- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Chris Baldone
Information Technology Manager with broad technical experience and background relating to networking infrastructure, integrated systems, and support of enterprise solutions. Interested in companies seeking to expand with focus on people, technology, and process improvement.
- Ramu Yalamanchi
Ramu Yalamanchi is an American entrepreneur. He founded the social networking web site hi5 and is its CEO. During college, Ramu was a partner at SponsorNet New Media. Ramu received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Firas Bushnaq
Mr. Bushnaq co-founded eEye Digital Security in 1998 after the successful establishment of two previous software development companies: WinWare and Avataro. Mr. Bushnaq utilized his knowledge in software development as well as his experience working as a Senior Engineer and Technical Director for Berkeley Systems to develop the technical foundation for eEye's security offerings.
- Clint Oram
Clint Oram General Manager, Sugar Europe & Co-Founder, SugarCRM Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and co-led the product design and development as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing SugarCRM's European operations, located in Dublin, Ireland. Previously, Clint founded Sugar?
- Samer Feghali
- David Emmanuel Weekly
Founder and CPO of PBwiki, Co-founder of SuperHappyDevHouse, Founder of the former California Community Colocation Project, computer scientist, MP3 veteran, Stanford graduate, traveler, adventurer, recreational helicopter pilot, giv
- Warren Lee
Warren brings significant operational experience and proven investment talent to Canaan Partners, with expertise in communications, digital media, and software. His current investments at Canaan include Associated Content, Motionbox,Tremor Media and Vivox.
- Bernd Hamann
- Guy Gecht
Guy Gecht is Chief Executive Officer of Electronics For Imaging, Inc., the world leader in enabling networked printing solutions. His key initiatives include increasing EFI's market penetration, diversifying the company's product offerings, undertaking strategic acquisitions, and introducing new services that will drive demand for digital printing worldwide.
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- Noam Ben-Ami
NOAM BEN-AMI NOAM BEN-AMI is Senior Director, Software, of Crisis Simulations International. Noam wrote the DXMA™ simulation software that makes CSI programs uniquely compelling, powerful, and educational. Noam is a software architect with a decade of experience in the design and implementation of transactional websites, distributed application servers, and custom software solutions.
- Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Before entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. His research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO.
- Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor is the Product Manager for Google's Developer Programs. He joined Google in early 2003 and has managed a number of products, including Google Maps, the Google Maps API, Google Local, Google's web search infrastructure, and Search Quality. Prior to Google, Bret worked as a software engineer at Reactivity, a startup incubator in Silicon Valley. Bret holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
- Chris Carpinello
Passions: information security, career management, gaming.
- John Furrier
John Furrier is the Founder & CEO of PodTech.Network Inc. Since 2001 John has been the CEO of BroadDev (Broadband Developments) a consulting and new ventures business. Before BroadDev, John was the Vice President of the Product Group and Vice President of Strategic Development for RealNames, an Internet search and naming company. From 1996-1999 John was the founder and CEO of Labrador Software paid keyword search and navigation company.
- In Sik Rhee
In Sik Rhee has co-founded 2 successful startup companies and has developed technologies across a wide spectrum of domain knowledge – from end-user packaged software to high-end mission critical enterprise systems. In Sik self-taught software programming at the age of 12 and began developing commercial software as a 19-year old.
- Elizabeth Mynatt
Elizabeth Mynatt , an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing, received a Ph.D degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995, where she was also a research scientist in the GVU Center. Her research centers around human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, auditory interfaces, assistive technology and everyday.
- Curt Finch
Curt Finch Contributing Author Curt Finch is the CEO of Journyx ( http://pr.journyx.com ), a provider of free Web-based software located in Austin, Texas, USA that automates billing, payroll & project management by tracking time, expenses and mileage. Finch is a software industry veteran. In 1997, Curt created the world's first Internet-based timesheet application and the foundation for the current Journyx product offering.
- Chuck Musciano
Chuck Musciano has spent his life on the East Coast, having spent time in Maryland, Georgia, and New Jersey before acquiring a B.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1982. Since then, he has resided in Melbourne, Florida, in the employ of Harris Corporation. He began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools and went on to join Harris' Advanced Technology Group to help develop large-scale multiprocessors.
- Eric Mays
Eric Mays , PhD Principal Engineer emays@mays-systems.com Dr. Eric Mays serves as Principal Engineer, bringing years of experience in working with healthcare organizations to deliver knowledge and data engineering solutions. His areas of expertise include knowledge based systems, data bases, and natural language processing.
- Jeremy Levine
Jeremy Levine is a Principal with Bessemer Venture Partners in Massachusetts. Jeremy Levine is a Principal with Bessemer Venture Partners in Massachusetts. He focuses primarily on software and services investments. He focuses primarily on software and services investments. Prior to joining BVP in 2001, Jeremy was Vice President of Operations at Dash, an Internet software publisher.
