Abdul Khan is the founder of Apoko Group, a digital branding company for athletes and celebrities, which also counts NBA stars Baron Davis and Steve Nash as co-founders.  Prior to Apoko, Abdul was the founding CEO of IBeatYou, the largest pro-athlete owned platform for branded user generated contests, having reached 100 million views and over 250,000 contests and powering contests for multi-million user platforms such as Photobucket.  Abdul was IBeatYou’s CEO through its sale to OVGuide in 2010.  Previously, Abdul was a VC with Crosslink Capital, where he was responsible for consumer Internet and digital media investments in companies including Pandora, Omniture and Ancestry.com.  Abdul started his career as a technology investment banker at UBS, where he worked on digital media financings with companies such as Activision, Midway Games and Acclaim Entertainment.

Adam Nash is an Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners.  Previously, he was Vice President of Search & Platform Products at LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network. Before LinkedIn, he held a variety of strategic and technical roles at eBay, Atlas Venture, Preview Systems, and Apple. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Aileen Lee is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; she joined in 1999. Her primary area of focus is working with consumer-oriented digital companies. Aileen has worked closely with the teams at companies such as ShopKick, Zazzle, Bloom Energy, Miasole, Blue Nile (NASDAQ: Nile), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Good Technology (acquired by MOT), and Tellme (acquired by MSFT). She currently works with companies including Callaway Digital Arts, Offermatic, One Kings Lane, Plum District, Rent the Runway and RMG Networks (formerly Danoo), where she was founding CEO for two years. Prior to joining KPCB, Aileen worked at Gap Inc. in various operating roles. These included product management and marketing for Gap Online, as special assistant to Gap Inc.'s CEO, and in business development. She has also worked for Odwalla and for The North Face in brand and product marketing. Aileen began her career at Morgan Stanley in technology mergers & acquisitions. She has a Bachelor of Science from MIT, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute

Ajay Chopra is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures. Since joining Trinity Ventures in 2006, Ajay has developed a reputation as an entrepreneur’s coach. His passion is helping entrepreneurs execute their Big Idea. He has over 20 years of operating experience at the senior management and board level with start‐ups, private companies and public companies. Prior to joining Trinity Ventures, Ajay co-founded Pinnacle Systems, a seminal media technology company that pioneered consumer generated media creation. During his tenure at Pinnacle, the company grew from start‐up stage to a global $350M public company, won several Emmy awards and completed over a dozen M&A transactions before being acquired by Avid Technology. Previously, Ajay was with Mindset Corporation, a computer graphics start‐up. Before Mindset, he held various technical and management positions at Atari Corporation, a video games company, and Unisys Corporation, an IT services company. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, an active group providing support for entrepreneurs and is on the Board of Trustees of the Harker School in San Jose. Ajay holds a M.S.E.E. from Stony Brook University and a B.S.E.E. from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science in India. His investments at Trinity include 21 ViaNet (VNET), CrowdFlower (Dolores Labs), Dynamic Signal, Mobile Messenger, RadiumOne (formerly gWallet), Red Aril, Skyfire, TubeMogul, White Sky, and Ankeena (acquired by Juniper Networks - JNPR).

Alex Sherstinsky is the Vice President of Product Development at CatchFree, Inc. CatchFree makes it easy to compare and choose the best free online solution for your exact need. Most recently, Alex Sherstinsky – with Eugene Mandel – co-founded MustExist, Inc. Responsibilities included the leading of all aspects of starting and running a software company: incorporation, product strategy, development, sales, partnerships, intellectual property, etc. The company's core technology, Social Content Curation, was embodied in a product called Buzzworthy, which was used by more than 7,000 websites on Webs.com for content marketing. Before MustExist, Alex was a member of the founding team at NebuAd, Inc. Funded by Menlo Ventures and Sierra Ventures, NebuAd built an online advertising network in partnership with Internet Service Providers. As the V.P. of Product Development, Alex headed Product Management, Product Development, and Network Operations. Prior to NebuAd, Alex was Senior Director of Products at FaceTime Communications, Inc. (now Actiance, Inc.), a leader in security, management, and compliance for Internet communications. At FaceTime, he led the development, delivery, and marketing of FaceTime's technology platform, product lines, and partnerships since the company's founding in 1997. Before FaceTime, Alex worked at several other start-ups, consulted for AT&T, and held internships at LSI Logic and Hewlett-Packard. Alex Sherstinsky holds PhD/ScD and MS degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. His doctorate and post-doctorate research work was conducted at the M.I.T. Media Laboratory. Alex Sherstinsky is the holder of four U.S. patents.  

Alexander Lloyd is the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, a venture fund focused on seed-stage investments. Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures, Alexander was a venture partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, where he oversaw the development of their seed-stage investment strategy. Before working in Venture Capital, Alexander was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft's Silicon Valley office responsible for Microsoft's relationships with the West Coast venture capital and startup community. Alexander has also worked as a Product Manager in SGIs workstation division and has held marketing positions at Activision and Apple Computer. Alexander began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent three years as a financial analyst. Born in New York City, Alexander was raised in Paris, France, and is fluent in French. Alexander earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School. He sits on the boards of SF Camerawork and Junior Achievement of San Francisco.

Ali Rosenthal served as Senior Manager of Facebook, Inc. from February 2006 to July 2008. From February 2006 to January 2011, Ms. Rosenthal led various initiatives in the Business Development Department at Facebook, Inc., where she served as Head of the Global Operator Program, Mobile from July 2008 to January 2011. Ms. Rosenthal also served as an associate at General Atlantic Partners, LLC, a global private equity fund focused on IT, from February 2001 to June 2003 and as an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co., a leading global investment banking and securities firm, from July 1998 until July 2000. Ms. Rosenthal joined General Atlantic Partners in 2001. She has been Independent Director of AutoNation Inc. since March 14, 2011. She obtained her B.A. from Brown University in 1998.

Amit Kapur is the CEO and co-founder of Gravity, a technology company that understands your interests in order to deliver you a personalized web. He was formerly the COO of MySpace, where he led operations, business development, and strategic partnerships for the company. He was an early employee, helping build and run MySpace Music and MySpace Mobile from the ground up. During his time as COO, MySpace rose to 125 million users worldwide and was profitable with nearly a billion dollars in revenue as part of Fox Interactive Media. Amit studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

Amy is our horseback riding, fly-fishing, black-diamond snowboarding, wine collecting, SF Giants-loving Californian. She joined the Maveron team as a partner in 2008, expanding our operations beyond the rain of the Pacific Northwest’s Seattle to the fog of San Francisco. She offers Maveron more than 25 years of business and operating expertise as a leading entrepreneur, senior executive and social-mission visionary. Her focal points are emerging Web enabled consumer trends, e-commerce social shopping, and online education. Amy currently serves on the Altius Education, Course Hero, KidZui, Livemocha, Mozes and VideoEgg boards of directors. Amy’s multifaceted career has ranged from the online Web 2.0 media industry to the offline consumer marketplace, and has stretched as far as volunteer nonprofit leadership. Most recently, she was chief executive officer and an owner of Olivia, repositioning the travel company as a complete lifestyle company for gay women both online and offline while multiplying revenues from $5 million to $25 million in 2007. In 2006, she was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. Prior to her work at Olivia in 2002, she founded and served as chair and chief executive officer of The Spectrem Group, a worldwide strategic consulting, information, and M&A advisory firm. Amy sold Spectrem to an IPG subsidiary, NFO Worldwide (NYSE:NFO) in 1996. After the sale, she joined the senior management team at E*Trade where she diversified the company’s business beyond brokerage and ran a $200 million business that encompassed the management of E*Trade’s growth areas, including their business-to-business stock option division, and launched a successful asset-based products and investment management services division. Among Amy's citations is the Israel Fellows Award, presented by the San Francisco–based Jewish Community Federation. A passionate humanitarian, Amy is the chair of the board of Glide Foundation, San Francisco’s largest nongovernmental, direct social services organization. Amy is also a member of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast chapter of YPO and serves on the board of Wharton West. A New York native, Amy earned an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in liberal arts from the University of Connecticut. She is a fanatical UCONN Huskies fan where she was a student athlete. (This makes for fascinating partner meetings during basketball season since she is not a DUKE fan!) She and her partner live in San Francisco with their daughter.

Andrew has over 15 years experience in digital. Work he’s led has received a Gold Cannes Lion, 2 Emmys, OMMA, BDA, W3, Ad:Tech, and many other awards, and he is a regular columnist in a variety of trade publications. Recent speaking engagements include International CES, Ad:Tech, Digital Hollywood, OMMA, and NATPE. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the Emmys). As Managing Director for Possible (WPP), he serves as executive sponsor for key relationships, providing digital strategy consulting to Fortune 500 brands across the agency’s portfolio. In addition, he runs Possible’s Los Angeles office and serves as part of the executive management team that directs the global agency’s 1200 staff across 24 offices. Prior to Possible, Andrew co-founded Schematic where he ran relationships with clients including Target, Comcast, ABC, Viacom, and Microsoft. He was instrumental in the company’s growth from 3 people to one of the world’s top digital agencies and its sale to WPP in 2007. Before Schematic, he served as Executive Producer at KPE (a division of Grey Advertising) in New York. At KPE, Andrew spearheaded major initiatives for Variety, Turner, and AOL. Sent west to start KPE’s Los Angeles office, Andrew grew that business, producing brand-building sites and software projects for clients including Nielsen, New Line Cinema, and Princess Cruises. Before the dawn of digital media, Andrew lived in Namibia working for the Harvard Institute for International Development.  He is a graduate of Hamilton College who spends his time away from work playing hockey, surfing, and enjoying his wife and twin sons.

Anthony Soohoo most recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Entertainment & Lifestyle Division at CBS Interactive.  In this role he was responsible for overseeing CBS.com, TV.com, The Insider.com, Chow, Chowhound, UrbanBaby, CBS Audience Network, and CBS Interactive Web Original Studio.  Under Soohoo’s leadership, the CBS Interactive Entertainment Division grew to become one of the leading entertainment networks on the web. Soohoo joined CBS in 2007 with its acquisition of Dotspotter, one of the fastest growing community-powered entertainment properties on the Internet where he served as co-founder and CEO. Prior to founding Dotspotter, Anthony was Vice President at Yahoo! responsible for the strategy, management, development and financial performance for various business units. Prior to Yahoo!, Anthony was COO of ALWAYSi, a user-generated video startup, leading the daily operations of the business, and shepherding the company towards a successful acquisition by Hollywood Media Corporation (NASDAQ: HOLL). Previously, Anthony held product management positions at early web search company Inktomi and Apple.  Anthony was selected by The Hollywood Reporter for their Digital Power List, noting of the top 50 executives leading the charge in new media content.  Anthony earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ari Mir is a serial entrepreneur, focused on utilizing technology to solve real world problems. Prior to co-founding GumGum, Ari co-founded and sold Mojungle, a mobile media-sharing platform. Having worked at BizRate.com and LowerMyBills.com, Ari also has an extensive background in monetizing web traffic. Raised in Los Angeles, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS from the Marshall School of Business.

Arnie Gullov-Singh is CEO, Ad.ly, which runs celebrity endorsements in social media. Previously, Arnie was EVP of Product, Technology and Operations at News Corp’s Fox Audience Network (FAN), which he co-founded and helped grow into one of the five largest display advertising networks in the US. Prior to that, he held a similar role at Yahoo

Beau is a General Partner of Steamboat Ventures. Beau has spent the last 15 years in technology, finance and operational leadership roles where he focused on media, entertainment and consumer infrastructure technologies. Beau currently serves on the boards of GameSalad, GoPro, KapowSoftware, Mobile Intelligence Solutions, Photobucket, and Sometrics. Beau's prior investments include ArborNetworks, acquired by Tektronix Communications, Clarity Technologies, acquired by Cambridge Silicon Radio, (LSE: CSR), Greenplum, acquired by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), Sircon, acquired by Vertafore, ZyrayWireless acquired by Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), Arxan Technologies, acquired by Microsemi Corporation (NASDAQ: MSCC),IntelePeer, RockeTalk, and Xtera Communications. Early in his career, Beau was a Managing Director of EDF Ventures in San Diego, an early stage venture capital fund. Beau started his career as an officer in the SEAL Teams and completed deployments with SEAL Team One and Eight to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Beau received a BS in Economics and General Engineering with Merit as a graduate of the US Naval Academy, and received an MBA with Distinction in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from The University of Michigan Business School.

