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Hans Peter Brondmo, Plum LinkedIn Profile

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 new applications and built several businesses that help people better communicate and connect. In 1996 Hans Peter founded Post Communications a pioneering email marketing software-as-a-service (SAS) company. Post was acquired by Netcentives in 2000. Prior to Post Hans Peter co-founded DiVA which brought digital video editing to consumers in the early 90s. DiVA was acquired by Avid Technology in 1993. He has written a NYT bestselling book on Email Relationship Marketing and has testified at US Senate and FCC hearings on Internet privacy and spam. Hans Peter´s last start-up, Plum, lets small groups of people create social online spaces where they can share media, post updates and have conversations. Plum aims to be the perfect way for private sharing among groups such as families, co-workers and close friends. It was acquired in September of 2009 by Nokia where Hans Peter is now head of social services.

Website: www.plum.com

Brett Bullington, Angel Investor LinkedIn Profile

Brett is a currently an active Angel Investor and Board member with the following affiliations: Advisory Board at Carolina for Kibera; Oodle, Founding Chairman; Digg, Board member; Kongregate, Advisory Board Member; Wikia, Investor; NextNewNetworks, Board member; Aardvark, Investor. Prior Board affiliations have included JotSpot (sold to Google), Flickr (sold to Yahoo), and Cameraworld (sold to Ritz Camera). In addition, he was an Executive Vice President at Excite as well as an executive at Computer Associates. Brett is also a Dad (to a 17 year old boy and a 14 year old girl) and hack gardener (lettuce, tomatoes, basil, pumpkins, blueberries, apples, pears, peppers).

Hugh Campbell, G P Bullhound LinkedIn Profile

Hugh has a mixture of traditional City and entrepreneurial experience. A graduate from Pembroke College, Oxford with a BSc in Physiology and Psychology, Hugh started his career at Citibank in Mergers and Acquisitions. Hugh went on to move to Goldman Sachs where worked in Equity Research. He was part of a two-man team ranked by Reuters in 1998 and 1999 as the number one research team in Europe and was involved in the merger of Daimler Benz and Chrysler. In early 2000 Hugh left Goldman Sachs and founded a marketing company working in China. Through this venture he has experienced firsthand the difficulties and frustrations of raising venture capital. Hugh founded GP Bullhound with Manish Madhvani, Per Roman and Christian Lagerling and he specializes in raising finance and M&A for technology and media companies. The company has raised money for over 20 companies in the last two years. Hugh is also on the Board of Pastest Limited, a specialist publishing house in the medical sector.

Website: www.gpbullhound.com

Bob Cart, Greenvolts

Before founding GreenVolts, Bob spent over 20 years in leadership positions starting with Industrial Cutting Die (ICD), a precision machine tool manufacturer. As its CEO, and later board member, Bob was responsible for all facets of the business which led to its later sale to Enefco International. He later became Senior VP of Product & Brand Management for 1st Financial Bank USA and President of its 1FB.net subsidiary. Bob was VP of Engineering for Cybergold, where he helped lead that company to its $174 million IPO. Bob was inspired to invent the company’s patent-pending CarouSol concentrating PV technology while on an 18 month Pacific ocean voyage. The technical challenges of living off the grid in a brutal ocean environment helped drive the efficiency and reliability of the GreenVolts technology design. Bob’s vision, leadership, and technical expertise are helping GreenVolts reach its mission to deliver the world’s lowest cost solar energy solution on a massive scale.

Website: www.greenvolts.com

Limvirak Chea, Google LinkedIn Profile

Limvirak joined Google strategic partnerships team in 2006, focusing on mobile and distribution. He started Google’s new business development team in Europe Middle East and Africa in 2008, helping product and engineering bring new products to market by doing early-stage and exploratory deals, and by engaging with the tech community. Limvirak graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris with a Diplôme d’Ingénieur, and from Cornell University with a Master of Electrical Engineering.