- Steve Adelman
Steve’s current and past companies and clients include American Express , Hitachi , Merrill Lynch , Novell , Palm , Reuters , the U.S. Secret Service and numerous startups. Steve is currently an advisor to Mocana and JobFlash . Steve is an adjunct professor in the Entrepreneurship Program in the School of Business and Management at the University of San Francisco .
- Mike Castleman
Mike is the longest-standing producer at Democracy Now! In addition to his work on the show he is a co-founder of The Indypendent , a monthly social and economic justice newspaper based out of the New York City Independent Media Center. He is a former staff reporter at the Springfield Union News and Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts where he also helped start and run the Flywheel Community Arts Space, a DIY music and artist space.
- Chuck Turnitsa
Chuck Turnitsa joined VMASC as the Battle Lab Engineer in January 2004. Turnitsa has a BS in Computer Science from Christopher Newport University, where he also received a minor in History. Over the past 14 years Chuck has served as a software analyst, configuration manager, and project manager.
- Sarah Kim
- Doug Davison
Doug Davison President & Owner of Luster Software, Inc. Doug Davison ’s desire to help other business owners lead him to launch Luster Software, Inc. in 2002. With 11 years of experience, his areas of expertise are in Visual Basic, ASP (VBScript & JavaScript), HTML/DHTML, ASP.NET (VB.NET), IIS, SQL, Access, Oracle, OLE/DB connections to the AS/400, MS Office Development, Novell, and Flash.
- Mike Bruce
Mike Bruce President and Chief Executive Officer Mike is responsible for the vision, corporate strategy, and general operations of InScope Solutions, a veteran-owned 8(a) nationally recognized for enabling clients to maximize their technology and business investments. Mike founded InScope in the wake of 9/11, determined to bring commercial innovation and best-practices to the federal government.
- Lori Pollock
Lori Pollock - Co-Chair Lori Pollock has been a professor at the University of Delaware. Lori Pollock received her M.S and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She was awarded the University of Delaware's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001, and the University's E. A. Trabant Award for Women's Equity in 2004. She served on the executive committee and officer of ACM SIGPLAN for several terms.
- Keith Brophy
Keith Brophy Keith Brophy is President of Business Development at NuSoft Solutions. Mr. Brophy has over two decades of experience in the software technology industry in a variety of capacities. Projects range from small commercially focused rapid development initiatives to large-scale space systems, and involvement on some of the most recognized web integration initiatives in the world.
- Darrell Testerman
- Neil Schelly
Neil Schelly ( neil.schelly@oasis-open.org ), Senior Systems Administrator, works in the technology services team to support the systems and networks that serve OASIS members. Most of Neil's 10 years of IT experience have concentrated on implementing free and open source software solutions. Neil has a B.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is based in Boston.
- Bradley Horowitz
Bradley Horowitz , vice president of Yahoo!' s product strategy group, leads Yahoo!' s efforts in building innovative products and technologies across the company. Horowitz is driving innovation and leveraging Yahoo!' s platform to deliver compelling Yahoo! products and services to a community of 500 million users. In addition, he is responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which includes overseeing the Yahoo! Developer Network (Y!
- Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser is the founder and chief executive officer of RealNetworks, an Internet software company focusing on developing and marketing software products and services designed to enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web. Since its inception in 1994, RealNetworks has had a tremendous impact on the industry through the delivery of streaming real-time multimedia.
- Julia Allen
Julia Allen is a senior member of the technical staff within the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a unit of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. The CERT® Coordination Center is also a part of this program. Allen is engaged in developing and transitioning enterprise security frameworks and executive outreach programs in information security, survivability, and resiliency.
- Eliot Horowitz
Eliot Horowitz , Chief Scientist & Co-Founder Eliot is the chief engineer of ShopWiki's breakthrough crawling technology. In January 2005, he began developing the crawling and data extraction algorithm that is the core of ShopWiki's innovative technology. Eliot was recently named one of BusinessWeek.com's "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Age 25 and Under." Prior to ShopWiki, Eliot was a software developer in the R&D group at DoubleClick.
- Irwin R. Gross
Irwin Gross - General Partner Irwin brings to Worldview more than a decade of experience working with high technology enterprises as an advisor, strategist, and investor. He focuses on investments in software, systems, and services companies.
- David Strauss
- Gaurav Garg
Gaurav Garg Gaurav Garg focuses on semiconductor and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2001, Gaurav was a Founder and Senior Vice-President of Product Management at Redback Networks (RBAK). Earlier, Gaurav held various engineering positions at SynOptics and Bay Networks. Gaurav has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.
- Lisa Breytspraak
Lisa Breytspraak Ms. Lisa Breytspraak has over twelve years of management and technology consulting experience spanning the energy, telecommunications, software, retail, insurance and non-profit industries. She has delivered solutions in the areas of IT strategy, performance management, organization design, process improvement, program management, change management, risk assessments, enterprise architecture, vendor selection and custom development.