Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated.

Timothy C. Draper Founder, Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurveston Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses.

Mr. Schuler has focused on developing emerging technologies into successful enterprises for the last 25 years. An Internet pioneer, Barry spent more than seven years with AOL, where he was the chief architect of the products and services that brought the Internet to the consumer. Most recently Barry served as chairman and chief executive officer of AOL. Barry was CEO and co-founder of multimedia design firm Medior Inc. Until its acquisition by AOL in 1995.

John H. N. Fisher is a venture capitalist, best known for being a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with Timothy C. "Tim" Draper, and Steven "Steve" Jurvetson. He is also currently on the boards of companies CMI Marketing, Hands On Mobile (formerly MFORMA), Raydiance, Inc., Selectica, and Visto. He currently lives in San Francisco.

Scott Heiferman is a co-founder of the website Meetup.com, a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. As of November 2006, approximately 3 million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others.

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Alexei Andreev , Ph.D. Executive Vice President/Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, Mr. Andreev was an associate with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a venture capital firm, from 2002 to March 9, 2005. In 2001, he was a summer associate with TLcom Capital Partners, a London-based venture capital fund backed by Morgan Stanley.

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John H.N. Fisher Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson John H. N. Fisher is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Fisher serves on the boards of Airprism, Cambridge Innovations, ClubMom, Entegrity Solutions, Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC), and Soundview Technology Group (SNDV).

Each of my roles has in one way or the other involved being the "interface" between groups thinking about the future of technology: the technical and non-technical communities; the VC and the entrepreneur; the industry and academia. My current interest in pursuing technology-related issues comes from a wide range of experiences: while working in startups, large companies, venture capital, research labs and universities.

Yosi Amram , president and CEO for ValiCert "ValiCert and WISeKey have integrated their best of breed security components to create a complete, more secure infrastructure that organizations can use to protect all their e-business activities," said Yosi Amram , president and CEO for ValiCert. "This agreement will further strengthen the importance of certificate validation in conducting trusted e-commerce."

Josh Stein is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where his current board responsibilities include Box.net, Clipsync, Eventful, PayPerPost, Personiva, Polaris Wireless, SugarCRM, and ViVOTech. He is also actively involved with the firm's investment in Glam Media.

Sateesh Andra is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive, who brings vision, strategy, and leadership to Metrikus. Sateesh co-founded Metrikus in 2005, a leading provider of IT Management Software that enables Global 2000 companies to align IT with business priorities. Sateesh started his Silicon Valley career in the early nineties and brings over 15 years of engineering, product and general management experience in the software, semiconductor and internet technology businesses.

Ravi is an Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Ravi brings experiences with new ventures and established firms to his role. Prior to Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ravi worked in product management at Zaplet and Extensity and as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company's San Francisco office. Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.

—Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Investing in Nanotechnology