Mr. Lyons is a Venture Partner with Paladin Capital Group. He served as a Venture Partner of ePlanet Ventures I & II and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Vanguard Ventures. Mr. Lyons is a Consulting Associate Professor at both the Stanford University Department of Management Science and Engineering and the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Mr. Lyons received a Bachelors and Masters (equivalent) in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1965, an MSEE from Stanford in 1966, and an MBA, with distinction, from the the Pepperdine Presidential/Key Executive Program in 1988.