David Cleevely, Angel investor LinkedIn Profile

David Cleevely is an entrepreneur and business angel who has founded a series of companies and acted as government advisor. He is Chairman of CRFS, the spectrum monitoring company, which he co-founded in July 2007, and the founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004). David’s business and internet expertise were central to the formation of Abcam (ABC.L), which he co-founded in 1998. In late 2004 he co-founded the 3G pico base station company, 3WayNetworks, which was sold to Airvana in April 2007. He joined the Board of Trutap (formerly Hotxt) - a mobile phone social networking provider in October 2005 and joined the Board of ionscope in 2007 and became Chairman in May 2008. David has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless, co-founder and member of the board of Cambridge Angels and is a member of the IET Telecoms Sector Panel. For 8 years until March 2009 he had been a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board, and recently held an Industrial Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He has recently taken up the post of Founding Director of the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge.

Sherry Coutu, Nesta & Cambridge University LinkedIn Profile

Sherry Coutu pursues a portfolio of interests which include early stage technology investing and serving on the boards of companies and charities. A serial entrepreneur now turned investor, her current activities include positions with Cambridge University, Cambridge University Press, New Energy Finance, Linkedin, NESTA, The Prince´s Trust, Cancer Research UK and others.

Simon Daniel, Moixa Energy Profile

Simon founded Moixa and associated ventures. He previously invented/licensed the PDA Folding keyboard, which has sold approx 2m units. He was formerly a Senior Manager with Accenture, where he helped create the global business launch centre practice, helping numerous start-ups and new technologies come to market, and was a frequent speaker/evangelist for new technology.

Website: www.moixaenergy.com

Caterina Fake, Flickr

Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur who co-founded Flickr. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Caterina attended Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991. After moving to San Francisco in 1994, Caterina became involved in the early days of the web, first at Organic Online and then as the Art Director at Salon.com. After moving to Vancouver in 2001, she setup Ludicorp in 2002. Two years later she co-founded Flickr the photo-sharing service. The site soon became a global phenomenon and now contains over 3 billion photos. In 2005 Flickr was acquired by Yahoo! where Caterina became head of the Technology Development group where she stayed until June 2008. A year later, in June 2009, she launched Hunch, a collective intelligence decision-making system that uses decision trees to make decisions based on users' interests. Caterina has won many awards, including BusinessWeek's Best Leaders of 2005, Forbes 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. She sits on the board of Etsy, and advises many startups and new businesses. She lives in San Francisco and New York.

Website: www.flickr.com / www.hunch.com
Blog: www.caterina.net/

Julie Hanna Farris, Kiva LinkedIn Profile

Julie Hanna is Chair of the Board at Kiva, the world's first peer-peer micro-lending website, Board Member at Socialtext, a leading Enterprise 2.0 social networking platform, Advisory Board Chair at Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTU) and former advisor to Web 2.0 start-up Plum (recently acquired by Nokia NYSE: NOK). She advises fellow entrepreneurs, CEO's and venture investors of emerging and later stage companies. Julie has been an entrepreneur, CEO and founding executive to several successful consumer internet and business software startups. Most recently she was founder & CEO of Scalix, a pioneer and a global leader in open source software. Julie started Scalix during her tenure as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mayfield, a leading Silicon Valley venture firm. Previously, Julie was a founding executive at onebox.com (acquired by phone.com now OpenWave, Nasdaq: OPWV), where she and her team brought to market the fastest growing internet communications service in 1999; Portola, where she was instrumental to the acquisition by Netscape; 2Bridge, where she coined the term "enterprise portal" and championed the creation of a new software category, and Healtheon (now WebMD, Nasdaq: WBMD).

Website: www.kiva.org

Andrew Gamble, University of Cambridge Profile

Andrew Gamble is Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Politics and INternational Studies at the University of Cambridge. He joined the Department in 2007. Before that he was Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, where he was a founder member and subsequently the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre, and a Pro Vice-Chancellor. He read economics at Cambridge for his first degree, then political theory at Durham before returning to Cambridge for his PhD in social and political sciences. He is a joint editor of New Political Economy and The Political Quarterly, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences. He was awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust in 2004, and in 2005 received the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies from the UK Political Studies Association.

