technonomy

Raoul Adamchak

Co-Author Tomorrow’s Table and Market Garden Coordinator

UC Davis Student Farm/Agricultural Sustainability Institute

Raoul Adamchak co-wrote Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, with his wife, Pam Ronald. Their book was voted one of the best books of 2008 by Seed Magazine, having been recommended by Bill Gates ¡°to people who are curious about the future of agriculture and the controversies around it.¡±

Mr. Adamchak has farmed organically for 20 years, part of that time as a partner at Full Belly Farm, a 175-acre organic farm providing fruits, flowers, nuts and vegetables. Presently, he is the Market Garden Coordinator at the UC Davis Student Farm, where he teaches organic agriculture and manages a 5-acre market garden.

He has served as the President of the Board of California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) and has been a member of the board of the Organic Farming Research Foundation. Mr. Adamchak worked for 8 years as an organic farm inspector for CCOF and was Co-Editor of the IPM Practitioner.

Mr. Adamchak has a MS in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis, and a BA in Economics from Clark University.

Chris Alden

Chairman and CEO

Six Apart Ltd

Chris has a rich history founding companies in the online media space. Before joining Six Apart in September 2006, he was Co-founder and CEO of Rojo Networks, Inc., an Internet company dedicated to helping information consumers effectively manage dynamic content. Before founding Rojo, he was Co-founder and a former CEO of Red Herring Communications, Inc., which was launched in 1993.

With 93 million monthly unique users in the US, Six Apart is the world’s leading blogging and conversational media company, empowering publishers and marketers around the world to inspire and produce influential online content, conversations, and communities. By combining a powerful suite of conversational marketing and social publishing services with relationships with millions of leading publishers and influential long-tail bloggers, Six Apart creates meaningful experiences for people interested in women’s lifestyle, sustainable & healthy living, home, entertainment, gaming, and technology. Founded in 2001, Six Apart is a global company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Tokyo and New York City.

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Stewart Alsop

Partner

Alsop Louie Partners

Stewart Alsop a founding partner of Alsop Louie Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He was a General Partner with New Enterprise Associates (NEA) until 2004, leading the firm’s investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications, and Xfire, while also writing a column for FORTUNE Magazine. Prior to NEA, Alsop was Editor-in-Chief of InfoWorld, a weekly newspaper for information-technology professionals. He also published PC Letter, a newsletter for computer industry insiders, and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for computer industry executives. Before 1985, he served in several executive editorial positions at business and trade magazines, including Inc. magazine.

Mr. Alsop received his BA in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Alsop Louie Partners is a new venture firm dedicated to providing promising entrepreneurs with more than just money. The firm is designed around an investment profile of less than $5M per company, and as such, has the opportunity to work with companies in their formation stage, partnering with venture capitalists to move potential companies forward once their plans and opportunity are validated.

www.alsop-louie.com

Mark Anderson

Chief Executive Officer

Strategic News Service

Mark Anderson is the CEO of the Strategic News Service. He is also the founding chair of the Future in Review (FiRe) Conference and founder of two software companies, a hedge fund, and two non-profit organizations, among others. He is also the original designer of the NetBook.

He regularly appears on CNN-TV, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. Best known for his accurate forecasts of market shifts, Anderson was the first to predict the global liquidity collapse, or “credit crunch,” in February 2007, in London. He recently spoke throughout China as a guest of the U.S. Embassy.

Mark is a member of the advisory boards for companies including Merrill Lynch TechBrains, and Crowd Trust. He is a contributing editor to The Industry Standard and was selected by FORTUNE as one of the “100 Smartest People We Know.”

The Strategic News Service is the most accurate predictive newsletter covering the computing and communications industries. It is the first subscription-based newsletter online.

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W. Brian Arthur

External Professor

Santa Fe Institute

W. Brian Arthur is External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and a visiting researcher at Xerox PARC. He is best known for his ¡°theory of increasing returns¡±, what happens when companies gain market share, and is one of the pioneers of the Science of Complexity. In 1988 he directed SFI’s first research program, and has served on the Institute’s Board of Trustees and Science Board.

For 13 years, Mr. Arthur taught Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University. He holds degrees in Operations Research, Economics, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Among his honors are the International Schumpeter Prize in Economics in 1990, the inaugural Lagrange Prize in Complexity Science in 2008, and two honorary doctorates. He published his book, The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves, in 2009.

The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, trans-disciplinary institution dedicated to research across the physical, computational, biological and social sciences. The ‘formal birthplace of the study of complex systems,’  SFI encourages speculation and a broad, quantitative, understanding of emergent behavior and multi-scale phenomena.

Zoë Baird

President

The Markle Foundation

Zoë Baird is President of the Markle Foundation, co-chairing the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and participating in the Steering Committee of Markle’s Connecting for Health Initiative.

Baird’s career spans business, government, and academia. She has been held executive positions at Aetna, Inc. and General Electric, and has worked at Yale Law School and the law firm O’Melveny & Myers. She was Associate General Counsel to President Jimmy Carter and an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice. She has served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Secretary of Defense’s Privacy Advisory, and the Attorney General’s International Competition Policy Advisory Committee.

She holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law, and an undergraduate degree from Berkeley with majors in Communications and Public Policy, and in Political Science.

The Markle Foundation is a private philanthropy that focuses on using information and communications technologies to address critical public needs, particularly in the areas of health care and national security.

markle.org

Prith Banerjee

Senior Vice President, Research, and Director, HP Labs

HP

Prith Banerjee is the Senior Vice President of Research at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he assists in charting technical strategies for the company. He is also the Director of HP Labs, the company¡¯s central research organization. Most recently, Banerjee was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Banerjee received his Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world¡¯s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.

At HP Labs, researchers apply HP¡¯s expansive expertise to areas of research including analytics, cloud computing, content transformation, digital commercial print, immersive interaction, information management, intelligent infrastructure, and sustainability. It has seven locations worldwide.

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Maria Bartiromo

Anchor

CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo”

Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” and host and managing editor of the “Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo.” Bartiromo is the first journalist to have reported live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis and has received various notable awards for her journalism, including an Emmy. In December 2009, she was featured in the Financial Times’ “50 Who Shaped the Decade.” She has written weekly and monthly columns for BusinessWeek, Reader’s Digest, and the New York Post, among other publications.

After five years as a producer and assignment editor with CNN Business News, Bartiromo joined CNBC in 1993. She has anchored the television coverage of New York City’s world famous Columbus Day Parade since 1995.

Bartiromo’s book Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy was a bestseller in 2001. Her latest book, The 10 Laws of Enduring Success, was published this year.

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Charles Best

Founder and CEO

DonorsChoose.org

Charles Best leads DonorsChoose.org, a website where every public school teacher can be a change-maker, and any citizen can be a philanthropist. In 2009, FORTUNE magazine featured Mr. Best in the “40 under 40” list of “business’s hottest rising stars.”

DonorsChoose.org has been recognized with awards from many organizations, among them being the Nonprofit Innovation Award given by Stanford Business School and Amazon.com, a Global Technology Laureate from the TECH Museum of Innovation and Microsoft, the Fast Company Social Capitalist Award, and selection by Ashoka. TechCrunch named DonorsChoose.org the website “most likely to make the world a better place.” National media such as Oprah Winfrey and The New York Times have profiled DonorsChoose as “the future of philanthropy.”

Through school donations, the online charity makes it easy to help students in need. At DonorsChoose.org, public school teachers post classroom project requests, and donors can pick the projects they want to support. Every donor then gets photographs and thank-you letters from the classroom he or she chose to help

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Jeffrey P. Bezos

Founder and CEO

Amazon.com

Intrigued by the amazing growth in use of the Internet, Jeff Bezos created a business model that leveraged the Internet*Os unique ability to deliver huge amounts of information rapidly and efficiently. In 1994 he founded Amazon.com, the online retailer.

Before heading west to start Amazon.com, Mr. Bezos worked at the intersection of computer science and finance, helping build one of the most technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street for D.E. Shaw & Co. He also led the development of computer systems that helped manage more than $250 billion in assets for Bankers Trust Company.

He graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986.

Amazon.com, Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995, offering customers anything they might want to buy online, for the lowest possible prices. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

Kindle and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.

Amazon.com

Matthew Bishop

New York Bureau Chief

The Economist

Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. As such, he is the author of several special report supplements, including most recently A Bigger World, which examines the opportunities and challenges of the rise of emerging economies and firms. Mr. Bishop was previously the magazine’s London-based Business Editor. His latest book, The Road from Ruin: How to Renew Capitalism and Put America Back on Top, with Michael Green, was published in February 2010. He also co-wrote his previous book on the global revolution under way in philanthropy, called Philanthrocapitalism, with Green.

Before joining The Economist, Mr. Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School; he was educated at Oxford University. He has been interviewed on numerous media outlets, including NPR, BBC, CNBC, and the Charlie Rose show.

The Economist is and authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion. In 2009, it reported an average circulation of just over 1.6 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in North America.

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Elliott Bisnow

Founder and Curator

Summit Series

Elliott Bisnow is the Founder and Curator of Summit Series. Started in 2008 as a ski trip for 19 entrepreneurs, Summit Series’s annual gathering now attracts more than 750 attendees.

In early 2009, burnt out from work and eager to explore, Elliott and his three best friends sold their belongings and began traveling the globe. Almost two years later, they*Ore still on the road, having spent time in locations ranging from Nicaragua and Haiti to China and Greece. Last year, at the age of 24, Elliott was ranked 19th on Inc. magazine*Os annual *()()30 Under 30*+/- list. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Elliott grew up in Washington DC and was an avid tennis player who ranked 37th in the United States.

Elliott is also Co-Founder of Bisnow Media, a company that publishes eleven daily email newsletters and produces 130 annual conferences in eight cities across North America. Based in Washington, D.C., Bisnow is the largest publisher of commercial real estate news in the United States.

SummitSeries.com

Kathy Bloomgarden

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Ruder Finn Inc.

With more than 25 years of experience, Kathy Bloomgarden has worked in communications for multinational companies, including Novartis, BP, Citigroup, HP, Pfizer, Microsoft, Pepsi and Sun Microsystems. She is a recognized expert in the field of executive communications, having developed particular skills in CEO positioning, global corporate reputation management, mergers and acquisitions, change management, and internal communications.

Dr. Bloomgarden is a board member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Partnership for New York City, the Atlantic Council, and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. She is the author of Trust: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders. She holds a BA from Brown University, and an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University in Political Science. She is fluent in French, and has a working knowledge of Chinese, Italian, and basic German and Russian.

Ruder Finn Inc., one of the world’s largest independent public relations agencies, with offices in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

www.ruderfinn.com

Wesley Boyd

Co-founder

MoveOn.org Political Action

Wes Boyd is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a prominent online civic action organization. Mr. Boyd is also a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems.  Berkeley Systems was best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and other entertainment software.   In the 1980s, prior to his work in consumer software, Mr. Boyd authored software for blind and visually impaired users allowing the first full access to Macintosh computers. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Boyd was a consultant in social research methodology and tools.

MoveOn provides a service for concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media. The MoveOn family of organizations is made up of MoveOn.org Civic Action, which primarily focuses on education and advocacy on important national issues, and MoveOn.org Political Action, a federal PAC that mobilizes people across the country to fight important battles in Congress and help elect candidates who reflect members’ values. Both organizations are funded entirely by individuals.

moveon.org

Stewart Brand

President, The Long Now Foundation

Co-founder, Global Business Network

Stewart Brand is president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award), and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link). His books include The Clock of the Long Now, How Buildings Learn, and The Media Lab.His new book, titled Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, is published by Viking in the US and Atlantic in the UK. Mr. Brand graduated in Biology from Stanford and served as an Infantry officer in the U.S. Army.

The Long Now Foundation, based in San Francisco, fosters long-term thinking. Among other projects, it is building a 10,000-year Clock inside a Nevada mountain. The Global Business Network is an American consulting firm that helps businesses, NGOs, and governments plan strategies for multiple possible futures. Its approach to uncovering futures consists of tapping insights from networks of remarkable people, and then forging innovative, original, subject-specific methodologies for integrating these insights into actionable visions of the future.

web.me.com/stewartbrand

Bruce Brandfon

Vice President and Publisher

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

As Vice President and Publisher of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Bruce Brandfon oversees all of the company’s business ventures. He has spearheaded SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’s custom media business, creating partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Exxon Mobil and others. In collaboration with science and education ministries and university rectors, he has produced a series of international research sections in areas including Thailand, Spain and Germany.

Brandfon serves on the Board of Directors of Opportunity Green and on the Board of Magazine Publishers of America Media Committee. He is also a member of the International Advertising Association, as well as an advisor to the Arts & Sciences magazine published by the University of Virginia and to the New York City public schools. Brandfon has been a guest lecturer at Kenyon College, the Journalism School of the University of Mississippi, and has led seminars for the Media Studies department of the University of Virginia.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN provides information on the latest emerging science and technology shaping the world, charting the path for business decision-makers and influential citizens looking for solutions to today’s most challenging issues.

scientificamerican.com

Jim Breyer

Partner

Accel Partners

Jim Breyer has been an investor and board member in over thirty consumer Internet, media, and technology companies, including AOL, Etsy, Facebook, Oracle, Macromedia, and Yahoo!. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he is the Lead and Presiding Independent Director and Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Finance Committee. He also serves on the boards of Marvel Entertainment and Dell Inc. Prior to Accel, Mr. Breyer worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and in product marketing and management at Apple Computer and Hewlett Packard.

Mr. Breyer graduated with highest distinction from Stanford University with a BS degree and received his MBA from Harvard, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class.

Accel Partners is a venture capital firm that has been dedicated for over 25 years to supporting entrepreneurs who possess the insight to define new categories and build world-class companies. Accel shares its entrepreneurs’ passion for fundamental uniqueness and their courage to be first. Portfolio companies include Facebook, Macromedia, MetroPCS, Veritas Software, and many others.

accel.com

Paul Bricault

Partner

Mailroom Fund

Paul Bricault is a Partner at The Mailroom Fund. He previously served as Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the William Morris Agency (WMA) where he oversaw both the Global Consulting Practice and the Digital Media Group. He joined the firm in February 1994.

Prior to WMA, Mr. Bricault worked at Paul Kagan Associates where he ran the Los Angeles office for the Carmel-based media valuation and consulting firm. He was also responsible for covering the worldwide film, television and new media industries from 1989-1994.

Mr. Bricault is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Cinema-Television School at the University of Southern California where he has taught a course for the last 16 years on the Impact of Technology on Media and Entertainment.

The Mailroom fund is a venture capital fund in partnership with Accel Partners, Venrock and AT&T, focused on early stage investments in Southern California-based digital media firms.

www.mailroomfund.com

John Brockman

Founder

Edge Foundation

John Brockman’s career has encompassed the avant-garde art world, science, books, software, and the Internet. In the 1960s, he coined the word “Intermedia” and pioneered “Intermedia kinetic environments” in art, theatre, and commerce, while also consulting for clients, such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, and the White House.

In 1973, he formed Brockman, Inc., the international literary and software agency specializing in serious nonfiction.

He has published various works as an author and editor, and is editor of a series of books based on the Edge Annual Questions, such as What Do You Believe but Cannot Prove? and What Are You Optimistic About?

Brockman is the only person to have been profiled on Page One of both The New York Sunday Times “Arts & Leisure” (1966), and The New York Times “Science Times” (1997).

He is the founder of the nonprofit Edge Foundation, Inc. and editor of Edge, the highly acclaimed website devoted to discussions of cutting edge science by many of the world’s brilliant thinkers, the leaders of what he has termed “the third culture.”

edge.org

Erik Brynjolfsson

Schussel Family Professor and

Director

MIT Center for Digital Business

Erik Brynjolfsson is an award-winning researcher, educator, inventor, entrepreneur, and author. At MIT, he serves as the Director of the Center for Digital Business, and the Schussel Family Professor. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy and performance, Internet commerce, pricing models and intangible assets. The MIT Center for Digital business is the world’s largest center for research focused on the digital economy.

Professor Brynjolfsson was among the first researchers to measure the productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital. His research also provided the first quantification of the value of online product variety, known as the “Long Tail” and developed bundling models for information goods. His recent work examines the social networks revealed by digital information flows and their relationships to information worker productivity.

Brynjolfsson has authored or co-edited several works including Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy and he blogs at economicsofinformation.com He has served on numerous Corporate and Editorial Boards and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard University and a PhD from MIT.

digital.mit.edu

William D. Budinger

Founding Director

Rodel Foundations

Bill Budinger is the founder of Rodel, Inc., where he served for 33 years as its Chairman and CEO. Most of his time now is spent helping the Rodel Foundations in their mission to improve pubic education. He is also an inventor and the holder of more than three-dozen patents.

Bill has been a guest lecturer at several universities including MIT and Harvard. His writings have appeared in various law journals as well as trade and public policy magazines. Having worked together with entrepreneurs and the government, he drafted major portions of the 1998 patent reform legislation and has testified on patent, trade, and labor law reform before various committees of the U.S. House and Senate. Among other honors, he has been designated the SBA Small Business Person of the Year and was an elected delegate and chair of the White House Conference on Small Business.

Rodel was instrumental in developing portions of the semiconductor manufacturing process and is currently the global leader in high-precision planarization technology for semiconductors, silicon wafers, and storage media substrates. The Foundations are its way of giving back.

rodel.com

C. Sidney Burrus

Maxfield-Oshman Professor Emeritus

Rice University and

Co-founder

Connexions

C. Sidney Burrus is the Maxfield-Oshman Professor Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Over the last 40 years, he has been Dean of Engineering and Chair of the ECE Department. He has authored 5 books and over 250 articles and has received teaching and research awards from the IEEE, Rice, and others. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS, and received the IEEE Kilby Medal.

Prof. Burrus received his PhD from Stanford, has held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Erlangen in Germany. He was on founding committees for universities in Germany, Vietnam, and Pakistan.

The Connexions Project started in 1999 at Rice University to apply modern technology and theory to education. It has grown to be one of the most used Open Educational Resources (OER) in the world. Burrus has been closely involved with it since its founding and has lectured and published widely on it.

cnx.org

Brook Byers

Partner

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Brook Byers has been a venture capital investor since 1972. He has been closely involved with more than fifty new technology based ventures, over half of which have already become public companies. He formed the first Life Sciences practice group in the venture capital profession in 1984 and led Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to become a premier venture capital firm in the medical, healthcare, and biotechnology sectors. KPCB has invested in and helped build over 110 Life Sciences companies which have already developed hundreds of products to treat major underserved medical needs for millions of patients.

Mr. Byers graduated in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and received an MBA from Stanford.

KPCB is an active venture capital partnership headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a large capital base for investment. Since 1972, the company has invested in over 575 technology companies that have accrued market valuations exceeding $500 billion and employ more than 350,000.

kpcb.com

S.J. Camarata, Jr.

Director

ESRI, Inc.

S.J. Camarata is a Director of ESRI, focusing on the company’s global corporate strategies. He also currently serves on a number of boards of both for-profit and non-profit organizations and has held a number of other board seats over the years. He has been a founder and co-founder of several companies in the GIS, technology and mobile medical industries.

Mr. Camarata holds a BS degree from the University of Utah and an MLA degree from Utah State University.

ESRI develops geographic information systems (GIS) solutions that function as an integral component in nearly every type of organization. On any given day, more than a million people around the world use ESRI’s GIS to improve the way their organizations conduct business. ESRI gives GIS users what they need by listening closely and incorporating their feedback and recommended improvements. ESRI also hosts the largest GIS industry event in the world, publishes two of the most widely circulated periodicals in the industry, and operates the leading GIS book publisher.

www.esri.com

Michael D. Capellas

Chief Executive Officer

Acadia

and

Chairman of the Board

Virtual Computing Environment Coalition and

Michael D. Capellas is the Chief Executive Officer of Acadia. He also is Chairman of the Board for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition.

A 30-year veteran of the IT industry, Capellas is a recognized global thought leader in the technology space. He began his career with Schlumberger Limited and went on to hold senior management positions at Schlumberger, Oracle Corporation and SAP Americas. He then worked at Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and MCI, serving as Chief Information Officer, Chairman, CEO, and President at various times, leading MCI through its corporate reorganization and eventual acquisition by Verizon.

Capellas serves on the Board of Directors of Cisco Systems Inc. and the national board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Kent State University.

Acadia is a joint venture of Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel. The company helps organizations leverage best-in-class technologies and disciplines from Cisco, EMC, and VMware, to accelerate adoption of virtualized private cloud infrastructures.

Mark Carges

Chief Technology Officer

eBay Inc.

Mark joined the eBay Inc. leadership team in September 2008, overseeing eBay’s platform strategy, as well as having overall responsibility for technology, software development and site operations for eBay.com. Prior to joining eBay, Mark was Executive Vice President, products, and a General Manager at BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise application infrastructure software acquired in 2008. In his decade at BEA, Mark held a variety of senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer.

Mark began his career at Bell Labs as one of the original architects of Tuxedo, software for constructing highly scalable transaction processing applications.

Mark holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS degree in Computer Science from New York University.

Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. connects hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, and PayPal, the secure online payment service. eBay’s StubHub and Classifieds sites together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world.

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Jessica Cassady

Vice President, Communications

CA Technologies

For nearly two decades, Jessica Cassady has provided strategic communications and public relations counsel to traditional and non-traditional technology companies. Currently, she is Vice President of Communications for CA Technologies where she manages executive communications and thought leadership programs.

Prior to CA Technologies, she provided media relations and communications support at Hill & Knowlton for clients including Hewlett-Packard and Boston Consulting Group. She also spent many years at Rosenbluth International, a travel management company later acquired by American Express. She helped develop communications that positioned the travel management as a worldwide industry leader through its technology innovations. Ms. Cassady has been recognized as a top-tech communicator by PR SourceCode and has served on the Board of Directors for the National Cyber Security Association.

