Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time.

Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. Fitzpatrick has a Bachelor of Science degree in symbolic systems and Master of Science degree in computer science, both from Stanford University. She was hired by Google as a software engineer in June 1999. She was the founding member of the Google user interfaces team. As a manager she has been an Engineering Director in several roles: director of Google AdWords and of Google's internal systems engineering group.

Reid Hoffman believes that Facebook has a big future as a development platform, arguing that many fresh-from-college coders will turn to the popular social networking site when building their next Web-based entertainment application. But he questions whether the Facebook "friends list" - or "social graph" - is suited to business applications and other tools that go beyond entertainment. Of course, that’s what you’d expect him to say.

Chris Phoenix (born January 25 1970) is the co-founder (with Mike Treder) and Director of Research of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), and has worked in the field of advanced nanotechnology for over 15 years. He obtained his BS in Symbolic Systems and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991. Since 2000, he has studied and written about molecular manufacturing.

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Thomas S. Robertson Thomas S. Robertson earned his B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. He is the Assistant Director and Technical Manager of the LOCKSS Program at the Stanford University Libraries. He has been with the LOCKSS Program since 2001. He is currently working to build a technical community around the LOCKSS software and to make LOCKSS work with existing technologies including OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

Rory Mather , Vice President of Design & Production Mr. Mather is responsible for directing design, overseeing content production, and managing client projects. Mr. Mather brings over a decade of experience in interface design, software development, process development, and management. As Lead Interface Designer with Caresoft, Inc., Mr. Mather designed all user interfaces including its flagship patient-doctor communication system.

Jeff Loomans (Sierra Ventures) Jeff Loomans is a Venture Partner of Sierra Ventures. His investment practice focuses on Enterprise Software (CRM, Supply Chain) and Internet Infrastructure. Before joining the venture capital community, Mr. Loomans was Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Vice President of Engineering at OnLink Technologies, which was purchased by Siebel Systems, where he was Vice President of Engineering.

Matt Flannery began developing Kiva.org in late 2004 as a side-project while working as a computer programmer at TiVo Inc. In December 2005 Matt left TiVo to devote himself to Kiva.org full-time. As CEO, Matt is a 2006 Global Social Benefit Incubator entrepreneur and a featured blogger on the Skoll Foundation’s Social Edge website. He graduated with a BS in Symbolic Systems and a Masters in Analytical Philosophy from Stanford University.

Douglas Bloom is a litigation Associate in our New York office whose practice focuses on complex civil litigation and white collar criminal defense, including SEC investigations. Mr. Bloom graduated from Stanford University with both a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and M.A. in Linguistics. Mr. Bloom received his J.D., cum laude , from Harvard Law School.

Chris Maliwat Director of Product Management Chris Maliwat is the Director of Product Management of Azureus, Inc. Before joining Azureus, Chris was with eBay, Inc. responsible for defining and building buying features that enable the success of eBay? s 100+ million buyers.

Aaron Mintz , Research Associate Aaron brings to HealthTech a diverse background in IT and health care. His experiences include desktop and web based software development for Federal Express, clinical research and database design for the University of Tennessee Cancer Institute, and website development for the MayView Community Health Center, where he served on the Executive Board.

Dean Eckles is a researcher and designer focused on interactions with mobile devices and persuasive technology. He is currently a mobile research specialist at the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. His recent work includes studying context-aware mobile media sharing and consumption, privacy considerations, and disclosure behavior.

Marie White teaches 7th & 8th grade Math. She is from Austin Texas, and came to Stanford where she earned her B.S. in Symbolic Systems. Marie has been working at EPACS since 2005 in the classroom and in the library, but prior to this she volunteered for two years with the after school on a regular basis. Marie is most excited about the collective mission and dream of students, parents, and staff working to achieve together.