Ben Narasin serves as President, Seed Stage Investments and oversees seed funding investment activities at TriplePoint Ventures. Most recently, Mr. Narasin, an entrepreneur since the age of twelve, spent much of the early 2000s acquiring companies in the consumer Internet and e-commerce industries and providing liquidity to shareholders. Prior to his acquisition investment and consulting roles, he founded Fashionmall.com in 1993 which became one of the first e-commerce companies in the world and the first cost-per-click portal. He took Fashionmall.com through a successful public offering in 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Narasin founded and acted as CEO of a consumer products company. When not overseeing investment activities, Mr. Narasin manages to be a free lance food and wine writer, a lifelong passion. Mr. Narasin’s works have appeared in numerous publications including San Francisco Chronicle, Wine Enthusiast, Wine News, Health Magazine and various other consumer trade magazines. Mr. Narasin holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College.

Bernard is Co-founder & CEO of Vidquik, a new web conferencing platform. He’s a serial entrepreneur who has raised over $50 million in venture capital.  Previously, he was Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private investment firm consisting of entities in real estate, healthcare and other industries.  He was Co-founder and VP of Business Development at GoingOn Networks, a social media platform for companies, and led their product development where BusinessWeek recognized GoingOn in their "Best of the Web" list.  Bernard was a Director at iRG, a leading boutique investment bank in Hong Kong, where he focused on TMT companies.  He is also a frequent guest writer for various technology blogs, such as VentureBeat, Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.  He completed a post-graduate fellowship with the Coro Foundation. He received his MPA in Telecom and New Media Policy from Columbia University and a BA in English and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Brandon Ramsey is the Founder and CEO of Fanhood which develops social applications on Facebook and Mobile that make following sports with friends easier and more fun. Previously, Brandon Co-Founded BigDeal.com, an auction based e-commerce site, where he served as COO/CTO, designed the product and led all of the company’s technical efforts. Earlier in his career, he led Engineering efforts for Yahoo! Travel, was Head of Engineering for Yahoo! Shopping and built out the Yahoo! Deals platform. Brandon joined Yahoo! through the acquisition of FareChase.com, the pioneering travel aggregator, where he began his entrepreneurial career. Brandon holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Auburn University. He is a die hard fan of the Auburn Tigers and San Jose Sharks – it is a unique look when he dresses in combination.

Brett Markinson is a founding partner of Lagovent Ventures Group, LLC. In that capacity, Brett co-leads the development of incubation and partnership projects. Brett co-founded HauteLook Inc., which provides premium fashion and lifestyle brands with an innovative solution to move inventory and Solesociety, a personalized shoe club that provides designer quality, on-trend shoes. Over the past 20 years, Brett has been actively involved in the development of a number of disruptive technology businesses. Brett holds a Bachelor of Science from Babson College with a concentration in entrepreneurial studies

Brian Lee is the Founder of ShoeDazzle and the Co-Founder of LegalZoom. He was formerly an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP and a former Manager at Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Mr. Lee graduated Magna Cum Laude with at B.A. in Economics/Business from UCLA and received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law

Brian O’Malley is a Partner at Battery Ventures. He joined Battery in 2004 and focuses on investments in eCommerce, online marketplaces and internet applications. During his tenure at Battery, he originated or led the investments in Bazaarvoice, Coupa, Fashionstake, H.BLOOM, Insitu (acquired by Boeing), J. Hilburn, Joor, HotelTonight, Loosecubes, Peerflix (acquired by Live Universe), Serena & Lily, Skullcandy, Slime Sandwich, TradeKing, Viddy, and World Golf Tour. He was one of the first at Battery to drive seed investments. Prior to Battery, Brian spent several years at Bowstreet, Inc. (acquired by NYSE: IBM), as Director of West Coast Technical Sales and the Business Development team's Technical Evangelist. Earlier in his career, Brian assisted founding teams at Matrics, Inc. (acquired by NYSE: MOT) and Compoze Software (acquired by NASD: ORCL) with go-to-market strategy and initial fundraising activities. He also worked for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation, Pequot Ventures and was a web developer for Motorola Computer Group. Brian actively mentors students through several business school programs, including Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Stanford and Wharton. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics.

Brian is Trunk Club’s CEO. Now leading his second venture-backed fashion start-up, Brian is focused on making it incredibly easy for guys to discover awesome clothing without the hassles of the traditional shopping experience. Prior to leading Trunk Club, Brian founded Bonobos, a men’s clothing company that is famous for the best fitting pants on earth. Under the leadership of Brian and his co-founder Andy, Bonobos was named one of the fifty hottest brands in America by AdAge in 2009. Brian holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Princeton.

Bryan Perez is currently the President of Digital, Ticket, and Media at AEG. Bryan was the senior vice president and general manager for NBA Digital responsible for the day-to-day operations of the NBA Digital portfolio. He oversees all aspects including programming, operations, editorial, ecommerce and marketing. Mr. Perez’s professional background includes most recently serving as CEO of Live Nation’s Global Digital division.  In this position, he established and built the new division and was responsible for the company’s worldwide internet, wireless, ticketing, and IT strategy and operations.  While at Live Nation, Mr. Perez also served as president of the Global Digital division for a year and president of the Digital Distribution division.From 2004-2005 Mr. Perez worked as executive vice president of strategy and business development for Clear Channel Entertainment, and before joining Clear Channel, he was executive vice president of marketing and communications for the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars.

Byron Deeter, a partner in Bessemer’s Menlo Park, Calif. office, joined the firm in 2005. At Bessemer, he focuses on investments in the cloud-computing and Internet sectors. His investments at Bessemer include leading companies in online B2B marketing (Bizo); social-marketing platforms (Involver); enterprise talent management (Cornerstone OnDemand, IPO); online personalized retargeting (Criteo); marketing automation (Eloqua); financial-management and accounting applications (Intacct Corp.); social gaming (Playdom, acquired by Disney); cloud communications (Twilio); electronic signatures (DocuSign); content management (Box); and retail business intelligence (Retail Solutions). Prior to joining Bessemer, Byron was a successful entrepreneur, investor and consultant. He most recently worked as an executive at IBM after the company’s 2004 acquisition of Trigo Technologies, the cloud-computing company he co-founded in 1999. At Trigo, Byron served as founding president & CEO, then became vice-president of business development as the company grew to profitability, amassed 150 employees and logged a $40+ million revenue run-rate. Bessemer worked closely with Byron and the executive team after Trigo's founding and invested in all institutional financing rounds. Prior to Trigo, Byron worked in private equity with TA Associates, where he focused on the software sector and invested in companies such as Kintana (acquired by Mercury Interactive). He came to TA from McKinsey & Co., where he was involved with Fortune 500 clients in the media and technology industries, and was active in McKinsey's innovation and technology-management practice. Byron holds a B.A. degree with honors from U.C. Berkeley in political economy. He was named a California Emerging Leader Scholar and an Alumni Scholar, and was a varsity member of Cal's national championship rugby team. Byron is the author of "Bessemer's 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS" and has been named one of the ten "Thought Leaders of the SaaS Revolution."

Cali is a principal at North Bridge Venture Partners and specializes in Internet and wireless innovations. He joined North Bridge in 2006 and resides in his native San Francisco Bay Area, helping expand the firm’s west coast operations. Prior to North Bridge, Cali was the Co-founder and Vice President of Corporate Development at Agilix Labs, an award winning venture-backed mobile learning company providing solutions to firms such as Blackboard [NASDAQ: BBBB] and FranklinCovey [NYSE:FC]. Born in a Vietnamese refugee camp – Camp Pendleton, CA – Cali grew up the youngest of six children and spent much of his youth in the family-owned restaurant.  Cali likes to help entrepreneurs in the seed or Series A stages but will sometimes get involved in more mature companies.  Before Agilix, Cali was at Ancestry.com [NASDAQ: ACOM], a subscription-based genealogy company, where he helped lead the firm’s early corporate development efforts and raised the first three rounds of capital. Cali started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston. Cali received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also a graduate of Bowdoin College (cum laude) where he remains as a Class Agent and recently completed a term on the Alumni Council. He was also a member of the Innovators Steering Committee at the Boston Museum of Science.

Chris focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. He is based in our Palo Alto office. Prior to joining General Catalyst Partners, Chris co-founded Ignition Talent Group, a talent acquisition and advisory firm focused on scouting out the next generation of entrepreneurs and bringing the best executive and technical talent to leading venture backed companies. Previously, Chris was a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, Chris spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he served as led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, Chris founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. Chris received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy. He has been published in Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, The Journal of Private Equity and other leading publications.

Chris Moore is a Partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on consumer Internet, online marketing and business services opportunities. Prior to joining Redpoint, Chris evaluated Internet opportunities for IVP, a firm he joined in 1999.  He currently serves on the board of directors of 9Flats, Auditude, BlueKai, eBureau, Efficient Frontier,  Extole, Fanhattan, Hark, and Inadco.  Chris also led Redpoint's investment in Right Media (acquired by Yahoo!), IntoNow (acquired by Yahoo!) and was actively involved with Redpoint's investment in MySpace. Prior to joining IVP, Chris led business development efforts for wine.com, the online wine retailer, and held various product management positions with Peapod, the pioneering online grocery shopping service provider. Previously, Chris evaluated and executed Internet and media investments for Ameritech. He began his career as a financial analyst in the mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyout groups of Wasserstein Perella & Co. Chris holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Chung Meng Cheong, VP of Advertising Publisher Products at AT&T Interactive, is responsible for leading development and delivery of advertising and publisher products across online and mobile. AT&T Interactive is the AT&T business unit responsible for providing advertising products and consumer experiences focused around local, across AT&T’s media platform and publishers. Prior to joining AT&T Interactive, Chung held product leadership roles at companies including Jaxtr (acquired by SabSe Technologies in 2009) and eBay - where he led product definition and development for eBay Express which became an Internet Top 100 retailer in less than 12 months. Chung has also worked for Elance, Microsoft and the Boston Consulting Company.

Courtney Holt served as President of Myspace Music LLC, an affiliate of News Corp. until 2011. Previously, Mr. Holt served as Executive Vice President, Digital at MTV Networks Music and Logo Group leading digital business and innovation initiatives. Previously, Mr. Holt headed New Media at Interscope Geffen A&M records and Universal Music Group, where he helped develop digital and mobile marketing efforts for artists including Gwen Stefani, Eminem, 50 Cent, Beck, Nine Inch Nails and U2. He oversaw digital initiatives for the MTV, VH1 and CMT channels. Before joining MTV, he was senior vice president of new media for Interscope Geffen A&M. Mr. Holt serves as Member of Board of Advisor at Doppelganger, Inc.

Craig Howe brings more than 21 years of core entertainment, digital, and brand marketing experience to his diverse business ventures.  In addition to an ongoing role as Founder of award-winning social media agency Rocket XL, Craig is an investor or active board member in multiple early stage digital, social, and mobile ventures, as well as a consulted advisor to brands that have a passionate global social fan base including Major League Baseball Advance Media, InBev (FIFA World Cup global strategy), National Hockey League, Rue La La, Major League Soccer, etc. After targeting passionate online influencers since the early ‘90’s as a global marketing leader for acclaimed video game and entertainment publishers like Electronic Arts and Universal Interactive, Howe left the publisher side of the business in 2002 to start one of the first social media agencies, which he sold to V7 International in 2008.  Devising social media strategies for brands was a natural transition for Craig.  He’s since worked with the likes of Unilever, InBev, Lexus, National Football League, LinkedIn, Kraft/Cadbury, and the United Nations, displaying a propensity to translate this unique skill across diverse industries, brands, and products. Howe holds a Bachelor’s in Economics & Business from the University of Colorado, and participated in an adjunct MBA program at Stanford Business School.  An avid outdoorsman, Craig spends much of his free time in Frisco, Colorado where he owns a cabin, as well as a minority stake in Denver based bike franchise Elevation Cycles.

