Mario Rosati, Director

Mario Rosati has been with the Palo Alto law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati since 1971, and has been a member since January 1975. Rosati specializes in Corporate Law, focusing particularly on high-technology companies. He is a member of his firm's executive committee, elected by members of the firm to manage the firm, and is the managing partner of WS Investments. Rosati is a director of many public and privately held companies, and counsel for a host of other companies.

In 1981, he participated on the Innovator and Entrepreneurship Task Force to the office President-elect Reagan. He also served as a special consultant to the Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis and Deputy Secretary of Transportation Darrel Trent. In this connection, he was also a member of the Airport Access Task Force.

Rosati has sat as Judge Pro-Tem in the Superior Court, State of California, San Mateo County and serves on the Panel of Arbitrators for San Mateo County. He is an adjunct professor of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He also is on the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees, and is an advisor to the Technology Commercialization Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory.