- Reid Hoffman
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.
- Marissa Mayer
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
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.
- Chris Phoenix
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.
- Markus A. Nordvik
Markus A. Nordvik Vice President of Strategy and Operations Markus A. Nordvik is the vice president of strategy and operations at 4INFO. In this role he is responsible for the development of 4INFO's mobile and web applications, and the operation of 4INFO's services. Markus joined as a founding engineer and has been instrumental in helping 4INFO's platform grow. Prior to 4INFO, Markus managed an engineering team at Quinstreet, an online advertising firm.
- Jon Frank
Jon is building and developing at Spock. Sweet! Mr. Frank graduated from Stanford University and leads the front-end of Spock with his unmatched ingenuity.
- Julie Stanford
I'm goal oriented!! Ican be your best friend or your worst enemy. Sales is my profession. I have two little boys that are my everything. I like nice things. I'm very cute-kinda a brat, but I have a big heart and like to help people.
- Reid Hoffman
- Joseph Smarr
Joseph Smarr is a senior software engineer at Plaxo, Inc. He has built web applications for many years, including Plaxo’s online address book and newly released web widget, and is interested in open data-sharing standards like FOA
- David J. Whelan
- Carl Wescott
Licensed California real estate salesperson and broker. Licensed securities salesperson able to sell institutional grade TICs for individual investors to 1031 in to. (Real estate) brokerage owner. (1031 Exchange) brokerage owner. Two mortgage brokerages, one as a an investor and one as a partner. Real Estate Developer in seven countries, currently. Former money-raiser. Investment-banker-to-be. Successful real estate investor. Experienced venture investor, including technology & . . .
- Ryan McIntyre
Ryan McIntyre joined Mobius Venture Capital in 2000 as an Associate Partner and was promoted to Principal in 2001. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. McIntyre co-founded Excite in 1993, which went public in 1996 and later became Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM) following the merger of Excite and @Home in 1999.
- Michael Korcuska
Michael Korcuska , Executive Director Michael Korcuska is the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation and has nearly 20 years of experience in technology-enabled education and training. Prior to joining Sakai, Michael served as Chief Operating Officer for ELT, Inc., a leading compliance training provider. He has also held leadership positions at DigitalThink (now Convergys Learning Solutions) and Cognitive Arts, an award winning custom e-learning developer.
- Tom Wasow
- Thomas Robertson
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).
- Saad Khan
Saad Khan , Partner, CMEA Ventures Saad joined CMEA Ventures in February 2007 as a Partner and is focusing on the firm's software investments. Prior to joining CMEA, Saad was a Venture Partner and lead the advisory services group at Garage Technology Ventures (GTV), a seed stage venture fund.
- Jessica Ewing
Jessica Ewing is the lead product manager for iGoogle . She launched the first version of the product in May 2005. It was the fastest growing Google product in 2006. Prior to joining Google, Jessica worked for the White House where she was a research assistant to the President's senior economic advisor. She holds a BS from Stanford University where she studied Symbolic Systems and Mathematics.
- Paul Skokowski
Paul Skokowski Consulting Associate Professor Symbolic Systems, Stanford University Visiting Associate Professor Philosophy, University of California Berkeley
- Max Klee
Max Klee has worked as the Vice President of Engineering on Seabury APG's custom- development projects. Mr. Klee has also contributed to APGDat, Seabury APG's Internet-based data portal, and to the development of this website. Mr. Klee has over 10 years of software engineering experience and 7 years of management experience leading both client and server-side development teams through many product life-cycles.
- Yul Kwon
Yul Kwon Yul Kwon - CBS Bio Yul Kwon was born in Queens, New York to parents who emigrated from South Korea. The family moved to the West Coast when he was six years old and he was raised in Concord, California. He attended high school at Northgate High in Walnut Creek, California, where he played varsity water polo and track and graduated valedictorian.
- Jeff Loomans
- John Hart
John Hart CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER,CO-FOUNDER John Hart co-founded iHance in 1999 and has served as Chief Technical Officer since that time. John brings to iHance years of technical, development and product management experience and is responsible for the technical direction of iHance, product operations, and oversees iHance’s development efforts. Prior to iHance, John was the Chief Architect at Personify.
- Rory Mather
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
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.
- Randy Jensen
Randy previously worked at Xerox PARC where he constructed a natural language generator capability in an educational tool for teaching first order logic. Randy received a BS degree with honors in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
- Matt Flannery
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.
- Tony Tulathimutte
- Todd Masonis
Todd Masonis Co-Founder & VP of Products Todd Masonis is founder and Vice-President of Products for Plaxo. In addition to sharing key management duties with Plaxo co-founder Cameron Ring and Vice-President of Engineering Rikk Carey, Masonis is Plaxo's lead user interface designer and Windows programmer.
- Douglas B. Bloom
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.
- Katherine Eng
Katherine graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems which combines Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics in an interdisciplinary program. Within Symbolic Systems, she concentrated in Human-Computer Interaction and was involved with research projects with Clifford Nass in social responses to educational learning environments as well as research in statistical machine translation.
- Chris Maliwat
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
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.
- Katie Kollitz
Katie Kollitz graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a degree in Symbolic Systems, an interdisciplinary major combining computer science, linguistics, philosophy and psychology.
- Dean Eckles
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.
- Rylan Sekiguchi
Rylan Sekiguchi has worked as a Curriculum Writer at SPICE for a year and a half. He is currently developing a curriculum unit on urbanization in China, to be used as a teacher’s guide for the documentary film Transforming the Earth, Part One: Ten Thousand Shovels, and last year served as the primary author of An Examination of War Crimes Tribunals.
- Marie White
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.
- Elaine Wherry
Elaine Wherry, Meebo co-founder
- Yul Kwon
Yul Kwon was born in Queens, New York to parents who emigrated from South Korea. The family moved to the West Coast when he was six years old and he was raised in Concord, California. He attended high school at Northgate High in Walnut Creek, California, where he played varsity water polo and track and graduated valedictorian. Kwon then attended Stanford University and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in symbolic systems (theoretical computer science).
- Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker began his career in consumer internet product development in 2004. He spent time at Homestead Technologies, Inc as a Producer where he developed operations experience in a dot-com development cycle and directed user experience initiatives. Prior to Homestead, he worked for Groupspace.org as a Developer on an internet-enabled application for asyncronous online deliberation.
- Mia Silverman
Mia helps clients build products that people can use. As a Senior Interaction Designer at Sliced Bread Design, Mia works closely with clients to understand their needs and create intuitive, compelling products. Before joining Sliced Bread Design, Mia was at Stanford University, where she graduated with honors and earned a BS in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Human Computer Interaction.