Dan  is a General Partner of Steamboat Ventures. Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as an investor, entrepreneur and operator. Dan currently has board roles at Freewheel, Baynote, Vobile, Fanzter, and Passenger. Dan's prior investments include Playdom, acquired by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), MoveNetworks, acquired by EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS), and Greystripe, acquired by ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK). Prior to Steamboat, Dan was a co-founder and managing director of Plainview Capital, an innovative family of fundamental value investment funds that leverage a proprietary software platform, Plainview Analytics™. Before Plainview, Dan was an associate and partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Focusing on early stage software investments, Dan was involved with several successful, growing companies as an investor/advisor/board member including Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), Technorati, Starmine, acquired by Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), and Method Home. Early in his career Dan was an officer and an F/A-18 Hornet jet instructor pilot for the U.S. Navy, completing over 275 aircraft carrier landings in tours of duty with the Atlantic Fleet. Dan received a BS in computer science as a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy in 1986, and received an MBA in finance from The Wharton School in 1998.

Dana Settle is a Partner with Greycroft and she heads the firm’s west coast office. Prior to joining Greycroft, Dana spent several years as a venture capitalist and advisor to startup companies, first as a Venture Partner with Mayfield, where she focused on early stage companies in the mobile communications and consumer Internet markets, and later as a Partner with VSP Capital. As a venture capitalist, Dana invested in and advised several portfolio companies, including MobileStar (sold to TMobile), Revenue Science, Trigo (sold to IBM), Truveo (sold to AOL) and Doppelganger. Dana’s additional experience includes investment banking at Lehman Brothers in the media and communications group and international business development at McCaw Cellular Communications.Dana holds a BA in Finance and International Studies from the University of Washington and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dana Stalder is a Silicon Valley based general partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests in early stage software and internet companies. Dana’s experience cuts across multiple disciplines including sales, marketing, finance, technology and product management at companies such as eBay, Netscape, PayPal and Respond.com. He has managed nimble ventures as well as 2,500-person teams. Dana joined Matrix in 2008 from PayPal, where he was a senior vice president and managed all business operations, including product, sales, marketing and technology. He is a board member at iRise, minuteKEY, QuinStreet, GOGII, Polyvore and Zendesk.  Dana also invested in Zong, the leading mobile payment service used by online gaming and social networking websites (acquired by PayPal in 2011).

Dave has always had a passion for food. Throughout the years he’s been looking to get more involved with food – even considering opening a restaurant at one point. In addition to always wanting a great meal (cooking, at a friend’s house, restaurant, or a dive), Dave has spent a fair amount of time in the internet world. Dave was an early member of Half.com in Philly, running Marketing & Strategy. He moved to California to continue working for eBay, who had acquired Half.com, and became GM of a $500M portion of the US business. Dave left eBay in 2006 to be VP Marketing & Business Operations for StumbleUpon. Through an acquisition, Dave ended back up at eBay…again. He finally left in late 2008 to pursue his passion, a site now called Yummly.

Dave Neupert is the founder and acting CEO of M80 Interactive Marketing, an online grassroots marketing firm which has managed publicity campaigns for companies like Warner Music Group, The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Honda and Fox Home Entertainment. Neupert began his career in the music business at Maverick. He worked on some of the first websites for artists like Deftones and Alanis Morissette. Dave began to build a buzz about these artists from fan to fan over the internet and utilized the internet long before it became a common promotional tool. M80 specializes in developing online publicity, promotions, and grassroots marketing campaigns for top entertainment properties and consumer brands. M80 identifies, empowers, and activates word-of-mouth marketing among online influencers and opinion leaders. Dave oversees the company's financial operations and provides the vision for the strategic direction of the company. M80 has developed and implemented marketing campaigns for more than 150 top entertainment and consumer brands, including Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Comedy Central, BBC America, The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Honda, Napa Auto Parts, Cingular Wireless, Fox Broadcasting, and Fox Home Entertainment. Dave Neupert is the founder and acting CEO of M80 Interactive Marketing, an online grassroots marketing firm which has managed publicity campaigns for companies like Warner Music Group, The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Honda and Fox Home Entertainment.

David Sobie - Vice President, Business Development at HauteLook, David leads partner relationships and steers the company's product platform and social media strategies. He previosuly was with exchange marketplace LeadPoint, where he served as vice president of product and led the company's product, marketing and analytics teams. Prior to LeadPoint, he was at eBay, leading the company's automotive dealer business in eBay's Motors division. Early in his career, he worked for FreeMarkets, a B2B marketplace that pioneered the use of reverse auctions for procurement at Fortune 500 companies.

David Subar is the Chief Technology Officer for Break Media, and is responsible for product management and product development as well as managing the technical infrastructure. He leads an international team based in Los Angeles and Shanghai, and is responsible for the company’s multi-platform technology strategy across mobile and internet-connected CE devices, in addition to overseeing Break’s in-house advertising technology server, Apex. David has run technology groups responsible for over $200M in annual revenue and has also served as an interim CTO working with top venture capitalist firms to accelerate the growth of their portfolio companies and consulted to companies including Lynda.com and frog designs.

Prior to joining Rustic Canyon in 2005, David worked at eBay, where he focused on the growth of the sports, toys, collectibles and media marketplaces. Previously, David worked on corporate strategy at The Walt Disney Company and helped launch Disney’s credit card business. Prior to that, David served as Executive Assistant to the National Security Advisor in the White House and was awarded the Secretary of Defense’s Award for Outstanding Public Service.  David earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Stanford University.

David is an experience executive and entrepreneur.  David founded and sold Firefly Networks to Microsoft in 1998 as his first venture and subsequently founded and help take public PeoplePC in 2000. Most recently, David was founder of Spot Runner - where he let the product and technology functions. David is currently an investor and advisor to companies such as Korn Ferry, Health In Reach, and Fig Card (sold to Pay Pal).

Doug Hirsch has started a number of companies and built Web communities for Yahoo and Facebook.  As one of the early employees of Yahoo Inc., he conceived and/or managed product development for all of Yahoo’s community and communication products, including Yahoo! Mail, GeoCities, Yahoo! Groups, Yahooligans, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Message Boards, Yahoo! Calendar, Yahoo! Local and much more. In 2005, Doug was hired by Facebook, Inc., as the Vice President Of Production, reporting to the CEO. In his short tenure at Facebook, Doug conceived, managed and launched Facebook’s photo sharing product (more than 100M photos uploaded in the first month), grew traffic from 2B to 8B page views, launched Facebook’s high school product (more than 1M registered users in 2 months), and much more. In 2006, Doug founded DailyStrength, the web’s leading community for people with health and life challenges. DailyStrength raised $4M from Redpoint Ventures and was acquired in November 2008 by HSW International, Inc.  Doug is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University, with additional coursework at Oxford University and UCLA. Doug was accepted at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, but opted not to leave Yahoo to attend business school.

Douglas Merrill is the CEO and founder of ZestCash.com, a financial services technology company that provides credit alternatives for the underbanked. ZestCash announced a $19 million round of Series A funding in July 2011 and was one of Forbes’ Names You Need to Know in 2011. Merrill is the former CIO and Vice President of Engineering at Google, where he helped bring the company to its IPO and with related regulatory activities. Google's current CIO, Ben Fried, took over in April 2008 upon Merrill's departure. After Google, Merrill served as president of EMI Music's digital unit. In March 2010, Merrill published the book, “Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff Out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right”. Merrill is also a former researcher with the RAND Corporation and is listed among the organization's most notable participants. He is a graduate of the University of Tulsa with a major in social and political organization. Merrill attended Princeton where he received Masters and Doctoral degrees in psychology. His academic publications include articles in The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Cognition and Instruction, Reliable Distributed Systems, and a paper in the book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1992; 608:103-110). He currently sits on the board of The Filter

Prior to becoming the CEO of Luxury Link, Mr. Marich served in several key executive positions at eBay Inc. from 2001 to 2007. Most recently, Mr. Marich was the general manager of eBay’s Rent.com subsidiary, the leading online apartment listing site with nearly four million unique visitors monthly. In addition, Mr. Marich oversaw the management of several multi-billion dollar eBay businesses, such as Sports, Collectibles and Toys. Prior to his tenure with eBay, Mr. Marich was an early employee of MVP.com, cofounded a catalog/Internet food company and has held positions with McKinsey & Company, Del Monte Foods and Citigroup’s Smith Barney. Mr. Marich received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a MBA from the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dustin is the Founder and CEO of Santa Monica based, Pose, a GRP backed d photo sharing site, whose application targets shoppers of apparel.  Prior to starting Pose, Dustin was with LA-based venture capital firm, The Mail Room Fund.  The MRF was a committed fund of Accel, Venrock, AT&T and William Morris (one of LA’s largest talent agencies).  He was originally with William Morris as a junior talent rep but wanted to be more in the business of helping digital startups.

Eric Haller is Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Experian. He is responsible for the management and growth of online credit profiles, as well as strategic markets such as Internet delivery, government, capital markets and retail banking. Prior to Experian, Haller held executive marketing and product development roles with HNC Software (acquired by Fair Isaac), MasterCard Advisors and VISA International. Haller also co-founded a company focused on identity theft detection in credit applications (acquired by ID Analytics), and he led new product development for Sequoia Capital–funded Green Dot Corporation.

Eric Kirby is the CEO and Founder of Connection Engine, a venture-backed company developing new customer intelligence and targeting solutions. Previously, Kirby was SVP & GM of Interactive Solutions at Merkle, one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing customer relationship marketing agencies, where he was responsible for developing digital media offerings including email, mobile, display, and social marketing solutions. Prior to Merkle, Kirby held the position of SVP & GM of DoubleClick’s Email Solutions division, the world’s largest email service provider at the time. Kirby has also co-founded two previous online marketing technology firm – Veripost and Assurance Systems – both of which were acquired by Return Path. Earlier, Kirby served as Vice President of Interactive Services at Brierley+Partners, a customer relationship marketing agency. He holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Eugene Mandel is CTO of CatchFree, an online service that makes it easy to find the best free solution for anything from streaming music to managing projects online.  CatchFree was founded by Sean Ellis, and funded by Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Index Ventures and First Round Capital. Prior to CatchFree, Eugene was co-founder of MustExist, a social media curation service for websites.  Previously, Eugene was co-founder and chief architect of jaxtr.  Jaxtr links your phone to the Web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your existing phone number private and so you can call people anywhere in the world directly from your mobile without paying expensive international toll charges.  Before jaxtr, Eugene was a Software Engineer at Trovix and Sr. Software Engineer at FaceTime Communications.  He holds a BS in computer science from Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel.

Eva Ho is the VP of Marketing & Operations for Factual, a technology start-up in Los Angeles focused on open data. She co-founded Navigating Cancer and Whole Child LA, and sits on the board of First Descents and Iridescent. She was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Google and YouTube. Prior to Google, she was the head of marketing for Applied Semantics, a company that was sold to Google in 2003. Additional past employers include The Wilkerson Group, Procter & Gamble and IBM. She holds an MBA from the Cornell University as well as an AB in Biology from Harvard University.

Geoff Yang is a Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Geoff was a general partner with IVP, a firm he joined in 1987. Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, Excite, MySpace and TiVo. His networking investments include BigBand, Calix, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, MMC Networks and Wellfleet. He currently serves on the Board of BigBand Networks (BBND) and several privately-held company boards including Branchout, Bluefin, Clicker (recently acquired by CBS), Fanfare (recently acquired by Spirent), Formspring, Gaia Online, Gravity, Machinima, Oodle and Scribd. In addition, Geoff was founding director or previously led investments in Agile Networks, Applied Digital Access, Centillion, Collabra, Crescendo, Golfweb, JotSpot, Netcore Systems, Netlink, Promatory, Rapid City, Shasta Networks and Whitetree. Geoff is currently on the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and previously served on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) as well as a Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). Prior to joining IVP, Geoff was an Associate with First Century Partners and a Marketing Rep. at IBM Corp. Geoff holds a B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Greg Isaacs is currently leading product marketing & acquisition initiatives as a Vice President at NFL.com.  Before NFL, Greg was VP and GM for AT&T Interactive’s flagship destination - YP.com - a top 30 Comscore property.  Greg also was named CNN/Business 2.0’s “50 People Who Matter” for his ground breaking work as the the head of eBay’s developer program and API platform. Greg is a graduate of Brandeis University and the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Arts. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.  

