Larry Augustin ~ CEO, SugarCRM

Larry Augustin is CEO of SugarCRM, the leading provider of Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Prior to SugarCRM, he spent five years as an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies including JBoss, XenSource, DeviceVM, Fonality, Hyperic, Pentaho, and SpringSource. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Appcelerator and DotNetNuke. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now GeekNet, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and lead the company through an IPO in December 1999.

Mike Brown ~ Director of Corporate Development, Twitter

Mike Brown is Director of Corporate Development at Twitter. Mike is responsible for Twitter’s M&A strategy and execution. In addition, Mike works closely with Twitter’s executive team to set corporate strategy and evaluate new opportunities for the company concerning partnerships and international expansion. Prior to joining Twitter, Mike held a similar position at Facebook. Mike started his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company where he served clients on topics of strategy and operations across divers industries.

Outside of work, Mike serves on the board of directors of TechSoup, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing technology products and education to non-governmental organizations globally. Mike is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mike earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Mlller Scholar and an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies from Yale College. In his spare time, Mike enjoys cooking and food culture.

Bill Campbell ~ Chairman Board of Directors, Intuit

Bill Campbell assumed his role as chairman of the board of directors in August 1998. He previously served as Intuit's president and chief executive officer from 1994 to 1998 and as chief executive officer from September 1999 until January 2000.

For the three years before joining Intuit, Campbell was the president and chief executive officer of GO Corp., a pen-based computing software company. Previously, he founded and served as president and chief executive officer of Claris Corp., which was purchased by Apple Computer Inc. in 1990.

Before starting Claris, Campbell was Apple's executive vice president, group executive of the United States. He joined Apple in July 1983 as vice president of marketing and added the title of vice president of sales in January 1984. In September 1984, his duties were expanded to include distribution, service and support when he was promoted to executive vice president. In June 1985, Campbell was named group executive of the United States and has served on its board of directors since August 1997.

Campbell joined Apple from Eastman Kodak Co. where his last assignment was general manager of consumer products for Kodak Europe. Prior to joining Kodak, he was vice president of J. Walter Thompson, a New York-based advertising agency.

Before entering the technology industry, Campbell was the head football coach at Columbia University for six years, and has been chairman of the university's Board of Trustees since 2005. He is also a director of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.

Campbell holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree from Columbia University.

Matt Cohler ~ General Partner, Benchmark Capital

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.

Jeff Clavier ~ Managing Partner, 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 close to 100 consumer internet startups (Fund I, Fund II, Fund III) in areas like social media, monetization, search, gaming or B2B/B2C web services.

In September 2007, after successfully investing as a business angel, Jeff announced the formation of SoftTech VC II, L.P. a $15M seed fund backed by a mix of institutional and private investors to invest in 60+ consumer Internet companies over 3 years.

Prior to founding SoftTech VC, Jeff spent more than 16 years in the enterprise software world as an entrepreneur, senior executive and venture capitalist. Throughout his career, he was exposed to global markets leading development teams in Europe and on Wall Street, designing products sold internationally and investing in software infrastructure startups across the U.S. and Europe.

In 2000, Jeff became President of RVC Capital, the firm managing the Reuters Greenhouse Fund with $600M invested in 82 companies, including Yahoo!, Verisign, Phone.com and Infoseek. He joined the venture arm of Reuters from the company’s product development division, where he was leading a 250+ staff in Paris, London and New York, and was responsible for the Risk Management and Desktop products. Jeff joined Reuters through the acquisition of Effix Systems, a Paris-based startup company he helped develop in 1989 while still in school.

Jeff was born, raised and educated in France, earning a MS in Computer Science and a research degree in Distributed Computing.

Satish Dharmaraj ~ Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

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.

Jon Fortt ~ Technology Correspondent, CNBC

Jon Fortt joined CNBC as technology correspondent in July 2010, working from CNBC’s Silicon Valley Bureau. He covers the companies, startups and trends that are driving innovation in the industry.

Fortt came to CNBC from Fortune magazine, where as a senior writer he covered both large technology companies such as Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, and trends including cloud computing and the smartphone revolution. He appeared regularly on KNTV’s Press:Here technology show and analyzed tech trends on CNNi’s Quest Means Business. Along with a Fortune colleague, he conceptualized Techmate, a video series and column that appeared on Fortune.com and in the magazine’s technology section.

