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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.

Ryan Gilbert

CEO of BillFloat

Ryan Gilbert is CEO of BillFloat, a Small-Dollar lending platform for bill payment that he co-founded as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Venrock. 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 of Experience Project Inc.

Peter is currently the CEO of Experience Project Inc. Previously, he was a Partner at the Floodgate Fund, and before that he was at GroundWork Open Source. 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

Chief Operating Officer of Square

Keith is the Chief Operating Officer of Square. Previously, he was responsible for corporate strategy and partnerships at Slide. 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.

Steve Apfelberg

Vice President of Marketing at Yammer

Steve is Yammer's Vice President of Marketing. He has over 18 years of enterprise software experience. At Yammer, Steve leads a team that is responsible for corporate and product marketing and business development. Prior to Yammer, he served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Callidus Software, the leading provider of Sales Performance Management software. Previously, he served in leadership positions in product marketing and finance at Siebel, Remedy, and Oracle.

Jeremy Stoppelman

Co-Founder of Yelp Inc.

Jeremy co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 with former colleague Russel Simmons. Prior to Yelp, Jeremy was the VP of engineering at PayPal. He left PayPal in the summer of 2003 to attend Harvard Business School. He joined a start-up incubator in the Summer of 2004 and left Harvard to launch Yelp. Jeremy holds a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Illinois.

Ben Boyer

Tenaya Capital

Ben is a Managing Director of Tenaya Capital. He initially joined the predecessor to Tenaya (Lehman Brothers Venture Partners) in 2000, and co-founded Tenaya in 2009. Previously, Ben was a member of Lehman Brothers' Technology Investment Banking group, where he was responsible for corporate finance and strategic advisory assignments.

Ben holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in human and organizational development from Vanderbilt University.

John Caddedu

DAG Ventures

Prior to joining DAG in 1999, John was a Managing Director at Amsterdam Pacific, an investment bank specializing in media and telecommunications. While at Amsterdam Pacific Corporation, John worked with BBU Mezzanine Fund I and BBU Mezzanine Fund II, where he sourced, supported and exited mezzanine investments across a number of industries. Previously, John worked at Octel Communications (Lucent Technologies) and Tandem Computers (now HP) in Marketing and Strategic Planning roles. He also worked at JP Morgan in both capital markets and corporate finance. John received a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Barry McCarthy

Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures

Mr. McCarthy most recently served as the CFO of Netflix, a TCV portfolio company and the world's leading streaming video company with over 20 million subscribers, where he was responsible for financial and legal affairs since 1999. Prior to joining Netflix, he spent six years as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Music Choice, a music programming service distributed over direct broadcast satellite and cable systems. Mr. McCarthy has also held several positions at Credit Suisse First Boston where he worked with venture capital-backed and LBO investments. He currently serves as a Director on the boards of Chegg, Pandora and Wealthfront.

Ashley Capps

Founder of AC Entertainment

Ashley Capps founded and owns AC Entertainment, one of the foremost independent concert promoters and event producers in the world. He is one of the founders and creative forces behind the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and he operates two historic theaters in their home base of Knoxville, TN.