Conrad is based in Silicon Valley and he is an entrepreneur and investor, building successful new businesses in renewable energy, optical communications, nanomaterials, and biosciences. He was founder and CEO of energy materials startup, Innovalight (acquired by DuPont) and was venture partner at Sevin Rosen Funds and Invention Science Fund (ISF). Some of his past and current board responsibilities include Capella Photonics (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Lumotive, LEADOPTIK, and the advisory boards of Aelurus (acquired by Broadcom), InnerAnalytics and Cendana Capital. For three years, Conrad served on the board of SolarPower Europe - the European solar industry association. He was a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum in Davos for renewable energy innovations and he is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™ award. Conrad has extensive international experience having worked and lived in Japan, Germany, the U.K. at AT&T, NEC and Lucent Technologies. He has a MS in Physics from Trinity College and a BS in Physics from University College Dublin in Ireland.