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments, from mainframe to cloud. The company’s innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of Fortune 500 companies rely on it for their IT management.

ca.com

Satjiv S. Chahil

Global Market Development Advisor

HP, Personal Systems Group

Satjiv Chahil is Global Market Development Advisor for HP’s Personal Systems Group. In a career spanning more than 30 years with some of the industry’s most innovative brands (IBM, Xerox, Apple, Sony, Palm), Chahil has been widely acknowledged as a marketing pioneer and a catalyst for commercializing market-defining technologies.

Before joining HP in 2005, Chahil served as advisor to the Chairman of Palm Inc. As Chief Marketing Officer, he was responsible for taking Palm public, building its brand cachet and driving the new category of mobile computing.

Prior to Palm, Chahil served on Apple’s Executive Management Committee and was responsible for Worldwide Marketing & Corporate Communications. He also was the founder and general manager of Apple’s Entertainment, New Media and Internet divisions. He also served as the Digital Convergence advisor to the senior management of Sony Corp. and helped bring the subnotebook category of VAIO computers to market.

HP’s Personal Systems Group includes PCs for consumers, gamers, business professionals and IT managers; technical workstations; connected entertainment systems; storage solutions and Internet services.

www.hp.com

Pravin Chandiramani

Vice President, Business Development and Strategy

Simulmedia

Pravin Chandiramani combines over nine years of experience in the business of media and technology with a background in the behavioral sciences. Pravin comes from AOL/Platform-A where he led the Data Strategy group, and developed the audience acquisition and valuation strategy for Platform-A’s behavioral targeting solutions. From 1998 to 2004, Pravin was a technologist focused on new media, leading projects in vertical publishing and advertising networks.

Pravin has a BS in Zoology from the University of Bombay, and an MS in Biological Sciences from Fordham University. For his Master’s thesis Pravin spent the better part of two years observing and analyzing social interactions in baboons. He also has an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. Pravin resides in the Lower East Side section of New York City.

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company that delivers television viewership through data-driven program promotion. The company’s solutions address the growing audience fragmentation problem for television networks and simultaneously help viewers discover the shows they might enjoy.

www.simulmedia.com

John Chen

Chairman, CEO and President

Sybase, Inc.

John Chen is Chairman, CEO and President of Sybase. Under his 12-year leadership, Sybase has become a leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. Forbes named him one of the Top 25 Notable Chinese-Americans in Business, and in 2007, Ernst & Young named him an Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California.

Active in international relations, Mr. Chen was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the President’s Export Council and to serve as co-chair of the Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee. Mr. Chen is currently chairman of the Committee of 100. He has testified before Congress on foreign trade and in 2009, he received the US-Asia Institute Award recognizing his leadership in building U.S.-Asia relations. Chen serves on the Boards of Directors for the Walt Disney Company and Wells Fargo & Co.

Founded in Berkeley, CA in 1984, Sybase leads the database technology industry in delivering enterprise software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. Sybase is recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices.

David Christian

Professor of History; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and

Research Fellow; Ewha Woman*Os University, Seoul, South Korea

David Christian is by training a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, but since the 1980s he has become interested in World History on very large scales. He taught at Macquarie University in Sydney for 25 years before coming to San Diego State University in 2001. In 2008 he was appointed as a Research Fellow at Ewha Woman*Os University in Seoul and in 2009 he returned to Macquarie University as a Professor of History.

In 1989, he began teaching courses on ‘Big History’, surveying the past on the largest possible scales, including those of biology and astronomy; in 2004, he published the first text on *AEBig History*O

Last year, Professor Christian received an ARC grant to support research on the second volume of his history of Inner Eurasia, which will cover the history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia from the Mongol Empire to the present day. Over the next few years he will also be working with the support of Bill Gates to create an online course in Big History for High School students.

Professor Christian earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University in 1974.

modhist.mq.edu.au/staff/davidchristian.html

Timothy P. Christin

Senior Vice President

Acxiom Identify Solutions

Tim joined Acxiom in 2006 and has been Risk Business Leader since 2007. Tim is responsible for the overall strategy, sales, product development, operations, and product management of Acxiom’s Risk Business. He is an executive member of the Acxiom corporate leadership team. Tim is also a member of the Board of Directors of ID Watchdog, Inc.

Prior to joining Acxiom, Tim was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Innodata Isogen in New York, and before that, he worked at Reuters, Bowne & Company, Digex, and Exodus Communications. He received a B.S. degree in Marketing from Marquette University and was selected to study in his third year at the Loyola University Rome Center in Rome, Italy.

Acxiom Identity Solutions is committed to mitigating identity theft and fraud, while enhancing their end-customers’ user experience and championing their privacy. Our services facilitate confidence behind business interactions by offering organizations the ability to verify, authenticate, locate and investigate their end-customers, using flexible identity data delivery methods, such as On-Demand web services, offline batches or secure web portals.

acxiom.com

Matt Cohler

General Partner

Benchmark Capital

Matt Cohler is a General Partner at Benchmark Capital. He has extensive experience working with great entrepreneurs building lasting consumer Internet companies, having served in senior management roles at LinkedIn and then at Facebook. In 2005, he joined Facebook as one of the first five employees. There, Cohler served as vice president of product management, overseeing the company’s product development organizations. He’s been credited with helping drive Facebook’s strategy, organizational growth and product direction.

Before Facebook and LinkedIn, he was a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Silicon Valley office and worked in Beijing for AsiaInfo, the telecom solutions provider that built China’s Internet infrastructure, prior to the company’s initial public offering.

Benchmark Capital is an early-stage technology venture capital firm that takes a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing, delivering a superior level of service to the firm’s portfolio companies. Benchmark’s portfolio includes high-profile start-ups such as Twitter, Yelp, and Zillow, recent exits such as Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, SpringSource, and Mint, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat.

benchmark.com

Deborah S. Conrad

Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Intel Corporation

Deborah Conrad is Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Intel. She is responsible for the company’s brand management, product positioning, product launch management and marketing research, as well as sales and integrated marketing communications, advertising and promotional campaigns

Prior to leading the Corporate Marketing Group, Conrad created and directed the Apple-Intel team and oversaw all aspects of the Intel and Apple relationship since the beginning of the partnership in 2005 through 2008.

Before her role with Team Apple, Conrad led the Solutions Market Development Group, where she was responsible for worldwide sales development efforts and industry partner programs. From 1993 to 1999, she was marketing director for Intel’s Asia-Pacific Region, responsible for building brand equity and market development efforts in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Conrad joined Intel in 1986 as Microprocessor Group Communications manager, where she managed press relations, marketing communications, product advertising and strategic communications programs.

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices.

www.intel.com/pressroom

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James C. Davis

President

Chevron Energy Solutions

Since 2000, Jim Davis has built Chevron Energy Solutions (CES) into one of the world’s leading renewable energy services companies and the largest developer of solar power solutions for education facilities in North America. Named a Top 50 firm by Fast Company magazine in 2009, CES has developed hundreds of environmentally-friendly projects that are now saving institutions and businesses more than $1 billion in energy costs.

Before joining Chevron, Jim was Senior Vice President of integrated solutions for PG&E Energy Services. Earlier in his career, he was Senior Vice President of marketing and sales at Duke/Louis Dreyfus, where he led the company’s expansion into value-added services.

Jim holds a BS in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from The Ohio State University.

CES develops and builds sustainable energy projects that increase energy efficiency and renewable power, reduce energy costs, and ensure reliable, high-quality energy for government, education and business facilities. Its parent, Chevron Corporation, is investing across the energy spectrum to develop energy sources for future generations by expanding the capabilities of alternative and renewable energy technologies.

www.chevron.com

Susan Desmond-Hellmann

Chancellor

University of California, San Francisco

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. Desmond-Hellmann previously served as President of Product Development at Genentech. During her tenure at Genentech, the company became the nation¡¯s No. 1 producer of anti-cancer drug treatments. In November 2009, Forbes magazine named Desmond-Hellmann as one of the world¡¯s seven most “powerful innovators,” calling her “a hero to legions of cancer patients.”

Desmond-Hellmann has served as associate adjunct professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, and during her tenure, spent two years as visiting faculty at the Uganda Cancer Institute, studying HIV/AIDS and cancer. She holds a BS in Pre-Medicine and an MD from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Master¡¯s degree in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley.

UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system devoted exclusively to the health sciences.

ucsf.edu

John Doerr

Partner

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

John Doerr is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with interests in public education, prevention of global infectious disease, and the protection of the environment. Since joining KPCB in 1980, he has sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, Symantec and Google. Prior to KPCB, Mr. Doerr held various engineering, marketing and management assignments at Intel, and was one of their top-ranked sales executives.

Mr. Doerr currently serves on the Board of Directors of Google, Miasole, Bloom Energy, and Spatial Photonics. He holds patents for computer memory devices he invented as a design engineer at Monsanto.

Mr. Doerr received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

KPCB is an active venture capital partnership headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a large capital base for investment. Since 1972, the company has invested in over 575 technology companies that have accrued market valuations exceeding $500 billion and employ more than 350,000.

www.kpcb.com

William Drayton

Chair and Chief Executive Officer

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur. As a student at Harvard, Balliol College in Oxford University, and Yale Law School, he founded a number of organizations, such as Harvard’s Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences.

In 1981 Mr. Drayton launched both Ashoka and Save EPA and its successor, Environmental Safety while working for McKinsey & Co. By 1984, he was able to devote himself fully to Ashoka, of which he is currently the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. He is also chair of Youth Venture, Get America Working!, and Community Greens

Mr. Drayton has won numerous awards and honors throughout his career, most recently an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Yale University and an Honorary Doctorate from NYU.

Ashoka has created and pioneered the global field of social entrepreneurship, founded on the premise that the most effective way to promote positive social change is to invest in social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions that are sustainable and replicable, both nationally and globally. The company employs 160 staff in 25 regional offices across the globe.

ashoka.org

Soumitra Dutta

Professor of Information Systems, Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology

Academic Director, eLab

INSEAD

Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology, and Dean of External Relations at INSEAD as well as the faculty director of elab@INSEAD. His current research focuses on technology strategy and innovation at both corporate and national policy levels. He has authored over ten books, and his work has been showcased on CNN, BBC and other international media.

Professor Dutta obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his MSc in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a visiting Professor at several international universities including the Haas School of Business and the Solvay Business School.

eLab@INSEAD represents INSEAD’s commitment to cultivating and disseminating management knowledge and thought leadership with a focus on the digital economy. eLab leverages its facilities in Abu Dhabi, France and Singapore, and brings together faculty, alumni, corporate partners and other stakeholders. Its vibrant community directs a continuous effort at achieving greater understanding for value creation and competitive advantage in the digital economy space.

insead.edu

Sylvia Earle

Founder, Mission Blue and

Explorer in Residence, National Geographic

“Her Deepness,” Dr. Sylvia Earle, is an oceanographer, author, lecturer and Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society. She has years of experience as a field research scientist, expedition leader, government official, and director for corporate and non-profit organizations including the Aspen Institute and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.

Dr. Earle has led more than 100 expeditions and logged nearly 7000 hours underwater with a record solo dive to 1000 meters and nine saturation dives, including leading the first team of female aquanauts in 1970. She has been awarded over 100 national and international honors for her research concerning marine algae and deepwater ecosystems, with special reference to exploration, conservation and the development of new technologies for access and effective operations in the deep sea.

In connection with her 2009 TED Prize, Dr. Earle founded Mission Blue, a non-profit organization dedicated to ocean exploration, research and conservation. The organization aims to develop networks of “Hope Spots,” protected areas large enough to secure and restore health to the “blue heart of the planet”.

mission-blue.org

Kamran Elahian

Chairman and Co-founder

Global Catalyst Partners

A veteran entrepreneur with over 29 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Kamran Elahian has co-founded 10 companies including Actelis Networks and Cirrus Logic in addition to serving as Chairman and Co-Founder of Global Catalyst Partners (GCP). In addition to his work at GCP, Mr. Elahian serves as Chairman and Co-Founder of the Global Catalyst Foundation, a private foundation established by the principals of GCP. He also acts as Co-Chair for the UNGAID, the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development; and Chairman Emeritus of Relief International-Schools Online, a humanitarian non-profit agency that provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, development assistance and program services to vulnerable communities worldwide.

Mr. Elahian serves on the boards of Actelis Networks, Beceem Communications, Ikoa and SoundHound. He earned a BS in Mathematics at the age of twenty, a BS in Computer Science and a Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Graphics from the University of Utah.

GCP is an international, multistage, technology-oriented venture capital firm. GCP has invested in leading-edge technology companies in the U.S., China, Japan and Israel.

kamranelahian.com

Gary Elliott

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

HP

Gary Elliott leads the Sponsorships, Alliances and Events Team within HP’s Corporate Marketing organization. This group manages HP’s Corporate Sponsorships, Marketing Alliances, Corporate Events, and the Executive Briefing Center. He has successfully expanded the HP brand into new territories by pioneering programs both within the HP global marketing community as well as through partnerships and initiatives outside the company.

Mr. Elliott has garnered a number of recognized marketing awards during his tenure for HP, including 12 international film awards for spearheading the historical documentary film “HP Origins”, an authentic record exploring HP’s history. He has lectured at the college and graduate school level, is a frequent speaker at industry events, and holds board seats on the Association of National Advertisers and the Board of Advisors for Managerial Economics at Allegheny College, his alma mater.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.

hp.com

Dan Elron

Managing Partner, Strategy and Corporate Development

Accenture

Dan Elron, a Managing Partner at Accenture, is responsible for defining the firm’s strategy and offerings in a variety of domains, primarily in the technology space. He currently spends his time focusing on the impact of cloud technologies on the firm’s businesses, and has advised many of the largest companies in the telecommunications and technology industries in North America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Elron is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He also serves as the advisor for the information technology industries for the World Economic Forum. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Tel-Aviv and the University of Minnesota.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. As a Fortune Global 500 company, Accenture has more than 181,000 people worldwide serving clients in over 120 countries.

accenture.com

Jeff Epstein

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Oracle

Jeff Epstein is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Priceline.com, where he serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees, and he is a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Stanford University Hospital.

Previously, Mr. Epstein was Chief Financial Officer of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS), Advo (sold to Valassis), and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group.

He has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Oracle is the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company, with a market value of over $100 billion. With more than 370,000 customers, Oracle represents a variety of sizes and industries in over 145 countries around the globe.

www.oracle.com

J. Doyne Farmer

Professor

Santa Fe Institute

J. Doyne Farmer is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has broad interests in complex systems, and has done research in dynamical systems theory, time series analysis and theoretical biology. His research currently focuses on developing quantitative theories for social evolution, in particular for financial markets and the evolution of technologies. Previously, Farmer founded a quantitative trading firm and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he founded the Complex Systems Group in the theoretical division.

He began his career as part of the U.C. Santa Cruz Dynamical Systems Collective, a group of physics graduate students who did early research in what later came to be called “chaos theory”. He also led a group that built the first wearable digital computers; they used them to beat the game of roulette.

The Santa Fe Institute is an independent trans-disciplinary institution dedicated to research across the physical, computational, biological and social sciences. The “formal birthplace of the study of complex systems,” SFI encourages speculation and a broad, quantitative, understanding of emergent behavior and multi-scale phenomena.

Fay Feeney

Chief Executive Officer

Risk for Good

Fay Feeney is CEO at Risk for Good, a company that takes pride in delivering realistic and expert advice to board chairs. At Risk for Good, the company provides an independent view of emerging risks before they become bad news such as: technology, on-line communications, social media, sustainability, safety, talent diversity and more. Ms. Feeney is a risk professional helping board chairs listen and interpret what they hear from customers, investors and competitors. She will be moderating a session on social media at the NACD annual conference in Washington, DC.

Risk for Good is an advisory firm with a unique focus on advising the lead director in driving good governance practices and processes. Board chairs need to think about how they can support CEOs in retooling their enterprises for a technological economy, and Risk for Good helps them think through this business transformation and lead profitable, sustainable businesses.

riskforgood.com

Christopher Feeney

Managing Director and CIO

LPL Financial

Christopher Feeney joined LPL Financial in 2008, bringing with him 28 years of experience in financial services technology with a focus on technology, product, client, and executive management. As head of the Business Technology Services business unit, Mr. Feeney is responsible for enhancing the technology offerings and support LPL Financial provides to its advisors and their clients.

Prior to joining LPL Financial, Mr. Feeney was Global Managing Director of wealth management at Thomson Financial. Before joining Thomson Financial, Feeney was CEO of Telerate, Inc.; President and Chief Operating Officer of Multex, Inc.; Managing Director for information technology at Banc of America Securities; and he worked with ADP Brokerage Services Group.

Mr. Feeney holds a BA in literature from the State University of New York, Oneonta, and completed the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School.

LPL Financial is a retail financial planning firm and the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer (by revenue, Financial Planning, 1996-2009). Its 2,400 employees support 11,950 financial advisors and 777 financial institutions from headquarters in Boston, Charlotte, and San Diego.

lpl.com

Katie Fehrenbacher

Founding Editor

GigaOM

Katie Fehrenbacher is the Founding Editor of GigaOM’s greentech site Earth2Tech.com.

Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for over 7 years. She founded Earth2Tech for GigaOM in July 2007 to cover the burgeoning greentech ecosystem and is also a Staff Writer for GigaOM. She has been a Reporter at Red Herring, an Editor at Engadget and began her career as a Reporter in the Silicon Valley bureau of the largest Japanese daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.

The GigaOM Network is a business media company linking the world’s leading technology innovators to a global audience of prospective customers, business partners, and investors. The GigaOM Network builds communities, uniting innovators and their partners through online media, events, and research. GigaOM Network sites have emerged as leading blogs in their respective areas, known for providing in-depth analysis of developing news stories, and the company provides its content to high-profile media partners, including CNN, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Reuters, and Salon.com.

gigaom.com
earth2tech.com

David Fenton

Chief Executive Officer

Fenton Communications

David Fenton, named as *()()One of the 100 most influential PR people of the 20th Century*+/- by PR Week magazine, founded Fenton Communications in 1982 to create public relations campaigns for the environment, public health and human rights. Over more than two decades, he has pioneered the use of professional PR and advertising techniques by non-profit public interest groups in the United States

Mr. Fenton is also a co-founder of four non-profit organizations: Environmental Media Services, New Economy Communications, the Death Penalty Information Center, and The American Freedom.

Fenton started his career as a photojournalist in the late 1960s and was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone Magazine.

Fenton Communications, the nation’s largest public interest communications firm, has over 75 employees spread among three offices in New York, Washington, and San Francisco. Some of Fenton’s better-known campaigns include aiding the rise of MoveOn.org, assisting Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress for a decade, working with Al Gore and the United Nations on climate change, and many others.

fenton.com
ems.org
deathpenaltyinfo.org
americanfreedomcampaign.org
hots1960s.com

Donald F. Ferguson

Executive Vice President and CTO

CA Techonologies

As Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at CA Technologies, Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is responsible for delivering common technology services to the company’s business units and ensuring architectural compliance and integration of all solutions and products. He chairs the company’s Architecture Board and Distinguished Engineer Board, and serves on the Executive Leadership Team. Before becoming CTO, he was Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, placing special emphasis on product integration and support of new technologies like business process modeling and Web 2.0.

Ferguson began his career at IBM, where worked for twenty years, culminating in an IBM Fellowship (IBM’s highest technical honor) in 2001. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from Columbia University and has over a dozen patents.

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments, from mainframe to cloud. The company’s innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of Fortune 500 companies rely on it for their IT management.

www.ca.com

Hill Ferguson

Senior Vice President Product and Marketing

ZONG

Hill Ferguson has spent his career at the intersection of financial technology and consumer Internet services at both large and small companies. He currently leads product management and marketing at Zong, a mobile payments company. Prior, he was part of the early team that developed Yahoo! Finance into the largest consumer finance website in the world. He then helped build innovative technologies at Yodlee to help consumers better manage their money online; and founded LoanBack, a web service that helps consumers set up and manage “friends and family” loans.

Zong is a leading mobile payments startup based in Silicon Valley. With its direct network of 180 mobile operators, Zong lets over 2.6 billion consumers in almost 40 countries make payments with only a mobile phone ¨C no bank account or credit card required. Zong is the mobile payments platform used by Facebook and hundreds of other leading sellers of digital goods and services.

www.zong.com

Lauren Flanagan

General Partner

Phenomenelle Angels Fund

Lauren Flanagan is a General Partner of the Phenomenelle Angels Fund I, LP, bringing with her 25 years experience in founding and operating early-stage companies. Lauren is focused on selecting prospective investments, leading due diligence, and on working closely with portfolio company CEOs to help them achieve superior board governance, grow their businesses and craft lucrative exits. Ms. Flanagan also serves as CEO of SCIO Corp, which provides strategic advisory services to emerging companies in the IT, BioTech and CleanTech sectors.

Flanagan is currently Chairman of the Board at HarQen, serves on the Boards of Directors of Springboard Enterprises, and is a Board observer to EraGen BioSciences. During her 10-year association with Springboard, she has been a significant contributor to the team that helped over 400 women-led companies raise $5 billion in equity, with eight of the Springboard companies going public. This year, BusinessWeek selected her as one of the Top 25 Angels in Tech.

Phenomenelle Angels Fund I, LP is an early stage fund that invests in rapidly growing, women-owned or managed firms in the Midwest.

Website address: www.phenomenellevc.com

Scott Fore

Manager

SweatMonkey, Inc.

Scott Fore brings an extensive background of 35 years in distribution services and business to his Manager position at SweatMonkey. He has worked in a broad range of management fields where he has developed new product lines from the design stages through manufacturing and distribution. He has also established a broad range of business relationships with numerous Fortune 500 companies including Shell Oil Company and Reynolds Food Packaging.

