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United States
Mr. Todd Nightingale serves as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Networking and Cloud at Cisco Systems. He served as a Board Member at LOCH Technologies. Nightingale is known for his passionate technology leadership and his vision of powerful, simple solutions for businesses, schools, and governments. He and his team are responsible for helping customers transform their infrastructure and digitize their businesses with best-in-class networking, deep cloud automation, and a seamless, premium user experience across Cisco's enterprise networking and cloud offerings. Previously, Nightingale was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Meraki business. His focus on delivering a simple, secure, digital workplace led to the expansion and growth of the Meraki portfolio, making it the largest cloud-managed networking platform in the world. Nightingale joined Cisco with the Meraki acquisition in 2012. He also held engineering and senior management positions at AirDefense, where he was responsible for product development and guided the company through a successful acquisition by Motorola. Nightingale holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a master's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Corbin Wood
United States
Mr. Aziz Virani is an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member, President & Chief Executive Officer at CLEAResult. He is a seasoned executive with more than three decades of experience helping companies and their clients use technology to achieve results. As a recognized leader in management consulting, Aziz balances CLEAResult's focus between managing today's challenges and setting our strategic outlook for tomorrow, all while keeping our clients at the center of every decision we make. Prior to CLEAResult, Aziz served as Area President for Avanade, a technology consulting joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. Aziz holds degrees in mathematics and computer science from DePaul University. He served as Board Member at Unify Square.
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Corey Salka
United States
Mr. Michael Olson served as Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. He serves as Advisor at SignalFire. He co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and served as its CEO until 2013 when he took on his current role of chief strategy officer (CSO.) As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera's product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as vice president for Embedded Technologies after Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Corinne Delaporte
United States
Dr. Ossama Hassanein serves as a Senior Managing Partner at Newbury Ventures. He also serves as Chairman at Rising Tide Fund. He was a Board Member at Eonite. He also is an Angel Investor. He is an entrepreneur, mentor, and venture capitalist. Over the last 30 years, he has managed over $1 billion of international technology funds in diverse leadership roles including EVP of Berkeley International in San Francisco, Chairman of Technocom Ventures in Paris, President of Newbridge Networks Holding in Canada. In the eighties, he led the mezzanine financing of 80+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes including: Adaptec; Cirrus Logic; Atmel; PMC-Sierra; LSI Logic; Linear Technologies; and Oracle. Combined market value today exceeds $200 billion. In the last 25 years, he was chairman or co-founder of seven leading-edge high technology startups in the US, UK, France and Switzerland including ACC in Santa Barbara (routers, acquired by Ericsson), Algety in Lannion (soliton transmission, acquired by Corvis), HighDeal in Caen (rating engines, acquired by SAP), Highwave in Bretagne (fiber optic amplifiers, Listed on Euronext), NetCentrex in Paris (VoIP, acquired by Comverse), nCipher in Cambridge (encryption, listed on LSE), and Zong in Menlo Park (acquired by eBay). Currently, he is director of Bank of the West in San Francisco and chairman of TechWadi, the largest network of Arab American high technology executives in Silicon Valley. He is a charter member of the C100, a Silicon-Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs. He has served on the Board of Advisors of Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of UCSF Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine in San Francisco. He also served on the Board of Directors of Relief International, a non-profit, focusing his efforts on social entrepreneurship and women development in the Middle East. He was chairman of the board of the Egyptian American Society in Silicon Valley and vice-chairman of the Board of PSD, an NGO focused on providing one Netbook per child for up to 130,000 Palestinian children in need of education. Dr. Hassanein is the Willard Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC (American University in Cairo)School of Business, where he is also member of the Board of Advisors. He lectured on Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and the University of San Diego, and on international business at UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University. He was also guest speaker on entrepreneurship in diverse venues including the White House, the State Department, the Commonwealth Club, MIT, Harvard University, and Qatar Computer Research Institute.