Greg Kim serves as Head of Marketing & Corporate Development at Savings.com, the leading destination for deals and coupons. Prior to Savings.com, Greg served as SVP, Strategy & Corporate Development at People Media where he built a global leader in niche dating and sold the company to Match.com in July 2009. Prior to People Media, Greg helped build LowerMyBills.com into the leading lead generation platform in home loans, education and insurance. During his tenure, LowerMyBills.com grew from $10 million to $250 million in revenues in three years and the company was sold to Experian. Prior to LowerMyBills.com, Greg was an investment banker with Houlihan Lokey. Greg earned his M.B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies and Finance from The Anderson School at UCLA, and graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.

Hamet is a serial entrepreneur of multiple ventures. He founded notable startups such as NextMedium and MoviePass and  He is currently an E.I.R. at True Ventures. At NextMedium, Hamet raised 2 rounds of venture capital with Ascend Venture Group, Globespan Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Newport Coast Investments and sold the company in 2007.

Hamilton has almost a decade of experience in designing effective marketing and communications solutions for clients, including Westin, Paramount, Johnson & Johnson and ESPN. He has done this through the vehicle of his family business, Charlie Chan Printing, which has been providing high-end commercial printing solutions for businesses in Southern California since 1969. Hamilton's journey from a prestigious corporate background to passioned entrepreneurship was well chronicled by Los Angeles Magazine. Hamilton graduated phi beta kappa and magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard University. He is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. He has worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan, a corporate attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson, and a business affairs executive at MGM. Despite these corporate sojourns, Hamilton has found true expression for his love of technology, marketing and creativity in Paperlinks.

Hiten Shah is a serial entrepreneur who loves to help other entrepreneurs avoid the mistakes he has made in the past like wasting $1 million on a failed web hosting business. He started 3 successful Internet companies starting with a marketing consultancy, ACS. Then he went on to start Crazy Egg, a tool to help people visualize the user experience on their websites and most recently he is the CEO and Co-founder of KISSmetrics.

Howard is the co-founder and CEO of StockTwits – a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.  Also, her is the the Managing Partner of SocialLeverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.  In 2006, Howard created Wallstrip which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007.  Howard is also an active angel with many success investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Other investments include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, BuddyMedia, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly, Etoro.com, Tubemogul and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter).

Howard is a managing partner at First Round Capital. He has more than 25 years of experience serving as a mentor, advisor and investor in entrepreneurial ventures. Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. His research on user interface technology, and on optimization of computer networks led to his bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974. As a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School in the mid 1970s. From 1983 to 1989, he served as President of Renaissance Technologies Corp. Since 1989, he has been President of the Arca Group, Inc., nurturing early stage companies and taking them from seed stage through initial public offerings. He also serves as a Director of Idealab, where he was a founding investor in 1996. Dr. Morgan serves on a number of public company Boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc. He is also Chairman or a member of the board of numerous private companies including Energy Innovations, Evolution Robotics Retail, snap.com, MagicWorks LLC and Math For America. He has also served as CEO of Kentek and Franklin during various turnover or transitional periods. In 1997, he was named Delaware Valley Entrepreneur of the Year. Howard is a respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences. He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1968, and a B.S. in physics from City College of the City University of New York in 1965Howard Morgan has more than 25 years of experience serving as a mentor, advisor and investor in entrepreneurial ventures.

Ivan has over 20 years of financial and operational expertise and since 2006 has served as financial and accounting consultant and advisor to several Los Angeles based technology businesses.  Prior to being involved directly with hand selected start-ups, Ivan held several executive positions, including chief financial officer and executive vice president for YellowPages.com, vice president of portfolio operations for Platinum Equity, vice president of finance for HealthAllies, vice president of finance for Trivida Corporation, and corporate controller for Prime Matrix Wireless Communications. In addition, he started his career with Ernst and Young.

Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur and early stage vc. Sold last company(PeerPong) to FormSpring.me. Public servant to company builders. Investment portfolio via http://angel.co/jaichoi. More about where I’ve been professionally at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaichoi PeerPong was a cloud-based semantic search company backed by First Round Capital, Partech, DCM and Charles River. Previously an EIR and Partner at Partech International with start-up and cross-functional operating experience. Relationships span across US, Europe and Asia with leading technology, media and communications companies. Previously, a partner with IGNITE Ventures, a $250M venture fund with strategic ties to some of the largest Asia-based conglomerates from Japan and Korea (NTT Communications, Docomo, Epson, Ricoh, Funai Electronics, Mitsubishi, etc). Extensive experience advising major Asia-based technology companies on new growth platforms, new business formation, joint venture, and M&A. Spent several years as an entrepreneur and product marketing executive in the Software/Consumer Internet space. Early employee at OnePage Software, a content personalization platform acquired by Sybase in 2001. Co-founded On-Air Networks in 1997, one of the first web radio application companies to deliver copyright licensed music over the Internet. On-Air was acquired in late 1999 by Loudeye (Nokia). Worked in consulting at PA Consulting Group, focused on market-related and operational issues for major telecom and energy companies.

Jake is an Internet entrepreneur. Prior to founding Brighter.com, Jake served as CEO and Founder of Business.com. Business.com was one of the successful companies launched by eCompanies, the privately held incubator founded by Winebaum and Sky Dayton. eCompanies launched several other successful companies, including JAMDAT Mobile, Boingo Wireless, and USBX. Prior to eCompanies, Jake served as Chairman of the Disney Internet Group overseeing Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, ABC.com and Family.com. Prior to Disney, Jake founded FamilyFun Magazine which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Jake started his career in publishing and held executive positions at U.S. News & World Report, Time and Fortune Magazines. Jake was awarded a place in the Top 50 Cyber Elite and Wired Magazine’s Wired 25, and was inducted into the Los Angeles Venture Association Hall of Fame in 2010. He currently serves on the board of Gigya and the California Governor’s Council for Physical Fitness and Sports, and is Founding Chairman of Seven Arrows Elementary School. Winebaum is a Dartmouth College graduate.

James joined Trinity Ventures in 2010, with over five years of investing experience in consumer services, enterprise software and digital media companies.  Prior to Trinity, James was a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners where he was instrumental in eight new investments in consumer internet services, security and digital media sectors along with a number of seed investments. Before Bessemer, James was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group where he developed marketing strategies for entertainment and IT companies.  Earlier, he built web applications for start ups as a Principal at Zefer and developed IT systems for Fortune 500 companies as a software developer at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). While at Bessemer, James was a board member at CrowdFlower and Open Candy and a board observer at LifeLock, ReputationDefender, Sonic Mule and BillShrink. James holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and an AB in Computer Science from Harvard College.

Jamie is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unsubscribe, Inc. Unsubscribe.com is a technology platform to stop unwanted e-mail at the source. Previously, Jamie founded PhoneTag, the first voicemail to text service in the U.S., which was acquired by Ditech Networks (Nasdaq:DITC) in 2009. Prior to PhoneTag, Jamie founded and is still an active advisor to NobelBiz, a provider of telecommunications services to contact centers.   Jamie has received numerous awards for his entrepreneurial accomplishments including being recognized as one of New York's top six entrepreneurs by Crain's Magazine (2007) and Laptop Magazine's top ten mobile mavericks.   Jamie holds a bachelor's degree in entrepreneurship from Babson College in Wellesley, MA and went to Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA where he bought a t-shirt that he still wears today.  

Jason Bergsman is vice president of The Chernin Group, a media, entertainment, and technology investment and management firm. He was formerly a director of digital media strategy, business development, and investment at NBC Universal. Mr. Bergsman was previously a senior analyst in the strategic planning group of The Walt Disney Company, where he focused on television and Internet transactions. As an analyst in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs, he executed advisory and financing assignments on behalf of clients in the consumer products and retail industries. Mr. Bergsman earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2008, where he graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. He is also a graduate of Duke University, where he received his B.A. in Public Policy Studies.

Jason Corsello is Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for LA-based Cornerstone OnDemand.  Previousluy, Jason was with HR consulting firm Knowledge Infusion, where he was the senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, responsible for the organization's strategy and solutions. He also developed and launched many new services at the firm and played a lead consulting role with many of the company's Global 2000 clients. Prior to his role with Knowledge Infusion, Jason was a research director at Yankee Group, leading the company's human capital management and talent management advisory and consulting services. He also spent six years with Flextronics International, where he worked with large, multi-national clients in developing their outsourced manufacturing and supply chain strategies.

Jeremy Liew is a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners and invests primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, gaming, financial services and methods for increasing monetization. He joined Lightspeed in early 2006. Previously, Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO and then as General Manager of Netscape. Jeremy joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks), where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there, he was responsible for acquisitions, divestitures and investments in TV Networks, consumer Internet companies and online travel companies. Jeremy started working in the consumer Internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996, where he held a variety of sales management, operational and business development roles. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Jeremy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics. He led Lightspeed's investments in LivingSocial, Shoedazzle, Zestcash, Bonobos, Rockyou, and Flixster, among others.

Jesse Jacobs is President of The Chernin Group, which manages, invests in and operates businesses in the media, entertainment and consumer internet industries.  He was formerly a partner and co-founder of Raine, a media-focused advisory and principal investment firm.   Prior to establishing Raine, Jacobs was a senior vice president in the media, entertainment and sports group of Goldman Sachs focusing on advisory, financing, and investing activities.   Prior to Goldman Sachs, Jacobs worked at Yahoo!, Fox, and iFilm, and co-authored a book on the digital media industry. Jacobs has an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA in English and Communications from The University of Pennsylvania. In addition to The Chernin Group, Jesse also serves on the board of Our Time, a non-profit that leverages pop culture, retail partnerships, and online organizing to promote thoughtful consumerism and civic engagement.

Jim is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Rincon Venture Partners.  Jim has eighteen years of experience in venture capital investing, technology investment banking and advisory services and strategic business consulting. Previously, Jim led software investing at Broadview Capital Partners, a $250 million Bay Area expansion-stage venture capital firm. Before BCP, Jim was a member of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown & Sons. There, he concentrated on equity private placements, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings for software companies.  Jim began his career with Symmetrix, a boutique management consulting firm founded by a Bain & Co. founder, which helped to create strategic advantage through the application of technology.  At Symmetrix, Jim specialized in strategy formulation and economic modeling. Jim received his MBA with highest distinction (first in his class) from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and his BS in Economics (magna cum laude) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Jim serves on the Boards of Directors of Burstly, Campus Explorer, Cocodot, DataPop, SteelHouse and Digital Performance. He previously served on the Boards of Cadforce (acquired by Neilsoft) and Packet Island (acquired by BroadSoft). In addition, he serves on the Boards of Directors of Friends of Yosemite Search and Rescue and the Los Angeles Venture Association, and on the Advisory Boards of the Douglas Family Preserve, the Technology Management Program at UCSB and the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship at Santa Barbara City College.

 

Jim founded Jim Jonassen & Assoc. Venture Search in late 2006.  Prior to JJ&A, Jim built two executive search firms and two successful software companies. Jim founded software company Micro J Systems in '87 where he still serves as Chairman, and he co-founded PeopleMover in '97, merging it with Opus360 just prior to its IPO in 2000. Jim co-founded two other search firms, Palo Alto based Riviera Partners in '01 and The Larkin Group in '93.   Working with then Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, Jim co-founded the Digital Coast Roundtable and launched LAwNMoweR - the Los Angeles New Media Roundtable in the mid '90s. He was also a talent scout for America Online's AOL Greenhouse incubator and venture fund. Accolades include being named the 1999 Software Entrepreneur of the Year by the Software Council of Southern California. In addition, he was named three-times to the "Top 25 People in High Technology" by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Jim is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. He is a member of the Board of the Santa Monica Boy's & Girl's Club and has been a Big Brother since '92.

