He previously served in the Bush Administration as a member of the communications team for Secretaries Rumsfeld and Gates, and as a spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Morgenthaler was the first VC investor in Siri and was a board member until Apple acquired it, as well as an investor and board member of Nuance Communications, the voice recognition software company whose technology also is used by Siri.

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During a similar Harvard seminar this summer, attended by, among others, a board member from Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ), board members from China expressed envy that their American counterparts at least deal with audited numbers.

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