Zero1—The Art & Technology Network

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Board

Dr. Harry J. Saal

In 2002, Dr. Harry J. Saal was chosen by the US Department of Justice to lead the Technical Committee charged with monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft Antitrust case. He served as Chairman of the Committee through the May 2011 expiration of the Judgment. Dr. Saal was the founder and CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly dedicated to the area of network diagnostics. Network General and McAfee Associates merged in late 1997 to form Network Associates, which subsequently “un-merged” in 2004. From 1993 through 1995, Dr. Saal served as founding CEO and President of Smart Valley, Inc., a non-profit organization chartered to create a regional electronic community based on an advanced information infrastructure and the collective ability to use it. He has served as...Read more

Dave Mills, Vice Chair

With over 25 years of experience in both large enterprises and small businesses, David Mills has deep expertise in using market research and analysis to solve complex business problems. His skill in developing customer and business intelligence, along with an uncommon ability to integrate information, provides clients with clear, actionable insights. Most recently, David was Sr. Director of Customer Insights at Yahoo!, where he led usability and market research for consumer-facing applications and advertising products. Prior to Yahoo! David served as Program Director for the Knight Foundation in San Jose, CA and Boulder, CO where he transformed the traditional grant making process by applying his market research and analytic skills to identify strategic investment opportunities across...Read more

Joe Lewis, Treasurer

President, Orchard Commercial. As the head of Orchard, Joe Lewis has built one of the best commercial real estate operating companies in Silicon Valley. That means providing quality service to its customers, maximizing profitability for its clients’ commercial properties, and maintaining a productive environment for its staff. Joe has nearly 30 years of experience in commercial real estate as a broker, manager, developer, and owner. Before coming to Orchard, Joe served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot, leaving in 1980 to join Cornish & Carey Commercial. At Cornish & Carey, he served as executive vice president, directing the property management division in addition to his brokerage practice. In 1988, he was elected Silicon Valley’s Investment Broker of the Year. In 1996, he became...Read more

Doniece Sandoval

Doniece spent decades building a highly successful career in marketing, branding, and PR working with both private sector and non-profit organizations. Her relationship with ZER01 began with the 2006 ZER01 Biennial when, as a representative of the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA), she provided strategic planning and execution support to the Biennial marketing effort. In 2008, she joined ZER01 as Chief External Relations Officer. During her tenure, which ran through the end of 2011, she helped secure over $4.5M in government and private funding and grew the ZERO1 Biennial attendance from 25k to 47k visitors. She also lead ZERO1’s successful rebranding, cultivated a growing and active network of national and international partners, developed and managed ZERO1’s national sponsorship...Read more

Aarti Awasthi

Aarti Awasthi is the CEO of Artsybug LLC- an organization that promotes contemporary Indian Visual Art. The portfolio includes artists like Souza, B.D. Gupta, Dandekar, Jagdish Dey, Sidharth, Santhanraj, Rajiv Lochan, just to name a few! The company was founded in 2001 and has hosted various artists & art shows to further its mission of “promoting Art & artists, as a whole!” Aarti believes, that “by promoting art we promote our society”. Today Artsybug has alliances with over 100 senior Indian artists /Indian art galleries. Aarti Awasthi served in the San Jose Arts Commission as it’s vice chair and the chairperson for its Programs Committee till Dec ‘08. She is on the City Hall Décor Committee for the city of San Jose. Aarti Awasthi also serves as a PDC member for the Harker...Read more

Andrea (Andy) Cunningham, Founder

Andrea Cunningham, Chief Marketing Officer, Rearden Commerce, Foster City, CA. Andy is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rearden Commerce in Foster City, CA. She was formerly the President and CEO of CXO Communication, a privately-held, strategic communication consultancy, in Palo Alto, CA. Before that she completed the term of non-executive chairman and CEO of Citigate Cunningham, a public relations agency she founded in 1985.During her time at its helm, she provided counsel for some of the leading, history-making brands in the tech industry. She currently sits on the for-profit boards of InMomentum, Inc. and 1185 Design; and the non-profit boards of the Computer History Museum, and ZeroOne: the Art and Technology Network. She is also a member of the advisory boards of Specialized...Read more

M. Franklin Boyd, ESQ

Franklin Boyd, the Founder and Director of Boyd Level, brings financial and legal experience to the world of emerging art collecting and advising. Formerly an attorney with the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City, Franklin is a long-time advocate for contemporary art and, in her separate legal practice, specializes in intellectual and cultural property issues. Franklin received her juris doctorate with honors from New York University Law School, and a BSFS with a concentration in Culture and Politics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Prior to attending law school, Franklin attended the Christie’s Art Market and Connoisseurship Program in New York City and worked in the General Counsel’s office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Franklin is a...Read more

Catharine Clark

Catharine Clark is owner and director of the Catharine Clark Gallery established in 1991, initially as Morphos Gallery. Clark was born in raised in San Francisco. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1990. She has guest lectured at universities, museums and other institutions throughout the United States and Canada. Between 1999 and 2002 she team taught a professional practices course at the San Francisco Art Institute with her husband, the artist, Ray Beldner. In 2006 she authored an essay for and edited the monograph, Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006, published by Chronicle Books. Clark is a member of the San Francisco Art Dealer’s Association, an advisory board member of SF Recycling...Read more

Tony Fernandes

Tony Fernandes is the founder of theUEgroup and a usability expert with more than 20 years of research and user interface design experience. Previously, Tony founded Netscape's User Experience Group, the Apple/Claris Human Interface Group and organizations at Lotus/IBM and Xerox PARC. He also launched various web and software ventures. Tony is the author of the book Global Interface Design. Since 2001.


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Victor E. Friedberg

Victor Friedberg has been a creative executive at the intersection of technology, commerce and culture for 20 years. At present, Victor is Executive Director of LAUNCH a global initiative to identify and support innovative and disruptive work poised to contribute to a sustainable future. LAUNCH searches, showcases, supports and evangelizes innovative ideas, companies, programs and technologies focused on sustainability challenges. The Founding Partner is NASA who seeks to leverage its culture, technology, and people to contribute to sustaining the home planet. Other Founding Partners include USAID, US State Department and NIKE. The first module LAUNCH: Water will take place at Kennedy Space Center, March 16-18 and will feature 10 innovative/disruptive ideas in water sustainability....Read more

Harlan Kennedy

Harlan Kennedy, Director of Strategy, VBP Orange has been helping clients with strategic challenges since 1995. Currently he heads up VBP Orange, a brand innovation consultancy housed within Venables Bell & Partners. Orange clients include Audi, Barclays, Stanford Media X, the March of Dimes and ZER01. In addition to this role, Harlan continues to serve as the strategic lead on Barclays, Russell Investments, and Conoco Phillips at the agency. Prior to working at Venables Bell & Partners, Harlan was VP of Strategic Planning at McCann-Erickson New York, where, in addition to launching the original Xbox for Microsoft, he headed up strategic planning efforts on Dentyne Ice, Bass Ale, and Agilent Technologies. Harlan also worked closely with clients on new product development for...Read more

Camille Utterback

Camille Utterback is a pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Utterback’s work is in private and public collections including The La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. Awards include a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002) and a commission from the...Read more