Austin Badger leads a team on Silicon Valley Bank’s Frontier Tech Practice in San Francisco. Austin brings over a decade of investing experience to high-growth companies that create disruptive technologies in the businesses of robotics, transportation, connected home, aerospace, consumer electronics, and semiconductors, with a focus on the convergence of hardware, software, and data. The role places him across the table from some of the world’s most innovative deep-technology thinkers and equips him to help bring their bold and audacious visions to life.

Charlie joined Silicon Valley Bank at the launch of SVB’s London-based UK Branch in 2012, where he held roles growing both our venture-backed lending and early stage banking portfolios. In 2019 Charlie joined SVB’s Corporate Venture Relationships in San Francisco. Here his focus is on bringing the power of SVB’s knowledge and network to corporations, that seek deeper engagement with the innovation economy as investors, buyers and acquirers.

Quinn oversees Qualcomm’s $1B global venture investment portfolio of 150+ companies across seven regions. Quinn and his team invest in key areas such as 5G, AI, Automotive, IoT and Networking to help expand Qualcomm’s ecosystem and customers. He currently serves as a board member or observer in AMEC, Airspan, Cohesity, Innovium, and RetailNext. Quinn has led over a dozen investments with successful exits in A123 Systems, Eero, InvenSense, Powercloud Systems and Zoom.

Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, Quinn held various roles in the wireless industry. He worked in product management and business development at IBM Systems and Technology Group, and spent several years in Broadcom and the wireless infrastructure group at Lucent Technologies.

Jim Adler is the founding managing director of Toyota AI Ventures, and an executive advisor at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Toyota Financial Savings Bank and the Investment Committee of JetBlue Technology Ventures, and he is a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.

Jim joined Toyota AI Ventures from TRI, where he served as vice president of data and business development. Prior to that, Jim was vice president of products and marketing at Metanautix, a big data analytics startup funded by Sequoia Capital and Workday that was acquired by Microsoft.

IT.J. Rylander joined Next47 in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto. T.J.’s focus is on sourcing and supporting investments in the robotics, enterprise IT and cybersecurity verticals. In addition to providing capital support, his goal is to help entrepreneurs from across the globe grow revenue via the Next47 Catalyst team.

Prior to Next47, T.J. served as Managing Partner of In-Q-Tel (IQT), a non-profit strategic venture firm that operates on behalf of the U.S. Intelligence Community. T.J.’s focus was leading IQT’s investments in cybersecurity and data center technologies, with notable successes including Cloudant (acquired by IBM), Platfora (acquired by WorkDay), and multi-billion dollar IPOs for FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE), Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG).

Alina is a Managing Director for SVB’s Corporate Relationship Management Group and is responsible for SVB’s strategic relationships with Fortune 500 companies, and their Venture Capital divisions. Previously, she was a Managing Director within the Corporate Finance Group at SVB, providing lending and commercial banking to private and public corporate technology clients – generally over $100 million in revenues. She brings 14 years of banking experience and expertise advising companies as they scale, most recently managing the team focused on working with enterprise software companies in the bay area. Prior to joining SVB, Alina held various positions at JPMorgan Chase in their New York, Hong Kong and San Francisco offices.