Chairman of the Board and Executive Committee member, is an entrepreneur who has been investing and supporting early stage growth companies for 33 year. Ms. Knapp founded Los Angeles-based BigPicture Investors, LLC to finance West Coast startups with patented enabling technologies. She has been a founder or CEO of five software and new media companies and Ms. Knapp has extensive management experience in creating strategic direction for business growth. At the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, she is a founder of the Entrepreneur's Hall, serves on the Board of Visitors, is a repeat guest lecturer in the MBA program, and established the Knapp Competition for excellence in business planning and venture initiation. Ms. Knapp is also a founding member of the Committee of 200, a highly selective international organization of women entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Ms. Knapp received a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College, where she also serves as a Trustee. |