Nick Heller, Google LinkedIn Profile

Based in London, Nick Heller is responsible for strategic partnerships at Google within the media & publishing sector. He is tasked with identifying, structuring, and negotiating the syndication of Google products; thereby creating commercial partnerships across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nick has a rich history of managing digital media products within an entrepreneurial environment. Prior to joining Google, he worked for MTV Networks UK & Ireland, where he created the digital strategy and led new cross platform initiatives. In 2002, he founded Degrees Of Separation, a tech constancy and ebusiness network, linking blue chip organizations throughout North America with specialized software development firms. He started his career in Investment Banking for RBC Capital Markets and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn LinkedIn Profile

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal where he was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Reid was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in significant technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy and a Marshall scholarship.

Bill Janeway, Warburg Pincus Profile

Dr. William H. Janeway received his doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was Valedictorian of the Class of 1965 at Princeton University. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1988, Dr. Janeway was Executive Vice President and Director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of Fortent, O’Reilly Media, Roubini Global Economics, Nuance Communications, NYFIX and Wall Street Systems. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge and Co-Chair of Cambridge's 800th Anniversary Capital Campaign and a Founder Member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). Dr. Janeway is a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council.

Patrick Jenkins, Financial Times

Patrick Jenkins was appointed banking editor for the Financial Times in June 2009. He covers major global banks with a particular focus on Europe, as well as leading the FT's 10-strong global financial services reporting team. Prior to this post he was companies editor and assistant editor, and before that he was the editor of international company news. Jenkins joined the FT Group in 1996 as editor of the newsletter FT world insurance report, before becoming UK companies reporter in 2000. Prior to taking up the post as international company news editor, Jenkins spent four years in Germany as Frankfurt correspondent for the FT.

Rob Jonas, Google LinkedIn Profile

Rob joined Google’s Strategic Partnerships team in 2006, currently is in the role of Director of Strategic Partnerships. He previously has 12 years experience in all aspects of high-growth technology businesses, from startups and incubators to public companies across Europe, the US and Asia. Initially trained as both a systems engineer and management consultant at IBM Global Services, Rob worked in the investment banking and telecommunications sectors. He launched his first Internet start-up in 1999 through the innovation lab of a UK insurance provider, he then went on to join Bill Gross’ idealab! to accelerate its launch in Europe. He went on to work with multiple idealab! portfolio companies expanding into Europe in roles encompassing sales, strategy, product and business development, M&A and general management. Bob moved to Overture (GoTo.com) at the start of the paid search market in Europe and was a key contributor to its expansion across more than 10 markets prior to its acquisition in 2003 by Yahoo!

Salar Kamangar, Google Profile

Salar Kamangar is Vice President of Google's Web Applications, including Google Mail, Talk, Calendar, Reader, orkut, Blogger, Picasa, Video, Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations and Checkout. Previously, he was Vice President of Product Management for Google's advertising and monetisation products, including the AdWords programme, which he defined with a small engineering team. Today, AdWords is the foundation for Google's syndication on partner sites and serves as the engine that drives Google's revenue. Prior to that, Salar created the company's first business plan and was responsible for its legal and finance functions. From there, he became a founding member of Google's product team, where he worked on consumer projects including the acquisition of DejaNews and the subsequent launch of Google Groups. Salar earned his Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences with honours from Stanford University.

Blake Krikorian, Sling media LinkedIn Profile

Blake Krikorian is an accomplished entrepreneur whose companies, over the past 19 years, have revolutionized the way people engage with and consume TV and digital media. Blake most recently served as the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Sling Media Inc., makers of the Emmy award winning Slingbox. Sling was acquired by EchoStar Holding Corporation in October, 2007. Blake subsequently left the company in January 2009. Prior to starting Sling Media, Blake founded id8 Group Holdings, a firm that advised industry-leading companies on product strategy and also invested in new product creation. Blake currently sits on the Board of Industry Leaders for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the board of CDN start-up BitGravity, Inc. Blake studied at UCL earning a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He started his career at General Magic in the early 1990’s. General Magic was spun out of Apple Computer and created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript. In 1994, he co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line. In 1997, Blake left Philips to serve as senior vice president at Metis Associates. He led the creation of Metis' first incubated company, Mainbrace Corporation, which developed and licensed digital media, mobile communication and computing software/hardware technologies to system OEMs, service providers, and semiconductor vendors.