Before joining Fortune in 2007, Fortt was a senior editor at Business 2.0 magazine where he produced the What Works section. From 1999 to 2006, Fortt wrote and edited at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s hometown newspaper.

Fortt graduated from DePauw University as a Media Fellow, with a B.A. in English.

John Gallant ~ SVP and Chief Content Officer, IDG Enterprise

John Gallant brings more than 25 years’ of editorial and technology experience to his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer of IDG Enterprise. In this role, Gallant oversees the editorial leadership at CIO, CSO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, ITworld, Network World and The Industry Standard to set content strategy and ensure that the brands continue to serve their respective audiences with the best products and services in the industry. Gallant also helps drive IDG Enterprise's strategic efforts around social media and social media marketing. Gallant, one of Network World’s founders, was formerly president and editorial director for the company, where he guided content and business development for online, as well as Network World’s seminars and events programs. Gallant is highly visible in the marketplace and frequently speaks at industry conferences. He has been named by Technology Marketing magazine as one of the most influential people in computer journalism, and was cited as one of the “most visionary editors-in-chief” by Press Access. Gallant was also cited as Best Conference Host by Conferenza for his role as Executive Producer for the Vortex conference. Gallant’s expertise in covering the technology industry has been tapped by top-tier television media outlets, including CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg. He often hosts roundtable discussions on technology and other topics for a wide variety of organizations, including leading vendors, I.T. buyers and industry associations. Gallant also co-chairs the executive committee of the Boston College Technology Council and is the chair of the Metrowest Red Cross Industry Council.

Chuck Ganapathi ~ Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Accel Partners

Chuck joined Accel Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in August 2011, from salesforce.com where he was responsible for the company’s social and mobile strategy.

As Senior Vice President of Products, he led one of the largest product development efforts in salesforce.com’s history and built Chatter, the company’s most successful product release ever. During that time, Chuck championed and led the acquisition of two start-ups: Dimdim, a real-time collaboration platform, and GroupSwim, a community platform with semantic filtering technology. He also integrated the acquired technology and teams from two file sharing and collaboration start-ups, Koral and SlideAware.

Prior to Chatter, Chuck ran salesforce.com’s flagship sales automation product, Sales Cloud, which constitutes the bulk of the company’s $2 billion annual revenue run rate. He joined salesforce.com in 2006 as Vice President of Product Marketing for CRM. Previously, he spent 6 years at Siebel Systems, where he was the founding product manager of their first internet application and fastest growing product line, Siebel eChannel. He also ran the company’s eCommerce and order management product line, which was formed through the acquisition of two product catalog and auction software startups, OnLink and OpenSite.

Chuck has a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from PSG Tech in India, a master’s in industrial engineering from Purdue University, and a master’s in product design and an MBA from Stanford University.

Tom Gillis ~ V.P. & General Manager, Cisco Security Technology

Tom Gillis is a respected authority on how to secure the Web 2.0 world and a recognized visionary on how the Mobile Internet will change the nature of work.

As Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Security Technology Business Unit, Gillis is responsible for positioning Cisco as the leader in security for a new era. The author of the book “Security for the Web 2.0 World”, he has evangelized the idea of the distributed workforce.

Before Cisco, Gillis was a co-founder of IronPort Systems. Under his leadership, IronPort grew about 100 percent a year for seven years. He served as SVP, Marketing when it was acquired by Cisco as part of a one billion dollar investment in its security business.

David Gutelius ~ Chief Social Scientist, Jive Software

As Chief Social Scientist, David Gutelius is responsible for driving the enterprise social graph strategy and technology innovation at Jive. He joined Jive after his company, Proximal Labs, a startup focused on leveraging “big data” for enterprise social networks was acquired earlier this year. He was the founding CEO and led an elite team with expertise in semantic analysis, social analytics and machine learning at web-scale to make content more relevant matching the right data to the right person at the right time.

Prior to Proximal Labs, David was the co-founder and CTO at Social Kinetics, a machine learning spin-out from SRI International. He additionally co-founded the Social Computing Group at SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center, and he served as Product Manager on the DARPA CALO project the largest machine learning project ever funded. David’s background is in behavioral economics with a focus on social network theory. He was previously a visting professor at Stanford University, and holds a Masters and PhD in economic history from Johns Hopkins.

