John Linwood Battelle is an entrepreneur, author and journalist. Best known for his work creating media properties, Battelle helped launch Wired in the 1990s and launched The Industry Standard during the dot-com boom. In 2005, he founded the online advertising network Federated Media Publishing. In January 2014, Battelle sold Federated Media Publishing's direct sales business to LIN Media and relaunched the company's programmatic advertising business from Lijit Networks to Sovrn Holdings.
Thomas M. Siebel is an American billionaire businessman, technologist, and author. He was the founder of enterprise software company Siebel Systems and is the founder, chairman, and CEO of C3.ai, an artificial intelligence software platform and applications company.
Redfin is a full-service real estate brokerage. The Seattle-based company was founded in 2004, and went public in August 2017. Glenn Kelman is the CEO. Redfin's business model to undercut competition is based on sellers paying Redfin a discounted fee, either 1.0 or 1.5% to list the seller's home. This does not include an additional fee charged to the seller to compensate the brokerage representing the buyer. This latter fee usually is in the 2.0-3.0% range. Buyers who buy with Redfin also get a portion of the brokerages' commission back that can be applied to their closing costs or in the form of a check after they close on their home tax free.
Ronald Terry Burr is an American Internet and media entrepreneur, based in Los Angeles, CA. He is the holder of nine internet patents and the co-founder and original chief executive officer of NetZero. During his career he has created over $1 Billion in value for shareholders. Early in his career Burr developed software applications which are used by IBM, Verizon Wireless, and Sempra Energy. Burr is often a guest speaker at industry conferences and was named by InfoWorld as one of the Top 50 IT executives at xSP’s, by Interactive Week as one of the 25 Top Unsung Hero's of the Net and was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. Burr was also the Chief Executive Officer of online advertising company WebVisible, Inc. until its closure in 2011 due to unpaid debts.
Kevin P. Ryan is an American investor and entrepreneur who has founded several New York-based businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider and MongoDB. Ryan helped grow DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, first as president and later as CEO. Ryan continues to found and invest in companies through AlleyCorp, a venture capital firm he founded with Dwight Merriman in 2008. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
AWS Elemental, formerly known as Elemental Technologies, is a software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon and owned by Amazon Web Services that specializes in multiscreen video. Founded in August 2006, Elemental creates software that performs video encoding, decoding, transcoding, and pixel processing tasks on commodity hardware for adaptive bitrate streaming of video over IP networks. Elemental video processing software runs in turnkey, cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India and Brazil.
Scott Painter is an American investor and entrepreneur in the technology and automotive industries.
10,000 Women is a program organized by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation with the goal of helping to grow local economies by providing business education, mentoring and networking, and access to capital to underserved women entrepreneurs globally. The program was announced on March 5, 2008 at Columbia University. The initiative is one of the largest philanthropic projects the bank has been involved with. The effort was in its initial years run by Dina Habib Powell, a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
Osman Rashid is a Pakistani American businessman in Silicon Valley, California. He has worked in enterprise software and consumer products.
Alan Fitzgerald Daniels is an American real estate business executive. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Real Estate Capital Management, Intl. Ltd, a global business-to-business provider of real estate financial services.
New Silk Route Partners LLC, abb as NSR, is a $1.4-billion private equity firm that invests in private companies in India, Asia, and the Middle East.
Daniel Lubetzky is a Mexican-American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, author, and founder and executive chairman of snack company Kind LLC.
Ryan Holmes is a Canadian computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Hootsuite, a social media management tool for businesses with more than 18 million users. Holmes began developing Hootsuite in 2008 through his agency, Invoke Media. He is also the founder of League of Innovators, a charity with a goal of building entrepreneurial acumen for youth, from discovery to acceleration.
David Gorodyansky is an American entrepreneur and angel investor best known as the CEO of AnchorFree, a company he co-founded in 2005 with Eugene Malobrodsky. AnchorFree is the developer of Hotspot Shield, a virtual private network provider. In 2019, Fast Company named AnchorFree the 13th most innovative company in the world and the #1 most innovative security company. AnchorFree's most recent fundraising round (2018) brought in $295 million, bringing total funding to $358 million. Gorodyansky has also invested in GlobeIn, an online exotic arts and crafts marketplace, and Venturocket, an job matching website. He serves as chairman of both AnchorFree and GlobeIn.
Joel Neoh Eu-Jin is a Malaysian entrepreneur, speaker, and investor. He is best known for his role as the founder of Groupon Malaysia and as the International Vice President of Groupon Asia Pacific. He is currently the founder of Fave.
beqom is a global provider of compensation management software, delivered using a cloud computing platform. beqom has its global headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with offices throughout North America and EMEA. Components of the software include functionality to manage sales incentives, bonuses, equity, merit pay, long term incentives and channel partner incentives. Competitors include Xactly, Oracle, and SuccessFactors.
Pete Flint OBE is a British internet entrepreneur and investor based in San Francisco. He is the founder and former chairman and CEO of Trulia. Formerly, he was part of the founding team at lastminute.com. He is currently a managing partner at NFX, the early stage venture capital fund focused on network effect businesses.
Mark Britton is a former lawyer and Expedia executive and founder of the legal marketplace Avvo.com.
TopstepTrader is a financial technology firm based in Chicago, IL that evaluates day traders’ performance in real-time simulated accounts. Traders who pass the company’s evaluation earn a funded trading account and trade Forex and futures contracts in the financial markets using the firm’s capital.
Jennifer Fitzgerald is an American CEO and co-founder of an online insurance site, Policygenius.