Mr. Fore’s work is currently focused on Treetop Software Company. The company is dedicated to building the safe online presence for student volunteering and community involvement that characterizes SweatMonkey.

SweatMonkey is an online platform dedicated to connecting students to their communities and allowing them to track and get credit for the work they have done. Students can learn about local and national organizations and find causes that truly interest them. Through volunteer service, paying jobs, internships, and events posted by various organizations, students get engaged in meaningful service in their community.

sweatmonkey.org
treetopllc.com

Cal Fore

Founder

SweatMonkey, Inc.

An Architecture major at the University of Florida, Cal Fore is the founder of SweatMonkey, an organization and website designed to connect student volunteers with community need. At 16 years old, Fore discovered the difficulties that lay in finding volunteer opportunities to satisfy graduation requirements. He created SweatMonkey as a network to help in the process. Fore also hopes that private businesses will use the site to attract teenage candidates for paying jobs.

Fore has been a featured speaker at schools all around Florida and has received several awards and grants for his accomplishments with SweatMonkey.

SweatMonkey is an online platform dedicated to connecting students to their communities and allowing them to track and get credit for the work they have done. Students can learn about local and national organizations and find causes that truly interest them. Through volunteer service, paying jobs, internships, and events posted by various organizations, students get engaged in meaningful service in their community.

sweatmonkey.org

Justin Fox

Editorial Director

Harvard Business Review Group

Justin Fox is Editorial Director of the Harvard Business Review Group and author of The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street. He also writes a blog for hbr.org and contributes to Time magazine. Before joining HBR Group in 2010, he wrote regularly for Time and created the Curious Capitalist blog for Time.com. Previously, Fox spent more than a decade at Fortune magazine. He is a regular commentator on the Nightly Business Report on PBS, and appears occasionally on public radio’s Marketplace. He has also been a guest on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Harvard Business Publishing was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. Its mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact in a changing world. The company is comprised of three market groups: Higher Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group. Through these publishing platforms, Harvard Business Publishing is able to influence real-world change by maximizing the reach and impact of its essential offering – ideas.

Michael P. Frankfurt

Partner

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Michael Frankfurt is the Senior Partner and a founding partner of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. His experience is in all aspects of the business practice of law, focusing on entertainment and media law. He has lectured often at various conferences and schools, including New York University School of Law and Stern School of Business and the TED Conference. The Hollywood Reporter named him one of the “Top 100 Power Lawyers”, and New York Magazine named him one of New York’s best entertainment lawyers.

Mr. Frankfurt is an active member of the New York State Bar Association and serves as Board member and Trustee of various organizations and foundations such as the Hunter College Foundation. He earned his BA from Hunter College, his JD from the University of Virginia, and his LLM from New York University.

Frankfurt Kunit Klein & Selz is one of the prominent entertainment and media law firms in the United States, headquartered in New York City. The firm specializes in representing advertising agencies, commercial film, television, publishing, graphic and fine arts and new media companies.

fkkslaw.com

Gene J. Frantz

Partner

TPG Capital

Gene Frantz is a partner at TPG Capital. Prior to joining TPG in 1999, Mr. Frantz worked at Oracle Corporation, most recently leading its venture capital effort. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Frantz was an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley, specializing in technology mergers and acquisitions spanning the semiconductor, data networking, software and Internet sectors.

Mr. Frantz received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves or has served on the Boards of Directors of Alltel Corporation, Avaya Corporation and SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., among many others.

TPG Capital is the global buyout group of TPG, a leading private investment firm founded in 1992 with more than $48 billion of assets under management and offices in San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, New York, Fort Worth, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, Paris, Luxembourg, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. TPG Capital has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, joint ventures and restructurings.

tpg.com

Ina Fried

Author, Beyond Binary blog and Senior Writer

CNET News

During her years at CNET, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. Ina Fried is a senior writer at CNET News and author of the popular Beyond Binary blog. Beyond Binary is a look at how technology changes our lives and who the people are behind it, with an extra emphasis on that which emanates from Redmond, Wash.

Ina has been at CNET for 10 years and before that covered technology for Bridge News and the Orange County Business Journal after starting her professional career at the Orange County Register.

Launched in 1996, CNET News was one of the first online news entities to help define news reporting in the Internet age. With offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe, CNET News provides reports about technology and its impact on the world today. CNET News has earned the trust and authority of traditional news media, while opening up to blogs and Web 2.0.

news.cnet.com/beyond-binary

Ping Fu

President, CEO and Co-founder

Geomagic

Ping Fu is President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Geomagic. Ms. Fu has more than 25 years of software industry experience in database, Internet technology, and visual computing. Before Geomagic, Ms. Fu was Director of Visualization at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she initiated and managed the NCSA Mosaic browser that led to Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Ms. Fu has received numerous awards for her leadership, including the 2010 Leadership Award by the CAD Society, Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Carolinas. Earlier this year, Ms. Fu was invited to share her insight at the White House Forum on Modernizing Government.

Geomagic is a leading provider of 3D imaging software for creating digital models of physical objects. Geomagic software enables manufacturers to innovate on personalized products and services, shorten time to market and improve quality.

geomagic.com

Jeffrey J. Fulgham

Chief Sustainability Officer and ecomagination Director

Jeff Fulgham was recently named Chief Sustainability Officer and ecomagination Director at GE Water & Process Technologies, where he partners with customers, organizations and governments to drive awareness of the current water challenges and solutions. Previously, as Chief Marketing Officer, he directed strategic marketing initiatives on existing and emerging markets and led the commercial and technical training functions for the business.

Mr. Fulgham has spoken extensively at global industry events and has published numerous technical papers on power and water topics. He was recognized as a member of the Marketing Dream Team and was awarded the Ex Award by Event Marketer Magazine in 2008 for his leadership driving GE’s World Water Tour.

Fulgham holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University.

A world leader in water, water reuse, and wastewater treatment, GE Water & Process Technologies brings the best technologies to enhance their customers’ efficiency while protecting our environment. GE’s commitment to sustainable, green technologies is called ecomagination; these technologies and solutions help customers solve water quality and water scarcity demands.

gewater.com

Lukasz Gadowski

Chief Executive Officer

Team Europe Ventures

Lucasz Gadowski is an Internet entrepreneur and investor, serving as a Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Team Europe Ventures, one of Europe’s leading Internet venture groups.

Mr. Gadowski has founded and co-founded multiple web companies, among them being Spreadshirt, Europe’s leading customized apparel platform; StudiVZ, a German social networking site and one of the country’s top three websites; and brands4friends.com, Germany’s leading private sales club.

Gadowski has been distinguished with numerous awards for his entrepreneurial work, including the Online-Star Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006. He is one of the best-known Web 2.0 faces in Germany.

Team Europe Ventures operates a micro fund specializing in early-stage Internet startups. The firm’s active portfolio consists of around twenty companies, including Madvertise, a mobile advertising company in Germany, and Sponsorpay, a virtual currency monetization startup. Team Europe also specializes in eCommerce, lead-gen and Software as a Service (SaaS). The firm is located in Berlin, Germany.

teameurope.net

Bill Gates

Co-chair

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with co-chair Melinda Gates, he shapes and approves grant-making strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and helps set the overall direction of the organization. Bill and Melinda Gates work together to expand opportunity to the world’s most disadvantaged people by collaborating with grantees and partners.

In 1975, Gates left Harvard University in his junior year to focus on Microsoft. As chief software architect and chairman, Gates led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software, services, and solutions. In July 2008, Gates transitioned into a new role as chairman of Microsoft and advisor on some key development projects.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. The foundation is based in Seattle, Washington.

gatesfoundation.org

David Gelernter

Professor of Computer Science

Yale University

As Professor of Computer Science at Yale, David Gelernter has worked on interfaces, information management and artificial intelligence. His book, Mirror Worlds, published in 1991, was said to have predicted the World Wide Web, and his earlier work on tuple spaces directly influenced Sun Microsystems’ development of Java. He has published various other works, including short stories and a novel; he is also a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and a regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Dr. Gelernter’s work on the “Lifestreams” system, a term he coined in the 1990s, anticipated today’s stream-based tools on major social-networking sites and much other ongoing work on “lifestreaming”. The name has since become generic.

From 2003 to 2006, he was a Board Member at the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been a senior fellow in Jewish Studies at the Shalem Center, and a national fellow at the American Enterprise Institute – his book on the images that define Judaism, entitled Judaism, A way of being, appeared in November.

cs.yale.edu

Ian S. Gertler

President and CEO

Symplegades

and Chief Marketing Officer

Cursor Marketing

Ian Gertler has been a longtime time proponent of the philosophy that technology and innovation would spur new business opportunities while providing solutions for the world’s challenges. He believes that we can and must collectively improve education, cure diseases, create sustainable environments, wipe out poverty and establish the foundations for a more rewarding worldwide existence.

Aside from his executive position as Chief Marketing Officer for online advertising pioneer Cursor Marketing, Gertler serves as President and CEO of Symplegades–a marketing and innovation consultancy he founded in 2004 to assist organizations of all types and sizes with both strategic and tactical guidance for marketing, branding, communications, social media, corporate strategy, social responsibility and Internet/web-based disciplines.

Ian has served in various roles with established Fortune 500 companies like Computer Associates, Internet leaders like 1800FLOWERS.com and FindWhat.com. He is active in the social media arena and was recently named one of the Top CMOs on Twitter Worldwide by Social Media Marketing Magazine, as well as serving as a judge for many years with the Web Marketing Association.

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Jay Giraud

Chief Executive Officer

Rapid Electric Vehicles

Jay Giraud is the Founder and CEO of Rapid Electric Vehicles Inc. (REV). An entrepreneur since the age of 18, he has spent the last five years researching and studying renewable energy technologies and its impact on the automotive and energy industries. Prior to founding REV, Giraud was a professional freestyle snowboarder.

Giraud is a member of the City of Surrey’s Clean Energy Advisory Network. Working with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, he is an industry representative for the City of Vancouver’s Project Get Ready advisory group. He is also an active member of Electric Mobility Canada, a federally assisted non-profit lobbyist group supporting Transport Canada’s EV Technology Road Map. Giraud has spoken at many industry events, including Globe 2010 and Washington’s Beyond Oil 2009 Conference, among others.

Founded in 2008, REV focuses on the development and distribution of 100% electric Ancillary Power Vehicles (APV). Using a proprietary modular drive system with networked energy storage, REV’s APVs are designed for vehicle to grid fleet applications that service the carbon-intensive power markets.

www.rapidelectricvehicles.com

Don Goeman

Executive Vice President of Research, Design & Development

Herman Miller, Inc.

Don Goeman, Executive Vice President of Research, Design & Development, is responsible for the commercialization of new and innovative product programs, which extend Herman Miller’s well-recognized leadership in product design and innovation.

During his 30 years with the company, Mr. Goeman has held a variety of new product design and development leadership positions. The most noteworthy innovations from Goeman’s development teams include the development of the Aeron and Mirra Chairs; the Resolve, My Studio and Vivo Office Systems; and the Leaf Light. In 1997, the Product Development Management Association recognized Herman Miller as Corporate Innovator of the Year.

Goeman is a graduate of Hope College with a BA in Business Administration, and the University of Michigan with a BSE in Mechanical Engineering.

Herman Miller aims to improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn, and live. Its curiosity, ingenuity, and design excellence create award-winning products and services, resulting in more than $1.3 billion in revenue in fiscal 2010. Innovative business practices and a commitment to social responsibility have also established Herman Miller as a recognized global company.

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Robert Goldberg

Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

Zynga

Robert Goldberg is the SVP of Corporate Development for Zynga. He is responsible for strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and business development. He brings over 25 years of senior management and investment experience at industry leading media, e-commerce, enterprise software companies and venture capital firms, including Idealab and NBCi.

With social games that are free and accessible for everyone to play, Zynga’s mission is to connect people through games. Every day, Zyngas millions of users interact with their friends, using games ranging from harvesting plants to baking apple pies to playing poker. Zynga was founded in January 2007 by Mark Pincus and named for his late American Bulldog, Zinga.

zynga.com

Dana P. Goldman

Professor and Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy

University of Southern California

Dana Goldman is a Professor and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Prior to this appointment, he held the Chair in Health Economics at the RAND Corporation and directed RAND’s program in Health Economics, Finance, and Organization.

Dr. Goldman is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, with work featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, CNN, National Public Radio, and other media.

Dr. Goldman was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine and received the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact Prize in 2009, recognizing outstanding research demonstrating how medical research impacts the economy. He also has served on several panels for the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, including a current panel on the fiscal future of the United States, and is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation’s leading economic research organization.

Dr. Goldman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

Marcia Goodstein

President and COO

Idealab

Marcia Goodstein founded Idealab with Bill Gross in March 1996 and since that time has been instrumental in the creation and development of dozens of Idealab network companies in industries ranging from clean technologies and robotics to search technologies and Internet retail. Today Marcia serves as Idealab’s President and Chief Operating Officer and serves on the boards of numerous Idealab companies including eSolar, Evolution Robotics, Evolution Robotics Retail, Snap Technologies, Blogged.com, Feedback.com, RayTracker, Inc. and Internet Brands.

Prior to Idealab, Marcia worked at several start-up companies and was an early employee of Gemstar Development Corporation, responsible for media licensing for North America, as well as marketing and distribution in South America. Prior to joining Gemstar, Marcia worked at the California Institute of Technology. She is a graduate of Pomona College.

Idealab creates, builds and operates technology businesses, with approximately 25 businesses in various stages of development. In addition to capital, Idealab provides a full range of resources to infuse startup companies with the development strategies and financial support needed to rapidly introduce innovative products and services.

idealab.com

Mark Gorenberg

Managing Director

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, joined Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 1990. He has served as a board member for start-up and public software companies, including AdForce, NetDynamics, and Omniture. Currently, he serves as a Director of Aria Systems, Cenzic, Crowd Factory, ontheFRONTIER, Replay Solutions, and Sonatype.

Mr. Gorenberg is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and The Environment.

Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Gorenberg managed a number of new media areas and was a member of the original SparcStation I team at Sun Microsystems. He received a BSEE from MIT, an MSEE from the University of Minnesota, and an MS in Engineering Management from Stanford University.

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Its investment professionals have helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, Internet, software as a service and cloud computing.

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Bill Gross

Founder and CEO

Idealab

Bill Gross is the Founder and CEO of Idealab. He started Idealab in 1996, and in the last 14 years Idealab has created and built more than 75 technology companies, including Overture, Internet Brands, and Picasa. In 2007, Idealab created eSolar with the mission to develop utility-scale concentrating solar power projects, and Mr. Gross served as the company’s CEO until recently. He was also a serial entrepreneur before starting Idealab, creating successful companies in high school and while pursuing his engineering degree at Caltech.

Mr. Gross currently serves on the boards of 10 companies in the areas of robotics, automation, software, and renewable energy. In addition, he serves as a Trustee on the Board of Directors at the Art Center College of Design and his alma mater, the California Institute of Technology.

Idealab creates, builds and operates technology businesses, with approximately 25 businesses in various stages of development. In addition to capital, Idealab provides a full range of resources to infuse startup companies with the development strategies and financial support needed to rapidly introduce innovative products and services.

idealab.com

Connie Guglielmo

Enterprise Reporter, U.S. Technology Team

Bloomberg News

Connie Guglielmo joined Bloomberg News in 2003 as a member of the U.S. Technology Team. Based in San Francisco, she covers top technology companies including Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc.

Before joining Bloomberg, Connie worked for more than a decade as a technology reporter and editor in Silicon Valley, where she covered the fledgling PC and software market and the emerging Internet economy for magazines including Wired, Upside and MacWeek. The Pew Internet Project listed her among the Top 200 people who helped write about and predict the Internet. In 2008, the Public Relations Society of America in Silicon Valley selected her as one of the top technology reporters of the year.

She holds a Masters in Communication from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

In 1981 Bloomberg started out with a mission to bring transparency to capital markets through access to information. Bloomberg connects decision makers in business, finance and government to a broad and dynamic network of information, news, people and ideas that enables faster, more effective decisions.

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Scott Guilfoyle

Senior Vice President of Platform Services and CTO

PayPal

As Senior Vice President of Platform Services and CTO, Scott Guilfoyle leads PayPal’s platform operations, product development, information security, corporate information technology and corporate architecture sectors. Prior to joining PayPal, he was the CIO for Interactive Corporation’s financial services and real estate division and served as CIO for Bank of America Card Services. Beginning his career at GE, Guilfoyle held key technology leadership positions including CIO of GE Plastics, Americas, and GE Engine Services.

Guilfoyle received a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Wilmington College in Ohio. He is also a graduate of GE Management Development, GE Global Business Development and is a certified six sigma Black Belt.

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. With more than 84 million active accounts in 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. An eBay company, PayPal is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payment service, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with international headquarters in Singapore.

www.paypal.com

Saar Gur

Partner

Charles River Ventures

Saar Gur is a partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV), with over 12 years of experience working with entrepreneurs as a founder, investor and advisor. Mr. Gur currently sits on the boards of Progress Financial, Wonderhill, and Blippy, and was involved with CRV’s investments in Twitter and Scribd. Prior to joining CRV, Mr. Gur co-founded Brightroll, the world’s leading Internet video advertising network, as well as Carebadges.com, acquired by Facebook Causes. He also acted as an angel investor and advisor to numerous companies including AdMob, Flixster, and Xobni. Previously, Saar was VP of Customer Acquisition and responsible for the P&L of Adteractive, a leading performance-based marketing company.

Founded in 1970, Charles River Ventures is one of the nation’s oldest and most successful early-stage venture capital firms with approximately $2.1 billion under management. CRV is dedicated to helping exceptional entrepreneurs turn their ideas into the next category leaders in high growth technology and media sectors. Over the past 10 years, CRV funds have been ranked among the industry’s top performers. CRV has offices in Boston, MA and Menlo Park, CA.

crv.com

John Hagel III

Co-Chairman

Deloitte Center for the Edge

John Hagel III is Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, which conducts original research and develops substantive points of view for new corporate growth. There he oversees the development of the Center’s research agenda and also represents Deloitte with top-tier clients and media. Hagel has nearly 30 years’ experience as a management consultant, author, speaker, and entrepreneur and has helped companies improve their performance by effectively applying information technology to reshape business strategies.

Before joining Deloitte, John was an independent consultant and writer. Prior to that, he held significant positions at leading consulting firms and public and private companies, including McKinsey & Co., 12 Entrepreneuring, and Atari.

John is the author of a series of best-selling business books and has won awards and recognition from Harvard Business Review and a variety of publications and professional service firms. His most recent book, The Power of Pull, co-authored with John Seely Brown, was released this year.

John holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and a JD and MBA from Harvard University.

www.deloitte.com

Jay Hallberg

Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing

Spiceworks

Jay Hallberg co-founded Spiceworks in 2006 to simplify the management of information technology for the world’s small and medium businesses. He frequently speaks on advertising-based business models, B2B social marketing, and SMB IT trends at top industry events, including the IAB, Cloud Computing Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, among others. His commentary has also appeared in top publications, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily.

Jay holds an MBA from Harvard and an Engineering degree from the University of Illinois.

Spiceworks provides a free systems management, inventory and helpdesk software application, called the Spiceworks IT Desktop. It is designed for network administrators working in small- to medium-sized businesses. The Spiceworks user community has grown to over 1 million IT professionals worldwide, earning it a reputation as the “Facebook for IT.” The company is transforming how technology products are managed, marketed and sold for over 20 percent of the global SMB market.

www.spiceworks.com

Darell Hammond

CEO and Co-founder

KaBOOM!

Darell Hammond co-founded KaBOOM! in 1995 and has since overseen the construction of more than 1,750 playground builds for communities in need. Each build is executed by volunteers in only one day. On kaboom.org, Hammond’s organization offers tools and resources that empower communities to build playgrounds and take up the importance of playtime for children as a cause. Hammond has received the President’s Volunteer Service Award and the Jefferson Award and has been profiled in People, The Washingtonian, FORTUNE, Fast Company and Worth magazines.

In addition to his work with KaBOOM!, Darell has served on the Board of Directors of Independent Sector and is currently on the Board of Directors of Our Good Works. In 2003 he was elected as an Ashoka Fellow for being a leader in socially responsible entrepreneurship.

KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit whose mission is to create healthier kids and healthier communities by creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America.

kaboom.org

Ammar H. Hanafi

General Partner

Alloy Ventures

Ammar Hanafi joined Alloy Ventures as a general partner in 2005. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in communications and IT infrastructure, along with internet-enabled consumer and enterprise applications and services. Mr. Hanafi has over a decade of financial and operational management experience in the communications and technology industry, serving previously as Vice President of New Business Ventures at Cisco Systems, where he led new product efforts in the enterprise datacenter market. He currently sits on the board of directors of 3Leaf Systems, YouSENDit, Retrevo, Mavenir Systems, Cortina Systems, GigaOM, Teleplace, Infineta Systems, Moxsie, and the non-profit SF Camerawork.

Mr. Hanafi received a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1988) and an MBA from Stanford University (1995).

Alloy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management that invests in the entrepreneurs creating the next generation of ground-breaking Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Cleantech companies.

alloyventures.com

Harish Hande

Managing Director

SELCO

Dr. Harish Hande is the Managing Director of SELCO-India, which he co-founded with Neville Williams in 1995. Dr. Hande earned his Doctorate in Energy Engineering, with a specialty in Solar Energy, at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He also has an undergraduate degree in Energy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur. Dr. Hande serves on the boards of many organizations, both national and international.

In 2008, Hande was chosen by Business Today as one of the 21 young leaders for India’s 21st century. Later that year, India Today named him one of the 50 pioneers of change in India.