John served as Chief Revenue Officer and President of Spot Runner Inc. Mr. Gentry oversaw all sales and business development activities, strategic partnerships, media, distribution relationships and customer care of Spot Runner. Prior to Spot Runner, he served as Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Corporate Development of Green Dot Corporation , where he was responsible for all sales and business development activities, including expansion of the existing retail distribution network, launching new channels of card distribution such as online and payment solutions, and expansion of the Green Dot Financial Network. Prior to joining Green Dot, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Affiliate Business Group of Overture Services and led the team. Prior to Overture, he served as an Executive of Walt Disney Company, where he developed distribution and sales strategy for Disney/ABC Cable Networks. He also held positions with Discovery Communications, parent company of Discovery Channel and CB Commercial Real Estate. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Authenticlick, Inc. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.

Jon is the SVP & GM Ecommerce at Live Nation Entertainment based in LA.  Responsible for ecommerce ancillary revenue including merchandise, media, VIP packages, parking, F&B, travel, transportation and ticketing bundles.  Jon has held various other leadership roles at Live Nation including head of product strategy, social strategy and digital products.  Prior to Live      Nation, Jon was a Vice President of Union Bank of California (UBOC.com) leading   product development and operations for UBOC.com.

Jon Rosen currently works with startup media and technology ventures in Southern California, and has been a senior executive with several successful media companies. Jon was the head of strategy and business development for AOL (NYSE: AOL) Search and Directional Media when they held almost 9% of US search traffic. He was the founding President of IProspect; widely considered the archetype for today’s Search Marketing firms; purchased by Carat/Aegis Group. Jon was SVP for online at Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL), CRO for Webvisible and ran the Local business for Spot Runner. In addition to his media background Jon was an executive in four storage and middleware technology firms that were purchased or went public. Jon will proudly wear his University of Arizona Wildcat sweatshirt if it ever gets cold enough in Orange County.

Josh Hannah is a general partner with Matrix Partners. His entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when he cofounded Flutter.com in London and later led a merger with his biggest competitor, Betfair.com. The combined entity revolutionized the gaming industry by building the world’s first online marketplace for sports betting. Betfair (LSE:BET) manages more than $50 billion in transactions each year, is licensed in the UK and Australia, and operates legally in dozens of countries around the globe. Josh returned to the States in 2004. Soon after, he and a partner purchased eHow, an ailing, Web 1.0, how-to directory. Josh and his partner outsourced content creation to the community and employed then-new advertising and search engine optimization techniques. They increased revenue and traffic 30-fold before selling the company to Demand Media in 2006 for a 400-X return. As a partner at Matrix, Josh has invested in Huddle, Inflection and Taulia. Prior to joining Matrix, Josh invested in successful startups such as Aardvark (acquired by Google), Blingo (acquired by Publishers Clearing House), Designer Apparel (acquired by Sugar Media), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Minted, uShip and Wetpaint.

Josh is the Co-Founder and COO/CTO of Unsubscribe, Inc. Before starting Unsubscribe Josh held the position of Senior Vice President, Technology of Blackboard Connect, a subsidiary of Blackboard, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) after Blackboard's acquisition of The NTI Group, Inc. where Josh was the Chief Technology Officer. His technical leadership and vision was key to the overall success in creating and helping establish the Connect-ED and Connect- CTY products as the industry standard and leaders in the Emergency Communications space. Prior to joining NTI, Josh was Senior Vice President and CTO at Viva Group, Inc. (dba Rent.com and acquired by eBay). In his role at Viva, he led the growth and development of the company's technical infrastructure and product design. Before Viva, Josh was Vice President of Technology at Media Revolution overseeing projects for Mirage Resorts, KIA Motors, and Sony Pictures, and was the Director of Technical Design for US Interactive (formerly NASDAQ: USIT) where he managed the implementations for clients including Microsoft, Disney, Toyota, Dairy Farm, and AT&T. Josh is married with three beautiful children and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Kelly is an entrepreneur at heart and loves the challenge of starting and growing businesses. He's served in almost every operating capacity: Founder, Board Member, CEO, COO, CFO, Business Development, and Sales. He's raised institutional equity and debt financing, grown businesses, down-sized businesses, and sold businesses for 8-figure exits.  He serves on Boards and/or in advisory roles: Pandora (NYSE: P, past), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD, past), Eteamz (Sold to Active Networks - NYSE: ACTV, past), TroopSwap, The DuMont Project, GatherGreen, Fliptu, and UStream.tv.  His operating roles have included: Co-founder & CEO TargetClose (current - stealth), CEO Fastpoint Games, Founder/CEO MotorPride (sold to TrueCar), President/Board Member Eteamz (Sold to Active Networks), EVP The Trump Organization, and Military Intelligence Officer US Army.  Kelly also makes Angel investments: Klout, BetterWorks, TroopSwap, ZAG (now TrueCar), Fliptu, and Social Rewards.  Kelly won Season 2 of The Apprentice and worked for Donald Trump for one year.  Kelly earned a BS from West Point and a JD/MBA from UCLA.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Dawn, step-son Hunter and two-year old twins Grant and Grace.

Ken is currently the COO and President of Krisers’, a venture funded retail concept for healthy pet food. Previously Ken was the founder of City Year New York, an Americorp affiliated non-profit, where he lead the creation of the organization and grew it to 150 full time staff and thousands of volunteers. Before founding City Year New York, Ken was the Director of Brand Management for the five years of Yahoo’s existence. Ken also held the VP of Marketing & Communications position at Spot Runner.

Kevin is the CTO of LA based flash sale site, HauteLook which was acquired by Nordstrom in 2011 for $270mm.  Kevin has over a decade of experience running technology development and infrastructure management with multiple startup and mid-phase companies.

Kevin Iwashina is a Managing Partner of Preferred Content, a film production, sales and finance advisory company. Founded in January 2010, Preferred Content (PC) is one of the premiere brokers of North American distribution rights for both fictional and non-fictional filmed entertainment content.  Additionally, PC is a leading supplier of independent movies with a specialization in low budget genre and documentary features. Recent PC productions include David Gelb’s feature documentary, JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI, distributed in North America by Magnolia Pictures, Nicholas McCarthy’s THE PACT, released in the US and Canada by IFC Films and Xavier Gen's THE DIVIDE, distributed in North America by Anchor Bay.  Other PC sales and financing projects include the 2011 Toronto Midnight Selection THE DAY, the 2012 Sundance competition films THE END OF LOVE directed by Mark Webber and Ira Sachs’ KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, and the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award winner ANY DAY NOW. In addition to his responsibilities at PC, Iwashina is the Managing Partner of Preferred Ventures, a digital media venture fund launched with Chris Kelly, the former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook, and Ed Ojdana, the founder of FreeCreditReport.com.  Iwashina also holds the title of Managing Director of City Room Creative, an entertainment marketing and creative editorial agency.  Lastly, he is partnered with Christine Vachon in Killer Digital, a production company focused in creating original content for digital platforms. Prior to founding PC and his suite of affiliated companies, Iwashina spent 10 years at the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where he was a talent agent, specializing in film packaging, financing and distribution.  Individual projects for which he has arranged distribution and financing include Richard Kelly's DONNIE DARKO, Zach Braff's GARDEN STATE, Paul Haggis' Academy Award winning CRASH and the Peabody Award winning documentary NANKING.  Clients Iwashina has represented include Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino, French filmmaker Patrice Chereau, European actors Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Emmanuelle Seigner, independent films icons John Waters and Christine Vachon as well as Netflix and the former Vice Chairman of AOL, Ted Leonsis.  

Kip Levin serves as Executive Vice President of Ecommerce at Live Nation Entertainment. In that role, Levin runs product and design for the Live Nation network of sites including LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.com.  Prior he served as Senior Vice President of Product & Digital for Ticketmaster. In that role he led Ticketmaster’s centrally organized product and design teams responsible for global digital strategy and the creation, management and marketing of Ticketmaster’s wide range of client and consumer products.  Before joining Ticketmaster, Levin served as a Senior Product Manager with Shopzilla (formerly BizRate.com), the Web’s top comparison shopping site, where he managed some of the largest revenue generating product categories including computer hardware, consumer electronics, books, music, and videos. Prior to that, he worked for several years at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he was part of Forrester’s original Online Retail Strategies research team.  Levin has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont.

Kwindla Hultman Kramer is CEO of Oblong Industries, developer of the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. Kwin's background is in programming, hardware design and the development of large-scale systems architectures. Before starting Oblong he served as the founding CTO of AllAfrica.com, one of the web's largest content aggregators and a two-time webby award nominee. Kwin also has experience working with and for non-profits: partners and clients have included the governments of Nigeria, Angola, Namibia and South Africa, the Democratic National Committee, Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, the United Nations ICT Task Force, and Media Matters for America. He holds degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory and Harvard College.

Lake has more than a dozen years of interactive product and team management experience. Prior to joining Target Media, she held various product leadership positions with Authenticlick, Yahoo!, Alibaba.com, and Apple, covering a wide range of interactive products such as search, marketplace, advertising solutions, e-commerce, and consumer products. While at Yahoo!, she received the prestigious Yahoo! Super Star Award twice in her six-year tenure. Fluent in English and Chinese, Lake holds a business degree from Beijing Second Foreign Studies University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the University of Southern California.

Lo Toney is a seasoned consumer internet executive who likes to work in exciting environments with passionate people. He is currently a Studio GM for Zynga.  Prior to Zynga, Laurence was the Global General Manager, Experience Management with Nike.com. He was responsible for developing and implementing the strategies and tactics necessary to position Nike, Inc.’s global digital commerce division as the leader in ecommerce. In his prior role with Art.com, he was responsible for Sistino a consumer brand focused on art from emerging artists. He managed the P&L and built the team responsible for the product, marketing, and operations. Before Art.com, Laurence was the Director and General Manager of eBay’s Collectibles Business Unit (CBU).

Lisa Kraynak is a pioneer in the development of consumer brands and experiences that bring value to consumers’ lives. Her extensive background includes key roles at Demand Media, NBC Universal, iVillage, Viacom, Intuit and The City of New York.   Most recently Lisa served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Demand Media. Lisa joined Demand to launch the company’s major extension into the women’s category and build the consumer brand and business in the fashion and beauty segment. As General Manager, Lisa led the successful creation of typeF, a partnership between Demand Media and Tyra Banks. TypeF is enjoying strong results, driven by a rapidly growing consumer base and a large and compelling library of content, including over 1100 original videos created for the You Tube platform, as well as multi-million dollar sponsorships from L’Oreal and additional blue-chip advertising partners.   Prior to Demand, Lisa was a senior executive at NBC Universal, where she served as one of the core members of NBC Universal’s Digital Media group, overseeing a significant expansion which included the creation of the company’s first digital studio for video content, the acquisition of iVillage and the launch of Hulu.com, all of which helped to grow the company’s digital revenues to more than $1 billion over four years.   Before NBCU, Lisa had key posts with the City of New York with the Bloomberg Administration, where she served as Senior Vice President of Marketing as well as with Viacom, where she worked with the world's leading advertisers and agencies to develop industry-leading, integrated marketing platforms which spanned Viacom's entire portfolio of media assets.   Prior to Viacom, Lisa was on the founding team of iVillage.com where she served in a variety of Programming, Community, Marketing and General Management roles, establishing iVillage as one of the top 20 sites on the Internet.   Preceding iVillage, she worked in the Silicon Valley for the Intuit Corporation managing the OEM business and leading all consumer acquisition. Lisa began her career with Del Monte Foods, advancing through a steady progression of sales, marketing and brand management posts.   Whether starting something from scratch or working within large companies to launch new businesses, Lisa has consistently been on the forefront of imagining and implementing new ways to provide consumers compelling solutions and experiences.

Lukas Biewald is the Founder and Executive Chairman of CrowdFlower. Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. Lukas has also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science. Lukas is also an expert-level Go player

Mahbod Moghadam is the founder CEO of RapGenius. Mahbod graduated from Stanford Law School and worked as an attorney for the firm of Dewey & Leboeuf in New York before beginning work on Rap Genius. He is childhood friends with Tom and Ilan from their days at Yale University. Mahbod is Iranian and studied the history of Iran as an undergraduate. He explained some of the first rap songs on Rap Genius - including "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, which has a legalistic storyline - and has expanded to explaining the works of Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Herman Melville and the Persian poet Rumi, on Rap Genius. Before law school, Mahbod was a Fulbright scholar to France; he speaks Persian, French, some Arabic and English too. Mahbod has played piano since age 15 - alongside hip-hop, his musical passions include Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.

