Speakers 2010

Adam Nash

Adam Nash, Vice President, Search, Platform & Mobile Products, LinkedIn LinkedIn


Adam Nash is Vice President of Search & Platform Products at LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network. Before LinkedIn, he held a variety of strategic and technical roles at eBay, Atlas Venture, Preview Systems, and Apple.

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Aileen Lee

Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LinkedIn


Aileen Lee is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; she joined in 1999. Her primary area of focus is working with consumer-oriented digital companies.

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Alexandra Wilson

Alexandra Wilson, Founder and CMO at Gilt Group LinkedIn


With over twelve years of international experience in luxury goods and retail, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Founder and Chief Merchandising Officer of Gilt Groupe, is on the forefront of revolutionizing and innovating the landscape of luxury e-commerce.

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Allen Morgan

Allen Morgan, MD at New Ventures, Idealab, Mayfield fund, Angel Investor LinkedIn


Allen Morgan is a Director and also serves as Managing Director of Idealab's New Ventures Group. Mr. Morgan has spent 30 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup process, first as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and, between 1999 and 2011, as a Managing Director at Mayfield.

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Annette Finsterbusch

Annette Finsterbusch, Senior Director and Partner at Applied Ventures LinkedIn


Annette Finsterbusch is a senior director for Applied Ventures in the Corporate Business Development group of Applied Materials since 2004, responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.

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Aydin Senkut

Aydin Senkut, GP at Felicis Ventures & BM at Imageshack; formerly Google & Silicon Graphics LinkedIn


Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He has been named one of the top tech angels by Businessweek and was featured as one of the top up and coming VCs by Forbes’ Midas List.

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Billy Boyle

Billy Boyle, Co-founder of Owlstone Inc. LinkedIn


Billy is the co-founder of Owlstone, a company developing a complete chemical detection system on a chip with the ability to rapidly monitor a broad range of chemicals at very low quantities with high confidence.

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Chris Lowe

Chris Lowe, University of Cambridge


As an academic-entrepreneur, Chris achieves the perfect balance between running one of the leading departments at the University of Cambridge while spinning out a steady flow of successful biotech companies and delivering pragmatic solutions to the problems facing bioscience companies around the world.

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Daniel Yates

Daniel Yates, CEO and Founder of OPOWER LinkedIn


Daniel Yates is the CEO and Founder of OPOWER, an 85-person Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency software company. As the CEO, Dan is responsible for the vision, strategy, and leadership of OPOWER. In 2009, Dan was named a "Tech Titan" by Washingtonian magazine and was a finalist for the Ernst and Young 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year award.

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David Hornik

David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital LinkedIn


For more than a decade, David Hornik has worked with technology startups throughout the software sector. In 2000, David joined August Capital to invest broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software, as well as consumer facing software and services.

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David Helliwell

David Helliwell, Co-Founder at Pulse Energy LinkedIn


Pulse Energy is led by its co-founder, David Helliwell, whose career has spanned 3 continents and has been focused on the energy sector since 1994.

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Dr. DJ Patil

Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners LinkedIn


Dr. DJ Patil is a Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners. Previously he was the Chief Product Officer at Color as well as the Chief Scientist and led the Analytics and Data Teams at the LinkedIn Corporation. At LinkedIn was responsible for all analytics projects including reporting, web analytics, as well as products on the site that leverage LinkedIn's unique data set. Some of these products include, People You May Know, Who's Viewed My Profile, Talent Match, Skills, Career Explorer, and the other recommendation engines.

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Ellen Levy

Ellen Levy, Strategic Alliances at Linkedin, SSRC; formerly Stanford University Mediax, Softbank, & Apple LinkedIn


Ellen has served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at LinkedIn since 2008.

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Gil Penchina

Gil Penchina, CEO at Wikia, Investor at Linkedin, Evite, Paypal; formerly executive roles at eBay, Bain, GE LinkedIn


Gil Penchina is currently CEO of Wikia Inc. He is focused on making the world of information free, in every language in the world.

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Greg Joswiak

Greg Joswiak, Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Apple


Profile is forthcoming

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Hans Peter Brondmo

Hans Peter Brondmo, Director of Social Experience Group at Nokia LinkedIn


Hans Peter is a successful serial entrepreneur and executive who has spent his career at the intersection of technology innovation and empowering consumers. He has invented several novel software applications and services and built businesses that help people better communicate and connect.

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John Lilly

John Lilly, Venture Partner, Greylock Partners LinkedIn


John is a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, where he invests in early stage technology companies. He was also the chief executive officer of Mozilla, where he was responsible for guiding the product and organizational development efforts for the global organization behind the Firefox web browser.

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Joi Ito

Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons LinkedIn


Joichi Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He is also General Manager of Neoteny Labs and the Chair of Creative Commons.

