- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. - Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American financier, entrepreneur, and prominent donor to charities focusing on economic liberty and technology. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and is its former CEO. Thiel once proposed that PayPal could be a catalyst for change in world politics. From Foster City, California, Thiel is an avowed libertarian. He studied 20th-century philosophy at Stanford University before going on to Stanford Law School. - Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Poona) is an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. - John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor. - Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Steve Jurvetson
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. - Duncan Riley
Duncan Riley (born September 4, 1975) is a blogger and former Vice President of b5media which he founded along with Darren Rowse, Jeremy Wright and was later joined by Shai Coggins. He lives in Australind, Western Australia, Australia. - Sean Parker
Sean Parker (born 3 December, 1979) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. Parker gained early notoriety as a co-founder of Napster Inc. in 1999. An IRC friend of Shawn Fanning, Parker helped convince Fanning to incorporate Napster as a business. He joined Fanning in California and developed the early business strategy of the firm. - Tom Perkins
Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - David Williams
David J. Williams is the Chief Executive of Avanti Communications Group plc, the UK's only Fixed and Broadcast Satellite Operator, listed on the London Stock Exchange. He also previously created Avanti Screenmedia Group plc (www.avanti-screenmedia.com), where he was instrumental in the development of the digital signage market in the UK between 2000 and 2006. - Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is a venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. He was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951. Rock started his career in 1951 as a security analyst in New York City, … - Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics. - Philip Greenspun
Philip Greenspun is a semi-retired American computer scientist, educator, and early internet entrepreneur who was a pioneer in developing online communities. Greenspun was born on September 28, 1963, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and received an S.B. degree in Mathematics from MIT in 1982. After working for Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Palo Alto and Symbolics, he became a founder of ICAD, Inc. - Josh Kopelman
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation - an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. - Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy founded Brightcove in early 2004 with a vision for the transformation of television with the Internet. As President of Brightcove, Jeremy leads the company's technology, marketing and business development strategy. - Ronald Cohen
Sir Ronald Cohen (born 1945) is an Egyptian-born British businessman and political figure, known as "the father of British venture capital". - Sean Wise
Sean Wise (born September 23, 1970) is a Canadian expert on venture capital. He uses this expertise in his various roles as mentor capitalist (mentor to young firms), international business speaker, business columnist for "The Globe and Mail" in Canada, and as a consultant for CBC on the venture reality show "Dragon's Den". In addition, he is the host of his own blog/podcast/vodcast which focuses on current technology and venture trends, … - Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner (May 12, 1923 - 20 November 2003) was one of the original founders of Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including Amazon.com, AOL, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Hybritech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Netscape, Quantum, Segway, … - Rachel Elnaugh
Rachel Elnaugh (born 12 December 1964) is a British entrepreneur, who came to prominence as an investor on the BBC Two TV series "Dragons' Den" in which hers was the sole female perspective alongside four male Dragons. She attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She originally wanted to take art history, but a bad teacher's reference led to her becoming an accountant instead. - Philip Yea
Yea was in such demand in 2004 that he turned down the chief executive's job at British Land to take the same title at 3i Group, where he became the first "outsider" to run the company. He joined after five years in private equity with Investcorp and quickly showed his independence by changing the co-investment rules for 3i executives - the group was previously different from other private equity firms in that managers were not obliged to put their money into deals. - Ken Olsen
Kenneth Harry Olsen (born on February 20, 1926) is an American engineer who cofounded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson and venture capital provided by Georges Doriot's American Research and Development Corporation. He was born in Stratford, Connecticut. Olsen was a Massachusetts engineer who had been working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on the TX-2 project. - Mark Walsh
Mark Walsh is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. Walsh is the managing partner of Ruxton Ventures, LLC, a private equity and investment firm he founded in early 2001. He is also a senior executive fellow at the University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. His former jobs include CEO of VerticalNet, America Online executive, and president of GEnie. - Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet - David Levy
