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Samir Arora - CEO, Founder, and Chairman of Glam Media |
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Samir Arora founded lifestyle hub Glam Media to create a better way
for brand advertisers to connect with their audiences on the Web. A
tech-industry veteran, Arora was previously the chairman of
Emode/Tickle, Inc, which was later sold to Monster in June 2004. Prior
to that, Arora was chairman and CEO of NetObjects, Inc. where he drove
the creation of the first web site building product NetObjects Fusion.
Arora also currently serves as chairman of Information Capital LLC, a
venture-capital fund based in Woodside, Calif., that invests in
leading-edge "big idea companies" in consumer publishing, media, and
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Adam Bain - President, Fox Audience Network |
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Adam Bain, President of the Fox Audience Network, oversees a
division dedicated to monetization of Fox Interactive Media's web
properties like MySpace and on third party publishers leveraging the
company's industry-leading Hyper Targeting, Ad Optimization,
Performance-based Advertising and Self-Serve ad platforms. Adam was Fox
Interactive Media's original CTO, and helped spearhead acquisitions of
MySpace, IGN, Photobucket, and Scout. Adam also oversaw FIM's 2007
acquisition of Strategic Data Corporation (SDC) - a data and yield
optimization firm. Bain began his career with News Corp. running the
technology and product divisions at FOXSports.com. Previously, he was in
the online news industry at latimes.com and Cleveland.com, and
developed the first digital museum for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and
helped establish the guidelines for the first Emmy award in Outstanding
Achievement in Interactive Television Programming and Platforms. |
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Gina Bianchini - CEO and Co-Founder, Ning |
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Gina Bianchini is CEO and Co-Founder of Palo Alto-based Ning, a
service that enables anyone to create a personal social network around
any theme or purpose. Prior to co-founding Ning (with Netscape
co-founder Marc Andreessen) in 2004, she was co-founder and president of
Harmonic Communications, which was acquired by the Japanese advertising
agency Dentsu. She has also held positions at CKS Group and Goldman,
Sachs & Co. Bianchini holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford
University and an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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Matt Cohler - General Partner, Benchmark Capital |
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Matt Cohler has extensive experience working with great
entrepreneurs to build lasting consumer Internet companies, having
served in senior management roles at Facebook and LinkedIn. Most
recently, he served as vice president of product management at Facebook,
overseeing the company's product development organizations. Matt joined
Facebook in early 2005 as one of the first five employees hired by the
company's founders and its first external executive hire, and he's been
credited with helping drive Facebook's strategy, organizational growth
and product direction. Previously, Matt served as vice president and
general manager at LinkedIn, where he was a member of the company's
founding team. Before LinkedIn, he was a consultant in McKinsey &
Company's Silicon Valley office and worked in Beijing for AsiaInfo, the
telecom solutions provider that built China's Internet infrastructure,
prior to the company's initial public offering. His current affiliations
include special advisor at Facebook, Board of Governors at the San
Francisco Symphony and Board of Directors at Do Something. Matt received
his B.A. with honors and distinction from Yale University. |
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Christopher Cox - VP of Product Management, Facebook |
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Christopher Cox is VP of Product Management at Facebook, where he is
responsible for organizing Facebook's product strategy and overseeing
the product and design functions. Christopher joined Facebook in 2005 as
a Software Engineer and was instrumental in implementing first versions
of key Facebook features. He built with a small team the original
versions of News Feed and Inbox. He then became Director of Human
Resources where he drove the development of Facebook's mission, values,
and people strategy. Christopher holds a bachelor's degree in symbolic
systems with a concentration in artificial intelligence from Stanford
University. |
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Sheldon Gilbert - CEO and Founder, Proclivity Systems |
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Sheldon Gilbert is the founder and CEO of Proclivity Systems, a
leading technology provider for next-generation e-commerce targeted
marketing and merchandising. As CEO, Sheldon provides the vision for the
company, manages day-to-day operations, oversees sales efforts and
applies his technological expertise as inventor and chief architect of
the patent-pending engine in leading product development and R&D. As
inventor, Sheldon is the author of several pending patents in the field
of e-commerce predictive modeling from which the core technology is
based. Sheldon's experience in data mining and e-commerce began as Lead
Developer and Senior Consultant for Business Intelligence at Fort Point
Partners, a leading systems integration firm that developed the
industry's earliest and most advanced e-commerce platforms. Thereafter,
Sheldon served as the Director of Business Intelligence and Data Mining
Services at Bluefly.com, Inc., a leading high-fashion online apparel
retailer. Sheldon is a graduate of Yale University with a B.A. in
Molecular Biochemistry & Biophysics. |
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Joe Greenstein - CEO, Flixster |
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Joe Greenstein is co-founder and CEO of Flixster.com - the largest