Established in 1995, SELCO India is a social venture aiming to promote sustainable energy solutions and services to underserved households and businesses in rural India. With its headquarters in Bangalore, SELCO has 25 branches in Karnataka and Gujarat. Today SELCO India has installed solar lighting systems in over 85,000 households in the rural areas of these states.

selco-india.com

David Handler

Partner

Centerview Partners LLC

David Handler joined Centerview Partners in 2008 to establish a global technology advisory practice. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Handler was Joint Head Of Technology Investment Banking at UBS and before that a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns. He has completed over $40 billion in financing and advisory assignments, involving companies such as Cisco Systems, Xerox, Motorola, Silver Lake Partners and Bain Capital.

Mr. Handler earned his BA and MBA from New York University and NYU’s Stern School of Business. He holds a seat on the Dean¡¯s Advisory Council and sponsors a scholarship program at NYU. Mr. Handler is a member of the Board of Directors of Penn National Gaming and of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the New Group.

Centerview Partners, based in New York, operates an investment banking advisory practice and a private equity business. The firm provides senior-level counsel to both domestic and international clients in a range of industries, and draws experience from the consumer products, financial services, food and beverage, entertainment and media and retail sectors.

Wendy Ramage Hawkins

Executive Director

Intel Foundation

Wendy Hawkins is Executive Director of the Intel Foundation. The Foundation represents a commitment of approximately $40M per year for improving math, science, technology and engineering education worldwide. She joined Intel as Program Officer and Manager of the newly created Intel Foundation until 1994 and since then has held a variety of management positions in Intel’s Corporate Affairs Group, including manager of Corporate K-12 programs, founder of Intel Teach, and Director of Education for Intel Corporation.

Hawkins frequently writes and speaks on education issues in the US and around the world. She is active in community organizations, currently serving on the advisory board of the National Science Teachers Association and on the Corporate Committee of the Council on Foundations. She has also started and managed farmers’ markets in Illinois and Oregon, and spearheaded several successful election campaigns.

Ms. Hawkins graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a degree in Psychology.

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices.

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Tom Hayes

Vice President of Corporate Marketing

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

Tom Hayes, Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., is responsible for Marvell’s worldwide marketing programs, advertising, branding, external relations and Internet business tools. Prior to joining Marvell, he held executive positions at Applied Materials, HP and Enea Software. Mr. Hayes and his work have been profiled in the New York Times, Fast Company, CNBC, CNN and other media worldwide. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post and the author of the best-selling book Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business and No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling.

Marvell is one of the fastest-growing semiconductor companies in the world, and is leading a new revolution in consumer electronics with its ultra-low-power, high-performance silicon solutions for Smartphones, tablet computers, eReaders, and an array of new personal information appliances. The company is the world leader in chips for storage media. Marvell is the number one producer of ARM-based chips in the world, shipping more than one billion chips per year.

marvell.com

Stefan Heck

Director

McKinsey & Company

Stefan Heck is a director in McKinsey’s Stamford office and founded and leads the Firm’s Global Cleantech Practice and the Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice in the Americas. He serves leading technology and energy companies in industries related to sustainability. He previously led McKinsey’s Global Semiconductor Practice and has served the leading global semiconductor companies around the world for many years. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked on various projects for Apple, NASA, IBM, and Xerox PARC. He also built two generations of solar-powered cars for the Stanford Solar Car Project.

Dr. Heck received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego and his BS with honors in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps many of the world’s leading corporations and organizations address their strategic challenges, from reorganizing for long-term growth to improving business performance and maximizing revenue. For more than eight decades, the firm’s primary objective has been to serve as an organization’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management.

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Jessi Hempel

Senior Writer

FORTUNE Magazine

Jessi Hempel is a writer at FORTUNE Magazine, where she covers technology and social media. She is also a regular contributor to the FORTUNE Brainstorm:TECH blog and recently wrote a cover story on the iPhone and Blackberry.

Ms. Hempel joined FORTUNE in July 2007. Previously, she worked with BusinessWeek, most recently serving as their Innovation Department Editor, where she worked on cover stories and special reports. Prior to this position, Ms. Hempel worked as a staff editor, covering philanthropy, technology and youth. Before joining BusinessWeek, Ms. Hempel worked for TIME Asia and various non-profit organizations.

Hempel is a graduate of Brown University and received a Masters in Journalism from The University of California at Berkeley.

FORTUNE Magazine is a global leader in business journalism with a worldwide ciculation of more than 1 million and a readership of nearly 5 milion, with major franchises including the FORTUNE 500 and the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For. FORTUNE Live Media extends the brand’s mission into live settings, hosing a wide range of annual conferences, including the FORTUNE Global Forum.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/

Howard I. High

Fellow

Worldwide Marketing Group

Fluidigm Corporation

Howard High is a Fellow at Fluidigm Corporation in charge of all outbound company communication, including corporate communications, press relations, marketing communications, and web activities. He is a member of the company’s Executive Staff and is a lead spokesperson for the corporation. Mr. High joined Fluidigm in March 2008 after retiring from Intel Corporation, where he spent 27 years in Global Communications.

Mr. High received his BA Degree, Cum Laude, in Mass Communications, from the California State University, East Bay. He is the past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of California State University, East Bay’s Educational Foundation and remains a Trustee of the Board today.

Fluidigm is a growth company in the biotech tools segment. The company invented the integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) a rubber-based microfluidic chip that integrates a diverse set of critical liquid handling functions on a nanoliter scale. In 2008, Fluidigm’s revenue grew over 100 percent when compared to the prior year, and that trend continued in 2009 when compared to 2008 revenues. Fluidigm has now sold and installed almost 200 systems worldwide.

David Hodgson

Chief Information Officer

Tethys Bioscience

David has a two-decade track record of leadership in computational sciences. He has delivered enterprise class solutions and leading edge innovations at the junction between Life Sciences and Information Technology. He joined Tethys from Roche where he was the Global Head of Scientific Information Systems for Research and Exploratory Development.

Hodgson is a member of the Silicon Valley CIO Roundtable and has been an advisor to a number of Bay Area startups. He is also an ad hoc member of the PRIME forum of R&D Informatics leaders across the Biopharma industry. A consultant to a number of university graduate programs, he has held senior positions at Incyte Genomics and The Sanger Institute during the pioneering years of the Human Genome Project.

Tethys is a cardiometabolic diagnostics company that creates and commercializes breakthrough biomarker-based blood tests. These tests predict imminent disease risk and enable targeted intervention to preempt the onset of chronic conditions such as type-2 diabetes. The PreDx Diabetes Risk Score has been available to primary care physicians since 2009.

tethysbio.com

Reid Hoffman

Executive Chairman and Co-founder

LinkedIn Corporation

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and Co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, he was Executive Vice President of PayPal where he was in charge of all business and banking relationships. During his tenure at PayPal, Mr. Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Mr. Hoffman also has held management roles in significant technology companies, including Fujitsu and Apple. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation.

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and Co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, he was Executive Vice President of PayPal where he was in charge of all business and banking relationships. During his tenure at PayPal, Mr. Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Mr. Hoffman also has held management roles in significant technology companies, including Fujitsu and Apple. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation.

LinkedIn is an Internet company focused on connecting the world¡¯s professionals. The company is privately held and has a diversified business model with revenues driven from user subscriptions, advertising sales and software licensing. The LinkedIn Web site launched in 2003 and is the largest professional networking site in the world with more than 70 million members, representing 200 countries and executives from every Fortune 500 Company.

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Deborah Hopkins

Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer

Citi

In her role as Venture Capital Initiatives Chairman, Ms. Hopkins oversees the development and enhancement of Citi’s relationships with the global venture capital community. As Chief Innovation Officer, she is responsible for developing and leading Citi’s approach to creative, forward-looking collaboration with external constituencies and to maximize creativity within Citi to ensure operating efficiencies globally. In addition, she is Co-Chair of Citi¡¯s Women’s Initiative.

Before joining Citi in 2003, Ms. Hopkins held senior-level positions at several global companies, including The Boeing Company and Lucent Technologies. Prior to that, Ms. Hopkins was Vice President of Finance for General Motors Europe.

Ms. Hopkins currently serves on the Advisory Board of Riverwood Partners. In 2000, FORTUNE Magazine named her one of the most powerful women in American business.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management.

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Bernardo A. Huberman

Senior Fellow and

Director, Social Computing Lab

HP

Bernardo A. Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Social Computing Laboratory at HP Labs. His research focuses on the interaction between social behavior and information technology, emphasizing on social attention.

In past years Huberman’s research has focused on the Internet and the dynamics of its growth and use. An originator of the field of ecology of computation, Huberman published his book, The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, with MIT Press.

Huberman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A former Research Fellow at PARC, he was also a visiting professor at The University of Paris, The Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark and INSEAD, France. He holds more than 25 patents and is the author of several hundred scientific papers.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.

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Chris Hughes

Founder and Executive Director

Jumo

Chris Hughes has spent his career developing technologies to make social communication and political organizing easier and more efficient. After co-founding Facebook in 2004, Chris worked first as the site’s spokesperson and later as a product manager specializing in user experience.

In 2007, Chris went to work on President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as the Director of Online Organizing, where he was charged with developing web technologies to engage and empower supporters. Chris oversaw the development of the on-site network My.BarackObama.com along with the campaign’s distributed presence on all other networks across the web like Facebook and Twitter.

An Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, Hughes is currently embarking on a new initiative called Jumo. Jumo’s purpose is to use the social web for fostering long-term relationships of responsibility between individuals and organizations working to change the world. Hughes is a graduate of Harvard College, earning his BA in History and Literature.

jumo.com

Hutch Hutchinson

Managing Director

Rocky Mountain Institute

Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson is a program director for the research and consulting activities at RMI. He works across all RMI programmatic areas, with a special emphasis on the built environment and transportation.

Prior to RMI, Hutch started up Pronghorn Ventures, a cleantech venture fund centered in the Rocky Mountain Area. Previously, he spent almost 20 years with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), holding leadership roles in the energy, industrial, and high-tech practices. Hutch spent about half of his BCG career overseas, especially in Latin America and Australasia, and helped start up several of BCG’s offices and practices.

Before working at BCG Hutch was a research engineer and program manager at the DOE’s Pacific Northwest Laboratory, focusing on energy conservation and renewable technology development.

RMI is an independent, entrepreneurial, non-profit organization. Its research and consulting staff work with businesses, communities, and organizations around the world in three interconnected practices: the built environment, energy and resources, and mobility and vehicle efficiency. RMI’s work incorporates a unique blend of whole-system thinking, integrative design, and an interdisciplinary knowledge of advanced technologies and techniques.

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Maha Ibrahim

General Partner

Canaan Partners

Maha Ibrahim is a general partner at Canaan Partners. She invests in innovative cloud, mobile, and digital media companies with the potential to become global market leaders. Early on, she led Canaan’s investment in Tacit Networks (acquired by Packeteer Networks), Mobilitec (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent) and MiNO Wireless. Maha also led Canaan’s investments in social top media application providers PicksPal (acquired by Liberty Media) and Watercooler.

Prior to joining Canaan, Ms. Ibrahim held numerous executive-level roles at Qwest Communications and was also a management consultant with both the Boston Consulting Group and Price Waterhouse. She holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

Founded in 1987, Canaan Partners has raised eight funds and completed more than 77 acquisitions and 52 IPOs. With $3 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm’s technology team focuses on the digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech sectors. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel.

canaan.com

Nobuyuki Idei

Founder and CEO, Representative Director

Quantum Leaps Corporation

Nobuyuki Idei is founder & CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation, a business consultancy company he established in September 2006. Mr. Idei is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Sony Corporation. For more than a decade, Idei was a member of top management at Sony, as President and Representative Director from 1995 to 1999, President and CEO from 1999 to 2000, and Chairman and Group CEO from 2000 to 2005. He was Chief Corporate Advisor from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Idei also serves as Director of Accenture, Baidu and Freebit Co., Ltd. He received his BS in Economics and Politics from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1960. He is fluent in both English and French.

Quantum Leaps Corporation¡¯s mission is to create next-generation businesses and leaders by effectively bringing together people, technology and capital resources and inspiring innovation for high-level, long-term international competitiveness.

www.qxl.jp

Joichi Ito

Chief Executive Officer

Creative Commons

Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons and a co-founder and board member of Digital Garage. Additionally, he serves on the board of a number of non-profit organizations including The Mozilla Foundation, WITNESS and Global Voices. An early stage investor in Twitter, Wikia, Technorati, Flickr, SocialText, Last.fm, Rupture and other Internet companies, Mr. Ito has started numerous Internet companies, such as PSINet Japan and Infoseek Japan. He has served and continues to serve on various Japanese government committees and boards, advising the government on IT, privacy, and computer security related issues.

Mr. Ito is a Senior Visiting Researcher of Keio Research Institute at Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with international copyrighting laws. They provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, or use commercially.

http://creativecommons.org

Sandy Jen

Co-Founder and Vice President, Engineering

Meebo

Sandy Jen is a co-founder of Meebo in Mountain View. She majored in Computer Science at Stanford University and after graduation, worked as a software developer at Xilinx. In 2005, Ms. Jen started Meebo with two friends, Seth Sternberg and Elaine Wherry.  She started out coding the server-side of Meebo and now heads Meebo’s Engineering organization.  Ms. Jen rock climbs, loves yoga, and plays ultimate frisbee.

Meebo socially connects over 100 million users across the web allowing them to instantly connect, share, and communicate with all of their friends.  Because Meebo integrates all social network and communication channels into a single, simple-to-use interface, users can easily share content and communicate in real time with the people who matter to them.  Meebo connects people to their friends on the thousands of websites that have installed the Meebo bar, on mobile devices, and with Meebo Messenger.  Meebo was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, visit www.meebo.com.

Kevin Johnson

Chief Executive Officer

Juniper Networks

Kevin Johnson joined Juniper Networks in September of 2008 as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board. Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Johnson served for 16 years in various leadership roles at Microsoft. In 2005, he was named President of the Platforms and Services Division with responsibility for the Server & Tools, Windows, and Online Services Business Groups. Under his leadership, Microsoft’s largest division achieved record-breaking results with more than $20 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2008. Prior to Microsoft, he worked in IBM’s systems integration and consulting business. Mr. Johnson has been appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Starbucks Coffee Company.

Mr. Johnson earned his BA in Business Administration from New Mexico State University.

Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year.

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David Jones, Jr.

Chairman and Managing Director

Chrysalis Ventures

David Jones, Jr. founded Chrysalis Ventures in 1993, bringing to it a varied background in business, law and banking, having worked as a commercial banker for the Bank of Boston and as a lawyer in Washington, D.C.. At Chrysalis, Mr. Jones has worked with companies in the Midwest and South such as Six Flags, Tritel, and Regent Communications. He now focuses primarily on healthcare investing and chairs the management company and funds’ investment committees.

Since 1993, Mr. Jones has served on the Board of Directors of Humana, Inc. and is currently a director of the Humana Foundation. He lectures frequently in Chrysalis’ region on topics related to venture capital and the changing healthcare industry. Mr. Jones has a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale University Law School.

Chrysalis Ventures manages one of Mid-America’s largest funds for early-stage and growth investments with approximately $400 million under management. Since 1993, they have invested in over 65 companies, primarily in the Healthcare and Technology sectors. With headquarters in Louisville, KY, Chrysalis has offices in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor.

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Jacqueline Jones

Executive Director, New Product Development and Research

Kaplan Inc.

Jacqueline Jones is the Executive Director, New Product Development and Research, at Kaplan University. Her responsibilities include developing new programs and services within Kaplan University across several verticals, including Business, Education, Nursing, and Kaplan Legal Education.

Prior to Kaplan University, Ms. Jones was Vice President of Strategic Business Planning/Market Research for Cable & Wireless. There, she executed the customer research and insight program for the Caribbean region. Prior, she worked at Clear Channel Communications, where she developed multicultural marketing programs for major clients.

She has been a guest speaker at several conferences and business schools, and her work has appeared in various publications, including Black Enterprise and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ms. Jones is a former Fulbright Scholar and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Wellesley College.

Kaplan University helps adult students unlock their talent by providing a practical, student-centered education that prepares them for careers in fast-growing industries. It has 12 campuses and more than 125 academic programs and offerings. The University serves more than 78,000 online and campus-based students.

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Bill Joy

Senior Partner

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Bill Joy joined KPCB in 2005 as a partner in KPCB’s Greentech Practice. He helped develop KPCB’s strategy of funding game-changing technologies broadly addressing the twin problems of climate change and sustainability.

Bill was previously a founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, a KPCB portfolio company. In 1995 he installed the first citywide WiFi network at his satellite research laboratory in Colorado. He is named on more than 40 patents.

Before co-founding Sun, Joy designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet. His many contributions were recognized in a FORTUNE cover story that called him the “Edison of the Internet.”

Mr. Joy has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Engineering, honoris causa, from the University of Michigan.

KPCB is an active venture capital partnership headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with a large capital base for investment. Since 1972, the company has invested in over 575 technology companies that have accrued market valuations exceeding $500 billion and employ more than 350,000.

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Steve Jurvetson

Managing Director

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director and Founding Partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). He was the lead investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana. He also led the firm’s investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired for $8B). Mr. Jurvetson serves on the boards of Tesla Motors, Synthetic Genomics, Wowd, SpaceX and NeoPhotonics, among others. Previously, he was an R&D Engineer at HP, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research and computer design at HP, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek.

Mr. Jurvetson finished his BS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2.5 years and graduated first in his class. He also received an MS in Electrical Engineering and MBA from Stanford.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world and one of the most active energy and cleantech investors. Internationally, DFJ was also the main investor in Baidu and Skype.

Dean Kamen

Founder

FIRST and DEKA Research

Dean Kamen, is an inventor and physicist holding more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents. He invented an automatic, self-contained ambulatory pump designed to deliver precise doses of medication to patients with a variety of medical conditions in college and founded AutoSyringe, Inc., to manufacture and market the product. By the age of 30, he had developed the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics.

Kamen founded DEKA Research & Development Corporation to develop internally generated inventions, as well as to provide R&D for major corporate clients. Products and technologies developed by the DEKA team include a portable dialysis machine, a robotic arm designed for amputees, water purification technology, and the Segway. He founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use and enjoy science and technology through robotics competitions.

Kamen has received numerous awards and accolades including the Heinz Award in Technology and honorary degrees from more than 25 colleges and universities. He was inducted into The National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005.

Donald Katz

Founder and CEO

Audible.com

Donald Katz is founder and CEO of Audible, Inc. Katz was previously a journalist and author for twenty years, writing five books and serving as contributing editor at Rolling Stone and other publications; his work won a National Magazine Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Newark, NJ, Audible is the leading provider of digital spoken audio information and entertainment on the internet. It offers over 80,000 downloadable audiobooks, audio editions of periodicals, and other programs. The company commercialized the first portable digital audio player in 1997, four years before the introduction of the iPod. Audible is the exclusive supplier of audiobooks to Apple’s iTunes Music store worldwide and operates Audible.co.uk in London and Audible.de in Berlin. A public company for ten years, Audible was acquired by Amazon.com in 2008 and is now an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary.

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Christopher E. Kay

Managing Director, Head of Growth Ventures and Innovation

Citi

As Citi’s global corporate ventures unit, Chris Kay and his colleagues work with Citi business leaders and external partners to identify emerging market growth spaces, develop new venture concepts in these spaces, and launch new corporate ventures globally. The new ventures span existing business units within Citi and also shape new-to-market and new-to-Citi lines of business.

In June 2007, Kay was a senior executive at Target, leading several of its most successful growth strategies, initiatives and transformational efforts. He started his professional career as a corporate lawyer representing Fortune 100 companies.

Kay has a JD Magna cum Laude from University of Minnesota and a BA in French and Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kay is also on the Board of Mobile Money Ventures and Bundle.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management.

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David Keith

Director

ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group

Professor Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology and public policy for twenty years. His work in technology and policy assessment has centered on the capture and storage of CO2, the technology and implications of global climate engineering, the economics and climatic impacts of large-scale wind power and the prospects for hydrogen fuel. As a technologist, David has built a high-accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA and developed new methods for reservoir engineering. He now leads a team of engineers developing technology to capture CO2 from ambient air at an industrial scale.

David has received numerous awards from institutions such as MIT and has reached the public through media such as the BBC, NPR, CNN and the editorial page of the New York Times.

He spent most of his career in the United States at Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University before returning to Canada in 2004 to lead a research group in energy and environmental systems at the University of Calgary.

ISEEE develops cost-effective solutions to the environmental challenges of energy production and use.

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Kevin Kelly

Co-founder and Senior Maverick

Wired Magazine

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick and co-founder of Wired magazine, and served as Executive Editor from its inception in 1993 until 1999. He is currently writing “What Technology Wants,” a book to be published in October 2010, and authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and Out of Control, a book on decentralized emergent systems. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools, True Film and Street Use websites.

Previously, Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He is also a charter board member of the Long Now Foundation, a company building a monumental clock that will tick for the next 10,000 years.

Since 1993, Wired magazine has reported on how technology affects culture, the economy and politics. The magazine’s mission is to embrace the future and help foster innovation, invention, and disruption in the technology world.

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Raymond Kennedy

Director, North America Marketing

Haworth, Inc.

Ray Kennedy serves as Director of North American Marketing at Haworth. In his role, Ray is responsible for the strategic design and implementation of all North American trade shows, marketing collateral, product introductions, knowledge marketing and technical communication.

Ray has been in the furniture industry for over 30 years. He has extensive experience in many aspects of the furniture business including finance, product management and all aspects of marketing. Ray is also credited with leading the development of a successful retail business marketing office furniture- identifying the business model, establishing distribution, establishing the internal processes and creating the marketing launch.

