William Wade

Professor of Oral Microbiology

King’s College London

Maria Vehreschild

University Hospital Cologne

Sarah Hemmasi

Research Associate

Zymo Research Europe GMBH

Marcus Claesson

University College Cork

Dirk Krueger

Biomedcentral

Lars Engstrand

Karolinska Institutet Innovations

Sonya Brown

General Partner

Norwest Venture Partners

Based in Palo Alto, Sonya is a General Partner at NVP and co-heads the Growth Equity practice where she focuses on investing across a wide range of sectors including consumer, retail, internet, and business services. 

Prior to joining NVP, Sonya was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm with over $11 billion under management, where she worked for nine years in the Boston office and was responsible for leading the firm's Consumer and Internet Industry Group in North America. Sonya was engaged in all aspects of the deal process including deal sourcing, due diligence, deal negotiations and board representation. Her most recent and past board directorships and investments include Aramsco, Airborne Health, Central Security Group, Physicians Formula Holdings (NASDAQ: FACE), Snap Fitness and Sparta Systems.