community for movie fans on the web with over 12M unique visitors each
month. Prior to Flixster, Joe was a co-founder of CoreMetrics
(www.coremetrics.com), an analytics provider for online retailers and
head of product at Edusoft, an assessment and curriculum provider to
public school districts (acquired by Houghton-Mifflin). |
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Shawndra Hill - Professor, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
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[Shawndra Hill bio] |
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Auren Hoffman - CEO, Rapleaf |
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Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf. Rapleaf helps B2C companies
give their consumers a better experience by providing automated search
services for each consumer. Auren is also a non-employee cofounder of
BrightRoll and a co-founder of AdRocket. From 2003-2006, Auren served as
Chairman of Stonebrick Group and Chairman of the Connector Group
(Silicon Valley 100). Previously, he founded and sold three Internet
companies before age 30: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold
in 1997), and GetRelevant (sold in 2002). He is the founder of the
Dialog Retreat. He's an active angel investor or advisor in: 750
Industries, AdRocket, Blip.TV, BrightRoll, Delicious Brands, GoodRec,
Huddler, LabPixies, Lefora, Mechanical Zoo, Meebo, Merchant Circle,
MesmoTV, Offbeat Guides, OtherInbox, Play Megaphone, Proclivity,
RateItAll, RichRelevance, SnapTalent, Socializr, Structural Wealth
Management, VoxPop.tv, Yotify, Zoom Systems, and more. Auren served as
an official election observer in Ukraine (2004) and the Republic of
Georgia (2003).
Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation. |
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Jon Kubo - VP and CIO, Wet Seal |
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Marissa Mayer - VP of Search Products and User Experience, Google |
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Marissa leads the company's product management efforts on search
products - web search, images, news, books, products, maps, Google
Earth, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs,
and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer
and led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her
efforts have included designing and developing Google's search
interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages,
defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100
features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on
her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. In her spare
time, Marissa also organizes Google Movies - outings a few times a year
to see the latest blockbusters - for 6,000+ people (employees plus
family and friends). Concurrently with her full-time work at Google,
Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford
to more than 3,000 students. Stanford has recognized her with the
Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding
contribution to undergraduate education. Prior to joining Google,
Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland,
and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. Marissa has been
featured in various publications, including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring ("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream Team"), BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Fast Company.
Graduating with honors, Marissa received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems
and her M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both
degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. |
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Dave Morin - Senior Platform Manager, Facebook |
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Dave Morin is the Senior Platform Manager at Facebook, where he is
responsible for the company's platform strategy and further expending
the Facebook developer community. Dave joined Facebook from Apple, where
he became the Manager of Creation & Collaboration technologies
after his tenure as Manager of Student Marketing. Prior to Apple, Dave
founded DM Design Studios, a design focused technology and Internet
software company. Dave received a bachelor's degree in economics and
business from the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
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Bassel Ojjeh - SVP and Head of Strategic Data Solutions, Yahoo! |
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Bassel Ojjeh joined Yahoo, Inc. in June 2004 as a Vice President of
the Strategic Data Solutions group. Prior to Yahoo, Inc., Bassel
co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of DMX Group and
digiMine, Inc. (now Revenue Science, Inc.). Both companies delivered
Business Intelligence and Data Mining products and services to fortune
100 companies including American Express, Daimler-Chrysler, Ford Motors,
Microsoft Corp, Dow Jones, AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile. Bassel
served as Group Program Manager in the Internet Business Server division
at Microsoft Corporation. He was responsible for all eCommerce related
components in Microsoft's Commerce Server Product, including Data
Warehousing, Analysis, Data Mining, Advertising Server, Analysis,
Personalization, User Management and Direct Marketing. His work on
Version 3.0 of Site Server Commerce included advertising server and a
prediction capability based on data mining technology. Bassel joined
Microsoft in 1992 and worked on several Microsoft products and large
scale systems including MSN Advertising Server and the first scalable
web data warehousing/decision support systems for Microsoft Internet
properties (MSN, MSNBC, Expedia and CarPoint). While at Microsoft, he
also designed and built Budgeting and Decision Support systems and was
involved in a number of acquisitions including Fox Software, SoftImage,
Interse Corporation and Firefly. Prior to Microsoft, Bassel was one of
the original developers at Fox Software, Inc., An RDBMS software maker.
