Elton Sherwin is a Senior Managing Director of Ridgewood Capital and founded the Ridgewood Capital Palo Alto office in 1999. Prior to joining Ridgewood, Mr. Sherwin established the West Coast office of Motorola Ventures.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Sherwin spent twenty years at IBM and Motorola where the products he developed won numerous awards. The U.S. patent Office has granted him eight patents. Mr. Sherwin is currently working on his second book, Addicted to Energy—How to Save our Economy and Our Climate. His first book, The Silicon Valley Way, is used by entrepreneurs and university programs around the world. Mr. Sherwin received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.