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- Chris Tolles, CEO, Topix
- David Hornik, Partner, August Capital
- Duncan Davidson, Senior Advisor, NetService Ventures Group
- Evangelos Simoudis, Managing Director, Trident Capital
- Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing PartnerSoftTech VC
- Lara Druyan, General Partner, Allegis Capital
- Larry Marcus, Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
- Mitchell Kertzman, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad
- Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partnersl
| Los Angeles Advisors
- Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft Partners
- Hale Boggs
- Jeff Yapp
- Mark Suster, Partner, GRP Ventures
- Mike Jones, Chief Operating Officer, MySpace
- Mike Jones, Chief Operating Officer, MySpace
- Nicole Jordan, Director, PR & Communications, Rubicon Project
- Peter Pham, CEO, BillShrink
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| Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Tim joined NVP in 2006 and focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim led NVP's investment in 3jam and serves on the company's board of directors. Prior to joining NVP, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners. Tim built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish business development capabilities, particularly in Asia-Pacific. Tim also worked in Japan for Gateway Inc. and General Motors. Tim holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. http://www.nvp.com
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| Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Jeff is one of the most active investors in the consumer internet space in Silicon Valley. Starting as a business angel in 2004, and since August 2007 through his $12M seed fund, he has financed over 40 startups in social media, communities, search and discovery, internet infrastructure. His most recent areas of interest are gaming and monetization. A frequent speaker at technology and media conferences, he is on a break from blogging on the popular Software Only (blog.softtechvc.com) and twitters on http://twitter.com/jeffclavier. http://www.softtechvc.com
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| Duncan Davidson, Senior Advisor, NetService Ventures Group
Duncan is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Currently he is senior advisor to NetService Ventures, where he focuses on digital media and the mobile Internet. Recently he was a managing director at Vantage Point Venture Partners, a large venture fund ($4.5B under management). Previously he was at four start-ups: Chairman of Xumii, mobile social networking, recently bought by a leading mobile software company; Founding CEO of SkyPilot Networks, outdoor wireless mesh systems for last-mile access, recently bought by Trilliant; Founding Chairman of Covad Communications (AMEX: DVW), the leading independent DSL access provider; and Senior Executive at InterTrust Technologies, the pioneer in digital rights management technologies, now owned by Sony and Philips. He is on the boards of AggregateKnowledge, AllVoices, Livescribe, Widevine, and Verismo. http://www.nsv.com
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| Lara Druyan, General Partner, Allegis Capital
Lara joined Allegis Capital in 2000, bringing extensive experience in the software industry. She was responsible for Silicon Graphics, Inc.'s desktop software business. She identified market opportunities, developed and evangelized business strategy, and oversaw the successful execution and deployment of the SGI NetMeeting collaborative software suite into Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Lara worked at Merrill Lynch as an investment banker, where she advised global media and telecommunications companies on corporate finance and merger and acquisition strategies. Lara sits on the boards of Rosum Corporation and Vernier Networks and represents Allegis to the Packet Design, Inc. board of directors. http://www.allegiscapital.com
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| David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital
David is a general partner at August Capital. He focuses his energy on software, infrastructure, and Internet-related investments. Prior to joining August Capital, David was a corporate and licensing attorney who represented and advised numerous Internet and enterprise software start-ups. David sits on the boards of, or has worked with, such companies as Yahoo!, Six Apart, Evite, Tickle, PayCycle, Ofoto, and When.com. Along with teaching at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, David writes VentureBlog, an industry leading blog on the venture capital industry (www.ventureblog.com). http://www.augustcap.com
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|  | Mike Jones, CEO Userplane, Senior Vice President AOL, Userplane / AOL
Michael Jones, CEO of Userplane and Vice President of AOL, oversees Userplane's business strategy, sales and operations. As a founder and CEO of Userplane, Jones' business leadership brought the company from startup to acquisition by AOL in August 2006. As a Vice President of AOL, he now focuses on the growth of AOL's syndicated application strategy, under the Userplane brand. This includes coordination with a variety of AOL subsidiaries and internal technologies to pioneer distribution to millions of web publishers as well as AOL's strategic positioning as a platform provider to the online community sector. http://www.userplane.com, http://www.aol.com
