Michael Brown 

Manager Corporate Development, Facebook

Michael Brown is Manager of Corporate Development at Facebook. Mike's primary responsibilities at Facebook include acquisitions and corporate strategy.Prior to joining Facebook, Mike was a Principal at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley where he led numerous investment in the consumer Internet sector. Mike started his career at McKinsey & Company in the Firm's San Francisco office. Mike is an investor in and/or active advisor to a number of Silicon Valley companies including Counsyl, RockYou, Structural Wealth Management, Satisfaction Inc., Tapulous, and Brilliant Earth. Mike attended Yale University and Stanford Business School.

Wesley Chan 

Partner, Google Ventures

Wesley Chan is an early employee and fun-loving entrepreneur at Google, where he is tasked with scouting new opportunities and turning them into disruptive billion dollar businesses. Two of his favorite products he's founded and launched include Google Analytics and Google Voice. Wesley is currently a partner on the Google Ventures team.

Wesley is a recipient of Google's founder award--the company's most prestigious recognition--for leading the development of Google Toolbar and building out Google's early client efforts. Additionally, Wesley has held positions as a research lead at HP Labs, a Program Manager at Microsoft, and holds both Masters and Bachelor degrees from MIT where he did his graduate research at the Media Laboratory.

In his spare time, Wesley also serves as Google's Chief Photographer Emeritus. His favorite camera is the Canon EOS-5D Mark II.

Chi-Hua Chien 

Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Chi-Hua Chien joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007. At KPCB he focuses on investments in the iFund (mobile applications), consumer web, and consumer services. He led or co-led the firm's investments in Booyah, Chegg, Reputation Defender, and Working Equity. Prior to KPCB, Chi-Hua was at Accel Partners where he focused on software as a service and digital media. Chi-Hua originated Accel's investments in AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and Facebook, while also working on the firm's investments in BitTorrent, fbFund, Glam, Trulia, and YuMe Networks.

Chi-Hua has an MS in Industrial Engineering, BS in Industrial Engineering, and BA in Economics, all from Stanford University where he was named a Mayfield Fellow and President's Scholar. He also earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Nagraj Kashyap 

Vice President, Qualcomm Ventures

Nagraj Kashyap is a Vice President at Qualcomm and heads up worldwide activities for Qualcomm Ventures. Mr. Kashyap has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to his current role, Nagraj worked in various engineering and management capacities at Nortel, 3COM, Motorola, PRTM and Qualcomm. He currently actively manages and serves as a board member or observer for Qualcomm Ventures investments in Zeebo, Obopay, WaveMarket, Sotera Wireless, Avaak and Novarra. Mr. Kashyap also led Qualcomm Ventures investments in Airvana (AIRV) and Bitfone (acquired by HP in 2007). Mr. Kashyap has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lee Williams 

Executive Director, Symbian Foundation

Lee Williams is the Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with a large global community to develop an open source software platform based on Symbian OS, the most widely used mobile operating system for mobile products and services.

Prior to this role, Lee led the S60 Software organization in Nokia’s Devices business and was responsible for managing and delivering key software assets for the companies’ products. Prior to Nokia, Lee was the Head of Engineering and Product Development at Be, Inc. After Be was acquired by Palm Computing, Lee became Palm’s Head of Product Development and Delivery.

Rich Wong 

Partner, Accel Partners

Rich joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on mobile services, enterprise software/SaaS, and energy technologies. Rich serves on the board of AdMob, the mobile advertising player, Parature, a leader in SaaS based customer support, SunRun, the leading provider of residential solar power, and Getjar Networks, the largest mobile development community and open mobile app store.

Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave and previously GM of Messaging Products, and CMO at Openwave.

Rich was the CMO and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad. 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 MIT and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Rich remains active as an EVP of the MIT Club of Northern California, Board Member of the MIT CNC - Entrepreneurship Program, and the CTIA Wireless Internet Caucus. At CTIA 2008, Rich was awarded a "Mobile Six" award as one of the 6 most influential individuals shaping the wireless industry by executives in the InMobile.org community.

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Paul Buchheit 

Co-founder, FriendFeed

Seth Sternberg 

CEO, Meebo

Seth is a co-founder and CEO of Meebo, which currently reaches over 100M unique users monthly. Prior to Meebo, Seth worked at IBM in Corporate Development leading M&A transactions and worked on strategy and VC initiatives. Seth majored in Political Science at Yale and attended Stanford Business School before leaving for Meebo. Seth flies airplanes, rides motorcycles and rollerblades.

Satish Dharmaraj 

Partner, Redpoint Ventures

Peter Fenton 

General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services.

Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.

Current Investments: EngineYard, Lithium, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, Terracotta, Twitter, Yelp, Zendesk, and Zuora.

Previous Investments: Coremetrics, FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook) JBoss (acquired by RedHat), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), SpringSource (acquired by VMWare), Wily Technology (acquired by CA), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!).

Education: MBA from Stanford Business School, Arjay Miller Scholar; BA from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa.

