Matt Ackley

Ackley's primary responsibilities include providing overall direction for the marketing, management, and technical operations of the Developers Program as well as overseeing strategic partnerships. Prior to this role, Ackley was senior director of strategic partnerships for eBay.

Ackley joined eBay in 2003 as part of eBay's acquisition of FairMarket, which provided technology solutions and services to online marketplaces. As vice president of product management, Ackley led the development of the FairMarket's platform-based application approach to online marketplaces as well as the company's early deployment of application programming interfaces (APIs).

Prior to FairMarket, Ackley co-founded Social Goods, LLP and worked with Anderson Consulting.

Ackley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Duke University, and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.

Christopher J. Alden

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is Chairman and Co-founder of Opsware Inc, the leading provider of data center automation software. He is widely recognized for his role in launching the Internet revolution in 1993, with his creation of the Mosaic browser while at the University of Illinois. After graduation, he co-founded Netscape Communications, and played a critical role in the company's hypergrowth. Andreessen later became CTO of AOL when the company purchased Netscape in 1999.

As one of the technology icons of our time, Andreessen has received numerous accolades, was named one of the "Top 50 people under the age of 40" by Time Magazine in 1994, and graced the magazine's cover in 1996.

With Mosaic and the Netscape browser, his ideas created a platform that enabled individuals to access the Internet. Similarly, today Opsware is enabling businesses to take advantage of the massive business opportunities created by the Web and new Web-based architectures.

Andrew Anker

Anker is Executive Vice President, Corporate Development for blog platform developer Six Apart, creators of MovableType and TypePad. Prior to joining Six Apart, Anker was a General Partner for five years at August Capital, where he invested in such consumer facing internet companies as Tickle, Evite, and Listen.com.

A veteran of two start-ups prior to his venture career, Anker was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wired Digital, Inc., a pioneering Internet news and media organization which launched the first advertising supported web site (HotWired) in 1994. Anker led Wired Digital from its founding through 1998 and built it into one of the 20 largest networks of web sites.

Anker created and still contributes to VentureBlog and has written for Wired and Business 2.0 magazines. In 1997, he was profiled in the book "Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business."

Lanny Baker

Baker is a Chartered Financial Analyst and former Chairman of the Media and Entertainment Analysts of New York investment society. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College and lives in San Francisco.

Hank Barry

Barry holds a B.A. degree in economics with highest distinction from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review. He currently serves on the Boards of several nonprofit organizations, and is a member of the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. He is on the Board of Sensoria Corporation.

John Battelle

Battelle is also at work on a forthcoming book, The Search: Business and Culture in the Age of Google (Penguin/Portfolio), and is the monthly "Titans of Technology" columnist for Business 2.0 magazine. He also maintains a daily site covering the intersection of media, technology and the internet at www.battellemedia.com.

Battelle was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the year" competition by Ernst & Young. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Russell Beattie

Brian Behlendorf

Behlendorf is President of the Apache Software Foundation. He also serves as a Technical Advisor to Critical Path (CPTH) and Topica.

Jory Bell

Marc Benioff

Benioff, a 25-year software industry veteran, is recognized as one of the preeminent thinkers in information technology. In May 2003, President George W. Bush appointed Benioff co-chairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), a bi-partisan organization of business leaders and academics that guides the Administration on developing and adopting vital information technology. In October, Hawaiian Governor Linda Lingle named Benioff to Citizens to Achieve Reform in Education, a committee that has been called together to build public support for education reforms in Hawaii's public schools. Fortune Magazine called Benioff one of its Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2003; BusinessWeek named him one of the 25 people responsible for turning e-business around; CRM Magazine recognized him as one of the 20 most influential people in the industry; and Silicon.com named Benioff to its list of Agenda Setters for 2003. Also this year, Ernst & Young honored Benioff as a Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year for his innovation in software-as-service.

Throughout his career, Benioff has been determined to use information technology to produce positive social change. In July 2000, with Colin Powell in attendance, he launched the salesforce.com/foundation, a multi-million dollar global philanthropic organization aimed at bridging the digital divide. Pioneering the "1 percent solution," where the company contributes 1 percent of profits, 1 percent of equity, and 1 percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves, the salesforce.com/foundation has demonstrated the power and impact of integrated philanthropy.