David Levy - inventor with over a dozen patents, he also served as "Inventor in Residence" to Arthur D. Little Consulting. He received his B.S., M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1997) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He is a Manhattan Beach, California native, but now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1989, he started his first company TH, Inc., without venture capital to license his own patents. In 1999, Levy started a new company, Digit Wireless, … - Timothy C. Draper
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. - Anne Glover
Anne Glover is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover has also had significant operating experience with Virtuality Group plc, … - Mark Skapinker
Mark Skapinker , a software industry veteran, is a member of Maximizer's board. Mark co-founded Delrina Corporation, which created Winfax, one of the most popular Windows programs of all time. Mark was President of Delrina until Symantec acquired it in 1995 for over $600 million. In 1997, Mark founded Balisoft Technologies which joined with Servicesoft Technologies in 1999 to become the first major vendor offering comprehensive customer service solutions via the interest. - Belmiro de Azevedo
Belmiro de Azevedo (February 17 1938) is a Portuguese entrepreneur, ranked by Forbes as the 407th richest person in the world (2005), as well as the richest in Portugal with an estimated wealth of $2.3 billion dollars. He owns Sonae SGPS, one of the largest business groups in Portugal, which also operates in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy and Brazil; Is a Portuguese leader in real estate and retailing and also has investments in telecommunications, tourism, … - Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson is a London based venture capitalist. Wilson was an Open Scholar at Oxford University, and a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School - the school's top award. In 2004, "Private Equity International" magazine named his 1998 management buyout of environmental services firm Safety-Kleen Europe the "European mid-market deal of the year," after the business was sold for £280 million to JP Morgan. - Scott Sassa
Scott Sassa is currently Founder and CEO of uber.com a consumer internet site. Prior to that, he served as Residence with Kleiner Perkins, a leading technology venture capital firm. From 2004 to 2005, he served as President and CEO of Friendster, a top 50 Internet site that pioneered social networking. Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital. - David Cooksey
Sir David James Scott Cooksey, GBE (born 14 May 1940) is a British businessman, venture capitalist and politician. David Cooksey gained a degree in metallurgy at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. He embarked on a career as an industrial engineer, rising through the management of the company Formica International, and finally leading the management buy-out of a subsidiary in 1971. - Laurance Rockefeller
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to John D. III, Nelson, Winthrop and David. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Ziad K. Abdelnour (Ziad Khalil Abdelnour) is a New York-based financier and venture capitalist. He is also the founder and president of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), an advocacy organization which established the "Middle East Intelligence Bulletin" in 1999, a joint publication of Middle East Forum, founded by Daniel Pipes. Abdelnour was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1961. - David Wilhelm
David Wilhelm (born October 2 1956) is an American political operative and businessman. A native of Appalachian Ohio, Wilhelm is a venture capitalist who focuses on spurring sustainable economic growth in areas that tend not to receive much investment. He received his B.A. from Ohio University, Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and honorary doctorates from Ohio University and the University of Charleston. - Jonathan Shieber
Jonathan Shieber is a business journalist for Dow Jones. He covers green technology for the company's newsletters division, which is part of the enterprise media group. Before switching to green technology, he covered information technology, open source software and other specific areas of technology. On those beats, he broke several important stories on software, cleantech, and corporate investing. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, … - Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini is the founder and managing partner of Noventi/CIR Ventures, an early stage, Silicon Valley based, technology venture capital firm. Noventi past investments include Bitfone acquired by HP, Easy Market acquired by TUI, M7 acquired by BEA Systems, Sygate acquired by Symantec. From 1995 to 2001 Marini was a private venture investor, investing in and advising a portfolio of technology companies, including Teknema, acquired by Axeda, and PCTEL. - Barbara Cassani
Barbara Ann Cassani, CBE, (born July 22 1960) is an American businesswoman. She was the founder under British Airways of budget airline Go Fly and was the first leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Barbara Cassani was born in Boston to James Cassani and his wife Noreen. She studied at Mount Holyoke College, graduating "magna cum laude" with a BA (Hons) international relations in 1982; and is also a former trustee of Mount Holyoke. - Sergio Monsalve
Sergio Monsalve is a Principal at Norwest Venture Partners NVP. Sergio brings to Norwest Venture Partners over 12 years of operational experience in marketing, product management, business development, sales and finance from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on investments in the consumer internet, media and software sectors. Prior to NVP, Sergio was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Trinity Ventures, …
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