Trevor Healy ~ CEO, [a•mo•bee]

Trevor Healy is CEO of [a•mo•bee] and a member of the Board of Directors. Formerly, he was Chief Innovation Officer and a Board Director of Telefónica Europe PLC. Telefónica acquired JAJAH where he was CEO. Prior to leading JAJAH, Trevor was a GM and VP at PayPal Inc., a division of eBay Inc., where he led the sales team of a payment services unit that processed over $50 billion of volume annually. As a GM & VP at VeriSign Inc. (acquired by PayPal), he spearheaded the move for consumer online shopping while establishing the VeriSign “check mark” as the most recognizable, trusted brand online. He also co-founded CelNX (acquired by VeriSign), started the US subsidiary of Trintech Inc., and held senior positions at Kindle Banking Systems (acquired by Mysys PLC). Trevor is an active angel investor and Board Member of early stage companies in Silicon Valley.

Christine Herron ~ Director, Intel Capital

Christine Herron is a Director with Intel Capital. She is also a Venture Advisor at 500 Startups and an advisor to SSE Labs. Previously, Christine was a Principal with First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she worked with companies such as BillFloat, Double Verify, Get Satisfaction, Mint, and Xobni. As a Director at Omidyar Network, she developed the Media practice strategy and drove $15M in early-stage placements.

Prior to Omidyar Network, Christine held operational roles with Mission Research, NetObjects, and Microsoft, and was the founder and CEO of Mercury2, a SaaS developer of international e-commerce applications. She started as an investor with Geocapital Partners, where she funded early Internet and network infrastructure businesses including Netcom and AXON Networks. Christine earned degrees from both Stanford University and Columbia University.

Jody Holtzman ~ Vice President, Thought Leadership, AARP

Jody Holtzman has more than two decades of experience helping companies develop and implement competitive strategies and achieve their strategic market goals. At AARP he leads AARP's new Thought Leadership efforts which support the organization's new brand positioning around a focus on living not just aging and for people 50+ to live their best life. Previously, Jody led AARP's research, competitive intelligence and strategic analysis functions. A central focus of this research is to understand the needs, wants and preferences of AARP members and prospective members, their intent to join and renew their memberships, as well as their views regarding AARP's social mission and policy goals.

Prior to that, Jody was AARP's first Director of Strategic Analysis and Intelligence where his team provided forward looking and actionable insight about AARP's external environment in support of senior management decision-making. Jody is a member of AARP's Leadership Team and Brand Council.

Reid Hoffman ~ Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn

Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. His areas of focus include consumer Internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, and social networks. In 2003, Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 63 million members in 200 countries around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising and software licensing. Hoffman led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to LinkedIn Hoffman served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was a founding board member. At PayPal he was responsible for all external relationships, including payments infrastructure, business development, international, government and legal. Reid was instrumental to PayPal’s acquisition by Ebay and responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo.

Hoffman earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Bachelor’s degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated with distinction. In 2010 Reid was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute.

Sheila Jordan ~ Vice President, Communication and Collaboration IT, Cisco Systems

Sheila Jordan is Vice President of the Communication and Collaboration IT organization which encompasses Cisco.com, Enterprise Content Management, Communication and Collaboration solutions, CEC (Cisco’s internal website), internal deployment of Cisco’ s TelePresence technology, and IT support for HR , Finance, Marketing and Emerging Technology deployment.

Sheila came to Cisco from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida where she was Senior Vice President of Destination Disney. A key architect of the strategic planning process, she was responsible for delivering profitable growth. She was instrumental in integrating Marketing, Sales and Service across the organization as Disney transformed its business from a product-centric to a guest-centric organization.

Sheila holds a BA degree in accounting from Central Florida State University and a master of business administration from Florida Institute of Technology.

Mitch Lasky ~ General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Mitch Lasky has spent more than two decades in the mobile gaming, new media and interactive entertainment business. Prior to joining Benchmark Capital, Mitch served as executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts. Previously, he was chairman and chief executive officer of JAMDAT Mobile, Inc (NASDAQ: JMDT), the leading global publisher of wireless entertainment applications, which he joined as a startup in 2000, took public in 2004, and sold to EA in 2006.

Prior to JAMDAT, Mitch served as general manager of eCompanies Wireless LLC, a startup incubator. He also spent five years at Activision, the world’s largest game publisher, most recently as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios. Earlier in his career, Mitch practiced intellectual property law, worked at the Walt Disney Company and started a massively multiplayer online game company.