There he worked on such products as FoxBase, FoxBase+, FoxBase+/Mac and
FoxPro. After spending four years in the development group, he moved on
to establish the Fox Software IT organization and ran the entire
business systems of Fox Software on the FoxPro product. He also was
responsible for the IT infrastructure in all twenty locations in six
countries where Fox Software operated. Microsoft acquired Fox Software,
Inc. in 1992 for $1.5 Billion. |
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DJ Patil - Chief Scientist and Sr. Director of Product Analytics, LinkedIn |
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Joe Paulsen - SVP and GM of Integrated Marketing Services, Experian |
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Joe Paulsen is the senior vice president and general manager of
Experian's Integrated Marketing Services (IMS) business. Joe's
responsibilities include leading the strategic direction of IMS by
leveraging Experian's vast data resources which provide marketers with a
better understanding of their best customers, the ability to find new
prospects, forecast new locations and markets, and measure marketing
value. Prior to joining Experian, Joe was the general manager of Fair
Isaac's Marketing Services Business and had full P&L responsibility
for their multi-channel marketing database business. While there, he
improved operating performance, increased revenue by 15 percent and grew
margins by 200 percent in a short period of time. He also served as
director of operations for Consulting Services and was a member of
FICO's executive committee. Prior to running Fair Isaac's Marketing
Services business, Joe held various executive positions and was a
consulting partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Joe received his
bachelor's of science degree in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State
University and his master's of science in business administration from
the University of Chicago. |
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Keith Rabois - VP of Strategy and Business Development, Slide |
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Keith is Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at
Slide, where he is responsible for Slide's corporate strategy and
partnerships. Under his leadership, Slide has become the leading
application developer on Facebook with more active users than any other
developer. Before joining Slide, Keith served as Vice President of
Business & Corporate Development at LinkedIn, where he was
responsible for generating new revenue streams. Prior to LinkedIn, Keith
served as Executive Vice President at PayPal, directing the company's
competitive strategy and business development initiatives. After leaving
PayPal, Keith was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Clarium Capital
Management, the global hedge fund lead by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.
Keith currently serves on the Board of Directors of Yelp, Vendio, Xoom
and FanIQ. He is also an early investor in YouTube and several other
high profile early stage start-ups. Keith holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in political science from Stanford University and a J.D. from
Harvard Law School. |
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David Selinger - CEO and Co-Founder, richrelevance |
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David Selinger first garnered international recognition as an expert
in the field of eCommerce data analytics and personalization with his
groundbreaking work leading the research and development arm of Amazon's
Data Mining and Personalization team. In that role, David increased
Amazon's annual profit by over $50 million (25% of US profit, 2003)
setting the industry standard for recommendation services. David has
decades of experience, from developing the first Javascript-powered ad
delivery system for Flycast - the same technology used by Google
AdSense, DoubleClick and Overture - to leading Overstock's
personalization efforts as Vice President of Software Development and
Data Mining. David also cofounded Redfin, a venture backed,
industry-leading real estate search/brokerage company. David holds a
broad collection of awards and standing patents in customer
segmentation, analytics and data mining, including over a dozen
pioneered at richrelevance. David's accolades also include the coveted
PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award (won for 2Roam Wireless, acquired by
Air2Web). David received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford
University. |
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Joseph Smarr - Chief Platform Architect, Plaxo |
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Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. He is currently
leading Plaxo's 'Open Social Web' initiative to put users back in
control of who they know when using socially-enabled sites by using open
data-sharing standards. An active participant in the Web 2.0 community,
Joseph has built web applications for many years, including Plaxo's
online address book, web widgets, and was architect and lead developer
of the Plaxo 3.0 rich AJAX address book, calendar, and sync tool. Joseph
has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence. |
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Jeffrey Tinsley - CEO, MyLife (Reunion) |
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As a serial Internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey founded MyLife and is the
company's CEO and Chairman. He is responsible for the company's overall
direction and strategies toward building the Internet's single source
for finding people and staying connected on the Web. Jeffrey founded the
company in 2002, originally under the name Reunion.com after meeting
his wife at his 10-year high school reunion. Through his direction, the
company has consistently grown since inception to become one of the most
visited properties on the Internet, with a membership of more than 50
million members. The company has received many accolades, and Jeffrey
himself was recognized as an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year
Semi-Finalist in 2008. Previously, Jeffrey was a founder and CEO of
GreatDomains.com, the world's leading secondary domain name marketplace.