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Craig Ceranna
United States
Mr. Eric Eden serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at hCentive. He also served as a Marketing Advisor at SubCentral. Prior to this, he served as Chief Marketing Officer Socrata. He joined Socrata with over 20 years of marketing experience in technology and SaaS companies. Eric specializes in building high performance marketing teams and creating customer- focused marketing programs. Prior to joining Socrata, Eric was the head of Marketing at Cvent for over 10 years. During that time the company grew from a small startup to becoming a public company with a $1 Billion+ market cap. Eric also held marketing leadership roles at other publicly traded companies including Neustar, Verio, and Network Solutions. Eric graduated from the University of Akron with a bachelor's degree in Mass Media Communications and Computer Programming.
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Crasolum Ventures
United States
Mr. Lior Gavish is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Monte Carlo. He also is a Co-Founder and serves as Vice President, Engineering at Sookasa. Prior to Sookasa, he accrued 7 years of experience in product management and engineering roles, most recently on PayPal's growing mobile team. Mr. Gavish holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA from Stanford University. He is an Angel Investor.
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Crawford Giles
India
Mr. Venkat Vallabhaneni serves as General Partner at Parampara Capital. He serves as Board Observer at Practically. He founded Accurum and also served as the Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Vallabhaneni previously served as Entrepreneur and Investor at Energy Leader, Senior Vice President at Bank of America and Managing Director at Kanbay. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and his Master of Science in Computer Science from NJIT.
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Crypto Dorm Fund
United States
Mr. Alex Skryl is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Nutrisense. He is also an angel investor at Alex Skryl. Mr. Skryl co-founded & served as Principal Engineer at Trusted. He is the Founder and serves as Freelance Engineer at Origin Labs. He holds Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Chemistry from University of Illinois.
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Cure Alzheimer's Fund
United States
Dr. Vijay Balasubramaniyan is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Pindrop. He has held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research, and Intel. He holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including CCS and ICDCS. Vijay was recently recognized by the MIT Technology Review's annual Innovators Under 35 list as an outstanding inventor. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security. He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
C.Y. Bill Lin
Denmark
Mr. Anders Haack Ibsen is a Co-Founder of Codibro. He founded Sharewall and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chairman of the Board at Conyak. He also Founded Atosho and also served as its Board Member. He is a two-decade online entrepreneur. He holds a master in Business Administration & Computer Science and usually works as a hybrid between tech and commercial.
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Dale McCarthy
United Kingdom
Mr. Kelly Sumner serves as Chairman at Reactional Music. Mr. Sumner served as Chairman and Advisor at Mediatonic. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at MEEM. He has overseen multiple billion-dollar franchises including, Grand Theft Auto and Guitar Hero as well as the Amiga range of home computers. In his early career, Kelly was MD of Commodore UK and International Operations at Gametek. He joined Take Two in 1997 as part of the Gametek acquisition and subsequently became CEO of the New York games publisher in 2001. After leaving Take Two Kelly became CEO of Red Octane, makers of Guitar Hero, and sold the Company to Activision in 2006. Today, Kelly is Chairman of Intent Media which operates MCV, Develop and Music Week publications and is an active investor and supporter of several British startup ventures.
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Daniel Griffis
United States
Mr. Jeffrey Queisser serves as Advisor at Sirona Medical (Other Healthcare Technology Systems). Mr. Jeffrey Queisser is a Co-Founder and serves as Senior Vice President, Engineering at Plato. He co-founded & served as Senior Vice President, Engineering at Box. He is an Angel Investor. He became interested in computer programming at a young age, selling his first software at the age of ten, and later formed Q-Squared, a successful IT consulting company based in Seattle. He attended Western Washington University before leaving to join Box in 2006.