Haworth Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of adaptable workspaces, including raised floors, movable walls, systems furniture, seating, storage and wood casegoods. Family-owned and privately held, Haworth is headquartered in Holland, Michigan, and serves markets in more than 120 countries through a global network of 600 dealers.

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Pradeep Khosla

Dean, College of Engineering and Dowd University Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Pradeep K. Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering, and the Philip and Mar?sha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon. As Dean of the College, he serves as the Chief Academic and Administrative Officer.

Professor Khosla is the recipient of several awards including the ASME Computers in Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award, and the inaugural Pan IIT American Leadership Award for Academic Excellence, both in 2009. He was awarded the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professorship in 1998, and named University Professor in 2008. For his contributions to technology and education he has been elected as a Fellow of multiple organizations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association of Artificial Intelligence, American Association for Advancement of Science, and as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Khosla is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences, and invited to participate in thought leadership forums organized by Fortune Magazine, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Milken Institute, World Economic Forum, and Blouin Foundation, amongst others. He has served and currently serves on several boards of non-profit, for-profit, and government organizations.

Rik Kirkland

Director of Publishing and Principal

McKinsey & Company

Rik Kirkland is Director of Publishing and a Principal at McKinsey & Company. In this role he has global responsibility for McKinsey’s external print and digital content creation, which includes the McKinsey Quarterly and eQuarterly, McKinsey on Finance and a new publication and website, What Matters. He also helps with key event programming and often serves as a moderator at McKinsey conferences.

Before joining McKinsey in February 2008, Mr. Kirkland spent nearly three decades at Time Inc, where he served FORTUNE magazine as Washington Editor, Europe Editor, International Editor and eventually as Deputy Managing Editor and Managing Editor. Under his leadership from 2001-2005, FORTUNE won numerous prizes, among them Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club awards. Besides his print role, Kirkland helped develop two TV specials for PBS and supervised FORTUNE’s online activities. He has been a frequent guest on CNN and CNBC and moderates discussions with top CEOs and political figures at events such as the World Economic Forum, Fortune’s Global 500 forums and the Microsoft CEO Summit. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and plays guitar in a rock band, The Prowlers.

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps many of the world’s leading corporations and organizations address their strategic challenges, from reorganizing for long-term growth to improving business performance and maximizing revenue. For more than eight decades, the firm’s primary objective has been to serve as an organization’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management.

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Zach Klein

Chief Product Officer

Boxee

Zach Klein is an accomplished entrepreneur and designer. Prior to Boxee, he was a Founding Partner and Chief of Product at Connected Ventures, the team with which he co-founded CollegeHumor.com and Busted Tees. In 2006, he and his partners sold a major stake of Connected Ventures to Barry Diller’s Interactive Corp (IAC).

Klein is best known for co-founding and designing Vimeo.com, a popular video-sharing community emphasizing authenticity and quality. Time Magazine recently named Vimeo one of the Top 50 sites on the Internet.

Boxee is a cross-platform freeware home theater PC program designed to bring TV shows, movies, video, and music from the Internet to one’s own TV, with features for social networking. The company is based in New York, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Nellie Kroes

Vice President

European Commission

A Dutch politician and businessperson, Nellie Kroes was elected Vice President to the European Commission, responsible for the Digital Agenda, earlier this year. Previously, she was European Commissioner for Competition.

She began her career as a spokesperson for education for the Dutch Lower House of Parliament. From there she became Junior Minister of Transportation and Water Management in the First Van Agt Cabinet and then as Minister for Transportation and Water Management in the First and Second Lubbers Cabinets. As Minister she was responsible for the privatization of the Post and Telephone Services, as well as the commissioning of the Betuwe-railway.

After her time as minister, Ms. Kroes became a member of the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce, and served as a chairperson or board member for multiple organizations including a shipping company, a business school, and a railroad company, among others.

The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union’s treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union.

Paul Kwan

Managing Director

Head of Internet and Software Banking

Morgan Stanley

Paul Kwan is responsible for Morgan Stanley’s Internet and Software Banking practice and has been focused on the software and Internet industry for over fourteen years. In particular, Mr. Kwan has focused on the convergence of Internet advertising and technology, having advised Omniture on its $1.8Bn sale to Adobe, aQuantive on its $6.1Bn sale to Microsoft, DoubleClick on its $3.1Bn sale to Google, Microsoft (Razorfish) on its $530MM sale to Publicis, and Zappos on its $1.1Bn sale to Amazon.

Kwan and his team have also had the privilege to bring public a number of the leading Software-as-a-Service companies including SuccessFactors, Ancestry.com, Omniture, DemandTec and RightNow.

He received a bachelor degree in computer science and economics from Stanford University.

www.morganstanley.com

Margaret Leinen

Chief Executive Officer

Climate Response Fund

Dr. Margaret Leinen is the Founder and CEO of the Climate Response Fund. She was previously the Chief Science Officer of Climos, Inc. a start-up company focused on attracting private sector funding for ocean experimentation in carbon sequestration. Between 2000 and 2007 Dr. Leinen was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

Leinen has served as Chair or Co-Chair of multiple organizations, including the US Global Change Program, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, and the National Science and Technology Council’s Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology

Before going to the National Science Foundation, Dr. Leinen was a professor and Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography and Vice Provost for Marine and Environmental Programs at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Leinen is a well-known researcher in paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and ocean biogeochemistry.

The Climate Response Fund was founded in 2009 to foster discussion of climate intervention research and to decrease the risk that these techniques might be called on or deployed before they are adequately understood and regulated.

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Talia Leman

Chief Executive Officer

RandomKid

Talia Leman is 15 years old and is the CEO and a founder of RandomKid, a non-profit organization that leverages the power of youth through technology to drive an economy of positive change. To date she has leveraged the power of 12 million youth from 20 countries to bring aid to four continents, ranking the giving power of youth with the top U.S. corporations.

Talia is the winner of numerous national and international awards for her philanthropic work, including World of Children’s Founder Youth Award, the International Youth Talent Award from the European Union, and was designated a Champion of Intercultural Innovation by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Talia travels across the world speaking about “The Power of ANYone”.

Nicholas Kristof wrote of Talia in his column in The New York Times: “If your image of a philanthropist is a stout, gray geezer, then meet Talia Leman, an eighth grader in Iowa who loves soccer and swimming, and whose favorite subject is science. Iʼm supporting her for president in 2044.”

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Robert Lemelson

Co-Vice President and Secretary

The Lemelson Foundation

Robert Lemelson, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. He is an adjunct professor of Anthropology and a Research Anthropologist at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience at UCLA. He specializes in Southeast-Asian Studies, psychological anthropology and transcultural psychiatry. Dr. Lemelson was a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia in 1996-1997, and is trained as a clinical psychologist.

He is co-Vice President and Secretary of The Lemelson Foundation and is also the president and founder of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research, a research foundation supporting research and training in the neurosciences. In addition, Dr. Lemelson is director of Elemental Productions, a documentary film production company. His edited volume “Understanding Trauma- Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Approaches” was published in 2007 by Cambridge Press. His most recent film, “40 Years of Silence”, a documentary about the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965, was released last year.

The Lemelson Foundation is a private philanthropy founded by prolific inventor Jerome Lemelson. The Lemelson foundation sparks, sustains and celebrates innovation and the inventive spirit.

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Jacqueline Leo

Editor in Chief

The Fiscal Times

Jacqueline Leo is Editor in Chief of The Fiscal Times. Ms. Leo has worked in a variety of media, including various editorial and marketing positions at iAmplify.com, Better Homes and Gardens magazine, The New York Times, and Good Morning America. From 2001 through November 2007, Ms. Leo was Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Reader’s Digest. Her new book, SEVEN The Number for Happiness, Love and Success, was published in December 2009.

Ms. Leo is a former President of the American Society of Magazine Editors and served on the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences for ten years. Most recently, she was named to Media Industry Newsletter¡¯s Editorial Hall of Fame in November 2009.

The Fiscal Times is a digital news, opinion and media service devoted to comprehensive quality reporting on vital fiscal, budgetary, health care and international economic issues. The editorial staff operates from offices in New York and the National Press Building in Washington, D.C.

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Steven Levy

Senior Writer

Wired Magazine

Steven Levy joined Wired magazine as Senior Writer in 2008. Prior to working for Wired, served as Chief Technology Correspondent and columnist for Newsweek. He has also had articles published in Harper’s, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Premiere, and Rolling Stone. Levy is the author of six books including the computer history classic, Hackers. He is currently working on a book about Google, to be published by Simon & Schuster in early 2011.

Levy has won several awards, including the Computer Press Association Award for a report he co-wrote in 1998 on the Y2K bug. He received his bachelor’s degree from Temple University and earned a Master’s degree in literature from Pennsylvania State University.

Since 1993, Wired magazine has reported on how technology affects culture, the economy and politics. The magazine’s mission is to embrace the future and help foster innovation, invention, and disruption in the technology world.

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Michael V. Lewis

Chairman, CEO and Co-founder

RealD

Michael Lewis is a recognized innovator focused on the “next thing” in entertainment and media. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of RealD Inc. Previously, Michael was CEO and Co-Founder of L-Squared Entertainment, an award-winning digital entertainment studio. The company was the first to utilize PC computers in the creation of digital effects for a motion picture. Prior to L-Squared, Michael was Senior Vice President of InterMedia/FilmEquities Inc., a media investment banking and advisory company.

Michael is widely quoted on the future of media and technology industries in such publications as The New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and Variety, and often can be seen on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, ABC News and CBS News. Michael has been named one of Hollywood’s “Innovative Voices” by The Hollywood Reporter and RealD has been named by Fast Company as one of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” on multiple occasions.

RealID is a global leader in 3D technology for cinema, consumer electronics and professional applications, a company Mr. Lewis co-founded in 2003.

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Amory Lovins

Chairman and Chief Scientist

Rocky Mountain Institute

Amory Lovins co-founded and is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute. He is among the world’s leading innovators in energy and its links with resources, security, development, and environment, and has advised the energy and other industries for more than three decades. He has received multiple prizes, fellowships and awards, among them the “Alternative Nobel” prize, the honorary Senior Fellowship of the Design Futures council and the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership award.

A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don, he has briefed 20 heads of state and advises major firms and governments worldwide, recently including the leadership of Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Ford, and Wal-Mart. In 2009, TIME named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has written 29 books.

RMI is an independent, entrepreneurial, non-profit organization. Its research and consulting staff work with businesses, communities, and organizations around the world in three interconnected practices: the built environment, energy and resources, and mobility and vehicle efficiency. RMI’s work incorporates a unique blend of whole-system thinking, integrative design, and an interdisciplinary knowledge of advanced technologies and techniques.

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James M. Manyika

Director (Senior Partner), McKinsey & Company and Director

McKinsey Global Institute

James Manyika is a Director (Senior Partner) of McKinsey & Co. and a Director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey’s economics research arm. As a Director of McKinsey, he is a leader in its Global High Tech and Strategy Practice. As a Director of MGI he, co-directs the work of the Institute globally, focusing on issues of productivity, competitiveness, innovation and the impact of technology.

With work featured in the Financial Times and the McKinsey Quarterly, Manyika has appeared on radio and television in dialogues with Nobel Prize winning economists. A Rhodes scholar, he is a trustee of the Aspen Institute, the World Affairs Council of California and an advisor to the Global Philanthropy Forum.

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps many of the world’s leading corporations and organizations address their strategic challenges, from reorganizing for long-term growth to improving business performance and maximizing revenue. For more than eight decades, the firm’s primary objective has been to serve as an organization’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management.

Alan Marcus

Senior Director and Head of Technology Sector Industries

World Economic Forum

Alan Marcus manages an exclusive list of top industry leaders, top knowledge experts, civil society leaders and government and public figures in pursuit of changing the state of the world. He has broad responsibilities for shaping the agenda for the technology industries, developing programmatic work streams, improving the quality and diversity of the partnership and providing general leadership for the Centre for Global Industries at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Prior to the WEF, Alan had senior management roles at both Symbol Technologies and Cisco Systems where he held positions in Marketing, Market Development, Product Development, and Process Development in the United States, Asia Pacific and Europe.

The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss non-profit foundation. Members of the organization strive towards a world-class corporate governance system where values are as important a basis as rules. Its motto, ¡°entrepreneurship in the global public interest¡± asserts that economic progress without social development is not sustainable, and social development without economic progress is not feasible.

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William G. Margaritis

Senior Vice President Global Communications and Investor Relations

FedEx Corporation

Bill Margaritis oversees reputation management, investor relations, public relations, employee communications and social responsibility programs for FedEx. Formerly Vice President of Bechtel International, he has also held various governmental affairs positions with Occidental Petroleum, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s Office and the Michigan Senate.

Mr. Margaritis currently serves as Chairman of the Arthur W. Page Society. He sits on the Boards of the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Memphis, and the We Are Family Foundation, and is on the Board of Counselors for the Council on Public Relations Agencies. He earned his degree in Business from Michigan State University.

FedEx Corporation provides a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. With annual revenues of $35 billion and over 280,000 team members worldwide, FedEx is consistently ranked in the top 10 on the FORTUNE magazine “World’s Most Admired Companies,” “Best Places to Work” and the Harris Interactive Annual Reputation Quotient “Most Reputable Companies” lists.

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John Markoff

Journalist

New York Times

John Markoff joined the New York Times in March 1988 as a reporter for the business section, and he now writes for the science section from San Francisco. Prior to joining the Times, Mr. Markoff worked for The San Francisco Examiner for three years, where he wrote about Silicon Valley in the business section of the paper.

Markoff graduated from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1971 and received a Master’s degree from the University of Oregon in 1976.

The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2009 revenues of $2.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers and more than 50 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

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Heidi Mason

Managing Partner

Bell Mason Group

Heidi Mason is the co-founder and Managing Partner of the Bell Mason Group (BMG). She co-founded BMG in the mid-80s with computing pioneer Gordon Bell with the goal of understanding and modeling a framework for successful venturing and innovation commercialization. She leads the firm in its continued expansion of specialized services and methodologies for the corporate environment.

Ms. Mason co-wrote The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation, considered the definitive text on corporate venturing.

Heidi has pioneered initiatives to build partnerships between corporations and the venture community creating ‘Building Bridges: A Summit for Key Corporate and Venture Leaders’, co-sponsored by Stanford University and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

For more than 25 years, the Bell Mason Group (BMG) has helped Global 1000 companies build effective and measurable innovation and venturing programs. The proven Bell Mason Framework provides a strategic model both for accelerating innovation and reducing risk; and incorporates a portfolio of best practice guidelines, tools and advisory services. BMG serves global 1000 clients including Alcatel-Lucent, Chevron, Coca-Cola, HP, and Philips.

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Andrew McAfee

Principal Research Scientist

MIT Sloan School of Management

Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT, studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects business. In his research he investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself, exploring the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry. He has presented frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world.

He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0,” and his book on the topic was published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 scholarly articles and case studies.

McAfee has been named one of the “100 Most Influential People in IT” by the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis.

He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

John W. McDonald

Vice President and CTO

Chevron Corporation

John W. McDonald is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Chevron Corporation, a position he assumed in January 2008. He is responsible for Chevron’s three technology companies: Energy Technology, Information Technology and Technology Ventures. Prior to this position, McDonald served as Vice President of Strategic Planning.

McDonald began his career with Texaco in 1975 as a geophysicist in the company’s Calgary office. He went on to hold roles of increasing responsibility at various locations around the world. He was appointed Managing Director of ChevronTexaco Upstream Europe when the two companies merged in 2001.

McDonald earned his BS with honors in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. The company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry, exploring for, producing and transporting crude oil and natural gas; manufacturing and selling petrochemical products; generating power and producing geothermal energy; and providing energy efficiency solutions, including biofuels. Chevron has been headquartered in California for 130 years and is the state’s largest company.

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Jessica McGlyn

Director

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)- US, Inc.

Jessica McGlyn is Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) U.S. operating unit, WBCSD – U.S. Inc., and is based in Washington D.C.

Prior to joining the WBCSD, Jessica was a lobbyist for the World Wildlife Fund-U.S. where she engaged with the federal government on a variety of conservation, climate and development issues. Jessica also worked for over a decade for International Paper where she held multiple environmental and operational positions. Jessica holds a Masters degree in Forest Science from Yale University and a BS in Biology and BA in History from Messiah College.

The WBCSD is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies committed to sustainable development. Its aim is to be a catalyst for change within business and society. The WBCSD provides a platform to share best practices and advocate business positions on sustainability issues, working with governments, and non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.

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Joseph Mercola

Owner and Founder

Mercola.com

As a doctor of osteopathic medicine for over 20 years, Dr. Mercola has treated many thousands of patients. He has been passionate about health and technology for most of his life, and in the mid 90s integrated those passions by developing a website, Mercola.com to spread information about natural ways to achieve optimal health.

Dr. Mercola has reached significant milestones in his mission to bring people practical solutions to their health problems. A New York Times Best Selling Author, Mercola was also voted the 2009 Ultimate Wellness Game Changer by the Huffington Post, and has been featured in TIME magazine, LATimes, CNN, Fox News, ABC News with Peter Jennings, The Today Show, CBS’s Washington Unplugged with Sharyl Attkisson, and other major media resources.

Mercola.com is the most visited natural health website, averaging 14 million visitors monthly. Dr. Mercola’s mission is to ignite a transformation of our fatally flawed health care system and to inspire people to take control of their health.

mercola.com

Jeff Merkel

Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific & Latin America

AdMob Inc.

As Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific & Latin America for AdMob, Jeff is responsible for the company’s strategy, operations and expansion across Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Prior to joining AdMob, Jeff was Director of Market Development for Motorola where he was responsible for sell in, commercialization, and marketing of media solutions and services (including SCREEN3) to operators and retail markets globally. Previously, Jeff was a marketing manager at Apple Computer, a business development manager for a wireless payment startup in Singapore and a management consultant for Price Waterhouse in United States and in Europe. Jeff holds BA from Taylor University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

AdMob is one of the world’s largest mobile advertising networks, offering solutions for discovery, branding and monetization on the mobile web. Mobile devices are a critical media platform and we are building the tools to let every business on earth leverage mobile.

admob.com

Laura Merling

Vice President Open API Platform

Alcatel-Lucent

Laura Merling leads the strategy and execution of the Alcatel-Lucent Open API Platform and Open API Service. Laura has spent 20 years in high tech product management, marketing and business development. She is the former VP of Business Development and Marketing at Mashery, where she helped companies build successful, global businesses by opening up their APIs to third-party partners and developers. Previously, as the Executive Director at the Software Development Forum, Merling managed the largest developer communities in the U.S. and helped entrepreneurs raise of $70m in venture funding. She has also lead product teams for the Sybase Enterprise App Server and Powerbuilder Development Tool, as well as the Intershop Infinity E-Commerce Platform.

Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted transformation partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2 billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.

alcatel-lucent.com

Stephen D. Messer

President and Co-founder

World Evolved Services

Stephen Messer is the President of World Evolved Services (WES), LLC. Previously, Mr. Messer was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LinkShare Corporation, where he led the company’s efforts to create a unique pay for performance network that helps businesses minimize customer acquisition costs and maximize their online revenue-generating potential. In October of 2005, Mr. Messer sold LinkShare Corporation to Rakuten Corporation for $425 million.

Mr. Messer holds a Juris Doctorate from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette University in Pennsylvania.

WES is a new, groundbreaking initiative in the Internet space headquartered on Madison Avenue in New York City. In its first year of operation, the company has successfully recruited more than 30 PhD and Masters computer scientists from the nation’s top schools, including Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Harvard, MIT, and NYU.

worldevolved.com

Mari Mineta Clapp

Vice President, Corporate Relations

Vidyo, Inc.

Mari Mineta Clapp leads the Corporate Relations team at Vidyo including global PR, IR and strategic communications and relations. She is also a consultant to Arista Networks, the leader in Cloud Networking. Mari has developed corporate marketing plans, strategies and relationships for venture-backed start-ups and technology leaders including AT&T, Philips, Tandem Computers, and TeleAtlas. She was a Principal at Regis McKenna, Inc, and started her career at Dentsu Young and Rubicam. Mari has a BA from UCLA.

Vidyo pioneered personal telepresence, enabling natural, multipoint videoconferences on laptop and desktop computers, netbooks, room systems and soon, smart phones and tablets. Vidyo’s patented VidyoRouter architecture delivers the industry’s best error resilience and lowest latency videoconferencing solution over the Internet, 3G and 4G networks. The company’s personal telepresence solution delivers HD videoconferences for 3 cents versus over $6.00 per minute for other telepresence solutions. Vidyo’s software-based solutions are used by enterprises, service providers, SMBs, healthcare companies and universities. Partners include Google, Hitachi, HP, Intel, Teliris and others.

www.vidyo.com
Twitter@vidyo

Hiroyasu Mizuno

New York Bureau Chief

Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.

Hiroyasu Mizuno has been the New York Bureau Chief of Nikkei Business Publications since 2008. Prior to this position, he worked as Senior Editor, Senior Writer, Staff Writer and Deputy Editor for Nikkei’s E-BIZ and Business Online editions and Nikkei Communications. He has been with Nikkei, Inc. since he started as a Staff Writer in 1989.

Mr. Mizuno was elected a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT in 1993. He earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and his Master of Electrical Engineering from Waseda University in Japan. Between 1993 and 1994, Mr. Mizuno was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Engineering Study (CAES) at MIT.

Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. is Japan’s leading publisher focusing on business, economy and technology. It is one of the subsidiaries of Nikkei, Inc., Japan’s major media conglomerate, with offices in Tokyo, New York, Silicon Valley, China and Taiwan.

www.nikkeiBP.com

Vineet Nayar

Chief Executive Officer

HCL Technologies

Vineet Nayar is CEO of HCL Technologies, Ltd. (HCL), an India-based global IT services company, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, published this year.