Mitch received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Literature from Harvard College and earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Aileen Lee ~ Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

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.

Aaron Levie ~ Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Box

Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box was launched from Aaron's dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Web 2.0, Dreamforce, Accenture Global Summit, South by Southwest, and Svase.

Aaron studied business at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California before taking a leave of absence.

Dan'l Lewin ~ Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft Corporation

Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president for Strategic and Emerging Business Development, is responsible for Microsoft Corp.’s global relationships with startups and venture capitalists, and business relationships with industry partners such as Adobe Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. Based in Silicon Valley, Lewin also has executive and site responsibility for the company’s operations in Mountain View, Calif., which currently employ more than 2,500 people.

Strategic and Emerging Business Development consists of three groups: the Emerging Business Team, the Local Software Economy (LSE), and the Strategic Relations Group, whose common goal is to support software startups and established companies working on the Microsoft platform while helping develop and grow local software economies worldwide. Through the Microsoft BizSpark Program, and the LSE’s Microsoft Innovation Center Program, Lewin’s groups help accelerate startup success in more than 100 countries.

Lewin has spent more than 30 years as a Silicon Valley-based executive, leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Inc., NeXT Inc. and GO Corp. Before joining Microsoft, he was CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., a startup that pioneered intellectual property asset management, and he has consulted for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures.

Lewin serves on the boards of the Churchill Club; Software Development Forum; American Electronics Association; Santa Clara University Center for Science, Technology and Society; and the Tech Museum of Innovation, where he serves as chairman of the Tech Museum Awards program. He also is on the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Venture Capital Association. He holds an AB in politics from Princeton University.

Bill Maris ~ Managing Partner, Google Ventures

Bill is the Managing Partner of Google Ventures, where he and his team are seeking out new technologies, startups and disruptive ideas. He brings with him a combination of technical expertise and hands on start-up experience, including founding Web hosting pioneer Burlee.com (now part of Web.com), where he built much of the key computing, network and technological infrastructure.

Prior to that, Bill was a biotechnology and healthcare portfolio manager for Stockholm, Sweden-based Investor AB. Bill’s background also includes research at the Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology with a focus on molecular and behavioral neuroscience.

Bill is a member of the National Academies’ Standing Committee for Technology Insight Gauge Evaluate and Review (TIGER).

Bill received his degree in Neuroscience with highest honors from Middlebury College, and is based in Mountain View, CA.

Geoffrey Moore ~ Managing Director, TCG Advisors, Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Best Selling Author

Geoffrey Moore is a best-selling author, a Managing Director at TCG Advisors and a venture partner at MDV. Recognized as a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, Geoffrey works with established enterprises in his role of Managing Director of TCG Advisors. In this role, he divides his time between consulting on strategy and transformation challenges with senior executives and developing mental models to support the practice. With this focus in mind he has written Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution. Also recognized for his expertise in market development and business and investment strategies, as a Venture Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures he serves as an advisor to many of their portfolio companies by drawing upon best practices derived from his extensive background working with technology startups.

Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is the managing partner of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.

He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.

Ellen Pao ~ Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Ellen Pao joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005. Her primary areas of focus are consumer and enterprise application and services platforms. She believes cloud infrastructure, ad and application platforms, and iterative development are enabling new levels of innovation. She also worked closely with KPCB China as a founding member of its investment committee. She is a director on the boards of Lehigh Technologies and Flipboard, Inc.

Prior to KPCB, Ellen held various operating roles at BEA Systems, including head of business development for products, site manager for new mobile products, and lead for new engineering efforts in India. She also served in corporate development, leading strategic projects for the CEO and M&A transactions. Prior to BEA, Ellen focused on business development and closed technology licensing deals for Tellme Networks as one of its first 20 employees and for Microsoft's WebTV division. She also served as a consultant at MyCFO and at Danger Research, where she headed the Sidekick's first marketing requirements efforts.

Ellen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a certificate from the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

John Petrone ~ SVP and CTO, Autobytel, Inc.

Mr. Petrone rejoined Autobytel as a consultant in April 2010 and was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer in December 2010. Prior to joining Autobytel, Mr. Petrone served as the senior technology executive for a range of e-commerce and IT companies, having most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of Digital Performance, a leading provider of online comparison shopping tools and web sites for the automotive aftermarket, from 2008 to 2010.