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Jose Ferreira

Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton LinkedIn


Jose Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Knewton, the world's leading adaptive learning company. Jose earned his MBA from Harvard and was formerly an executive at Kaplan, where he led a company-wide engineering effort to redesign the company's courses. Most recently, he was a Partner at New Atlantic Ventures (formerly Draper Atlantic), investing in new media and SaaS companies.

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Julie Hanna

Julie Hanna, Chair of the Board, Kiva LinkedIn


Julie Hanna is Chair of the Board at Kiva, the world's largest crowd-sourced, micro-lending website. She is a Board Member at Socialtext and an advisor to Idealab. In addition, she advises fellow entrepreneurs, CEO's and venture investors of a number of emerging and later stage internet companies and social ventures, and is an angel investor.

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Kerry Haley

Kerry Haley, Vice President of Power and Process at Strategic Project Solutions LinkedIn


In her role as Vice President, Power and Process at Strategic Project Solutions, Ms. Haley is responsible for all strategicrelationships and program development in the Power and Process sectors, assisting owners in the effective delivery of complex and critical construction projects.

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Kim Polese

Kim Polese, Advisor at Clearstreet; formerly founder and CEO of Marimba, Sun Microsystems LinkedIn


Kim Polese formerly the CEO of SpikeSource, Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley.

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Laurie Yoler

Laurie Yoler, Managing Director at GrowthPoint Technology Partners LinkedIn


As Managing Director at GrowthPoint Technology Partners, Ms. Yoler helps entrepreneurs to build strategic alliances, complete M&A transactions and raise capital.

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Marc Tarpenning

Marc Tarpenning, Co-founder of Tesla Motors, Inc and NuvoMedia, Inc LinkedIn


Marc Tarpenning is the co-founder of Tesla Motors. He is currently advising several startup companies and looking at other opportunities in the areas of sustainable transportation, energy storage, alternative power generation and related information systems.

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Megan Smith

Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org LinkedIn


Megan oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships, explorations and technology licensing. She also leads the Google.org team, guiding strategy and developing new partnerships and internal projects with Google's engineering and product teams.

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Michael Shepherd

Michael Shepherd, Founder of GrowthPoint


Michael Shepherd was founder of GrowthPoint. His technology experience as a CEO, operational executive, software engineer, consultant, financial advisor, investor and board member – has given him an unusual mix of expertise. Mr. Shepherd is an expert in software and service company growth, technology, marketing and finance strategy, software development and implementation and acquisition and divestiture transactions.

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Mike Schroepfer

Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering, Facebook LinkedIn


Mike Schroepfer is the Vice President of Engineering at Facebook. Mike is responsible for harnessing the engineering organization's culture of speed, creativity and exploration to build products, services and infrastructure that support the company's users, developers and partners around the world.

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Mike Lynch

Mike Lynch, CEO and founder of Autonomy


Dr Mike Lynch is the chief executive officer of Autonomy Corporation plc, which he also founded in 1996. It is now a world leading company specialising in infrastructure software for the enterprise and which is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement.

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Nancy Lublin

Nancy Lublin, CEO & Chief Old Person, DoSomething.org LinkedIn


Nancy Lublin is the CEO and Chief Old Person of DoSomething.org's, that supports and awards grant money to young people who want to make a difference.

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Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn LinkedIn


Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. His areas of focus include consumer Internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, and social networks. Reid likes to work with products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects.

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Shaukat Shamim

Shaukat Shamim, Founder and CEO of Buysight LinkedIn


Shaukat is CEO and Founder of Buysight, Inc. Prior to Buysight, Shaukat founded Rhythm NewMedia, an industry leading startup that pioneered mobile video advertising where he was a member of the Board of Directors and played the role of CTO and Senior Vice President of Business Development.

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Sheila Marcelo

Sheila Marcelo, CEO of Care.com LinkedIn


Sheila founded Care.com, the largest and fastest growing service used by families to find high-quality caregivers, from childcare to senior care to household services. Prior to Care.com, Sheila served as an executive at successful Internet companies Upromise, a service helping families save for college; and TheLadders.com, an executive job search engine.

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Sherry Coutu

Sherry Coutu, co-Chair of Silicon Valley Comes to the UK LinkedIn


Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. As an angel investor, she loves working with great entrepreneurs to solve problems that matter and specialises in consumer internet, information services and education. She has made angel investments in more than 40 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms.

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Sonia Arrison

Sonia Arrison, BM at Singularity University, Author and Columnist LinkedIn


Sonia Arrison is a futurist and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for more than a decade.

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Ted Shelton

Ted Shelton, CEO of Gemz Inc LinkedIn


Ted Shelton is the CEO of Gemz Inc. For the five year prior to starting Gemz, Ted has been a consultant working with clients such as Alcatel-Lucent, General Motors, and Thomson Reuters on innovation and market ecosystem projects.

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Thomas Ryan

Thomas Ryan, CEO of Threadless LinkedIn


Entrepreneur, board member and investor who has repeatedly built successful businesses that advance the creative arts through Internet technology.

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