Michael Birch, Co-Founder of Bebo

Michael also co-founded BirthdayAlarm.com and Ringo.com. In March 2008 Bebo was sold to AOL for $850 Million. Michael holds a BS in Physics from Imperial College London.

Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital

Roelof is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY). Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), and has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Saran Chari, Co-founder and CTO of Flixster

Before Flixster, Saran was one of the early employees at the startup Edusoft, where he ran the engineering team. Edusoft provided assessment management software based on unique, low-cost scanning technology to public school districts. Edusoft was bought by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. Before Edusoft, Saran worked for Scient, the former internet consulting firm.

Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC

Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in more than 20 consumer Internet companies developing new concepts (such as social media) or revisiting "old" ideas with a new set of economics and technologies. In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 "Web 2.0 King Makers" by Business 2.0, and is often noted for his investments in categories such as "passion-centric communities", or for having already sold five of his companies in the past two years through successful M&As. Jeff's 19 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience enable him to add relevant perspective and value to the companies in which he invests.

Ron Conway, Angel Investor

Ron Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Ron was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft. Ron was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors.

European Founders Fund

The Samwer brothers of European Founders have built some of the most successful internet companies in Europe - Alando/eBay Germany and Jamba! which is now part of News Corp. European Founders fund early and later stage internet businesses that will play a defining role in their market segments in the future. European Founder have invested in Marketplaces, Gaming and Community Internet Services.

Ryan Gilbert, Co-Founder of Property Bridge

Ryan Gilbert is an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Venrock, a leading global venture capital firm, where he is focused on financial services and payments opportunities. Ryan was previously Vice President at MoneyGram International, a global payment services company, where he managed the PropertyBridge business unit. Ryan was CEO and co-founder of PropertyBridge and sold the company to MoneyGram in October 2007. Ryan is a member of the State Bar of California, and is also admitted to practice law in the United Kingdom and South Africa. He earned his Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Joe Greenstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Flixster

Joe Greenstein is co-founder and CEO of Flixster – the largest community for movie fans on the web with over 20M monthly users. Prior to Flixster, Joe was Director of Product Management at Edusoft, a Curriculum management System for public schools used by over 4M students nationwide. Edusoft was acquired by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. Joe holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSE Economics from the Wharton School where he was a Joseph Wharton Scholar.

Kevin Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite

Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, a popular event registration service. Kevin was co-founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing service in over 30 countries. Xoom's investors include Peter Thiel, Sequoia Capital, and Stanford University. Kevin previously co-founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry. ConnectGroup was acquired by Lodgenet in 1998. Kevin holds a BA and BS from Stanford University and an MA from Oxford University. He has been an early-stage investor and advisor to startups such as PayPal, Geni.com, Friendster, Flixster.com, and Trulia. Kevin is also a Sequoia Technology Partner at Sequoia Capital. You can see his full list of affiliations at www.kevinhartz.com.

Peter Jackson, CEO & President of GroundWork Open Source

Peter joined GroundWork Open Source in January of 2009 because he understood the company's value based on the market potential and already proven disruptive model. He's been the chairman, CEO and president of Intraware Inc., the premier provider of on-demand delivery solution since 1996. Previous to Intraware, Peter was the president and CEO of Dataflex, Inc - a full service systems integrator who had revenues over $400MM and lead the sale to Vanstar. Prior, Peter was the CEO, President and Director of Granite Systems, Inc. which became one of the largest service and product suppliers for HP, Apple, IBM, Compaq and Microsoft. Peter graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and has won the 1998 Red Herring Entrepreneur of the Year award and has twice been a finalist to the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Jawed Karim, Co-Founder of YouTube

Jawed co-founded YouTube to enable individuals worldwide to broadcast themselves. YouTube is the 3rd most-popular website in the world and one of the fastest-growing websites in the history of the Internet. Prior to YouTube, Jawed was one of the earliest engineers at PayPal, now the world's largest online payment service, where he implemented its first real-time anti-fraud systems. Jawed has a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a PhD student in computer science at Stanford University. Jawed is also a Sequoia Technology Partner at Sequoia Capital.

Keith Rabois, VP of Strategy & Business Development for Slide

Keith is responsible for Slide's corporate strategy and partnerships. Prior to Slide, Keith served as Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at LinkedIn. Earlier in his career, Keith served as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Policy for PayPal. He currently serves on the board of directors of Yelp, Xoom, Vendio, and FanIQ. He was an early investor in YouTube and LinkedIn, and is a limited partner at Sequoia Capital. Keith also practiced at prestigious law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.

David Sacks, Founder and CEO of Yammer

David O. Sacks is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc. He has been involved in the internet space for ten years as an entrepreneur, executive and investor, starting with PayPal in 1999. David was PayPal's Chief Operating Officer and product leader, taking the company from startup to IPO and eventual sale to eBay for $1.5 billion. Subsequently, he founded Geni.com, which is creating a family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to connect, share, and preserve their lives. He also produced and financed the movie "Thank You For Smoking". He has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Advisors

Steven Apfelberg, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Callidus Software

Steve Apfelberg has more than 16 years of experience in enterprise software. Since 1997, he has focused on sales performance and incentive compensation management solutions, making him one of the pioneers in that software category. At Callidus, Steve has overseen a significant expansion of the company’s product suite and partner ecosystem. Prior to joining Callidus, Steve was a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Siebel Systems. He also held senior financial analyst roles at Oracle Corporation and Remedy Corporation. Steve has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Brian Phillips, CEO and co-founder, Sofa Labs (Frintro.com)

Brian was an early PayPal product manager who went on to become Sr. Director of PayPal Consumer Product Management. Prior to starting Sofa Labs, he was VP of Product and Design at Tokbox. Brian holds a JD/MBA from Santa Clara.

Sean Ellis, founder and principal at 12in6

Sean Ellis is founder and principal at 12in6, a firm that works with VC backed startups to implement a lean metrics driven approach to acquiring and monetizing customers. Earlier he served as VP marketing from launch through NASDAQ IPO filings at both LogMeIn Inc. and Uproar Inc. and later helped bring Xobni to market as Interim VP Marketing.