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Daniel Kaufman
Canada
Dr. Andrew Csinger served as Chief Conspiracy Officer and Interim Chief Technology Officer at FusionPipe. Dr. Csinger served as Director at A2B Fiber. He is Entrepreneur in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the Cognitive Systems Group at the University of British Columbia. He is an advisor or director to several start-up companies and is on the Board of Advisors of ISSNet, a research network focused on computer and network security funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is also a founding member of the Steering Committee for the Vancouver Institute of Visual Analytics. Dr. Csinger was Executive Vice-President of Product Strategy and Development at Dategrity Corp., a spin-out from the Votehere Corporation. He was Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of Group Telecom from 1998 to 2002. In 1998, he developed and operated the first Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certification Authority and Repository to be licensed under Washington State Digital Signature legislation. This seminal work influenced the later adoption of federal U.S. law (the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000, or "E-Sign Act"), and was an early model for the adoption by other states of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). In 1996, he founded Xcert Software Inc. (acquired by RSA Technologies), a technology leader in the emerging business of PKI. Dr. Csinger was a mentor of the SFU Technology Business Mentorship Program and has been both mentor and reviewer for the New Ventures BC business plan competition since 2007. He was an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, and a visiting scholar at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrucken. Dr. Csinger's work on artificial intelligence techniques has appeared in journals and conferences around the world. He holds several patents in Internet security, biometrics and related areas. Dr. Csinger holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.
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Daniel Pepper
United States
Mr. Philip Sanderson served as Managing Director at Ridge Ventures. He served as General Partner at Walden Venture Capital. He joined IDG Ventures USA as a managing director in September 2006. He was responsible for WaldenVC investments in VitalStream (VSTH), Bamboo.com (IPIX), NIKU (NIKU), Sina.com (SINA), Adknowledge and People3 (IT) and IDG Ventures investments in Funzio (GREE). Phil served on the boards of TuneUp Media, Simply Hired, Telltale Games, Vivox and Midverse and lead investments in Root Music, Leap Commerce and Iddiction. Prior to WaldenVC, he worked as an investment banker in Robertson Stephens' New Media and Information Technology Groups. At Robertson Stephens, Phil managed initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions assignments for CBT Systems, Computer Learning Centers, Electronic Arts, Fritz Integrated Logistics, Spectrum HoloByte, Sierra On-line, and Vantive, among others. Prior to Robertson Stephens, he worked in Goldman Sachs' corporate finance group. Phil has also founded and operated three companies in the retail, non-profit, and manufacturing industries. He is also a Co-Chairman/Founder of the VCNetwork and the YVCA; two non-profit organizations consisting of over 1,000 venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Each year Phil manages social networking events which include the participation of 50% of the Valley's General Partners. In addition, Phil serves on the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and is the CFO. He served as Board Observer at Kixeye. Phil received his Master of Business Administration with Honors from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from Hamilton College. Phil is also a board member at nWay Inc.
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Danny Peoples
United States
Dr. Alex Pentland serves as Advisor at REMUS Capital. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Senior Advisor at Riff Analytics. He is a Co-Founder of Cogito & Distilled Analytics. He is a Co-Founder at Endor. He is a Board Member of Sila. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Advisor at Ginger.io. He serves as Advisors at Glasswing Ventures. He Co-Founded Thasos and served as Board Member and Chief Sociometrician. He served as an Advisory Board Member at Monument Capital Group. He serves as Chairman at The Human Project. He served as Advisor to Portfolio at Romulus Capital. He was a Co-Founder of Humanyze. He is a pioneer in organizational engineering, mobile information systems, and computational social science. His research focus is on harnessing information flows and incentives within social networks, the big data revolution, and converting this technology into real-world ventures. His work provides organizations with better management tools and better ways to interact with their customers. He is the founder and director of the Human Dynamics group, and the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program. He advises the World Economic Forum, Nissan Motor Corporation, and a variety of start-up companies. He is the World Economic Forum's lead academic for its big data and personal data initiatives. He is among the most-cited computer scientists in the world, and in 1997 Newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century. His book, Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World was published in 2008 by the MIT Press. In 2011, he was chosen as one of the world's top data scientists by Tim O'Reilly in Forbes magazine. He also serves as Advisor at Wise Systems.
