The Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor is bestowed annually upon a person whose leadership, technical innovation, business acumen and community involvement have made a significant impact on Southern California's digital media community. Selected by members of the Digital Family community, the Outstanding Achievement Honor recognizes those exceptional individuals whose achievements have impacted our local economy, advanced our community and inspired our collective vision for what is possible in the greater technology and business communities.

Digital Family Industry Catalyst Honor

The Digital Family Industry Catalyst Honor is bestowed annually upon a person whose leadership, technical innovation, business acumen and community involvement have made a significant impact on Southern California's digital media community. Selected by members of the Digital Family community, the Outstanding Achievement Honor recognizes those exceptional individuals whose achievements have impacted our local economy, advanced our community and inspired our collective vision for what is possible in the greater technology and business communities.

Biographies

William Quigley, Clearstone Venture Partners
William Quigley joined Clearstone Venture Partners shortly after its formation and concentrates on its Internet and communications related investments. During his first two-and-a-half years with the firm, he worked out of the idealab! incubator and helped launch and lead investments in many idealab! backed companies including Homepage.com, FreePC, FreeMusic.com and Paymybills.com. A number of his early-stage investments have gone public, including MP3.com, Tickets.com, Emusic and PeopleSupport and several have been acquired including InternetConnect (sold to Covad) and Phasebridge (sold to Emcore). William's current portfolio reflects his belief in the enormous opportunity in the wireless consumer and enterprise markets (AOptix, SoonR, Meru Networks, Novariant). He is also focused on emerging companies offering managed services in the enterprise and consumer sectors (Communicado, Spock Networks). William is a member of the board of directors of AOptix Technologies, Communicado, Meru Networks, Novariant, SoonR and Spock.com. William spent seven years in a variety of business planning and operational roles at The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney included finance roles at EuroDisney, the Disney Store retail chain and Disney's consumer products merchandise licensing division. He oversaw all finance and business planning activities for Disney's licensing business unit, the world's largest consumer products licensor. William also co-managed Disney's merchant banking group where he negotiated and structured equity positions in the company's strategic licensees. William received his MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School, and holds a BS in Accounting, with honors, from the University of Southern California. He is a CPA and a Kauffman Fellow.

Stephen Hughes, Silicon Valley Bank
Stephen Hughes leads Silicon Valley Bank's Early Stage team in Los Angeles. The Early Stage team focuses on the banking needs of Technology, Life Science, and Cleantech companies from startup through Revenues of $75MM. Prior to joining SVB, Mr. Hughes served as Founder and CFO of a venture-backed software company (How2TV) and Head of Royal Bank of Canada's US Technology Banking Group. He earned both his MBA and an Honors BA in Business Administration from the Ivey Business School in Canada. Through its 27 domestic offices and operations in England, India, Israel, and China, SVB Financial Group (NASD: SIVB) provides domestic and international commercial banking, investment management, and valuation services to technology companies at all stages of their life cycles – from startup to public. With over 10,000 clients, SVB is the preferred partner for more than half of the venture-backed technology companies in the US.

Mark Turk, Silicon Valley Bank
Mark Turk is a managing director at Silicon Valley Bank and he manages the SoCal Corporate Finance team. Turk began his commercial banking career in 1989 and has been actively involved in financing start- up and emerging growth technology and life science companies located throughout Southern California since 2000. Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank in 2000, Turk was chief credit officer at Pacific Century Bank, a $1.3 billion business bank headquartered in Los Angeles and was also a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America. Before his banking career, Turk was an engineer at Allied- Signal Corporation. He is currently a board member of the Los Angeles Venture Association. Turk is also a former board member and treasurer of Conejo Simi Aquatics, the Central Coast MIT Forum, the Technology Management Program at UCSB, the California Coast Venture Forum and the San Fernando Valley YMCA. Turk earned a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and an MBA from UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management.