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| Mitchell Kertzman, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Mitchell has over 30 years of experience as a CEO of public and private software companies. Most recently, he was Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, a provider of platform software for the delivery of digital services by cable television companies. Previously he was chairman of the board and CEO of Sybase, Inc., and founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995. In 1991, Hummer Winblad invested in the company, which became the leading provider of client-server development tools with its flagship product, PowerBuilder. The merger with Sybase in 1995 was, at the time, the most valuable in the history of the software industry. http://www.humwin.com
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| Colene McBeth, Senior Director, Microsoft
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| Larry Marcus, Managing Director, Walden Venture Capital
Larry is a general partner at WaldenVC, a San Francisco-based cross stage venture firm founded in 1974 and focused on investments in digital media, ecommerce, and technology enabled services. Larry has 18 years of consumer technology and media experience and is currently a director of MeeVee and Pandora. Prior to WaldenVC, Larry was a new media equity analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown and Robertson Stephens, and in planning at Digidesign. http://www.waldenvc.com
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| Jeff Nolan, VP of Software as a Service (SaaS), Newsgator
Jeff leads NewsGator's Software-as-a-Service business. He is also responsible for business development and strategic relationships. Jeff was previously the CEO of pioneering mashup company Teqlo and prior to that led SAP's Apollo strategy group. Jeff served as a general partner at SAP Ventures for almost a decade where he led investments in internet infrastructure technology, open source, and what has become web 2.0. With a lifelong interest in technology and its impact on business and society, the Bay Area native has a technical background and a natural curiosity about far too many areas to list. http://www.newsgator.com
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| Peter Pham, CEO, BillShrink
Peter is CEO of BillShrink. He was previously VP of Business Development at Photobucket.com. Peter was the 5th employee of a growing startup and had responsibilities including driving user acquisition, strategic partnerships, and corporate development which lead to an acquisition in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. When Peter left in 2008, Photobucket had grown to over 61M users making it the #1 photo sharing site and the 38th most visited site in the US. Prior to Photobucket, he was in the enterprise space for over 8 years. Peter has had many roles including sales, marketing, reseller channel development, product, and strategy. http://www.billshrink.com
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| Evangelos Simoudis, Partner, Trident Capital
Evangelos joined Trident Capital in 2005. He focuses on investments in software and Internet businesses. Prior to Trident, Evangelos was a partner at Apax Partners. He has served as director at Bristol Technology, Confluent Software, Composite Software, and Princeton Softech. Evangelos has more than 20 years of experience in high-technology operations, marketing, sales, and engineering. He previously served as the president and CEO of Customer Analytics, a venture-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as the vice president of business intelligence solutions at IBM. http://www.tridentcap.com
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| Chris Tolles, CEO, Topix
Chris came to Topix from Spoke Software, a business social networking company, where he was a co-founder and VP of marketing. Before Spoke, Chris was a Director of Marketing at AOL/Netscape for AOL Music & Netscape Search. Chris was a co-founder and VP of Marketing at NewHoo (now the Open Directory Project at dmoz.org, the largest human edited directory of the web), and led the sale of the company to Netscape. Previous to NewHoo, Chris held a variety of sales & marketing positions at Sun Microsystems. Chris graduated from the University of California at San Diego with degrees in Computer Science and Economics. http://www.topix.com
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| Sharon Wienbar, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Sharon invests in mobile, internet, and enterprise software companies at Scale Venture Partners, which she joined in 2001. Sharon sits on the Boards of Biz360, Facetime Communications, Glu Mobile, MerchantCircle, PlayPhone, Reply!com and Waterfront Media. Prior to Scale VP, Sharon spent 15 years at Critical Path, Amplitude Software, Adobe Systems and Bain & Company. Among her varied responsibilities, she directed marketing strategies and operations, integrated product and service businesses following acquisitions, managed the application of technology to Pacific Rim and European markets, and negotiated complex intellectual property licenses. Sharon also serves on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Myelin Repair Foundation and on Microsoft's Venture Advisory Committee. http://www.baventurepartners.com | |
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