Tony Seba

Tony Seba is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur in cleantech and high tech, a lecturer in entrepreneurship and clean energy at Stanford University, a keynote speaker, and the author of "Winners Take All - 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy". Seba has taught "Clean Energy - Market and Investment Opportunities", "Strategic Marketing of High Tech and Cleantech", "Finance for Entrepreneurs, Marketing, Engineers" and "Business and Revenue Models Innovation". He also teaches at Singularity University and top business schools around the world such as The Auckland University (New Zealand) Business School and in-company at some of the world's top high tech companies such as Google, Inc. Tony Seba brings 20+ years of solid operating experience in fast-growth high technology companies. He was Vice President, Corporate Development at "Utility Scale Solar, Inc." where he helped the company grow from the garage-stage through growth strategy, fundraising, business development with plant developers and partners. He was previously founder and CEO of PrintNation.com, a B2B ecommerce site which he established as the undisputed leader in its market segment, winning such top industry awards as the Upside Hot 100 and the Forbes.com B2B 'Best of the Web'. Seba led two venture capital rounds raising more than $31 million in funding from well-known silicon valley venture funds, hired a complete management team, 100+ employees, and managed the development of strategic partnerships with some of the world's top companies. Prior to PrintNation, Mr. Seba worked in business development and strategic planning at Cisco Systems and RSA Data Security. Seba has been responsible for the architecture, development, strategy, or commercialization of more than two dozen products including solar technology, mobile browser, Java security, electronic payment technology and ecommerce infrastructure. Seba speaks frequently at clean energy, clean tech, entrepreneurship and high tech conferences and industry and corporate events. He has been featured in Business Week, Investors Business Daily, Forbes, Fast Company, Success and other media and holds entrepreneurship awards. Seba is on boards of directors and boards of advisors of high tech, educational and non-profit organizations. Tony Seba holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http: //www.tonyseba.com