He was instrumental in helping turn an unproven business concept into a
profitable company. As the market leader, GreatDomains.com was
responsible for facilitating some of the largest domain-name sales in
the industry through its service and platform, including Loans.com for
$3 million. At the end of the year 2000, the company was acquired by
publicly-traded VeriSign, the Internet's leading domain name registry,
for a reported $100 million. Jeffrey is also involved in a number of
private Internet companies as an investor and advisor. |
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Greg Tseng - CEO and Co-Founder, Tagged |
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Greg Tseng co-founded Tagged in October 2004 and has served as Chief
Executive Officer since its inception. He has been a driving force in
creating Tagged.com with his partner, co-founder and long-time friend,
Johann Schleier-Smith. Previously, Greg co-founded Avivon Inc., which
introduced the textbook comparison-shopping agent flyingchickens.com to
the Harvard campus during the Fall semester of 1999, and served as COO
of Limespot.com LLC, a leading network of 100+ local college portals.
Greg holds an A.B. in Chemistry & Physics & Mathematics from
Harvard University, where he served as a Director of the Harvard
Entrepreneurs Club (HEC) from 1998-2000 and co-authored The Harvard
Entrepreneurs Club Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Wiley, 1999).
Greg is presently on leave from Stanford University, where he is
pursuing the Ph.D. in Physics on a National Defense Science and
Engineering Graduate Fellowship. His academic research lies in the field
of nanotechnology and he has published his results in top journals such
as Science. |
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Duncan Watts - Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research |
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Duncan Watts is principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research,
where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He is also professor
of sociology at Columbia University, and an external faculty member of
the Santa Fe Institute. His research on social networks and collective
dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science,
and Physical Review Letters to the American Journal of Sociology. He is
also the author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W.
Norton, 2003) and Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order
and Randomness (Princeton University Press, 1999). He holds a B.Sc. in
Physics from the University of New South Wales, and Ph.D. in Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. |
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Tim Westergren - Chief Strategy Officer and Founder, Pandora |
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Tim Westergren founded Pandora in January 2000 and now serves as its
Chief Strategy Officer. Tim is an award-winning composer, an
accomplished musician and a record producer with 20 years of experience
in the music industry. He has recorded with independent labels, managed
artists, owned a commercial digital recording studio, scored feature
films, produced albums, and performed extensively. His main instrument
is the piano, but over the years he has played the bassoon, drums and
clarinet and his musical background spans such genres as rock, blues,
jazz and classical music. Tim received his B.A. from Stanford
University, where he studied computer acoustics and recording
technology. A musician's musician, he is obsessed with helping talented
emerging artists connect with the music fans most likely to appreciate
their music. In addition to guiding Pandora's overall strategy and
vision, Tim now spends most of his time as Pandora's chief evangelist -
traveling the country to meet with listeners to collect feedback,
research local music, and spread the word of the Music Genome Project. |
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Michael Wolf - Board, Entercom Communications Corporation |
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Michael J. Wolf has served as one of the Directors of Entercom
Communications Corp. since February 2008. Since March 2007, Mr. Wolf has
been serving as president of Farallon Point Inc., a strategic advisory
provider. From October 2005 to February 2007, Mr. Wolf was the President
and Chief Operating Officer of MTV Networks, Inc. ("MTVN"). Prior to
assuming this role at MTVN, Mr. Wolf was a Senior Director at McKinsey
& Company and Global Leader of its Media, Entertainment and
Information Practice from 2001 to 2005. Previously, Mr. Wolf was a
Senior Partner, member of the board of directors and leader of the Media
and Entertainment Group at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. which he joined in
1989. Mr. Wolf serves as a board member of the Educational Broadcasting
Corporation. Mr. Wolf has a B.A. from Columbia University. |
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