Manish works on early stage consumer and technology investments for Highland Capital.  Prior to that he spent a number of years at Google where he led the company's 3D mapping and advanced geo-imagery programs, built some of the key components of AdWords and AdSense, and started a couple experimental iniatiaves like GoogleTV.  Before he figured out how to get paid by playing with computers, Manish worked at a non-profit focused on immigration issues.  Manish graduated from Stanford where he studied Engineering, Art, and Economics.

Mark Fernandes is a Managing Director at Sierra Ventures and focuses on software investments in the consumer internet and enterprise areas. His investments include Frontbridge Technologies (acquired by Microsoft), Sourcefire (NASD: FIRE) and Opalis Software (acquired by Microsoft). He was also a board observer at Net6 (acquired by Citrix Systems) and Permeo (acquired by Blue Coat Systems). He serves on the boards of Ooyala, Spotzer Media, DynamicOps and ThisMoment. Mark started his career in engineering at Seagate Technology and was then a product manager at Cisco Systems. After business school, Mark was an equity research analyst covering software companies, first at Robertson Stephens and then as a Director at Merrill Lynch. He joined Sierra Ventures in 2002. Mark has a MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a MBA from Harvard.

Mark is a Partner at MK Capital. Mark focuses on investment opportunities in the digital media and data center automation sectors. Prior to founding MK Capital, Mark co-founded Jamcracker, Inc., an enterprise software provider and served as its vice president of corporate development. He also worked at McKinsey & Co., a management consulting firm as a business analyst. He has served on the board of directors of Bladelogic, VPNet Technologies, Network Commerce, Kontiki, and was actively involved at Exodus Communications. He currently serves on the boards of the following MK Capital portfolio companies: Machinima, Generate, Netuitive, and NBX. Mark is a graduate of DePauw University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mark, the third of four children, grew up watching 3-2-1 Contact and Transformers. He thinks these childhood passions put him on a path toward working in the world of technology. Mark, now a father of two daughters, has been known to encourage his girls to watch "Sid The Science Kid" since 3-2-1 Contact is no longer on the air. Prior to founding Zoodles, Mark was a co-founder of Shelfari, a social network built around reading (acquired by Amazon) and Director of Product Marketing at Dash Navigation, a connected GPS service (acquired by Research in Motion). In 2004, Mark and his wife Tara, also launched MyTinyHands, a business centered around keeping babies healthy. Mark has an engineering degree from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Matt is currently a SVP at Kelsey Group. Matt came to BIA/Kelsey from Perform Local, a local lead generation start-up funded by two prominent venture capital groups. He was a cofounder and chief operating officer. Before that, starting in 1996, he held several senior positions at Citysearch, a subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp, including vice president, strategy and planning; vice president, product; and vice president, media partnerships.  Matt participated in numerous activities at Citysearch, including the creation of media partnerships with television and radio stations, the launch of city guides with leading newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, the design and implementation of a national local search product, the creation of the prototype of Citysearch’s performance-based sales model, and acquisitions such as that of Entertainment Publications. Matt graduated summa cum laude from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Science in finance. He is married and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Holly, who recently finished her postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at UCLA, and his daughter.

Matt Coffin was the founder of LowerMyBills which was sold to Experian in 2005, and is an LA based investor and entrepreneur. Coffin also served as president of both Experian Interactive Online Customer Acquisition Services and the Experian Interactive Innovation Center. Coffin was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of Year award winner in 2007 and was SoCal Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006. Coffin earned a bachelors degree in finance and entrepreneurial studies from Babson College in Massachusetts.

Matt runs all business development activities for CardSpring, a new start-up backed by Accel and Greylock.  Previously, Matt ran West coast sales and business development for Howcast.com.  He was responsible for building Howcast’s instructional content library, distribution network, and strategic relationships.  Before Howcast, Matt worked for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on the Capital Markets team focused on new product development, capital raising, and investor relations.  Prior to that, Matt spent five years as Vice President of Business Development at Zazzle.com, Inc. and was responsible for all content and distribution deals.  He started his career serving in various roles at the White House and the Department of Defense.  Matt holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Michael is the founder of Harrison Metal, a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, California. Harrison Metal backs early-stage startups in gaming, ecommerce, consumer media & communications, small business services, and developer tools & services. Harrison Metal's investments focus on software and services for the desktop and mobile markets. Michael is also a Consulting Associate Professor at the d.school at Stanford University where he co-developed and co-taught courses including Creating Infectious Action, Creating Mass Market Experiences, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Launchpad. Prior to founding Harrison Metal, Michael worked at eBay (NASDAQ – EBAY) as Senior Vice President & General Merchandise Manager. In that role, he led category management, product marketing, seller development, eBay Stores, and direct-to-consumer marketing for eBay North America. While at eBay, Michael and his colleagues were also responsible for the launch and growth of innovations such as Buy-it-Now, the listings upgrade business, eBay Stores, and ProStores. Prior to eBay, Michael held operating and strategy roles at Industrial Shoe Warehouse, the Walt Disney Company (NYSE - DIS), Filene's Basement, and Bain & Company. Michael holds an AB in Economics, with a focus in economic history, from Brown University, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.

Mike Fordyce is the SVP of Business Development AT&T Interactive where he heads up all partnership activities and AT&T’s publisher network. Fordyce held the same position for Ingenio, which was acquired by AT&T acquired by AT&T in 2007 for over $300M. Prior to Ingenio, Mike has headed up marketing departments for industry MCI and Pacific Bell as well as PointCast.

Nelson Cheng is a former Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager for Google and Amazon.com. He currently is an advisor to tech startups including Signpost and Miso Media, both backed by Google Ventures, and Slated -- a startup building a technology platform for film financing. His web series, "The Consultants" (watchtheconsultants.com), was a 2010 Producers Guild of America's competition finalist, which he also presented at Dartmouth's Tuck Media & Entertainment Symposium. He is a graduate of Princeton University and is currently directing a documentary on the business side of being a magician.

Ophir Tanz co-founded GumGum, the world’s largest in-image ad network. Prior to launching GumGum, Ophir was CEO and co-founder of Mojungle.com, a mobile-media sharing platform that was sold to Shozu.com in 2007. Before this, Ophir co-founded and sold Fluidesign, an interactive and branding agency. He holds a BS in Computer Science and MS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Pascal is the founder and mangaging director for Mozilla Foundation’s WebFWD Accelerator Program.  He is also a Venture Partner at FoundersLink - a venture capital fund which pioneered the incubation model in Europe. Pascal was also the head of Mozilla Lab, Vice President at Channel Advisor, and head of eBay’s European developer’s program and API platform.

Peter Lee is a Partner at Baroda Ventures, a Los Angeles based venture capital firm focused on seed investments (recent investments include Fab.com, Steelhouse, and GraphEffect). Peter was previously an investor at Clearstone Ventures and Prism Ventures. Peter worked in product management and engineering development at two venture backed startups, Goldpocket and Virtual Ink - both of which were acquired. Earlier, Peter was a manager with McKinsey, where he focused on the digital media, consumer electronics, and internet industries. Peter earned his BS and MS in engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Phil Ressler is a growth-oriented executive leader for technology & media, with over 30 years working with entrepreneurial founders to build and scale their companies. Phil’s experience has been accumulated across a broad array of sectors, including consumer electronics, advertising, enterprise software, internet, venture capital, manufacturing and digital media. As a CEO, strategic, or operating advisor, Phil draws on his prior career as a visionary marketing professional able to spike dramatic, sustainable growth applying creative market-making, product and corporate strategies, with disciplined and imaginative execution in private and public companies. Having started his career before tablets, social networks and smartphones; before the internet was a public utility and before cell phones or PCs; before FAX machines were common and when offices still had typewriters, Phil has participated in the full arc of digital technology innovation markets that led to today’s always-connected, always-collaborative, always-on world. His operating career in marketing, venture capital and executive management has resulted in cumulative new products demand totaling nearly $1B in addition to growth of established product sales in raw startups, scaling entrepreneurial companies, as well as substantial private and public firms, ranging from pre-revenue to $1B annual sales.

Rama Ranganath was most recently an Application Architect at LinkedIn. He arrived at LinkedIn via the acquisition of ChoiceVendor, where he was a Founder and VP of Engineering. Prior to ChoiceVendor, Rama was at Google, where he was an early engineer on AdSense and led engineering for many of the company’s brand advertising efforts, including Google Ad Manager. Rama started his career at Microsoft and holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Risto Lähdesmäki is a Founder and CEO of Idean Inc., one of the leading UX design companies in the world. His passion is to create world-changing user experiences and make design driven business impact for his clients. Since 1999 Risto has been working with a huge number of UX projects around the world for major leading consumer and b-to-b brands - from mobile to ubiquitous screens. He has a special talent for identifying business opportunities for his client companies - and he is somewhat water-resistant for a phrase: "this is not possible to do". Luckily he is surrounded by a group of other similar mindsets at Idean. Currently Risto is growing Idean business in the US and as a Chairman of the company he oversees global business development. Risto is an designer and entrepreneur by heart and has worked with Start-ups all his professional career.

Ro is currently VP of Business Development, Marketing and Ad Sales at BitTorrent.  He was formerly the COO of Formspring. Choy is a veteran Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and father of two. Prior to joining Formspring, he was the CEO of PeerPong, a site that identifies the best people on the Web to answer any question, using its “PeerRank Index”. Formerly, he was Director of Parts & Accessories at eBay and Chief Revenue Officer at RockYou.

Rob is an EIR in Greylock Partners’ Silicon Valley office.  Prior to joining Greylock Rob was a Vice President at eBay, having worked at the leading ecommerce company for eight years.  Most recently he ran the Company’s Buyer Experience team where he oversaw the Company’s largest business verticals including fashion, technology, media, collectibles and home. These verticals represent more than half of eBay’s $2 billion North America business. Prior to running eBay’s Buyer Experience team Rob was VP and GM of eBay Motors, which he joined shortly after it launched in 2001.  Rob graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned his bachelor’s in economics at McGill University. Rob was born and raised in Toronto.

Rob is a cofounder of NextView Ventures and has dedicated his career as an investor and operator to internet-enabled innovation. He tries to spend as much time as possible working with entrepreneurs and investing in startups that solve important problems for everyday people. Previously, Rob was a venture capitalist at Spark Capital, a leading venture firm focused on the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. In this role, he was deeply involved in launching and coordinating Start@Spark, a seed stage investment program targeted at early- stage companies in the New York and Boston areas.  Before joining Spark Capital, Rob held product roles at Ebay, and was the North America Business Unit owner for "Finding". In this role, he helped to launch over 20 products that significantly enhanced Ebay's search, browse, and merchandising capabilities.  Rob began his career at The Parthenon Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm. He was a member of the firm's Private Equity practice, and focused on the consumer and retail industries. Additionally, he has held product management roles at Fidelity Investments, BzzAgent, and helped to found Letslink.jp, one of the first social networking sites outside of the United States.  Rob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University. He is also a founding member of Highrock Church in Brookline, MA and serves on the organization’s board. He lives in Arlington, MA with his wife and daughter.

Rob joined First Round Capital in 2006. Rob came to First Round Capital from Omidyar Network where he was their first venture investor. He led most of Omidyar Network's initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group. Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2004, Rob was at Palm where he started up their corporate venture fund. While in that role he also managed the strategy effort around Palm OS that led to the spinout of PalmSource. Rob started at Palm as product manager for the initial device-independent releases of Palm OS. During this time, Rob was responsible for the versions of Palm OS on dozens of devices including the initial Treo products. Rob previously spearheaded complex, system-level product development efforts at companies such as Geoworks and Go Corp where he focused on building products for the Japanese market. He began his career with the Japan External Trade Organization, studying international trade issues and building relationships between US and Japanese businesses, at a time when trade friction between the two countries was at its peak. Rob has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rob joined Facebook in February of 2006 as its first Los Angeles-based salesperson. His focus was to develop studio partnerships, evangelize the value of social and demonstrate how the Facebook platform can be leveraged to drive efficiency, box office, and ratings. After spending two years at Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters, Rob returned to Los Angeles in April of 2009 to help build and manage Facebook’s Southwest sales team. For the next two years, he developed a first-class team working with the region’s top 50 partners including Paramount, Sony, Toyota, and Nestle. In July of 2011, Rob resigned from Facebook to explore other opportunities and is currently working with a number of startup companies as an investor and advisor. Prior to Facebook, Rob worked in the sales organization at Yahoo! from 1998-2006 in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles markets.