Prior to his first joining Autobytel in 2003 as Chief Technology Officer, from 2000 to 2001 he served as the Chief Technology Officer of Audiobase, an audio streaming solutions provider. In 2000, Mr. Petrone served as Chief Technology Officer of Alibris, an online seller of rare books, for which he developed a successful technology turnaround plan. From 1999 to 2000 Mr. Petrone served as Chief Information Officer of Della & James, Inc. where he was responsible for all software development, systems integration and technical operations. He was also executive vice president and Chief Technology Officer of Preview Travel, Inc. from 1995 to 1999, spearheading all technology activities for the online travel company. Prior to Preview, he held senior tech positions with Oracle, Lotus Consulting, Price Waterhouse and Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Petrone attended the University of Maryland where he received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Mr. Petrone is also a graduate of the Executive Education Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Shervin Pishevar ~ Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

Shervin joined Menlo Ventures in 2011 and focuses on the social web, consumer internet and mobile. At Menlo, he sits on the board of Mr. Number. Before joining Menlo, Shervin was chief application officer and GM at Mozilla Corporation after spending most of his career as a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Companies Shervin founded have reached an aggregate of 100 million users across companies like Social Gaming Network (now Mindjolt), Webs.com, Hyperoffice and Hotprints and he raised over $50m for those companies. Shervin angel invested in over 40 companies including Aardvark (sold to Google), Milo.com (sold to eBay), Likealittle (LAL), Qwiki, Medialets, Milk, SolveMedia, Gowalla and SpruceMedia. Shervin serves on the advisory board of Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR).

Shervin is one of 10 members of the UN Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council, serves as an Entrepreneurial Ambassador on several State Department delegations and at the President’s Summit on Entrepreneurship. Giving back is very important to Shervin and is the reason he dedicates time to traveling abroad to Africa to volunteer with Invisible Children and charity:water. Shervin is a graduate of the University of California (BA, Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major), a published researcher in JAMA and Neuroscience Letters and the author of several US patents.

Adeo Ressi ~ CEO, Founder Institute

Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eighth start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating. He also serves on the Board of the X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit chartered to inspire human achievements through competition.

Paul Santinelli ~ General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Paul Santinelli has been a Partner at North Bridge since 2005. He specializes in Communications & Infrastructure and is based in California.

Paul Santinelli focuses on investments in open source, software, security, Internet applications and infrastructure & communications. Previously, he served as director of Red Hat Network and was responsible for product definition, strategy, engineering, product management, marketing and lifecycle management for the company's flagship software services offering. Paul also served as the director of global information systems and technology during his tenure at Red Hat.

Prior to Red Hat, Paul was founder and CEO of NOCpulse, a Silicon Valley software start-up focused on delivering the next generation enterprise systems management platform. NOCpulse was acquired by Red Hat in October 2002. While at NOCpulse, Paul was nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award of 2002. Previously, Paul was chief technology officer of Global Center and Vice President of technology for Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that built and operated the world's first independent global fiber optic network. During the past twelve years, Paul has held various engineering, product management and marketing positions in companies including Red Hat, IBM, Lotus Development and Compuware.

Before joining North Bridge, Paul served on the advisory boards of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), Inflow, Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Mobility.net (acquired by Software.com) and One Secure (acquired by Netscreen).

Paul has a BS from Emerson College in Boston.

Mihir Shah ~ President & CEO, Tapjoy, Inc.

Mihir Shah is President and CEO of Tapjoy, Inc. He joined the company in December, 2009 as Chief Revenue Officer, bringing with him more than 17 years of online advertising and gaming industry experience as a top-level executive.

Prior to joining Tapjoy, Shah was Vice President, Ad Network for RockYou, a leading provider of applications and widgets across the social media space, with application properties on major social networks including Facebook, MySpace and Hi5. In a short time, Shah grew the company’s revenue by more than 500% and more than quadrupled gross margin. He was responsible for the 15 billion monthly ad impressions, as well as sales, account management, performance marketing, analytics and publisher management. Mihir also founded CookEatShare.com, a vertical social network catering to home cooks and professional chefs. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and General manager for Direct Selling Solutions at QuinStreet, the largest performance marketing firm in the country. Earlier, Mihir was President and CEO of Liquid Software, a Sutter Hill Ventures backed enterprise application integrator. Mihir earned his BA in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University.

