2004 Recipient:
Sanford Robertson

Sanford R. Robertson has been a moving force in the creation and evolution of Silicon Valley as a center of entrepreneurship and high-tech enterprise. An innovator and entrepreneur, he helped define venture capital and investment banking.

Mr. Robertson, co-founder of Robertson Stephens and of Francisco Partners, led the initial public offerings of many of the nation’s best known high tech firms, including Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, Dell computer, and Pixar Animation. He presently serves as a Director of Dolby Laboratories, salesforce.com, Pain Therapeutics, and the Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving.

He is on the advisory board of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose and was a founder of the Bay Area Life Sciences Alliance and was instrumental in the creation of UCSF Mission Bay.

The award was inaugurated in 1998.
Honorees include:
2007 Recipient: L. John Doerr
2006 Recipient: F. Warren Hellman
2005 Recipient: C. Richard Kramlich
2004 Recipient: Sanford R. Robertson
2003 Recipient: Dr. Ralph Landau
2002 Recipient: Dr. Edward Penhoet
2001 Recipient: Mr. William Hambrecht
2000 Recipient: Dr. Gordon Moore
1999 Recipient: Mr. Arthur Rock
1998 Recipient: Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni

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