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Dan Turchin
United States
Dr. Joseph Perl serves as Chairman at CupCare. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of Mobilygen. He served as a Board Member at Prieto Battery. In 1990 he joined DSP Communications (NYSE: DSPC), a provider of chipsets for the wireless personal communications market. Dr. Perl held senior technical and managerial positions at DSPC, including President and CEO until 1999. Since 1999, Dr. Perl served as an Advisor to Intel until joining Mobilygen in 2001. Prior to DSPC, Dr. Perl's career combined academic appointments with Tel Aviv University, Florida State University and University of Nebraska, with industry positions at Tadiran Electronics and Elbit Computers. Dr. Perl received his B.Sc. degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Colorado State University, all in Electronic Engineering.
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Darren Halpin
United States
Mr. Joe Alea serves as Advisor at Diameter Health. He serves as Chief Technology Officer at Clinical Ink. He previously held senior technology and product positions at Medicity, Curaspan Health Group, Oracle Health Sciences, and Phase Forward, Inc. His undergraduate education was at the University of Pittsburgh where he received his BS in Computer Science. He received his Masters in Business Administration from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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David Alvo
Mexico
Mr. Ricardo Elizondo is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Ideas & Capital. He serves as President of the Board & Partner at Enkontrol. He worked from August 1997 to December 2012 in Grupo Reformawhere he finished his career as Deputy Editor in Chief. He is also a shareholder in Impulsora Elizondo, a major retailer focused on household goods, electronics and furniture. The company is a regional leader in the north of Mexico. In 1987 he founded the company Apolo Constructora y Servicios, focused on building road infrastructure and housing. He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School and a Master of Public Administration (MPA2) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government from Harvard University. He is a Bachelor of Computer Systems Administration at ITESM Campus Monterrey where he graduated with honors (Summa Cum Laude). He serves as Board Member at Boletia and Tropical Organic Growers.
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David Baverez
United States
Mr. Tom Pai serves as Chief Financial Officer at Post-Industrial Institute. He has over 25 years of financial and operations experience in technology, media, and consumer products companies ranging in size from start-up to Fortune 100 global enterprises. He helped raise over $150M in venture financing, and played a key role in successful exits totaling $500M. In addition to his work with Institute, He is the CEO and Founder of Sage Development Company, a Boutique Real Estate Development and Investment company focusing on redevelopment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to Founding Sage, Tom was also a Founder and Managing Partner of Sunstone Group, a management consulting practice that specialized in helping early-stage and high-growth companies build the essential foundations for success. Prior to founding Sunstone Group, He was a partner with Ravix Group, a leading startup consulting firm in Silicon Valley. He was previously the CFO and COO for several venture backed companies in technology, media, and consumer products. He co-founded DART Partners, an investment firm specializing in underperforming mid-sized companies, and was with Bank of America's venture capital and private equity group. He has an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and a degree in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.
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David Bowie
United States
Mr. Eduardo Rallo is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at BrainStorm Ventures. Mr. Rallo also serves as Managing Partner at Pacific Community Ventures. He is also Chairman and co-founder of Farmacias Remedios, a pharmacy chain focused on the Hispanic Market. He also serves as Board Member at Silicon Valley Community Foundation and MyPoppins. Prior to PCV, Mr. Rallo also co-founded World Wrapps Restaurants, a Nation's Restaurant News Hot Concept Winner, in 1994. He oversaw the growth of the company to a 26-store chain of gourmet, innovative, quick-service restaurants and raised growth capital from top tier venture firms. In 1999, Mr. Rallo co-founded and served as managing director of BrainStorm Ventures of San Francisco, a seed capital and early stage investment fund which has invested in 24 companies across the e-commerce and software sectors including companies like Opentable.com (public), Zappos.com (sold to Amazon) and Me.com (sold to Apple Computer). Mr. Rallo received an MBA from Harvard University in 1993 and graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1989. He serves on the boards of several PCV portfolio companies including Pacific Pharmacy Group. He has been a Board Member at Freshology. Mr. Rallo is the Chairman and co-founder of Resmex Group, Inc. which manages seven different restaurant concepts in the Bay Area and has over 400 employees.
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