Robert W. Conn joined Enterprise Partners in July 2002 to help lead the $350 million Enterprise Partners VI fund, which is targeted to provide seed and first round investments to communications, technology-based life science businesses, and enterprise software sectors. Enterprise Partners is one of the top-performing venture capital firms in the United States with over $1 billion in management. Mr. Conn also brings more than 30 years experience as an academic leader, renowned scientist, entrepreneur and business founder, industry consultant, and government advisor. As Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Conn strategically led the Jacobs School through an unprecedented period of growth in which, for example, annual extramural research funding grew by 270 percent, from $33 million to $112 million. The Jacobs School is now ranked among the top 10 public engineering schools in the country. He also helped UCSD win the highly competitive National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and the Distributed Terascale Facility at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.