In 2005, he became President of HCL and two years later, was named CEO. Since then, he has led a dramatic corporate turnaround; today, HCL is recognized globally for its outstanding business performance and innovative and transformative management practices. In 2009, Hewitt Associates named HCL the Best Employer in India, and FORTUNE has characterized it as having “the world’s most modern management.”

Nayar is an active member of G100, a founding member of the Asia Gender Parity Group, and an active member of the Global Gender Parity Group at WEF.

HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India – HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products. The HCL team comprises over 62,000 professionals operating from 26 countries.

hcltech.com

Nicholas Negroponte

Chairman

One Laptop per Child Foundation

Nicholas Negroponte is the Founder and Chairman of the One Laptop per Child Foundation. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.

A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. The Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages.

In the private sector, Nicholas Negroponte serves on the Board of Directors for Motorola, Inc. and as General Partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.

The One Laptop per Child Foundation dedicates itself to creating educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

http://laptop.org

Janice Nickel, Ph.D.

Founder

Tech-Nickel Enterprises

Dr. Janice Nickel is an innovator, creator and catalyst, having founded Tech-Nickel Enterprises both for consulting services and for incubating creative ideas and projects. She currently works at HP Labs, where she transfers laboratory results on memristors, the fourth fundamental circuit element recently reduced to practice, to CMOS compatible fabrication processes.

Prior to Tech-Nickel Enterprises, Dr. Nickel invented a programmable drug-delivery platform, opening multiple business units in disparate geographic locations in order to develop the prototype. The startup, Janisys, Ltd., has partnered up with a major pharmaceutical company to develop the technology.

Dr. Nickel received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California – Berkeley. She has 37 U.S. Patents awarded, and over 40 scientific papers published. Her hobbies include traveling, photography (shown and sold professionally), gourmet cooking, and winemaking.

Duncan L. Niederauer

Chief Executive Officer

NYSE Euronext

Duncan Niederauer is Chief Executive Officer and a Director of NYSE Euronext and a member of the company’s Management Committee. Before that, he was President and co-Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext with responsibility for U.S. cash equities.

Prior to joining NYSE Euronext in April 2007, Mr. Niederauer was Managing Director and co-Head of the Equities Division Execution Services franchise at Goldman, Sachs & Co. His career at GS spanned 22 years.

Mr. Niederauer serves on the boards of the G100, The Economic Club of New York, the, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Committee, among others.

He earned an MBA from Emory University and a BA from Colgate University.

NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched in 2007. As the world’s leading equities exchange group, NYSE Euronext powers the exchanging world and is comprised of equity and derivative exchanges across the United States and Europe which trade cash equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products.

euronext.com

Shannon O’Leary Joy

Director

The Joy Foundation

Shannon O’Leary Joy grew up on a farm in rural Michigan and studied Political Science at UC Boulder. After college she traveled and had various jobs, including as a sheet metal worker for industrial construction; roasting coffee beans in Hawaii, and three years working and living in the home of the late artist Robert Rauschenberg in NYC. She studied at the National Holistic Institute, Berkeley, and has worked for 2 decades in the healing arts. She and her husband Bill have spent the past 5 years designing and building the energy efficient sailboat Ethereal, at the Royal Huisman Shipyard in Holland.

She now directs the Joy Foundation, whose primary focus is to protect the biodiversity of our marine ecosystems. She is also currently working with Peter Knights of WildAid and with Bryant Austin of Marine Mammal Conservation Through the Arts.

Shannon, who herself is a photographer, has worked with groups in Cambodia, including Dr. Nancy Hendrie of The Sharing Foundation and Scott Neeson of Cambodian Children’s Fund.

joyfoundation.org

Ory Okolloh

Founder/Executive Director

Ushahidi

Ory Okolloh is a lawyer, a political activist and a blogger. She is the co-founder of Mzalendo a website that tracks the performance of Kenyan Members of Parliament, and the co-founder of Ushahidi. She also writes one of the most popular blogs in the Kenyan sphere at Kenyan Pundit.

Okolloh is a frequent speaker at conferences including TED Global and PopTech on issues around citizen journalism, and she is affiliated with the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and graduated with a J.D. from Harvard Law School

Ushahidi, meaning “testimony” in Swahili, was created in 2008 after Kenya’s disputed 2007 presidential election. The website was originally used to map incidents of violence and peace efforts throughout the country based on reports submitted via the web and mobile phone. The team is comprised of individuals with a wide span of experience ranging from human rights work to software development, with volunteer developers primarily in Africa, but also Europe and the U.S.

mzalendo.com

ushahidi.com

S. Jay Olshansky

Professor of Epidemiology

University of Illinois at Chicago

S. Jay Olshansky is a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also a Research Associate at the Center on Aging at both the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research to date has focused on estimates of the upper limits of human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging. His theory, ¡°The Longevity Dividend¡± states that humans can scientifically lower the risk of age-related diseases, thus slowing the aging process and lessening healthcare-related spending. By spending less on healthcare, the US can focus its funds more on social and economic issues. In Dr. Olshansky¡¯s research he forecasts the size, survival, and age structure of the human population and studies the global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases.

Dr. Olshansky received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1984 and is the first author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging, published in 2001.

Alexei Oreskovic

Technology Correspondent

Reuters News

Alexei is a Technology Correspondent for Reuters and writes about Internet companies including Google, Yahoo and Facebook. He has covered technology and business for more than ten years as Senior Writer for TheStreet.com, Associate Editor at CNET and Staff Writer at The Industry Standard magazine.

He graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, California, with a bachelor’s degree in History.

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets.

reuters.com

Larry Page

Co-Founder and President, Products

Google

Larry Page was Google’s founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as President of Products in April 2001. He continues to run Google’s day-to-day operations with co-founder Sergey Brin, whom he met in his Stanford Ph.D. program, and Eric Schmidt.

Mr. Page earned his BS in Engineering from University of Michigan, with a concentration on computer engineering. During his time in Ann Arbor, Larry built an inkjet printer out of Lego? bricks.

In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation.

google.com

David Pakman

Partner

Venrock

As a Partner at Venrock in New York, David focuses on early stage venture investing in Internet and digital media companies. His active investments include Media6Degrees, Smartling and Crunchyroll. Previously, Pakman was the CEO of eMusic, the world’s leading digital retailer of independent music. In the three years that Pakman ran it, he grew the business by more than 850 percent.

Prior to joining eMusic, Pakman was Co-Founder and President of Business Development and Public Policy at Myplay, Inc. and Vice President at N2K Entertainment. He also co-created Apple Computer’s Music Group.

Pakman is a graduate of and a member of the Board of Overseers at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science with a degree in Computer Science Engineering. He is an avid musician and songwriter.

Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Israel. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, Venrock continues the eight-decade tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies.

venrock.com

Eli Pariser

President/Founding Board Member

Moveon.org and Accessnow.org

Eli Pariser is the Chairman of the Board of MoveOn.org. Before that, he served as MoveOn’s Executive Director, tripling MoveOn’s member base in the process, demonstrating for the first time that large numbers of small donations could indeed be mobilized through online engagement, and developing many of the practices that are now standard in the field of online organizing.

Pariser has appeared as a commentator on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, the Colbert Report, and almost all of the major cable news channels. His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post and the LA Times, among others.

He co-founded Avaaz.org, a global organization with 3 million members, is a founding board member of AccessNow.org, and helped launch the New Organizing Institute, which has trained thousands of organizers to bring people together online and off for political change.

Pariser graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Law, Politics, and Society from Simon’s Rock College.

MoveOn provides a service for concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.

moveon.org
accessnow.org

Sean Parker

Managing Partner

Founders Fund

Sean Parker helps create new ways for people to interact, having co-founded Napster, the music sharing service, by the time he was 19 years old. From there he went on to found online address service Plaxo, and then served as founding president of Facebook alongside Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. Parker’s products have helped develop social media into a major communications channel. He has recently focused on enhancements to social networking, including location-based services and social philanthropy. Founded in 2007, his latest venture, Causes, has quickly become the largest platform for online grassroots activism.

In addition to founding and leading emerging companies directly, Sean is a managing partner of Founders Fund.

The Founders Fund is a venture firm based in San Francisco that has backed companies including Facebook, SpaceX (which NASA hired to resupply the ISS), Quantcast, Gowalla, and Mint. The firm’s partners are all entrepreneurs who have founded, operated, and scaled companies with a mission to lend their experience to the next generation of founders.

www.foundersfund.com

Bruce Pasternack

Partner

Venrock

Bruce Pasternack is a Partner in the cleantech energy team at Venrock. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Special Olympics, Inc. and spent nearly 30 years at Booz Allen Hamilton as managing partner of its worldwide energy and organization practices. Previously, he was the Senior Energy Policy official in the Executive Branch in Washington, D.C. while at the Federal Energy Administration. He also served on the staff of CEQ in the Executive Office of the President and began his career at GE.

Mr. Pasternack has served on the boards of Codexis, Symyx Technologies, Quantum, and BEA Systems, and on the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and is a Trustee of Cooper Union, his alma mater. He has co-authored two books, RESULTS and The Centerless Corporation

Venrock is a premier venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Israel. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, Venrock continues the eight-decade tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies.

venrock.com

Fred Pearce

Environment Consultant

New Scientist

Fred Pearce is a freelance author and journalist based in London, England. He has reported on environment, science and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years. Trained as a geographer, he has been the environment consultant of New Scientist magazine since 1992. He writes regularly for The Guardian newspaper, and recently published a 12-part investigation of the “climategate” emails affair at the University of East Anglia. He lectures frequently, having spoken on all six continents in the past four years, and is a regular contributor to US newspapers and magazines.

Fred’s books have been translated into at least 14 languages. They include When the Rivers Run Dry; Confessions of an Eco Sinner; Earth: Then and Now; With Speed and Violence; and Deep Jungle. His most recent book, The Coming Population Crash, was published in April this year. He appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss it.

Rodney Pearlman

Principal

RPM Pharma

Rodney Pearlman is a Principal with RPM Pharma. He was recently President and CEO of Nuon Therapeutics, a private company focused on developing drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and gout. Prior to joining Nuon, Dr. Pearlman was co-founder, president and CEO of Saegis Pharmaceuticals, developing drugs to improve memory and prevent cognitive decline in schizophrenia and Alzheimer patients. He was formerly Senior VP of R&D at Valentis, a gene therapy company. Before joining Valentis, Rodney was Director of Pharmaceutical R&D at Genentech, where he and his group developed novel formulations and delivery systems recombinant human proteins.

Dr. Pearlman received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Kansas in delivery of drugs to the brain. He received his B. Pharm. from the Victorian College of Pharmacy, in Melbourne, Australia.

RPM Pharma is a consulting firm working with private biotechnology companies as well as venture capital firms. RPM helps firms with strategic initiatives as well as providing technical expertise in translational medicine. The company also facilitates developing business plans and securing funding for biotech companies.

rpmpharmaceuticals.com

Prabhu L. Pingali

Deputy Director, Agricultural Development Division

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Prabhu Pingali has three decades of experience analyzing food, agriculture and development policy around the world, having held leadership positions within the United Nations and the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He has worked in the U.S., Mexico, and the Philippines, as an economist and agricultural researcher, and has served on the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as a Foreign Fellow.

An Indian national, Dr. Pingali earned his Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University in 1982. He has authored several books and journal articles on food policy, technological change, productivity growth and resource management in the developing world.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. The foundation is based in Seattle, Washington.

gatesfoundation.org

James Powell

Executive Vice President and CTO

Thomson Reuters

James Powell is Executive Vice President and CTO of Thomson Reuters, overseeing the company’s technology initiatives and strategy, including the application of newly emerging technologies to advance the development and delivery of intelligent information. He also provides leadership to the divisional and business unit technology professionals.

Prior to this position, Mr. Powell held a number of senior technology roles within the organization. He has also held senior positions at Solace Systems, Citadel Investment Group and TIBCO Finance Technology. Mr. Powell has a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Industrial Robotics from Imperial College London.

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization, combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets.

thomsonreuters.com

K. Venkatesh Prasad

Senior Technical Leader, Electronic & Electrical Systems

Ford Research & Advanced Engineering

As the group and technical leader of Ford’s Infotronics Research & Advanced Engineering team, K. Venkatesh Prasad is responsible for the research, architecture, standards, applications development and vehicle system integration of electrical, electronics and embedded software technologies.

Before joining Ford Motor Company in 1996, Prasad worked as a senior scientist at RICOH Innovations in Menlo Park, Calif., developing automatic ¡°lip reading¡± as a novel human-machine interface. In addition, he was at Caltech and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked on the world’s first telerobotic visual surface inspection system to help design the International Space Station.

Prasad grew up in Chennai, India. Among many other degrees, Prasad earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

At Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, the birthplace of Ford SYNC and MyFord Touch systems, engineers are pioneering software that allows drivers to use their car’s voice-recognition and speech-synthesis systems to interact with Internet-based apps running on the driver’s phone.

Robert A. Pruzan

Partner

Centerview Partners LLC

Robert A. Pruzan is a founding partner of Centerview Partners, a leading independent investment banking and private equity firm. He has advised U.S. and multinational companies in a multitude of industries on a broad range of merger and acquisitions transactions and strategic restructurings. Among his many accomplishments with the firm are advising Kraft on its acquisition of Nabisco, Ralston Purina on its sale to Nestle, and Miller Beer on its merger with SAB.

Prior to founding Centerview, Pruzan was Head of Global Investment Banking and CEO of North America at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University and graduated with a distinction from Harvard Business School.

Centerview Partners, based in New York, operates an investment banking advisory practice and a private equity business. The firm provides senior-level counsel to both domestic and international clients in a range of industries, and draws experience from the consumer products, financial services, food and beverage, entertainment and media and retail sectors.

centerviewpartners.com

Shaifali Puri

Executive Director

Scientists Without Borders

Shaifali Puri is the Executive Director of Scientists Without Borders, a public/private partnership conceived of by the New York Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the United Nations Millennium Project and the Earth Institute. The cornerstone of the Scientists Without Borders initiative is a web-based platform that enables a global community of multi-sector, cross-disciplinary users to connect and collaborate to generate and scale innovative science and technology-based solutions to the challenges facing the developing world.

Through the platform, users can also identify and share their respective resources and expertise to foster more efficient and sustainable resource allocation and capacity-building efforts. Scientists Without Borders’s partners and supporters include leading NGOs, research institutions, and multi-national corporations from around the world.

Prior to being named Executive Director of Scientists Without Borders, Shaifali was the Senior Advisor to the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Empire State Development Corporation, the economic development arm of the State of New York. In that capacity, she helped to supervise the operations of a 550-employee agency with a $50 million annual operating budget and $500 million program and capital budget, and to devise and direct strategy for major economic development projects and investments in New York. Earlier in her career, she was an Assistant Solicitor General for the State of New York and a journalist at Fortune magazine.

Shaifali received her AB with honors from Princeton University and her law degree with distinction from Stanford Law School. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

scientistswithoutborders.org

Stephen Quake

Professor of Bioengineering

Co-Chair,

Department of Bioengineering Investigator

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

and Co-founder

Fluidigm

Stephen Quake uses the principles of physics to investigate questions in biology and human health. He demonstrated the first successful single molecule DNA sequencing technology and is a leading candidate to deliver the first $1,000 genome. In 2009 he and two co-workers sequenced his genome using the commercial version of this technology. In 2004 he helped launch the Bioengineering department at Stanford University, where he is the Lee Otterson Professor and co-Chair.

Quake pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large Scale Integration, using it for applications as diverse as discovering a new drug for hepatitis C and measuring gene expression in individual cancer stem cells. A founder and scientific advisory board chair of Fluidigm and Helicos Biosciences, he has received recognition and awards from the MIT Technology Review Magazine, Forbes, and Popular Science.

Quake graduated from Stanford with a BS in Physics and an MS in Mathematics.

HHMI, a nonprofit medical research organization, plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States. The Institute spent $730 million for research and distributed $101 million in grant support for science education in fiscal year 2009.

hhmi.org

Mark Radcliffe

Partner

DLA Piper

Mark Radcliffe is a partner of DLA Piper. He earned his BS in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan and a JD from Harvard Law School. He represents corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. Radcliffe works with companies from startups such as SugarCRM to multinationals such as Sony Corporation. In 1997, the National Law Journal named him one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States, and in 2009 and 2010, he was recognized by Intellectual Asset Management magazine as one of the World’s Leading 250 IP Strategists. He has lectured at the Stanford Directors College.

DLA Piper is a law firm with 3500 attorneys in offices in over 25 countries. The firm’s clients range from Global 1000 and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350.

dlapiper.com

Rey Ramsey

President and CEO

TechNet

Rey Ramsey is President & Chief Executive Officer of TechNet. He is also the founder and Chairman of One Economy Corporation, a non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology and information to connect low-income people to the economic mainstream by bringing broadband into their homes, producing public-purpose media and training and employing youth to enhance communities’ technological capacity. As CEO, he led the organization’s growth from four employees working in basement to a global organization that has taken root on four continents.

Mr Ramsey reveived his BS in Political Science from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School.

TechNet is the preeminent bipartisan political network of Chief Executive Officers and Senior Executives of leading U.S. technology companies. Members consist of some of the nation’s drivers of innovation in the fields of information technology, e-commerce, clean technology, biotechnology, venture capital and investment banking, representing two million employees and $800 billion in revenues.

technet.org

Lisa Randall

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Harvard University

Professor Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research connects abstract theoretical ideas, such as string theory, to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. Her research on how extra dimensions can influence observable properties of our universe revolutionized the field and has made her the most highly cited theoretical physicist.

Randall is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University and held professorships at MIT and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001.

Professor Randall has also had a public presence through her writing, lectures, and radio and TV appearances; having been featured in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Seed Magazine, and Time Magazine. In 2007 she received the Julius Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society for her work on elementary particle physics and cosmology and for communicating this work to the public.

Jeff Richards

Partner

GGV Capital

Jeff Richards is a Partner at GGV Capital where he focuses on the Internet, Software and Mobile sectors. Jeff sits on the Boards of Appirio and BlueKai, and is the US lead on the firm’s investments in Chinese sector leaders HiSoft, Qunar and 21ViaNet.

Prior to joining GGV, Jeff spent 13 years as an entrepreneur and operating executive, founding two venture-backed companies in the software and telecommunications sectors. His last company, R4, was acquired by VeriSign in 2005. Jeff received his BA from Dartmouth College, and sits on the boards of several Bay Area nonprofits.

Founded in 2000, GGV Capital is a venture capital firm focused on the United States and China. With $1 billion under management, the firm invests across a range of sectors in IT, services and healthcare, as well as the consumer growth sector in China. Representative investments include Alibaba Group, AAC Acoustic, AthenaHealth, HiSoft, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Pandora, QuinStreet, Qunar, SuccessFactors, and Tudou.

ggvc.com

Gary Rieschel

Founder

Qiming Venture Partners

Gary Rieschel has had a successful career as a senior executive, entrepreneur, investor, and global business strategist in high technology. As a senior operating executive, Mr. Rieschel created or helped structure several of the most successful joint ventures in the history of the technology industry, including Yahoo Japan and ETrade Japan. Mr. Rieschel has been recognized by Forbes Magazine consistently over the past 10 years among their “Midas List” of venture capitalists. He founded Qiming Venture Partners in 2006 when he noticed the lack of early stage venture capital firms in China.

A mentor to entrepreneurs and other venture capitalists, Rieschel helped found both JUCCCE, and the China Greentech Initiative, and actively supports the US China Clean Energy Forum, amongmany other philanthropic institutions.

Qiming Venture Partners is an early- to growth-stage venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing and Seattle. With 18 investment professionals, over US$ 520 million under management and a focus on healthcare, cleantech and information technology, Qiming has established itself as one of the leading investment firms in China.

qimingventures.com

John Riggs

Vice President

Alcatel-Lucent Ventures

John Riggs is Vice President, Alcatel-Lucent Ventures. In this role, Riggs is responsible for leading a team that fosters an open innovation model by identifying strategic partnerships, joint ventures and external investments. He also manages a portfolio of internal ventures that enable the company to enter new markets with speed and quality.

Prior, as Alcatel-Lucent Ventures Centre of Excellence Vice President, John supported global venture operations, business development, sales and business operations. His team provided strategic guidance, business building expertise and developing operations in support of the Ventures organization. Riggs joined Lucent Technologies in 2001, and held numerous leadership positions, including New Venture Director and leader of the Supply Chain Network.

Riggs holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rochester.

Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted transformation partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2 billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.

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Steen Riisgaard

President and CEO

Novozymes A/S

Steen Riisgaard is President and CEO of Novozymes A/S, a position he has held since Novozymes A/S was demerged from Novo Nordisk A/S in 2000. He draws on over 30 years’ experience of working in the field of enzymes, having joined Novo Nordisk in 1979 in Enzymes Research & Development. In 1989 he was promoted to Corporate Executive Vice President with special responsibility for Enzyme Business. He is Chairman of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Denmark, Vice Chairman of the boards of Egmont International Holding A/S and Rockwool International A/S, and serves on the board of EuropaBio.

Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, he was a research fellow at the Serum Institute of Denmark and a research microbiologist at Foss Electric, Denmark.

Mr. Riisgaard earned his MSc in Microbiology from the University of Copenhagen.

Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries Novozymes creates tomorrow’s industrial biosolutions, improving its customers’ business and the use of our planet’s resources.

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Shane Robison

Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer

HP

Shane Robison is responsible for shaping HP’s corporate strategy and technology agenda, and he oversees the company’s corporate marketing function. He is instrumental in steering the company’s multibillion-dollar research and development investment and leads the company’s merger and acquisition activities. Overseeing the senior Chief Technology Officers and the Director of HP Labs, Robison drives the development of the company’s global technical community and its research initiatives. As head of strategy and corporate development, he is in charge of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital relationships and global strategic alliances. He was one of the principal architects of HP’s merger with Compaq Computer Corp. and led the acquisitions of Mercury, Opsware, EDS and 3Com, along with 30 smaller acquisitions since 2005.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.