Rosabel Tao was most recently the Sr. Vice President of Communications of MySpace.  Rosabel has extensive experience on both client and agency side crafting and executing complex communications strategies and assignments. She has also worked for several of the world’s largest public relations agencies, including Weber Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard and GolinHarris. Her clients include a broad portfolio of companies in a full range of growth stages – from global brands to start-ups, including of Bank of America, Microsoft, HP, Levi Strauss, Safeway.  Previous to Mypace, Rosabel was the VP of Communications for Spot Runner as well as SVP of Communications for Bank of America.

Ryan is a Principal at Polaris Venture Partners and leads Dogpatch Labs California. Either as lead investor or board observer, he works closely with Automattic, Formspring, Frid.ge (acquired by Google), KISSmetrics, LOLapps, Movity (acquired by Trulia), Offline Labs, ReadyForZero, Recurly, and ShoeDazzle. Previously, Ryan founded beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007), spent 2003-2007 at eBay (internet marketing, social media & leading Kijiji.com) and launched InGameNow as part of sfEntrepreneurs, LLC. Most recently, Ryan ran marketing at Flite (formerly Widgetbox).

Ryan Steelberg is co-founder of Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. (BAT). In 2002, along with Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg co-founded dMarc Broadcasting, growing to service more than 4,600 US radio stations, bridging and integrating online and broadcast advertising systems. dMarc Broadcasting was acquired by Google, Inc. in February of 2006 for >$400mm.  Prior to dMarc, the Steelberg's co-founded AdForce in 1995, formerly the world's largest centralized, independent ad-serving and management solution, and 2CAN Media (AdSmart), which grew to become the third largest Internet advertising sales organization. 2CAN was sold to CMGi in 1999 for over $50 million. Named by the Orange County Business Journal as two of the county's "50 Most Influential Businesspeople," Ryan and Chad were finalists for Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2000. In 2006, Ryan and Chad Steelberg were named two of the "50 Most Powerful People in Radio," by Radio Ink Magazine. Most recently, Ryan was named a recipient of the 2009 Sports Business Journal's Forty under 40 Awards.

Saar is passionate about discovering and growing early-stage companies and focuses on CRV’s consumer and internet investments.  Saar currently sits on the boards of Progress Financial, Magnetic, Wonderhill, Altius and Blippy (incubated at CRV), and was involved in CRV’s seed investment in social games company LilGreenPatch (acquired by Playdom), Viki and Storenvy. Saar was also involved with CRV’s investments in Twitter and Scribd. Prior to joining CRV, Saar was a co-founder of Brightroll, the world’s leading Internet video advertising network Saar was also the co-founder of Carebadges.com (acquired by Facebook Causes) and remains an active advisor to Causes.  Previously, Saar was VP of Customer Acquisition, and responsible for the P&L of Adteractive, a leading performance-based marketing company with over $120m in revenues achieved with no outside capital. Most recently, Saar launched FounderDating, an endeavor aimed at helping talented entrepreneurs find co-founders and compelling business ideas.

Samit started as an Associate at Anthem in 2003. He worked with several portfolio companies including Audyssey Labs and AdvancedCellTechnology. He currently serves on the board of JanRain, Audyssey and BeachMint and is a board observer at Cynvenio and Wavestream. Samit also works closely with Zag and and TrueCar. Samit started at Audyssey Labs in conjunction with the first round of funding and worked there for over three years as VP of Operations. He also managed finance and coordinated three rounds of venture and debt financing. Samit was instrumental in making Audyssey a leading supplier of audio technologies to consumer electronic, automotive, and professional sound companies. He worked directly with the world's largest Consumer Electronics manufacturers in Japan, Korea, and the US, and managed complex off shore manufacturing in China and Taiwan. Before Audyssey, Samit spent seven years as a nuclear submarine officer. He completed five successful patrols on the Strategic Missile Submarine, USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) and was awarded Junior Officer of the Year in 2003. While on Nebraska, Samit led various divisions including, Engineering, Weapons, Sonar and Navigation. After his sea duty he moved to Los Angeles where he taught Leadership and Management and Systems Engineering in the ROTC program at USC.

 

Satish Dharmaraj is a General Partner with Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint, Satish was the founder/CEO of Zimbra. At Zimbra, he grew sales from inception to $20M in subscription sales in the first year of selling and nearly doubled sales the next year. By the time it was sold, Zimbra was featured in the WSJ (Front Page), the NY Times, Forbes, Fortune and USA today. Satish was directly responsible for leading the product vision, PR and the open source distribution strategy. Zimbra had many firsts – it pioneered AJAX, pioneered a new open source business model, a large channel strategy and blended a consumer product with a business offering in an innovative suite that sold to both the consumer and business segments. Satish was responsible for the sale of Zimbra to Yahoo for $350M – a contract he negotiated directly, without using a banker, on behalf of the board. Prior to founding Zimbra, Satish was VP of the Messaging Products Division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product lines selling to large carriers and ISPs. Satish managed both the engineering and product management teams, which had over 200 people and a $45M budget. Satish sold to and helped deploy into many large carriers in this role. At Openwave, Satish lead the team that partnered with Cisco to produce the first VxML-based voice browser as well as the industry’s first MMS server. Satish came to Openwave as part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox, where he led engineering and network operations, and was instrumental in the sale of Onebox to Phone.com for $850M. Prior to Onebox, Satish was at Sun Microsystems’ JavaSoft Division from 1995 through 1998 where he was responsible for the conception, design and implementation of Java Server Pages (JSPs) which he introduced to the Java community at the JavaOne conference in 1998; in addition, he led the team that created the Java Server Framework which was licensed to IBM to form the core of the WebSphere product. He also led the team that designed and implemented the Java Servlet API. Satish previously held several product and engineering positions at IBM and Transarc Corporations. Satish has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences and an executive management degree from the Harvard Business School. Satish focuses on investments in the mobile, consumer and cloud computing areas. He has led Redpoint's investments in: Bricato, Zelfy/Peel, Posterous, Namesake, Pulse, Cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), StorSimple, ERPLY, and Pure Storage. Satish is also a member of the Verizon 4G venture forum and helps VZW look at mobile companies to invest/partner with.  Satish is a founding board member of a Non-Profit Organization based in the bay area called HelpingHands and a charter member of TiE.

Satya is Vice President of Product Management at Twitter.  Before joining Twitter, Satya was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where he co-led the firm's investment activity in the consumer Internet and digital media sectors.  Satya currently serves on the Board of Directors for BlueKai, FreeWheel Media, Jelli, LiveIntent, Lotame and KIPP Bay Area Schools.  Prior to Battery, Satya was a senior product manager at Google, where he worked on various business development and product management initiatives for AdSense, including Google Ad Manager, beginning in 2003.  Before Google, he was senior product manager at DoubleClick, where he led the search marketing platform efforts and also worked on the core DART adserving platform.  Earlier in his career, Satya was a venture capitalist with two NY-based venture capital firms and a consultant with Monitor Company.  Satya graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Psychology from the College of Arts & Sciences.

Scott Bromley is vice president of The Chernin Group, which manages, invests in and operates businesses in the media and consumer internet industries. He was formerly at Greycroft Partners, a leading digital media venture capital firm.  Mr. Bromley was previously at Cyan Pictures, overseeing content acquisition and distribution strategy.  He began his career in Corporate Strategy at The Walt Disney Company, where he focused on studio M&A and emerging technologies.  Mr. Bromley earned his M.B.A from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of Harvard College.  He wishes he were a better guitar player.

Scott is currently the COO of Euclid, an NEA funded venture for offline analytics. Previously Scott was the founder and president of Urchin which was acquired by Google and became Google Analytics. Google Analytics is the  most widely used web analytics software in the world.

As the head of Business Development, Sean Besser is responsible for guiding the corporate growth of Rovi, including identifying, expanding and managing its strategic partnerships. Sean leads business development and metadata content acquisition efforts companywide and manages a team of Business Development and digital strategy specialists in the areas of content, metadata and technology. Sean brings to Rovi nearly 15 years of experience in the delivery of entertainment and related services, including work at TiVo, Fox Sports, NBC, EchoStar (The DISH Network), and most recently Movielink, where he headed up all of the company’s business development and strategic partnership activities. Sean holds an M.B.A. from the Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and both a J.D. and B.A from the University of Southern California.

Seth Cohen is co-owner of Quonundrums, a boutique market research firm. Seth Cohen was most recently the Vice President of International at Spot Runner, a media agency based in Los Angeles, where he led Spot Runner’s international expansion efforts. Previously, Mr. Cohen was the Vice President of Marketing for Spot Runner, and oversaw PR, brand, product marketing and research. Before helping launch Spot Runner in early 2005, he founded and led eBay’s Consumer Insights team. His team was responsible for all primary research for eBay and PayPal, including advertising testing, segmentation, brand tracking, and customer satisfaction measurement. He has also held research positions with Excite@Home, Charles Schwab and Visa. Mr. Cohen has an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Seth Cohen is co-owner of Quonundrums, a boutique market research firm. Seth Cohen was most recently the Vice President of International at Spot Runner, a media agency based in Los Angeles, where he led Spot Runner’s international expansion efforts. Previously, Mr. Cohen was the Vice President of Marketing for Spot Runner, and oversaw PR, brand, product marketing and research. Before helping launch Spot Runner in early 2005, he founded and led eBay’s Consumer Insights team. His team was responsible for all primary research for eBay and PayPal, including advertising testing, segmentation, brand tracking, and customer satisfaction measurement. He has also held research positions with Excite@Home, Charles Schwab and Visa. Mr. Cohen has an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Simon is an Internet, ecommerce and digital media executive with a successful track record of building companies from early growth phase to leaders in their market. Prior to joining DreamHost as the company's first CEO, Simon served as Chief Marketing Officer of Pictage, the leading web platform for professional photographers to manage their business, promote their brand, connect with community and sell their work. Before Pictage, Simon was VP Business Development & Strategy at three early and growth stage venture backed companies in Internet, ecommerce and digital media: Affinity Internet (sold to Hostway in 2007), Authenticlick, and Biggerboat. Simon moved to the US from Australia in 2000 as the US-based general partner of Allen & Buckeridge, a leading Australian venture capital firm investing in early stage software, Internet and communications ventures with over US$250 million under management, where he developed a specialization in web platforms and services. Simon is currently on the advisory board of Dudamobile, and is interim CEO and a co-founder of Ceph Storage, Inc., a distributed storage software venture transforming the future of storage.

Steve founded Baseline Ventures, an early stage seed investment firm in 2006. Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation. Founded to address the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalis in order to help entrepreneuers build and grow their ideas into companies, Baseline has invested in more than 40 companies since its inception and help more than a dozen entrepreneurs achieve success. Baseline is proud to be a seed investor and associated with promising software and web companies including Twitter, Instagr.am, Formspring, Heroku (acquired by Saleforce.com), Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google), CoTweet (acquired by ExactTarget), GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter), Rupture (aquired by EA), Sendori (aquired by Ask.com), Parakey (acquired by Facebook), Yardbarker (acquired by FoxSports).

Steve is a seasoned executive with a track record of building innovative technologies into successful enterprises. Steve started his career by founding Johnson-Grace Company to capitalize on the internet’s unlimited potential for media distribution. The patented compression technology developed by Johnson-Grace and embedded into America Online’s client, made fast, easy distribution of images, sound, and video a reality for millions of consumers and enabled unprecedented access to content. In 1996, AOL purchased Johnson-Grace and made Steve Vice President of AOL’s Software and Technology Development division where he brought leading-edge media, telephony, and broadcast products to market. In 2000, Steve founded ChoiceStream to help consumers navigate through this new era of easy access to virtually infinite choices.

