- 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. - Patrick Watson
Patrick Watson, C.C. (born December 23, 1929) has been a prolific and outspoken Canadian broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director for five decades. Born in Toronto, Watson attended the University of Toronto and graduated with an MA, then completed his doctorate in Michigan. Watson first achieved national fame (and in some quarters, … - Antonia Zerbisias
Antonia Zerbisias (born Montreal) is a Canadian journalist. She has been a reporter and TV host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as the Montreal correspondent for "Variety" trade paper. She was nominated for ACTRA awards for her documentary writing in 1980 and 1981. In the 1980s she returned to school to earn her MBA (Marketing Research, Honours, 1985), while still working as a journalist for CBC-TV and "Variety". - Larry Augustin
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. - Dianne Buckner
Dianne Buckner is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a host of business-oriented programming, such as "Venture" and "Dragon's Den", on CBC Television. She has also been a guest anchor on CBC news programs such as "CBC News: Sunday", "Midday" and "As It Happens". - John Sculley
Mr. Sculley is currently a Venture Partner with Rho Capital Partner. Prior to joining Rho in 2004, Mr. Sculley worked at Sculley Brothers LLC, a private investment firm that he founded in 1995. Previously, Mr. Sculley was CEO of Apple Computer from 1983 until 1993. For five years prior to joining Apple, Mr. Sculley was President and CEO of PepsiCo, Inc. He a is co-founder and board member of companies such as InPhonic, Identrust, Radiospire, TelloCorp and Verified Person. - Arun Katiyar
Arun Katiyar is essentially a media expert with over two decades of professional experience. He has worked as Journalist and editor with the India Today Group. A savvy media person, Arun was the founder and Chief Operating Officer of the India Today Group’s online venture and was instrumental in setting up their online global syndication business. He has also produced a rock album for CBS and has authored a book for Harper Collins Publishers. - Joseph W. Ferman
Joseph Ferman (1906-1974) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction publisher. Ferman moved to the United States of America and began working on the magazine "American Mercury", the primary publication of the Mercury Press, which added "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" in 1941. He was involved with the founding of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1949, and became the magazine's publisher in 1954, … - John Geisse
John F. Geisse (died Feb. 21, 1992) was a major retail pioneer. He is the author of the "better quality discount store concept in America" often called "upscale discount store concept" and was inducted into the "Discount Store News's" Discount Hall of Fame in 1984. During his retailing career, he launched three successful retail chains. In 1962, he founded and launched the chain Target for the Dayton Company, now known as Target Corporation. - Venture Smith
Venture Smith (1729 - 1805) was an African slave brought to the American colonies as a child. His history was documented when he gave a narrative of his life to a schoolteacher, who wrote it down and published it under the title "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself". Venture Smith was born Broteer Furro in Dukandarra, Guinea. - Joseph Dilorenzo
Joseph G. "Joe" DiLorenzo is a Massachusetts-based U.S. businessman and entrepreneur. He worked for many years with the Boston Celtics, primarily as CFO or Senior V.P. of Administration, including roles that helped take the Boston Celtics public on the New York Stock Exchange. Before his work with the Celtics, DiLorenzo had leadership roles with the Boston Garden/Boston Bruins for eleven years. - Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice". - 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. - 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. - 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. - Dr Christian George Mayaud MD
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Jaideep Singh is a co-founder and CEO of SPOCK. Prior to SPOCK, Jaideep was an early stage venture capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. He got his MBA from the Wharton School in 2002 and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1991. He also completed all the required coursework for his MS in Computer Engineering. From 1992 to 2000 Jaideep worked in various marketing and engineering roles, mostly at Wind River. He started his engineering career at IBM - Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 107th richest person in the world. - Yevgen Mitsay
Business Development Manager/Consultant with experience in ODC (Offshore Development Center) sector. - David Sze
David joined Greylock in 2000. His areas of focus include: consumer internet, wireless data, broadband, systems management, security, and technology-assisted marketing services. Before coming to Greylock, David was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and VP of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts and Crystal . . . - Jean-Marc Taverney