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Justin Rockefeller

Principal

Richmond Management

Justin Rockefeller is a Principal of Richmond Management, where he focuses on deal sourcing and investor relations. He is also responsible for examining investments in sustainable enterprise development and is a Director of the Richmond Sustainability Foundation, which makes grants as equity to such endeavors. Prior to that, Mr. Rockefeller was Vice President of Uhuru Capital Management, an investment management platform designed to enable investors to pursue superior financial returns while facilitating global economic and social development. Previously, Mr. Rockefeller co-founded GenerationEngage, a nonprofit organization that merged with a similar organization, Mobilize.org, in 2009.

Mr. Rockefeller serves on the boards of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund, and Mobilize.org. He is a member of TED, the Americas Business Council Foundation Fellows, and the Executive Committee of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art. He received his BA from Princeton University.

Richmond Management is a global venture capital firm focusing on technology-enabled services and mobile technologies with applications in the U.S. and across major emerging markets. Richmond is headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Delhi, India.

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Albina Ruiz Rios

President and Founder

Healthy City

After writing her thesis and worried about health and environmental problems caused by garbage in Peru, Albina Ruiz came up with an idea for a new community-managed system of waste collection to serve as a model for urban and rural communities around Peru. The idea called for micro-entrepreneurs, small business people chosen from the community, to take charge of collecting and processing the garbage, at once addressing unemployment, another serious problem in the community. Her idea became Healthy City, or Ciudad Saludable.

Ruiz started doing the work alone nearly 20 years ago. She now oversees projects in 20 cities across Peru, employs more than 150 people and serves over 3 million residents. Her approach to waste management is so successful that she has been asked to come up with a national plan for Peru, while other Latin American countries have expressed interest in emulating her method.

Even though her organization has grown, Ruiz remains central to the operations on the ground. She still visits municipalities overwhelmed by garbage, checks on neighborhoods involved in her program and meets with government officials.

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Eoin Russell

Partner

Open-First

Eoin Russell is a founding partner of Open-First. He has over 15 years of experience designing, developing and operating global web and mobile destinations.

Mr. Russell led the strategy and implementation of Nokia’s MOSH site and the Ovi Store, Nokia’s App Store. MOSH, a website for user generated mobile content, became a top 500 site with over 100 million items downloaded within two years of its launch. Ovi Store is set to become the largest content distribution channel on the planet, reaching hundreds of millions of devices within the next two years. Previously, Eoin was a partner with several interactive agencies including Schematic, where he ran their Boston and London offices.

Helping companies to be open and transparent with their own employees, their customers, and their markets is the mission of Open-First, a global team of experienced technologists, marketers, and business leaders. Through research, strategy development, technology expertise, and data-driven planning and execution, this team of experts helps companies re-examine communication, design, innovation, management and support practices in the era of digital communications and open collaboration.

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Saskia Sassen

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought

Columbia University

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and a Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She has just completed a five-year project for UNESCO on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.

Dr. Sassen has received several honors and awards, most recently a doctor honoris causa from Delft University and DePaul University. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities and has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, and the International Herald Tribune, among others. Her research and writing focus on globalization, immigration, global cities, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. Her books have been translated into 21 languages.

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Bror Saxberg

Chief Learning Officer

Kaplan Inc.

Bror Saxberg is responsible for the research and development of innovative learning strategies, technologies and products across Kaplan’s full range of educational services offerings. He also oversees future developments and adoptions of learning technologies and maintains academic standards for Kaplan’s products and courses.

Saxberg most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Officer at K12, Inc., where he designed both online and off-line learning environments and new student products and services. Prior, he co-founded the testing and assessment division that became known as Knowledge Testing Enterprise (KTE) for Knowledge Universe.

Saxberg earned his BA in Mathematics and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. A Rhodes scholar, he received an MA in Mathematics from Oxford University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an MD from Harvard Medical School.

Kaplan University helps adult students unlock their talent by providing a practical, student-centered education that prepares them for careers in fast-growing industries. It has 12 campuses and more than 125 academic programs and offerings. The University serves more than 78,000 online and campus-based students.

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Julie Schlosser

Founder

Altruette

Julie Schlosser is the founder of Altruette, a charitable company that designs products to help nonprofits reach consumers. Prior to founding Altruette, Schlosser spent 9 years as a writer and editor at FORTUNE magazine, where she wrote and edited stories that covered a range of topics such as management, philanthropy, retail, technology and design.

Schlosser served as an IRP Fellow (formerly known as the Pew Fellowship) in India in the fall of 2005. She holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, and Bologna, Italy, where she concentrated on International Economics and European Studies. She earned her BA in Political Science from the University of California at Irvine, where she was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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Eric E. Schmidt

Chairman and CEO

Google

Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global enterprise. Under his leadership, Google has dramatically scaled its infrastructure and broadened its offerings while maintaining a culture of strong innovation. With founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and the rest of the executive team, Schmidt oversees the company’s technical and business strategy.

Prior to joining Google, Schmidt was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun’s platform-independent programming technology. Earlier in his career, Eric was a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University as well as a Master’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Schmidt is a member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation.

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Andrew Schmitt

Vice President

OutCast Communications

With 14 years of public relations experience in high technology, Andrew Schmitt manages strategic public relations programs for rapidly growing technology companies, including salesforce.com and VMware. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Founded by Caryn Marooney and Margit Wennmachers in 1997, OutCast Communications has become one of the premier technology PR agencies in the United States. The firm’s customized approach produces outstanding results and lifts clients above the fray of what can be a chaotic and confusing industry. Their success is built on four pillars: their people, their relationships, their clients, and their philosophy.

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Reinhard Scholl

Deputy to the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

International Telecommunication Union

Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (i.e., the ITU-T Secretariat) since September 2002. Previously he was with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology issues, and the global focal point for governments and the private sector in developing networks and services. For nearly 145 years, ITU has coordinated the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promoted international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, worked to improve telecommunication infrastructure in the developing world, established the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communications systems and addressed the global challenges of our times, such as mitigating climate change and strengthening cybersecurity. ITU is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its membership includes 191 Member States and more than 700 Sector Members and Associates.

Doc Searls

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Harvard University

Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and holds fellowships with both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2005, Doc won the Google O’Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator.

At the Berkman Center, Doc leads ProjectVRM, which has the immodest ambition of liberating customers from entrapment in vendor silos and improving markets by creating a productive balance of power in relationships between supply and demand. At CITS his work centers around study of the Internet as a new form of infrastructure.

Doc has been a keynoter, a featured speaker or a panelist at countless events and trade shows and he is a figure in the “unconference” movement, in which he helps organize the twice-yearly Internet Identity Workshops.

Doc also has a consulting practice, The Searls Group, which has worked with Hitachi, Sun, Apple, Motorola and other leading companies, in addition to many start-ups.

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Douglas Spriggs Selsam

Inventor, Superturbine and

President, Selsam Innovations

Doug Selsam is the inventor of the Superturbine, a device combining many wind turbines together into a single machine, with a single moving part. As founder of Selsam Innovations, Mr. Selsam manufactures and sells wind turbines and associated electronics across the globe. He received research funding for Superturbine from The California Energy Commission. Under his leadership, Superturbine was named a Popular Science Invention of the Year in 2008, and his patents on Superturbine cover 95% of the wind energy market worldwide, including North America, Europe, Australia, India, and China. Doug is an avid skier and a rock musician.

Selsam Innovations manufactures and sells multi-rotor wind turbines worldwide. At large diameters, the Superturbine technology allows more powerful turbines than ever before contemplated, where suspension across canyons and between mountaintops is possible. At smaller diameters, Superturbine technology will allow wind energy to expand faster, by lowering material costs, thus increasing the economic range of deployment. Selsam Innovations’s research arm, USWINDLABS, builds, erects, and tests prototypes.

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Aydin Senkut

Founder and President

Felicis Ventures

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He has been an angel investor since 2006 and was recently named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek. His portfolio encompasses over 50 companies including Aardvark, Mint, Mob.ly, Powerset, and Tapulous.

Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch its first 10 international sites. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, Aydin was a Product Manager at SGI. He has a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University, an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Felicis Ventures combines angel investing, active mentoring and advisory services to offer a more beneficial approach for the entrepreneur. The firm focuses mainly on early stage, consumer Internet start-ups, with the majority of investments in Silicon Valley and on the East Coast.

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Ofer Shapiro

CEO and Founder

Vidyo, Inc.

Ofer Shapiro led development of the first commercially successful video conferencing architecture including the first IP video conferencing bridge and gateway. He was also a contributor and one of the editors of the H.323 standard and has over fifteen years of experience in bringing disruptive technology to market. Ofer also served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at RADVISION and has extensive experience building and negotiating partnerships with industry giants through various sales and BD positions. He holds a Masters degree in Applied Physics.

Vidyo pioneered personal telepresence, enabling natural, multipoint videoconferences on laptop and desktop computers, netbooks, room systems and soon, smart phones and tablets. Vidyo’s patented VidyoRouter architecture delivers the industry’s best error resilience and lowest latency videoconferencing solution over the Internet, 3G and 4G networks. The company’s personal telepresence solution delivers HD videoconferences for 3 cents versus over $6.00 per minute for other telepresence solutions. Vidyo’s software-based solutions are used by enterprises, service providers, SMBs, healthcare companies and universities. Partners include Google, Hitachi, HP, Intel, Teliris and others.

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William M. Sheedy

President, The Americas

Visa Inc.

As President of Visa for The Americas, Bill Sheedy oversees the company’s business and client relationships in North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

More recently, Sheedy served as President of the North America division and Global Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development. He also served as the Executive Vice President of Finance and Accounting, acting in the capacity of principal financial officer, from June 2007 until the completion of Visa’s corporate restructure and successful IPO in October 2007. Previously, he has been responsible for expanding merchant acceptance and consumer usage of Visa, and improving the point-of-sale operating performance of the company’s products.

Sheedy holds a BS from West Virginia University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

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Ted Shelton

Chief Executive Officer

Open-First

Ted Shelton is currently CEO of consulting firm Open-First, based in Palo Alto and London. He has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, as a software developer, product developer, marketer, and senior executive in both public and privately held companies. Shelton developed the principles guiding Open-First while working with Technorati in 2007. Previously Shelton served as the Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere (acquired by Lycos in 1998) and several other software and Internet start-up companies.

Helping companies to be open and transparent with their own employees, their customers, and their markets is the mission of Open-First, a global team of experienced technologists, marketers, and business leaders. Through research, strategy development, technology expertise, and data-driven planning and execution, this team of experts helps companies re-examine communication, design, innovation, management and support practices in the era of digital communications and open collaboration.

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Maggie Shiels

Technology Correspondent

BBC

Maggie Shiels is the BBC’s first official appointee covering the world of technology from Silicon Valley. Her reports can be read on the BBC’s website and are aired on BBC radio and television to a worldwide audience. Maggie is also one of a handful of people who write a blog for what is the biggest broadcasting corporation on the globe. She boasts many years at the helm of some of the big stories from the IRA’s bombing campaign in London to the death of Princess Diana to the dot com bubble and subsequent crash. She has also interviewed an array of people ranging from Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair to Audrey Hepburn and Spinal Tap. Ms. Shiels has also worked as a radio anchor for the BBC and a correspondent for television.

he British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting organization in the world. With global headquarters located in London, its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programs that inform, educate and entertain.

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Ashmeet Sidana

General Partner

Foundation Capital

Ashmeet came to Foundation Capital with a combination of 15 years of experience in operating systems and enterprise software. Most recently, he was at VMware where he was responsible for many projects including their flagship product, ESX Server. He began his professional career at Hewlett-Packard and later Silicon Graphics, holding various key technology roles. Mr. Sidana currently serves on the board of Altor Networks, AzurePower, Freewheel, PanoLogic, Sanrad, Simply Hired, Zetta, and Cantaloupe Systems.

In addition to his MBA from the Wharton School, Ashmeet earned his MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and his BS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. In his spare time he can be found planning his second trip to Mt. Everest.

Foundation Capital was founded in 1995 with a single purpose: to build great companies. The firm is run with an entrepreneurial spirit, their true expertise being the understanding, perspective, and enthusiasm brought to promising companies in their formative stages. Each partner has been an entrepreneur before joining, and in that spirit, Foundation Capital is a firm where the venture matters more than the capital.

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Barry Silbert

Founder and CEO

SecondMarket

Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest marketplace for buying and selling illiquid financial assets. In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance. FORTUNE Magazine also recognized him as “One to Watch” in its annual 40 Under 40 issue. Barry has appeared in many leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,The Washington Post and Financial Times, and has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg News and Fox Business News.

Founded in 2004, SecondMarket has conducted billions of dollars in transactions across nine asset classes, including more than $250 million in private company stock trades in venture-backed companies such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Its online auction platform has over 10,000 participants, including hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, and other institutional and accredited investors that collectively manage over $1 trillion in assets available for investment.

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Bright B. Simons

President, mPedigree Network and

Executive, IMANI-Ghana

Bright B. Simons is a Ghanaian technology innovator, Development Activist and Social Entrepreneur. As the Director of Development Research at the award-winning African think tank IMANI, and as the President of the mPedigree Network, he works to promote innovation as the best response to Africa’s various developmental challenges. His insights have been shared through The Economist, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, Asian Times, and the BBC.

A TED and Ashoka Fellow, Mr. Simons is also both a Tech Award Laureate and a member of the Evian Group’s Brain Trust at IMD. In 2010, he became an Associate of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellowship. He is also a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum and a member of its Global Agenda Councils.

Mr. Simons invented the concept at the base of the mPedigree platform: a system for large-scale supply chains that are now being deployed by pharmaceutical companies to protect their brands from counterfeiters and by consumers to instantly verify the genuineness of their medicines by means of a free text message.

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Cameron Sinclair

Co-founder and Chief Eternal Optimist

Architecture for Humanity

Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder and ‘Chief Eternal Optimist’ (CEO) of Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization that provides architectural and construction solutions to humanitarian crisis. Since 1999 the organization has worked in 36 countries on projects ranging from schools, health clinics and affordable housing to long-term sustainable development. Architecture for Humanity has been internationally recognized for its reconstruction efforts in South Asia, the United States Gulf Coast and in Haiti.

As a result of his 2006 TED prize, Sinclair launched the Open Architecture Network, the world’s first open-source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. Every two years it hosts a global challenge to tackle a systemic issue within the built environment. Next year will see their most controversial program to date: the repurposing of decommissioned military facilities.

Sinclair is a recipient of the National Design Award and the Wired magazine Rave Award, an honorary life member of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

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Rajeev Singh-Molares

President, Asia Pacific Region

Executive Vice President

Alcatel-Lucent

Rajeev Singh-Molares is the Executive Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent and the President of Asia Pacific region. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Mobile Communications. Mr. Singh-Molares previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for Alcatel-Lucent, in a global role that included defining and implementing the company’s strategy in terms of portfolio composition, growth initiatives and transformation programs.

Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Mr. Singh-Molares was a Senior Partner of the Monitor Group, a global professional services firm that combines strategy consulting and merchant banking. He holds a Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a Master’s degree in International Affairs with a concentration in Business from Yale University.

Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted transformation partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2 billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.

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Roy Singham

Founder and Chairman

ThoughtWorks Inc.

As founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks Inc., Roy Singham is recognized globally as a software development innovator of change. Throughout his 20-year career, Mr. Singham has inspired the industry as an influential supporter of emerging technologies, open source programming languages, and agile methods of software development. He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker and panel presenter to global conferences and organizations such as Fortune’s Brainstorm Technology conferences. Recently, Mr. Singham gave the opening addresses to the Latin American conference on agile methodologies conference in Florianopolis, Brazil and the first Ruby Conference in Bangalore, India. Mr. Singham is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC.

ThoughtWorks Inc., headquartered in Chicago, IL. has evolved into the world’s most influential custom software development firm with more than 1,500 employees worldwide and operations in the U.S., China, Brazil, India, Australia, Canada and the UK. The ThoughtWorks Studios division is an innovation products group that set the standard in Agile Application LifeCycle Management Software. ThoughtWorks is recognized as the pioneer of Lean and Agile software development principles and champion of software excellence.

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Jim Smith

Chief Technology Officer

Digital Realty Trust

As Chief Technology Officer and Head of Design and Construction at Digital Realty Trust, Jim Smith oversees data center development, the company’s efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management. In the past four years, Mr. Smith and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 300MW of UPS capacity on over 60 data center projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry’s first LEED Gold certified data center and the UK’s first BREEAM certified Excellent data center.

Smith has a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, develops, redevelops and manages technology-related real estate. The Company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenter?, Powered Base Building?, Pod Architecture Services? and Build-to-Suit datacenter solutions for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services.

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Willie Smits

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Masarang Foundation

Willie Smits has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Masarang Foundation since 2006. He began his career with an interest in forestry, and traveled to Indonesia, where he developed a keen interest in the conservation of orangutans, founding the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. He worked for the survival of the threatened species for over twenty years, during which he expanded his interests to sustainable farming, reforestation and remote monitoring of forests. He is now actively involved in supporting conservation groups all over Indonesia.

Smits has published some 100 papers and books in Dutch, Indonesian, English, German and French and has given many keynote addresses on international conferences and lectures at conferences such as TED, Momentum and PopTech. A Senior Ashoka Fellow, Smits has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a Heroes of Today Award and recognition from National Geographic, among many others.

The Masarang Foundation is dedicated to reforestation, saving natural springs, philanthropy, waste management, and building the world’s first zero waste and geothermal waste energy based palm sugar factory in Indonesia.

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Jerrold B. Spiegel

Partner

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Jerrold Spiegel chairs the firm’s Technology, eCommerce & Privacy Practice Group. He has advised clients involved with computer-based media and online services since 1985. In addition to technology-related intellectual property law, Mr. Spiegel also co-chairs the firm’s Corporate and Finance Group. Recently, Mr. Spiegel advised clients on how to structure and raise $1.5 million to build and establish Rocket 21, a revolutionary social networking platform that helps to educate young people.

Mr. Spiegel regularly lectures on electronic media, Internet law, and eCommerce at the Stern School of Business and at professional associations and is the author of several books and chapters related to the industry. He is a founding member of Cleantech Corridor, a nonprofit organization dedicated to establishing and growing the cleantech industry in the New York Metropolitan area.

Frankfurt Kunit Klein & Selz is one of the prominent entertainment and media law firms in the United States, headquartered in New York City. The firm specializes in representing advertising agencies, commercial film, television, publishing, graphic and fine arts and new media companies.

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Bryan Spielman

Partner

Centerview Partners LLC

Bryan Spielman joined Centerview Parnters in 2008 as part of the establishment of a global technology advisory practice. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Spielman was a Managing Director at UBS in the Global Technology Group primarily responsible for covering the communications technology sector. Prior to UBS, Mr. Spielman was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns in the Global Communications Technology and Software Group. During his tenure at UBS and Bear Stearns, he completed over $37 billion in advisory and financing assignments representing clients including Redback, Huawei, Itron, Inter-Tel, and Packeteer.

Mr. Spielman holds an MBA in Finance from New York University and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Centerview Partners, based in New York, operates an investment banking advisory practice and a private equity business. The firm provides senior-level counsel to both domestic and international clients in a range of industries, and draws experience from the consumer products, financial services, food and beverage, entertainment and media and retail sectors.

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Steven Sprague

President and CEO

Wave Systems Corp.

Steven Sprague is President and CEO of Wave Systems Corp., a leading provider of software for hardware-based digital identity and security. Since taking the helm as CEO, Sprague has played an integral role driving the industry transition to embed stronger, hardware-based security into the PC, guiding Wave to a position of market leadership in enterprise management of self-encrypting hard drives and Trusted Platform Module security chips. Before being named President and CEO, Sprague was Vice President of Wave from 1992 to 1995. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.

Company Description:

Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX) is a leading provider of client and server software for hardware-based digital identity and security. The company’s solutions enable organizations to know who is connecting to their critical IT infrastructure, protect corporate data and strengthen the boundaries of their network through managing the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chips that come standard on most PCs and self-encrypting hard drives, where encryption is built into the drive itself.

David P. St. Jean

Partner

Centerview Partners LLC

David St. Jean joined Centerview Partners in 2008 to establish a global technology advisory practice. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. St. Jean was Joint Head of Technology Investment Banking at UBS in the Americas. He was one of the primary drivers behind the significant growth of UBS’ market share in technology mergers & acquisitions. Prior to UBS, Mr. St. Jean was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns where he founded the Communications Technology Investment Banking practice.

Mr. St. Jean received his MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and his BA with distinction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is on the Board of Leaders for the USC Marshall School of Business.

Centerview Partners, based in New York, operates an investment banking advisory practice and a private equity business. The firm provides senior-level counsel to both domestic and international clients in a range of industries, and draws experience from the consumer products, financial services, food and beverage, entertainment and media and retail sectors.

David J. Standridge

Vice President

Booz & Company Inc.

Mr. Standridge leads Booz & Company’s Electronics and High Technology practice and is based in the San Francisco office. With over 20 years of management consulting experience in the high-tech sector, he specializes in supply chain management and business strategy in the high tech, aerospace and automotive industries.

He graduated with BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington and earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Booz & Company is a leading global management consulting firm, helping the world’s top businesses, governments and other institutions, with more than 3,300 staff members and 57 offices in over 30 countries worldwide. Founded in 1914 by Edwin Booz, it is the oldest management consulting firm still in existence.