Website: www.slingmedia.com

Mark Mitchell, Serious Materials LinkedIn Profile

Mr. Mitchell brings over 20 years of operating and business development experience in technology, energy, services and legal industries. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded and run a number of companies in the Silicon Valley. Mr. Mitchell led the management teams at: Intematix (global leader in next-generation electronic materials development, including solid state lighting solutions and energy storage/clean energy materials technologies), First to File (enterprise class IP management services used by Global 1000 companies), Law.com (leading provider of legal content and industry specific software services) and eMeter (the industry leading provider of enterprise-scale energy information management solutions to utilities worldwide). Mr. Mitchell is a co-founder of eMeter and played a key role in developing its plan and strategy for enabling real time energy efficiency and sustainability alternatives. Mr. Mitchell earlier spent ten years working as an attorney in private practice primarily as strategic corporate counsel. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the Pacific, a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, and a Masters from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as a distinguished Sloan Fellow.

Website: www.seriousmaterials.com

Allen Morgan, Mayfield fund LinkedIn Profile

Allen is a venture capital partner at the Mayfield Fund. His principal focus is on start-ups in the area of consumer internet services, interactive entertainment, online advertising and new media. Prior to joining Mayfield, Allen was a partner with two renowned Silicon Valley law firms, Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In his career, he has closed more than 750 venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Allen earned an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College, a second bachelor's degree and master's degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Website: www.mayfield.com

John (Toby) Prehn, G2 Energy

Toby is the founder of G2 energy which builds landfill gas to electricity plants, using naturally occurring methane. After graduating from the University of California, Toby has been a pioneer of the asset-backed securitization industry since 1989. Over the past twenty years Toby has founded a number of receivable and other specialty finance companies. The companies funded by Toby include, Peteco, United American Funding, Onyx Ventures, Commercial Lending Corporation, Consummate Group, Judgment Purchase Corporation, Default Recovery Corporation, American Direct Credit, Aviation Finance Group, A10 Capital and foreclosure Finance. These companies include some of the first to securitize private jet loans, franchise loans and micro-ticket leases.

Website: g2energy.com/

James Rosenthal, Google

James joined Google in June 2007 to lead Google Checkout's relationship with eCommerce software houses. He has since co-developed the Google Analytics and Conversion Partner Program and is now running several of Google's global relationships with the Big-6 ad networks. James was a founder and Head of New Business at Fortress GB, one of the world's leading RFID solution providers. Fortress solutions are used at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, Wembley Stadium, WorldCup 2010 venues and over 50 stadiums worldwide. James, who started out as solicitor, is a serial entrepreneur, with a string of succesful ventures to his name, including a creative agency and a limousine hire business.

Jeff Saperstein, Jeff Saperstein & Associates LinkedIn Profile

Jeff is an author, teacher, consultant, and enabler in how technology can be used to create growth in regional economic development and success for organizations. His new book Bust the Silos: Opening Your Organization for Growth, co-authored with Hunter Hastings, explains the new business growth paradigm of Demand Creation and associated innovations in organizational design, processes and technology. His books and case studies are focused upon best practices for innovation. “Toyota: Driving the Mainstream Market to Purchase Hybrid Electronic Vehicles” is one of Richard Ivey Business School top ten most popular case studies. He has worked with governments, corporations, and NGO's to use marketing to increase growth. Jeff teaches writing and speaking at San Francisco State University and on-site at Cisco and other corporations. Jeff also hosts International MBA groups for immersion tours in Silicon Valley and leads technology bloggers (Traveling Geeks) to document regional centers of innovation excellence including Israel and London/Cambridge.