- 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. - Mitchell Kertzman
Mitchell Kertzman is a venture capitalist with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and former CEO of Sybase, Powersoft, and Liberate Technologies. - 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. - Bob Kagle
With over 20 years of venture capital investment experience, Bob is a veteran of the venture industry. Prior to Benchmark, Bob spent 12 years as a General Partner with Technology Venture Investors. Before TVI, Bob worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he focused on issues of corporate strategy in industries ranging from retail distribution to high technology manufacturing. - Martha A Alburquerque
Martha, is a true entrepreneur, one of the most successful in NYC--having owned 3 successful businesses. She left the finance industry to explore a career that involved her passions of writing, fashion, and luxury goods and currently runs a social diary, Lela Luxe. Where fans follow her as she attends private events in NYC. She discusses the latest in high fashion trends and entertainment on the fabulous and the not so dainty. She is a personal stylist. - Paul Graham
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common Lisp" (1995), and "Hackers & Painters" (2004). - John Ricci
My area of expertise is preparation for funding,raising funds, due diligence for companies seeking capital; more generally business development, sales, marketing , customer acquisition and overall business strategy as well as interim management. - 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, … - David Stern
David Stern is a Venture Partner at Clearstone where he focuses on developing early stage investment opportunities at the intersection of consumer technology and media. ... David is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of San Diego School of Law. He sits as an advisor or board member of Clearstone portfolio companies SoonR, Rubicon Project and Spock Networks. - Stewart Alsop
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (May 17, 1914 - May 26, 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst. Born and raised in Avon, Connecticut, Alsop attended Groton School and Yale University. After graduating from Yale in 1936, Alsop moved to New York City, where he worked as an editor for the publishing house of Doubleday, Doran. After the United States entered World War II, Alsop joined the British Army, … - Randell Mills
Randell L. Mills (born September 3, 1957) is a U.S. scientist and inventor best known as the chief proponent of the controversial hydrino theory. This theory introduces a new model of atomic chemistry which predicts another form of the hydrogen atom called a "hydrino"; according to this theory forcing a hydrogen atom from its conventional state into the hydrino state would liberate intense amounts of energy (1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel, according to Mills). - E. Floyd Kvamme
Earl Floyd Kvamme (born 1938) is an American engineer, venture capitalist, and government advisor. - Joel Block
Often dubbed a "Growth Architect" by his clients, Joel Block delights in the challenge of starting businesses, growing them, and helping them realize their highest potential. Well-known and respected in his field both nationally and internationally, Joel has enjoyed the opportunity to assist start-up, pre-revenue, and middle market businesses in a variety of industries through his advisory services and professional speaking engagements including conferences, workshops, . . . - Georges Doriot
Georges F. Doriot (Paris, France, September 1899 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 1987) was one of the first American venture capitalists. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the first publicly owned venture capital firm. - John H. N. Fisher
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. - Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Arnold clearly harbored political ambitions for a long time. In 1977, six years before he became a US citizen, he told a German magazine: "When one has money, one day it becomes less interesting. And when one is also the best in film, what can be more interesting? Perhaps power. Then one moves into politics and becomes governor or president or something." He realized that one day his movie-making days were numbered and began thinking about a career in politics. - Rahul Bhandari
Rahul Bhandari is the Founding Managing Director of Paras Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting group for high-tech companies. He leverages over fifteen years of experience in venture development, M&A integration, and leading large-scale complex change programs to help companies succeed on a strategic and tactical basis. - John T. Walton
John Thomas Walton (October 8 1946 - June 27, 2005) was a son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton was a graduate of Bentonville High School, a public high school, where he was a star football player. Walton went on to continue his studies at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He later dropped out in order to enlist in the U.S. Army and fight in the Vietnam War.
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