Thomas McInerney advises and invests in early stage Internet companies. Tom has a computer science background and began his career as an Engineer / Scientist atApple’s World Wide Research and Development Group in Cupertino California. Tom later worked for Sony Information Technologies of America, helping to build and design the VAIO line of computers when that group was created. Tom left Sony to become an entrepreneur, starting a search engine for Usenet, and later one of the first user generated video sharing sites, ShareYourWorld. Tom was an advisor to MochiMedia and is currently an advisor to Klout and a mentor at i/oVentures in San Francisco. He is a member of the National Council for the WorldWildlifeFund and splits his time between Santa Monica and San Francisco.

Tom is the COO of LA-based Savings.com. Prior to Savings.com he was with Lagovent Ventures in Los Angeles where he evaluated consumer internet businesses as an EIR.  Prior to Lagovent Ventures, Swalla was the President at Knowledge Adventure, the leading venture-backed developer and publisher of childrens gaming content, where he was responsible for launching and managing all online business initiatives for the company.  He was also the VP of Business Development and Strategy for RazorGator.

Todd Gitlin has been working with start-ups since 1999 as an executive recruiter completing over 500 recruiting assignments. He has also been an active angel in Southern California since 2006 investing between $250k-1m annually with 20+ investments.   He founded Safire Partners in 2006 to work specifically with SoCal’s emerging growth companies. Safire supports seed and series A funded start-ups for equity, and completes about 50 executive searches annually for series B and series C funded companies.   From 2002 to 2006, Todd was a Principal with a SoCal based executive search firm. From 1999 to 2002, Todd worked as a Search Consultant with a Silicon Valley retained search firm focused on recruiting CFOs for the venture community. At the beginning of his career, Todd founded and served as CEO of CareerCreations.com, a venture-backed software company that focused on leveraging technology to develop integrated recruitment programs and job search methods for college students. Todd has a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management from California State University, Chico.   Recent clients include: Betterworks; Break Media; Brighter; Business.com; CBS Interactive; CBS Mobile; Central Desktop; CitizenHawk; Cocodot; CyberDefender; Datapop; DocStoc; FunnyorDie; Gehry Technologies; Goldstar; Graphight; Hautelook; LeadPoint; LegalZoom; LiveNation; LiveOffice; Machinima; Maker Studios; MyLife; Onestop Internet; OpenX; Oversee.net; RevolutionPrep; RingRevenue; Rubicon Project; SocialVibe; Techforward; The Search Agency; Ticketmaster; TigerText; Touch Commerce; TrueCar; uSamp; Wilshire Media Group.

Tom Andrus is a creative internet leader with a history of marrying innovative technology and consumer behavior to create profitable new businesses. Tom is currently on the board of Rhapsody International Inc, and is advising a handful of small companies. Tom has experience building products and business across a wide number of internet niches, including voice and text communication, hosting, commerce, mobile, social networking, content, classifieds, utilities and music. As an executive at both EarthLink and Fox’s MySpace, Tom identified and created new business opportunities and oversaw the creation and launches of over 100 new products.   At MySpace Tom was the Head of Product. He was responsible for the product organization, the mobile business unit, and managed a 9-figure revenue-generating partnership. His group launched new products on a near monthly basis ranging from small changes such as unifying the design to large platform-changing products used by tens of millions of users, including MySpace Music, MySpace Mail, MySpace developer platform, MySpace Local, and many flavors of MySpace Mobile.   Prior to joining MySpace, Tom spent eight years at EarthLink where he created the company’s product management team, led business development, and created new products and business units including wireless, cable and value-added services.  Previously, he led the Norton Utilities product team at Symantec and was one of the founders of Fitnesoft, a health management software company. He is a graduate of Yale University where he played football and ran track. Perhaps his most unique experience was a yearlong sabbatical backpacking around the world with his wife and four children. Together they explored 31 different countries, volunteered with children in Asia and Europe, bonded with each other, and unexpectedly found themselves guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

As a kid, Tom Austin dreamed of a job where he could wear shorts and play for a living.  He didn't make the NBA, but is currently an aspiring screenwriter and the happy, T-shirt wearing founder and managing partner at Sumo Ant (www.sumoant.com; password 'footprints').  By referral only, Sumo Ant helps a handful of (mostly) consumer products companies with branding, product design, sourcing, licensing, sales and visual storytelling.  Tom was previously cofounder of the global 'niche' basketball-only brand, AND 1.  In his ten years at AND 1, he was instrumental in building the brand, talking trash around the office, setting up sourcing and supplier relationships, managing the design of a host of products and crafting a number of successful market penetration strategies.  For instance - in his final five years at AND 1, he led the global footwear business launch from inception to over $220 million in annual sales.  Tom has a finance degree from the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude), an MA in development psychology (also from UPENN) and an MFA from the University of Southern California (directing and writing).

Tom Weedon is an experienced digital media and advertising executive with over 20 years of business development, operations and management consulting experience. Tom has a track record of building successful Internet companies, launching new media startups and being at the forefront of driving disruptive digital advertising technologies. He is currently a Board Member of Los Angeles based media company Hypomania Content. Most recently, Tom was Vice President, Global Accounts at The Rubicon Project, a company that pioneered the yield optimization business for display ads. At Rubicon, Tom had revenue responsibility for the yield optimization business which represented over 75% of Rubicon's revenue and $250 million in managed revenue for its premium publisher customers. Prior to Tom's stint at Rubicon he served as Senior Director, Partner Development at Microsoft, where he oversaw the company’s multi-year strategic partnership with Viacom, valued at more than $500 million. Tom began his career in the digital space at GoTo.com (later Overture Services) in 1999 where he started in product management. He held several roles at GoTo/Overture, the last being Senior Director, Search Quality where he built and ran the group responsible for the quality of Overture's paid search listings. (Overture created the paid search business, now a $12 billion plus annual market in the US alone.) Overture was sold to Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.63 billion. Tom took a sabbatical after his time at GoTo/Overture to focus on working with charitable organizations, travel and consult with companies such as Veoh Networks and Spot Runner. Tom began his career working as a management consultant for The Monitor Group and then later The Boston Consulting Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours, First Class) from Queen's University in Canada. Tom currently lives in Venice, CA with his dog Ella. He snowboards and travels ever chance he gets.

Tomer is a co-founder and the CEO of Quixey - The Search Engine for Apps. Quixey developed a new kind of search, Functional Search, specifically for app discovery. He is also an advisor for Particle Code, GeoTrio and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to Quixey, Tomer was the founder and CEO of Your Logo Here, a branding solutions provider for companies such as Google and Slide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Tomer founded a custom apparel printing business in college to pay his own tuition while studying Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz. In his spare time, Tomer advises a chapter of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, a leadership organization for Jewish teens.

Mr. Wootton joined Verifi in May 2010 as Chief Revenue Officer responsible for Sales, Marketing and Business Development and brings 11 years of digital distribution and alternative payments expertise to the company. Prior to joining Verifi, Mr. Wootton was Senior Vice President of Business Development at RentPayment.com, the largest payment processor for the real estate and utilities industries where he launched and managed two strategic business units, forged distribution partnerships with leading software providers and managed the company’s inside sales team. Previous to this experience, Mr. Wootton was General Manager and Vice President of Payment Solutions and Business Development for Green Dot Corporation, the nation’s leading provider of prepaid debit cards. At Green Dot, Mr. Wootton developed debit card and payment programs with leading brands such as AT&T, DirecTV and Visa. Previous experience includes management positions at Fox Sports Net, NASCAR and Moviso, a mobile ringtone and game company where Mr. Wootton was responsible for launching the first ever retail prepaid mobile content product in the U.S. with partners 7-Eleven, Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Mr. Wootton earned an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara.

Tyler Goldman is CEO of BUZZMEDIA. Tyler has built BUZZMEDIA into the fastest growing digital entertainment publisher.  Leading the company, Tyler has helped originate the field of social programming and expand BUZZMEDIA’s audience from 3 to 112 million monthly users worldwide. Tyler is based in Hollywood and oversees a team of 110 employees across offices in Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland and Atlanta. Prior to BUZZMEDIA, Tyler worked extensively in digital publishing, helping found and build Broadband Sports, an early web publishing pioneer, and Movielink, a joint venture among Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and Paramount Pictures, which was sold to Blockbuster.  Prior to his entre into the Internet industry, Tyler was a venture capital attorney at Wilson, Sonsini and a sports attorney at Steinberg & Moorad, where he represented Steve Young and Troy Aikman. Tyler attended law school at Northwestern University and business school at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern, where he finished first in his class, after graduating from Dartmouth College.

Vince Thompson is an author and consultant who has lead teams responsible for selling over one billion dollars in interactive advertising. 

 With his firm Middleshift, Vince and his partners have assisted in major media company turnarounds as well as participated in launching revenue operations for over a dozen new companies including Break.com, GumGum, TotalBeauty, Michael Eisner’s Vuguru, Participant Media’s TakePart.com and many more. Prior to his consultancy Vince spent seven years at AOL where he was the Regional Vice President of Sales as well as ran the national sales training organization. He also served as an early executive at Facebook. His book, “Ignited”, was a bestseller in 2007.  He is also a contributor to the widely adopted textbook Media Selling” and a serves regularly as a keynote speaker.

Wes is co-founder and CEO of MarketShare, the leading analytics company that helps companies grow revenue more efficiently by quantifying what is really driving demand.  Uniquely combining science, technology and expertise, MarketShare’s analytics and software-as-a-service solutions are having significant impact on optimizing resource allocation and marketing investments, having directed the investment of over $100 billion in marketing over the past several years. With MarketShare, MarketShare is pushing the boundaries on the use of big data and cloud computing to deliver faster and better value to customers, including half of the Fortune 50 companies.  Prior to starting MarketShare, Wes was with Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) as President and CEO of TEQUILA\, one of the world’s largest digital agency networks. TEQUILA developed digital marketing solutions for clients like Nissan, Sony, Pfizer, Adidas, and numerous other key brands.  Prior, he was the founder and Managing Partner of Direct Partners, building from scratch one of the industry’s first digital agencies, with offices in three countries and over $400 million in billings, which was acquired by Omnicom Group. Direct Partners worked with firms like EarthLink, Pfizer, Nissan, DIRECTV, and Disney.  A winner of the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies award and Cisco Technology Innovation Award, DP is still known as one of the most innovative digital marketing firms in the industry. Wes is on Wharton's Future of Advertising Global Advisory Board, as well as the MASB Board, an organization focused on marketing accountability standards and practices.   An active Young Presidents Organization (YPO) member, Wes graduated from Randolph-Macon College and The Johns Hopkins University, with degrees in Psychology and Business, respectively.

Will is founder and CEO of Euclid Elements.  Euclid’s product is conceptually analogous to Google Analytics for the physical world.  Their customer base includes retailers, mall owners, and venue operators of many kinds.  Will was born into a retail family and spent his teenage years wandering through shopping malls thinking about dollars per square foot  and tenant mix optimization.   After Stanford and a stint in finance, he decided to merge his love of data and technology with his family history in retail.  Euclid was the result.  Euclid’s investors include Harrison Metal Capital and NEA.  

Yidrienne joined Technology Crossover Ventures  in 2001 and returned to the firm in 2005 as Vice President. Yidrienne has twelve years of finance and private equity experience. Her primary investment focus is in the internet consumer sector. Yidrienne is actively involved with TCV’s investments in Groupon, HomeAway, Everyday Health, eBags, among others. Prior to TCV, Yidrienne specialized in acquisitions and investments at eBay, Inc. Some of the transactions she was involved with at eBay include craigslist, Marktplaats, Rent.com, Shopping.com, and a number of European classifieds companies. Yidrienne began her career at Morgan Stanley in the Technology Investment Banking Group. Yidrienne received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Sizhao "Zao" Yang is a serial entrepreneur, and is from the Antarctica of the U.S. (Chicago). He enjoys experiencing life ADHD-style. He is frequently referred to as the "game guy" from creating Farmville, but hoping to shake that label by going into small & medium business software. He previously founded MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga), and co-created Farmville and the technology behind Cityville, Frontierville, etc. His undergrad was University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and he's a proud drop out of UCLA. His favorite phrase is "with extreme prejudice" and frequently uses it in relevant and appropriate times.