Website: www.creatingregionalwealth.com

Jigar Shah, Carbon War Room LinkedIn Profile

Jigar Shah is CEO of Carbon War Room, an organization that specializes in low-carbon solutions for businesses. He is an expert in renewable energy with a wide knowledge of both solar and wind power, and alternative fuels. Prior to Carbon War Room, Shah founded SunEdison in 2003 and revolutionized the solar industry by developing a business model to sell solar as a service. He has also held positions at BP Solar as Manager for the US Marketing Group and Head of US Commercial Sales. Shah’s experience in the renewable energy sector also includes time at Energetics, a federal government consulting group, where he focused on fuel cells and alternative fuels for vehicles; and at wind power company, Atlantic Orient Corporation, in Vermont. Shah sits on the boards of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development and Greenpeace USA. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Website: www.carbonwarroom.com

Premal Shah, Kiva LinkedIn Profile

Premal is the President of Kiva, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. As President, Premal leads Kiva's efforts to scale its partnerships and member base. Prior to Kiva, Premal was a Principal Product Manager at PayPal, an eBay company. During his 6 year career at PayPal, Premal drove a number of key initiatives including a year long project defining eBay's role in economically empowering the global working poor. A number of corporate initiatives have come out of this effort, including PayPal's support of Kiva. Prior to PayPal, Premal was a strategy consultant at Mercer Management Consulting in New York. Premal has had a long standing interest in microfinance. In 1997, he was awarded a grant from Stanford University to research microfinance in Gujarat, India. More recently Premal co-founded the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network and spent 2 months in India working to refine / validate Kiva's model. In 2006, Premal was a featured speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative and Global Microcredit Summit. Premal graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Website: www.kiva.org

Ted Shelton, The Conversation Group LinkedIn Profile

Ted has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, in product development, marketing and as a senior executive for both public and privately held companies. In 2007 he founded The Conversation Group an innovative professional services group which works with clients to better utilize web 2.0 and participatory media technologies so that they are more able to engage with their markets. Before co-founding The Conversation Group, Shelton developed a new participatory media platform called The Personal Bee, which was acquired by Technorati in early 2007. Prior roles include Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for early Internet pioneer, WhoWhere (acquired by Lycos).

Website: www.theconversationgroup.com

Biz Stone, Twitter LinkedIn Profile

Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, a real-time, one-to-many network that is changing the way people communicate around the world. Previously, Biz helped build other popular social media services Xanga, Blogger, and Odeo. After launching the journalling service Xanga in 2000, Biz went on to publish two books about the origins and social significance of blogging. In 2003, Google invited Biz to join a recently acquired Blogger.com team at its Silicon Valley headquarters in a full-time, senior role. Biz helped relaunch the service and grow Blogger significantly worldwide. He left Google in 2005 to rejoin the startup world. Stone, 34, is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and teaches an annual master class at Oxford's Saïd Business School. In the fall of 2008, Stone debated and won at Oxford Union against the proposition, "The Problems of Tomorrow Are Bigger Than The Entrepreneurs of Today" along with his esteemed teammates including Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn. Serving as an advisor to startups such as answer community Fluther.com, travel service Trazzler.com which he co-founded, content encouragement service Plinky.com, and the non-profit organization Justgive.org, among others allows Biz to share much of what he has learned over the past decade. Biz lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife, Livia.

Robert Swerling, Google LinkedIn Profile

Robert is a Principal in Google's New Business Development team, focusing on new product incubation and early stage partnerships. He was formerly Head of Commerce Partnerships for EMEA, where his responsibilities included Product Search and Google Checkout. Before joining Google in 2006, Robert was COO of Credit Market Analysis Limited (now part of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange), a company he co-founded in 2001, which has become the leading provider of intra-day credit derivative data systems and services to the financial markets. Robert began his career as a barrister in London. He has degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.

Marc Tarpenning, Tesla Motors LinkedIn Profile

Marc Tarpenning started building and programming computers as a teenager and earned a B.A. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley. After graduating, he spent the next five years with Textron in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 1997, he co-founding NuvoMedia with Martin Eberhard, which produced an innovative electronic book reader and the first secure content distribution system accepted by the publishing industry. Mr. Tarpenning was both VP of Engineering and CFO until that company’s sale to Gemstar/TV Guide in 2000 for $170M. In 2003, he reunited with Martin Eberhard and co-founded Tesla Motors, a company shaking up the automotive industry with the first production battery electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster. At Tesla Motors, Mr. Tarpenning ran the electrical engineering group in addition to being acting CFO for the first three years. He left Tesla Motors in 2008 and then spent six months as Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He is currently consulting with automotive companies on electric propulsion technology as well as advising entrepreneurs on business model and fund raising strategies.

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