. He has published eight books, including best-sellers Microsoft Secrets and Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft, a book that played a central role in the Microsoft antitrust trial. The Business of Software was named one of the best business books of 2004 by the New York Times. He is the former editor-in-chief and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review. He also writes for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Computerworld, and other publications.
Professor Cusumano has consulted for major companies around the world, including AOL, AT&T, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Motorola, and NEC, as well as NASA. He serves on several corporate boards of directors or advisors. Professor Cusumano holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Edward B. Roberts, Ph.D.
Ed Roberts, one of the leading authorities on entrepreneurship, literally wrote the book on high-tech business creation and growth. Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management in 1991. Dr. Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chair of the Sloan School’s Management of Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship research and education programs, as well as the founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
Dr. Roberts has been a co-founder, director, and/or angel investor in many emerging companies. He co-founded and for 20 years was a general partner in the Zero Stage and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, venture capital funds specializing in early-stage technology firms. He co-founded and was CEO of Pugh-Roberts Associates, an international management consulting firm specializing in strategic planning and technology management (now a division of PA Consulting Group). He also co-founded and serves as a director of Sohu.com, a leading Chinese Internet firm.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering, an MBA, and the world’s first Ph.D. in System Dynamics, all from MIT. He has authored more than 150 articles and 11 books, most recently Innovation: Driving Product, Process and Market Change.
Conversations with H5's Advisory Board