Jason Spero ~ Head of Mobile, Americas at Google

Jason Spero leads Google’s mobile advertising business in the Americas. He joined Google in May 2010 as part of the company’s acquisition of AdMob where he was vice president and general manager of North America responsible for strategy and operations. Jason has more than eight years of experience in product, marketing and general management functions in mobile including an entrepreneur in residence position at Redpoint Ventures and leadership roles at Digital Chocolate and Openwave.

Dana Stalder ~ General Partner, Matrix Partners

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).

Brad Stone ~ Senior Writer, Technology, Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Brad Stone joined Bloomberg Businessweek in August, 2010 as a senior writer covering technology. He has written cover stories on the Chinese search engine Baidu, Facebook chief executive officer Sheryl Sandberg, the medical leave of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the ascendance of Larry Page to Google’s chief executive.

Brad joined Businessweek from the New York Times, where he had been a reporter since December 2006. He covered Internet trends, as well as technology companies like Google, Amazon and Apple from the newspaper’s San Francisco bureau. In addition to writing for the paper, he regularly contributed to the Times’ technology blog, Bits and wrote a column, Ping, for the Sunday business section.

From 1998 to November 2006, Brad served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring a regular online column.

Brad graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio.

Nirav Tolia ~ Co-Founder & CEO, Nextdoor.com

Nirav Tolia is Co-founder and CEO of Nextdoor.com, a consumer Internet startup that is dedicated to helping neighbors create stronger and safer neighborhoods. Nextdoor is funded by Benchmark Capital, where Nirav served as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

Prior to Benchmark, Nirav was COO of Shopping.com, a company created through the merger of Dealtime and Epinions, where Nirav was Co-founder and CEO. Prior to Epinions, Nirav was an early employee at Yahoo!. He graduated from Stanford University and is originally from Odessa, Texas.

Scott Weiss ~ General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Mr. Scott Weiss is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He is also a Venture Advisor at Allegis Capital. He served as the Vice President and General Manager of Security & Technology Business Unit at Cisco. Mr. Weiss served as the Chief Executive Officer, Vice President and General Manager of IronPort Systems, Inc., co-founded it in 2000 and serves as a Director at the firm. As a Chief Executive Officer he established the company as the leader in email security and directed the company through its successful acquisition by Cisco. After the acquisition, Mr. Weiss advanced inside Cisco to lead Cisco's Security Technology Business Unit, developing the vision and strategy for integrating reputation-based security into existing products. He was one of the early team members at Hotmail. At the company, Mr. Weiss was responsible for all partnership and revenue generating business development efforts. It was this experience at the company that helped him identify the emerging business opportunity that would later evolve into IronPort Systems.

After Hotmail’s acquisition by Microsoft, Mr. Weiss led a business development team at Microsoft with the MSN division. He left Microsoft to pursue new start-up opportunities. Mr. Weiss developed a concept in the e-commerce space, and pulled together the core team to incubate the idea. In the process of seeking funding for the concept, he met with leaders of the Venture Capital industry, and ultimately resulted in Mr. Weiss joining idealab! as a Managing Director and Entrepreneur in Residence. At the firm he met Mr. Scott Banister, and their combined experience germinated into IronPort. Previously, Mr. Weiss had been a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Mr. Weiss also served at EDS as a Group Manager. He is a Director of Silver Tail Systems, Inc. and has been a Director of Solera Networks, Inc., since September 1, 2009.

Mr. Weiss holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a B.A. from the University of Florida, both with Honors and graduated of the EDS management training program.

Richard Wong ~ Partner, Accel Partners

Richard joined Accel in 2006, with an interest in software, mobile and internet services, and energy technologies. Rich led Accel’s investment in Angry Birds (Rovio) and serves on the boards of Atlassian, the leader in software for streamlining product development; SunRun, the leading provider of residential solar power; MoPub, a leader in mobile ad platforms; Qwilt, a provider of video optimization technology; Getjar Networks, the largest mobile development community and open mobile app store; Parature, a leader in SaaS based customer support. Rich previously led Accel’s investment and served on the Board of Admob (acquired by Google), as well as 3LM Three Laws of Mobility, an Android enterprise startup (acquired by Motorola Mobility).

Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave and previously GM of Messaging Products, and Chief Marketing Officer at Openwave. While at Openwave, Rich founded and chaired the Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group, a consortium of ISPs and technology providers working together to combat internet abuse.

Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble

Mr. Wong holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.