Robert Davis 

Managing General Partner, Highland Capital Partners

Bob Davis is a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners focusing primarily on digital media and the internet since 2001. He currently represents Highland on the boards of Bullhorn, Hangout Industries, NameMedia, OpenSky, Paragon Lake, Turbine, Going (acquired by AOL), Quattro (acquired by Apple), Quigo (acquired by AOL) and Navic (acquired by MSFT). Prior to joining Highland, Bob served as the CEO of Terra Lycos (TRLY) formed in October 2000 with the $5.5 billion acquisition of Lycos by Terra Networks of Spain. Previously, Bob was the Founder of Lycos, Inc (LCOS) and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1995.

Keng Lim 

Chairman & CEO, NextLabs

Keng Lim is the founder and CEO of NextLabs. Over the last 20 years, Keng has built a distinguished career in Silicon Valley. He has founded and built several reputable internet and software companies including Approach Software, Kiva Software, Escalate, and Sygate Technologies. He has been recognized by several key organizations as one of the industry's "most influential people on the Internet" for the creation and advancement of the Internet Application Server market. IDG Demo recognized him at the DEMOfall 2009 with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution in the Web technologies, SOA, SaaS, and information security arena. After pioneering the Internet Application Server at Kiva, Keng joined the Netscape executive management team in 1997 as the result of the merger and played a key role in transforming Netscape into the major internet software and portal company. Keng received a master's degree in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gordon Ritter 

General Partner, Emergence Capital Partners

Gordon Ritter is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence. He has spent over 15 years building companies which pioneered new markets including embedded web-based interfaces, server appliances, "On Demand" services for the SMB market and web-native application development. He led Emergence Capital's first investment, in the On Demand leader Salesforce.com . Gordon was named to the Forbes' Midas List of the top venture capital investors in 2007. He currently sits on the boards of Genius, Ketera, Lithium, PivotLink, SmartTurn, Veeva Systems and Zuberance.

Prior to founding Emergence, Gordon was co-Founder and CEO of Software As Service, a Web services platform company he created with Marc Benioff, the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. Software As Service is the origin of Salesforce.com's Force.com platform. Prior to forming Software As Service, he was Vice President of the $3 billion IBM Global Small Business division, created as a result of IBM's acquisition of his company, Whistle Communications in 1999. Gordon's division was responsible for partnerships with dozens of technology-enabled service companies as part of IBM's On Demand computing strategy. He led IBM's launch partnership with Salesforce.com. Prior to IBM, Gordon was co-Founder and President of Whistle, a pioneering Internet appliance and services platform for small and medium-sized businesses.

Before Whistle, Gordon was co-Founder and President of Tribe Communications, a networking infrastructure company. Tribe pioneered WebManage™, acclaimed as the first HTML-based network management software. Tribe was acquired by Zoom Telephonics (ZOOM) in 1996. Prior to Tribe, Gordon was a VP of Capital Markets at CSFB in New York, where he headed the Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO) group.

Gordon is married and has four young children, including a set of twins, and lives in San Francisco. He is currently a Trustee of Marin Country Day School. He has a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University where he rowed on the heavyweight crew and has continued rowing in the Bay Area. He also enjoys running, cross-country skiing and mountaineering.

Mark Sugarman 

Managing Partner, MHS Capital

Mark is Founder & Managing Partner of MHS Capital, a new $35M early stage venture fund backed by an LP base of world class technology entrepreneurs and executives. MHS Capital focuses on leading the first institutional rounds for bootstrapped software and Internet companies raising $500K-$2.5M and sponsors serial entrepreneurs to do small tech buyouts. Mark has invested in fifteen companies over the past twelve years with seven exits, including two companies with market capitalizations of over a billion dollars,. Prior investments include Edusoft (acquired by Houghton Mifflin), Ilike (acquired by Myspace), Getsmart (acquired by Providian/IAC), Nutrisystem (NTRI), Savi Technology (acquired by Lockheed Martin), Verticalnet (VERT), and 1stup (acquired by CMGI). Mark currently sits on the boards of Adisn, Magnify360, OPOWER, and Pulpo Media and is an investor and board observer at Courttrax, Fonality, and Venturebeat. Mark has a B.A. from Stanford University.

John Taschek 

Vice President, Strategy, Salesforce.com

John Taschek is vice president of strategy at salesforce.com. He is responsible for corporate product strategy, corporate intelligence, and market influence. Taschek brings 20 years of technology evaluation experience to the on-demand leader, which he joined in 2003. Previously, Taschek ran the testing labs at eWEEK, where he wrote more than 1,000 comparative analyses of enterprise software and served on the magazine's editorial board. Taschek is an award-winning columnist whose coverage of enterprise applications has been cited in numerous research and academic reports, and published in PC Magazine.

Previously, Taschek also spent five years in information technology and worked at high profile quasi-government associations such as the National Alliance of Business. In addition, Taschek worked at large government agencies such as Housing and Urban Development where he led a team that set up office automation and operating systems for the agency.

Christine Herron 

Principal, First Round Capital

Christine Herron is a Principal with First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Previously, Christine was a director at Omidyar Network, where she developed the Media practice strategy. Prior to Omidyar Network, Christine held operational roles with Mission Research, NetObjects, and Microsoft, and was the founder and CEO of Mercury2. 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.