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Esther Stearns

President and COO

LPL Financial

As president and COO of LPL Financial, Esther Stearns provides strategic direction to all aspects of the firm. In addition, she is directly responsible for its service and technology offerings, as well as several other corporate functions. She joined the company in 1996 as CIO, leading the creation of an advanced technology platform to help financial advisors manage and streamline their daily business processing.

Prior to joining LPL Financial, she was a vice president at Charles Schwab, where she worked for 14 years in several leadership roles. She is a member of the Independent Firms Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and has a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

LPL Financial is a retail financial planning firm and the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer (by revenue, Financial Planning, 1996-2009). Its 2,400 employees support 11,950 financial advisors and 777 financial institutions from headquarters in Boston, Charlotte, and San Diego.

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Paul E. Steiger

CEO and Editor-in-Chief

ProPublica

Paul Steiger is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a non-profit, nonpartisan news team, based in New York. Mr. Steiger served 16 years as the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. During his tenure, members of his newsroom staff were awarded 16 Pulitzer Prizes and in April of this year, a ProPublica reporter won a Pulitzer Prize. Prior to the Journal, Steiger worked for 15 years as a reporter, Washington economics correspondent, and business editor for the Los Angeles Times.

Steiger has served as Chairman and Board Member to various committees related to journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize Board, and has received multiple rewards recognizing his work and leadership as a journalist and editor, including three Gerald Loeb awards and two John Hancock awards for his economics and business coverage.

ProPublica published its first story with 60 Minutes in June 2008. Since then, ProPublica has partnered with more than 50 media outlets on investigative reports. The company’s newsroom features 32 working journalists, all of them dedicated to investigative reporting on stories with significant potential for major impact.

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Elizabeth Stephenson

Principal

McKinsey & Company

Elizabeth Stephenson is a Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice, where she serves clients on long-term strategy and strategic growth topics. She co-founded and now helps lead McKinsey’s Global Forces service-line, McKinsey’s center focused on emerging future trends and scenarios. In this role, she has worked with a wide range of corporate and institutional clients, helping evaluate how the shifting global economic, social, and technological landscape is likely to affect both the opportunities and risks those clients are likely to face in the future.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Elizabeth co-wrote RealAge: Are You As Young As You Can Be? and subsequently co-founded the online health publisher, RealAge.com, acquired by Hearst Communications for nearly $100 million.

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps many of the world’s leading corporations and organizations address their strategic challenges, from reorganizing for long-term growth to improving business performance and maximizing revenue. For more than eight decades, the firm’s primary objective has been to serve as an organization’s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management.

www.mckinsey.com

Seth Sternberg

Co-founder and CEO

Meebo

Seth Sternberg is the co-founder and CEO of Meebo. After a summer internship at Warburg Pincus, he launched the company with Elaine Wherry and Sandy Jen. Mr. Sternberg left his graduate studies at Stanford to pursue Meebo with Ms. Wherry and Ms. Jen.

Previously, Mr. Sternberg worked in IBM’s Corporate Development group as an M&A Lead. Aside from his studies at Stanford, he is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in Political Science. Mr. Sternberg enjoys tennis and rollerblading and is an avid private pilot.

Founded in 2005, Meebo socially connects over 100 million users across the web, allowing them to instantly connect, communicate, and share with all of their friends. Because Meebo integrates all social network and communication channels into a single, simple-to-use interface, users can easily share content and communicate in real time with the people who matter to them. Meebo is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

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David Stipp

Writer

David Stipp has written about science, medicine, the environment and biotech since 1982 for The Wall Street Journal, FORTUNE Magazine, Salon, Science and other publications. He led FORTUNE’s science and medical coverage from 1995 to 2005 as a senior writer, and from 1982 to 1995 covered science and medicine as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. In 1998 he won a National Association of Science Writer’s award for best magazine article, and in 1993-4 served as a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the past decade he has written extensively about the science of aging, including a book, The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution, launched in July 2010 by Current, a Penguin imprint.

Mr. Stipp is a cum laude graduate of the University of Kansas, and holds undergraduate degrees in both Math and Philosophy, along with a Master’s in Journalism.

www.davidstipp.com

Paul Taaffe

Global Chairman and CEO

Hill & Knowlton

Paul Taaffe is the Global Chairman and CEO of Hill & Knowlton. Focusing primarily on globally oriented companies, his current clients include Hewlett Packard, MCI, Deloitte, the Beijing Olympics, Medtronic, StatoilHydro and Better Place. Mr. Taaffe was previously president of Hill & Knowlton in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and before that, was Chief Executive of its UK division.

Before joining Hill & Knowlton, Paul was managing director of Shandwick Consultants where he was responsible for financial public relations, corporate and business-to-business communications programs on both national and international clients. Some of his major clients included Bass plc, 3i and Goldman Sachs. Prior to Shandwick, he ran a group in a strategic communications consultancy. He received his business degree in Australia.

Hill & Knowlton is a leading international communications consultancy, providing services to local, multinational and global clients. Headquartered in New York, Hill & Knowlton has offices in over 40 countries. From launching new products in difficult markets, to managing reputations, facilitating change or resolving conflict, H&K’s large and diverse team is committed to delivering results for their clients.

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Jaime Teevan

Researcher

Microsoft Corporation

Jaime Teevan is a researcher at Microsoft Research. Her work explores how our digital past can help shape our future information interactions. Ms. Teevan was named a Technology Review 2009 Young Innovator for her research on personalized search. She co-authored the first book on collaborative Web search, and is co-chair of the Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2012 conference. Ms. Teevan has also co-edited a book on Personal Information Management (PIM), co-edited a special issue of Communications of the ACM on the topic, and organized workshops on PIM and query log analysis. She has published more than 40 technical papers and earned her Ph.D. and SM from MIT and her BS in Computer Science from Yale University.

Since its founding in 1975, Microsoft has created technology that transforms the way people work, play, and communicate. Microsoft develops and markets software, services, and solutions that it believes deliver new opportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people’s lives. Microsoft does business throughout the world and has offices in more than 100 countries.

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Alfred Tom

General Motors

Alfred Tom is part of GM’s new Silicon Valley office located in Palo Alto. He is responsible for research, new business development, and venture investments in the areas of wireless, web services, third-party developer platforms, and consumer electronics. Alfred has 17 years of experience in the wireless consumer electronics industry and holds a BSME from MIT, a MSEE from Stanford, and a MBA from UCLA.

General Motors, one of the world’s largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 209,000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 34 countries, and sell and service these vehicles through the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Opel, GM’s OnStar subsidiary is the industry leader in vehicle safety, security and information services.

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Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

Global Correspondent

The Economist

Vijay Vaitheeswaran is a global correspondent for The Economist. He joined the magazine’s staff in 1992 as the London-based Latin America Correspondent, later opening its first bureau in that region, in Mexico City. After returning to editorial headquarters in London as the newspaper’s Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics until 2006.

Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has lectured at Stanford, Yale and Oxford, and is an adjunct faculty member at New York University. He is a commentator on NPR and Marketplace radio, and a regular guest on the BBC, PBS’s NewsHour, ABC’s Nightline and other television programs.

He wrote POWER TO THE PEOPLE: How the Coming Energy Revolution will Transform an Industry, Change our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet in 2003.

The Economist is and authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion. In 2009, it reported an average circulation of just over 1.6 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in North America.

www.vijaytothepeople.com

Rob van Leen

Chief Innovation Officer

Royal DSM N.V.

Rob van Leen is Chief Innovation Officer at Royal DSM N.V. In this role he manages the DSM Innovation Center, a unit that was established in 2006 to accelerate and support innovation throughout DSM.

Rob van Leen has worked for DSM since 1987. He held various positions in the company including Business Group Director of DSM Food Specialties, Business Unit Director of DSM Dairy Ingredients and Technology Director of R&D at DSM Food Specialties. Mr Van Leen has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from Nijmegen University and an MSc in Biologics from Utrecht University. He also holds an MBA degree from Nyenrode University.

Royal DSM N.V. creates solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance. Its end markets include human and animal nutrition and health, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings and paint, electrical and electronics, life protection and housing. DSM has annual net sales of about €8 billion and employs 22,700 people worldwide. Headquartered in the Netherlands, DSM has locations on five continents and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

Deryck J. van Rensburg

Chief Executive Officer of Venturing and Emerging Brands

Coca-Cola N.A.

Deryck J. van Rensburg has 28 years of international business experience in leadership roles with The Coca-Cola Company, and formerly with Unilever PLC, which has seen him operating in the United States, Europe and South Africa. Mr. van Rensburg is responsible for identifying and developing the next series of $1Billion brands via importation strategies, incubating internal innovation and sourcing external growth through acquisition, entrepreneurial partnering and equity investment.

In 2007 he was appointed President and General Manager of the Venturing & Emerging Brands Business Unit for Coca-Cola North America, and prior, he was President of the Company’s Germany and Nordic Division based in Berlin.

Van Rensburg holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Bath in England.

Venturing and Emerging Brands (VEB) is a dedicated operating unit of Coca-Cola North America charged with identifying and developing high-potential growth brands in the North American beverage space. With direct access to the global resources and industry expertise of The Coca-Cola Company and its system, VEB is uniquely positioned to develop emerging beverage brands of The Coca-Cola Company to their full potential.

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Peter Vander Auwera

Innovation Leader

SWIFT

Peter Vander Auwera is currently SWIFT’s Innovation Leader. Prior to working at SWIFT, he held several positions at Microsoft, Vintura, CMASS, RINET, EAN International and Colruyt. He lives in Overijse, Belgium with his wife and daughter.

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect over 8,500 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 200 countries. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardized financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.

Innotribe, a SWIFT initiative, is a set of events, tools and initiatives that enables collaborative innovation in financial services. It provides the infrastructure to find, co-create and invest in new ideas and projects.

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Sophie Vlessing

Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing

Kaplan Inc.

Sophie Vlessing is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Student Experience at Kaplan University. Her expertise focuses on innovation, customer insights, customer experience management and brand building. At Kaplan, she oversees the institution’s efforts with new channels, new programs, strategic alliances, and prospect, student and alumni communications. Prior to joining Kaplan University in 2008, Sophie was the Vice President of Marketing and Guest Strategy at Regent Seven Seas Cruises. There, she was instrumental in developing innovative enrichment programs and loyalty experiences.

Ms. Vlessing also has more than a decade of experience in marketing and customer strategy consulting with Peppers and Rogers Group, Marketing Corporation of America and Mercer Management Consulting.

Sophie holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a MM in Marketing from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Kaplan University offers associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees as well as certificates in fields such as education, business, information technology, arts and sciences, healthcare, nursing, criminal justice and law. It serves more than 78,000 online and on-campus students.

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Fred Vogelstein

Contributing Editor

Wired Magazine

Fred Vogelstein is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes about the world of high-tech business and finance. Having written for Wired in June 2006 and FORTUNE magazine, he has closely followed the transformation of Silicon Valley from a center of chip and software innovation into an increasingly important new media capital. He has written extensively about the search and online advertising businesses, and more recently about the new communications revolution it has helped spawn. He’s currently working on a book for Farrar, Straus & Giroux about the iPhone and the changes in technology and media it has unleashed.

Before Wired and FORTUNE, Vogelstein covered finance and high tech for US News & World Report during the Internet bubble. He has been a fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University and has a BA in political science from Pomona College.

Since 1993, Wired magazine has reported on how technology affects culture, the economy and politics. The magazine’s mission is to embrace the future and help foster innovation, invention, and disruption in the technology world.

wired.com/magazine

Michael Voss

Vice President, Director of Marketing

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Since December 2008, Michael Voss has been Vice President, Marketing & Sales Development at SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, the longest continuously published magazine in the US. In this role, he oversees all trade and consumer marketing communications, strategic business partnerships, and research and branding efforts for the monthly magazine, website, SA MIND and all SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ancillary products.

Prior to joining Scientific American, Michael was Director of Marketing at Newsweek, during the period when the magazine won its most recent ASME Award for General Excellence and saw its largest worldwide audience growth. Before Newsweek, Michael held the senior marketing positions at Ladies’ Home Journal and George magazine. Voss spent the first 9 years of his career on the client side, working for several luxury goods companies, including Barneys New York, helping to launch new brands and expand their US operations.

Voss is a graduate of Georgetown University.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN provides information on the latest emerging science and technology shaping the world, charting the path for business decision-makers and influential citizens looking for solutions to today’s most challenging issues.

www.scientificamerican.com

Tom Waldrop

Director of Issues and Policy Communications

Intel Corporation

Tom Waldrop is Director of Issues and Policy Communications at Intel Corporation.  He is responsible for communications campaigns including advertising, events, and messaging strategies directed toward policymaker audiences in Washington, DC; Brussels; and selected other key capitals.

Waldrop joined Intel in 1994.  From 1985 to 1994 he served in various internal and external communications roles at Tandem Computers, a company that is now part of Hewlett-Packard.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Santa Clara University and a master’s degree in Music from San Jose State University.

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices.

www.intel.com

Padmasree Warrior

Chief Technology Officer

Cisco

Padmasree Warrior is Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals. As an evangelist for what’s possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities – not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models. Prior to working for Cisco, she served as CTO of Motorola.

Ms. Warrior received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She holds masters in chemical engineering from Cornell University and serves as an advisory board member at both schools.

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. This year celebrates 25 years of technology innovation, operational excellence and corporate social responsibility.

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Andreas Weigend

Professor

Stanford University

Andreas Weigend studies people and the data they create. He works with companies that are eager to develop strategies to realize the untapped power of data. His clients include Alibaba, Lufthansa, Nokia, Singtel, Thomson Reuters, as well as exciting startups around the globe. Previously, as the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, he helped build the customer-centric, measurement-focused culture that has become central to Amazon’s success.

Prof. Weigend teaches at Stanford University and shares his insights at customer events, workshops and conferences, including the World Innovation Forum. Weigend challenges the minds of his audiences, helping them to understand the irreversible impact the Social Data Revolution has had on people, business, and society.

Weigend received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Physics. His career as a data scientist combined with his deep industry experience allows him to successfully bridge the gap between academia and industry. He lives in San Francisco, Shanghai, and on weigend.com.

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Jeff Weiner

Chief Executive Officer

LinkedIn Corporation

Jeff is Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, the web’s largest and most powerful network of professionals. Prior to joining LinkedIn in December of 2008, Jeff was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, advising the leadership teams of the firms’ consumer technology portfolio companies while also working closely with the partners to evaluate new investment opportunities. Jeff previously served as EVP of Yahoo!’s Network Division, a roughly $3 billion annual revenue business with over 3,000 employees. In addition to LinkedIn, Jeff serves on the Board of Directors for DonorsChoose.org and Malaria No More. He holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

LinkedIn is an Internet company focused on connecting the world’s professionals. The company is privately held and has a diversified business model with revenues driven from user subscriptions, advertising sales and software licensing. The LinkedIn Web site launched in 2003 and is the largest professional networking site in the world with more than 70 million members, representing 200 countries and executives from every Fortune 500 Company.

www.linkedin.com

Geoffrey West

Distinguished Professor

The Santa Fe Institute

Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests include elementary particles and their cosmological implications; the theory of companies, cities and global sustainability; and biology, including metabolism, aging and sleep. He served as the Santa Fe Institute’s (SFI) President from 2005 to 2009.

Prior to joining SFI as a Distinguished Professor in 2003, he received a Senior Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory and taught Physics at Stanford University.

Among recent honors are the Weldon Prize for Mathematics from Oxford University and the Glenn Award for research on Aging. In 2006 Time magazine named him one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” and his work selected as one of the breakthrough ideas of 2007 by the Harvard Business Review.

West received his BA from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, trans-disciplinary institution dedicated to research across the physical, computational, biological and social sciences. The “formal birthplace of the study of complex systems,” SFI encourages speculation and a broad, quantitative, understanding of emergent behavior and multi-scale phenomena.

Jody R. Westby

Chief Executive Officer

Global Cyber Risk LLC

Jody Westby founded Global Cyber Risk to provide consulting and legal services in the areas of privacy, security, cybercrime, breach management, forensic investigations, and e-discovery. In her twenty years of professional experience, Ms. Westby has launched an IT venture capital/solutions company for the CIA, practiced law and spent ten years in the computer industry specializing in database management systems.

She holds several memberships and chairmanships with organizations concerning cyber security, such as the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Computer Crime Committee and the United Nation’s High Level Experts Group on Cyber Security. Ms. Westby is co-author and editor of four books on privacy, security, and cybercrime.

Ms. Westby earned her BA from the University of Tulsa and her JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Based in Washington, DC, Global Cyber Risk LLC (GCR) is a woman-owned boutique firm that has developed an international reputation in providing targeted, senior-level compliance, forensic, and technical services to multinational corporations, non-profit organizations, and governments. In addition, GCR has helped multinational corporations develop enterprise approaches to e-discovery.

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Chenyang Xu

General Manager

Siemens Technology-to-Business Center

Dr. Chenyang Xu is General Manager of Technology-to-Business Center (TTB), a part of Siemens Corporate Research, located in Berkeley, California. Dr. Xu drives innovation processes for TTB, including the identification and incubation of disruptive technologies outside of Siemens that can be built into viable new products and businesses for Siemens’s sectors.

Dr. Xu earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the advisory board at the University of California’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. He is the co-inventor of the world’s first commercial 3D imaging guidance technology product CARTOMERGE, which received Frost & Sullivan’s 2006 Excellence in Technology Award.

Siemens is a global leader in industry, energy, healthcare, and sustainability solutions. Founded in 1999, TTB is a pioneer in open innovation for Siemens and offers a channel for Siemens’ sponsors to access world-class high-tech innovations within a diverse spectrum of research. TTB searches for promising innovators outside of Siemens, incubates new ideas, develops business plans, introduces innovative products to markets and launches start-up companies.

Russ Yarrow

General Manager, Corporate Affairs

Chevron Corporation

Russ Yarrow is General Manager, Corporate Relations at Chevron. Before joining Chevron in 2004, Yarrow was Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Relations at Visa International. During his career, he also managed the Corporate Practice at Ketchum and held a variety of senior public affairs positions at Bank of America. Yarrow is an award-winning former journalist who majored in Journalism at San Diego State University and is a graduate of the American Press Institute’s City Editor Seminar and of the San Francisco Academy, a graduate-level program for public relations executives.

Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. The company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry, exploring for, producing and transporting crude oil and natural gas; manufacturing and selling petrochemical products; generating power and producing geothermal energy; and providing energy efficiency solutions, including biofuels. Chevron has been headquartered in California for 130 years and is the state’s largest company.

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Mohammad A. Zaidi

Co-Chair

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

and Executive Vice President and CTO

Alcoa, Inc.

Dr. Mohammad A. Zaidi serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Technology and Corporate Quality, for Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of aluminum. Dr. Zaidi is responsible for corporate technology programs and projects, as well as strategic product and process developments. He is also a member of the Alcoa Executive Council, the senior leadership group that provides strategic direction for the company, and a Co-Chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Zaidi joined Alcoa in 1985 at the Alcoa Technical Center, near Pittsburgh, as a Senior Engineer and has since held assignments of increasing responsibility. Overall, half of Dr. Zaidi’s career has focused on technology management, and the other half has focused on manufacturing and business management.

Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, building and construction, commercial transportation, consumer electronics, defense, packaging and industrial markets. Alcoa has been a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for eight consecutive years, and approximately 75% of all of the aluminum produced by the company since 1888 is still in use today.

Jin Zidell

Founder and Chairman

Blue Planet Network

Jin Zidell is founder and Chairman of Blue Planet Network (BPN). The Network, a combination of people, process and technology, seeks to provide safe drinking water to 200 million people in rural communities in the developing world.

Mr. Zidell has been a successful principal in the steel forging and fabrication sector, real estate and technology. He has served on the board of numerous non-profits over the past 35 years and since 1979 has been affiliated with the Dia Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Jj Zen Buddhist Monastery.

Zidell earned his BS from the University of Colorado in 1960.

Since its inception in 2006, BPN has funded 250 projects in 18 countries and manages more than $26 million of projects. BPN brings together 65 of the worlds top safe drinking water NGOs on a groundbreaking peer review process that allows donors – companies, philanthropies, individuals – to identify and manage the best possible projects at the lowest cost while encouraging a level of collaboration, information sharing and transparency that is uncommon in the NGO space.

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Dorothy Zinberg

Lecturer in Public Policy and a Faculty Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

Dorothy Shore Zinberg is a Lecturer in Public Policy, Faculty Associate at the BCSIA, and a faculty member with the Program for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Harvard University. She is author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Uncertain Power: The Struggle for a National Energy Policy and The Changing University: How the Need for Scientists and Technology Is Transforming Universities Internationally. Over the past decade, she wrote a monthly column on science and technology issues for the Times Higher Education supplement in London. Her current research includes an examination of the social-political aspects of educating foreign scientists and the impact of information technology on higher education.

Zinberg has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and at the National Institute for Science and Technology Policy in Tokyo as well as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. She is a Research Fellow at University College London and serves on the Board of Directors of Talking Science Internet Radio. Recently, Zinberg served on NATOs Science and Technology Policy Committee.

Gretchen Zucker

Executive Director

Ashoka’s Youth Venture

Gretchen Zucker is the Executive Director of Ashoka’s Youth Venture, a global organization that cultivates the entrepreneurial, “changemaker” talent needed for the success of all parts of society – corporate, civil and government.

She began her career focusing on development in Africa, first at USAID, then in the Ethiopian embassy in Washington, and later in the Ethiopian Investment Authority in Addis Ababa. Gretchen helped launch the US arm of the Tigray Development Association, headquartered in Tigray, Ethiopia. She was co-founder of Her House, which designed, financed and built houses by women for single mothers and raised awareness of issues involving women and housing. Zucker was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. and she led the Innovative Learning Initiative at Ashoka.

Gretchen received a BA from Ohio State University, a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

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