Ronald C. Rawson

Ron, a San Francisco native, is the principal of R&R Ventures, a venture development group promoting financial advisory through his extensive network of strategic alliances, business development, and funding relationships for high growth businesses. He has worn many hats throughout his 30 year career as a serial entrepreneur, including 25 years as owner, manager and President of R. C. Rawson Co., a family business in international plastics manufacturing, and distribution. He also is a thought leader in issues of consumer payments (credit, debit, smart-chip, wireless mobile, pre-paid), and has worked with clients such as American Express, Bank of America, Visa International, MasterCard, and Chevron USA.

Rafael Molano

Rafael is an expert in the software, hardware and alternative energy industries. He has more than 25 years in marketing, finance and global operations experience for large and small companies. He is a serial entrepreneur with four startups in the last twelve years and has a strong operational and executive level experience that spans many venture capital funded start-ups, ‘dotcoms’, mergers and acquisitions and large multi-national companies. Rafael is currently a principal at R&R Ventures, advising companies in business and financial strategies. Prior to R&R, Rafael was a partner at Woodside Capital Partners, an investment bank in Silicon Valley for M&A transactions in the technology industry. Before that, he held the COO position for Blue Bamboo, a Shanghai-based electronics payments company.