For more than 35 years, Mr. Dixon Doll has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer and communications industries. Inrecognition of his accomplishments in venture capital, Dixon was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture nvestors on its Midas List for the past four years, as well as one of the top 100 personalities involved in creating the information highway by Upside Magazine. In April, 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association in Washington, D.C., where he also serves on the Executive Committee.

Since the early 1980s, Dixon has been a telecom and Internet venture capital pioneer. In 1996 he launched DCM - Doll Capital Management, an early stage technology venture capital firm which currently has more than $1 Billion under management, headquartered in Menlo Park, California. DCM has backed such well known entrepreneurial companies as About.com, @Motion, Clearwire, 51job, Foundry Networks, Internap, Ipivot, Neutral Tandem, PGP Corp., Recourse Technologies, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, and Sling Media. DCM has become widely recognized as one of the top Silicon Valley venture firms actively investing in China and Japan. In the mid-1980s, Dixon cofounded the venture capital industry’ s first fund focused exclusively on telecommunications opportunities. Those fund she organized launched such noteworthy companies as Alantec, Bridge Communication, Centillion Networks, Network Equipment Technologies, Optilink, Picturetel, Polycom, and UUNet.

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Dixon was the founder and CEO of an internationally recognized strategic consulting firm focused on telecommunications and computer networking. From 1972 to 1980, Dixon also served as a faculty member of the IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City, and then served on the IBM Networking Systems Organization's External Advisory Board from 1983 to 1991. He currently serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee at University of San Francisco. He also serves as a trustee or advisory board member for each of these organizations.

Mr. Doll received his B.S.E.E. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.

狄克森 多尔（Dixon Doll）先生是 DCM 创业投资公司联合创始人兼主管合伙人。他在创业投资领域已有长达三十五年的经验，在计算机和通信领域极具影响号召力，培养了许多创业者和投资家。他在创业投资行业的造诣也得到了大家的公认。2003、2004以及2005 年连续三年荣登福布斯杂志“百强创业投资家” 富豪排行榜，同时亦被Upside 杂志列为“信息公路开创者百强”之一。2005年4月，多尔先生被选为美国国家创业投资协会理事。

80年代初期以来，多尔先生一直是电信和互联网创业投资领域的先驱。1996年，多尔先生在美国加州门罗帕克市联合创立DCM创业投资公司，专注于为高科技企业提供早期投资。目前公司创投资金已超过十亿美金，所投资的知名企业包括：About.com、@Motion、前程无忧、Foundry Networks、Internap、Ipivot、Neutral Tandem、PGP、Recourse technologies 和中芯国际。近年来DCM 一直活跃在中国和日本市场投资，在业内被广泛认为是来自硅谷的顶级创业投资公司之一。80 年代中期，多尔先生联
合设立了创投领域的第一个电信基金，投资了众多知名企业，如：Alantec、Bridge Communications 、Centillion Networks、美国 Network Equipment Technologies、Optilink、Picturetel、 宝利通公司和美国 UUNet。

在成为创业投资家之前，多尔先生创建了一家国际知名的战略顾问（咨询）公司，侧重于电信及网络行业，并出任首席执行官。1972年到1980年，他在位于纽约的IBM系统研究学院担任教育骨干，1983年到1991年间，任IBM网络系统组织的专业顾问。目前他还担任旧金山大学投资委员会主席一职以及其它各大学校及组织的理事会成员。

多尔先生在堪萨斯州州立大学取得工学学士学位，密歇根州立大学的电子工程专业的硕士及博士学位。在密歇根州立大学期间，多尔先生是国际自然科学基金会的学者。