In 2004, Benioff co-authored Compassionate Capitalism, the first-ever best practices guide for corporate philanthropy that illustrates the success of the integrated model. The book was launched in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's 2004 meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Previously, members of the World Economic Forum selected Benioff as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow," one of 100 leaders in business, politics, and the arts committed to addressing social issues. Computerworld awarded Benioff an Honors Laureate for his visionary way of using information technology to better communities. In addition, he received the Promise of Peace award from the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu for his work using technology as a means to further Middle East peace and the Bridge Award from the non-profit organization HEAVEN (Helping Educate, Activate, Volunteer, and Empower via the Net) for providing internet access to the underserved in America's inner cities.

Prior to creating salesforce.com, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, holding a number of leadership positions in sales, marketing, and product development. Most recently, he was a senior vice president reporting to company chairman Lawrence J. Ellison, a founding investor in salesforce.com. Before joining Oracle, Benioff worked at Apple Computer and founded Liberty Software. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.

Steve Berkowitz

Prior to joining Ask Jeeves, Berkowitz was the President and COO of IDG Books, where he successfully expanded the "Dummies" series of books into a celebrated consumer brand covering everything from C++ to pet care. He also oversaw the acquisitions of Cliffs Notes, Frommers Travel Guides, Betty Crocker Cookbooks and JK Lasser Tax Guides, which not only diversified IDG's holdings but also established the company as a global consumer book publisher. Berkowitz also served as President and CEO of Intermap Systems, an ASP content provider focused on online consumer healthcare information systems.

John Betz

Jeffrey P. Bezos

In 1994 he founded Amazon.com, Inc., now the leading online retailer, offering services that traditional retailers cannot: lower prices, authoritative selection and a wealth of product information.

Before heading west to start Amazon.com, 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.

Daniel Boberg

Shelby Bonnie

Shelby Bonnie co-founded CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET) in 1993, and in 2000 assumed the post of Chairman and CEO. He led the business through the volatile early days of the Internet with unwavering focus on the potential of interactive content and online marketing. Today, CNET Networks is widely viewed as a premier global provider of interactive content that informs, entertains, and connects large, engaged audiences in the personal technology, games and entertainment, and business technology categories. CNET Networks’ leading brands include CNET.com, Download.com, News.com, ZDNet, TechRepublic, GameSpot and recent additions MP3.com and Webshots.

Prior to his current position, Bonnie served -- in order from most recent -- as CNET Networks’ CEO, Vice Chairman, and the combined role of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. In his role as Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau from 2001 to 2003, and the bureau’s current Chairman Emeritus and executive committee member, Bonnie has been a leading proponent and evangelist for interactive advertising. CNET Networks is a recognized leader in advertising innovation and has developed three of the ad units in the IAB Universal Ad Package. From 1990 to 1993, prior to co-founding CNET Networks, Bonnie was a Managing Director at Tiger Management and before that worked at Morgan Stanley & Co.

In 2003, Bonnie was honored as a recipient of The New York Ten Awards, an annual selection of ten individuals who have, through their innovation, significantly impacted their organization and industry. He currently serves on the Board of Edmunds.com, a premier online resource for automotive information. He also serves as a Trustee of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and is on the Board of Environmental Defense, a national environmental group known as a leading innovator of environmental policy. Bonnie earned a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Adam Bosworth

Jim Buckmaster

Prior to joining craigslist, Buckmaster served as Director of Web Development for the (now defunct) dotcom Creditland, and for Quantum Corp. Prior to moving to the SF bay area in 1996, Buckmaster was lead web developer for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he built the world's first multi-terabyte database-driven public website.

Buckmaster sits on the board of Transportation for a Livable City in San Francisco. He graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Tech with a bachelors in biochemistry, and studied medicine and classics at the University of Michigan.

Stewart Butterfield

Marc Canter

Canter is involved in promulgating open standards for new kinds of micro-content; including people (FOAF), media (OpenMedia) and events (OpenEvents.) Broadband Mechanics designs and builds digital lifestyle aggregators (DLAs) for customers like Ziff-Davis Media (1UP.com), Tribe.net, and AlwaysOn Network. Broadband Mechanics is also working with Laszlo Systems to build hot compelling interfaces for these DLAs (which are the next generation portal.)

Prior, Canter founded a company named MacroMind which became MacroMedia. Canter was part of the team that created the first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimediaplatform.

After leaving Macromedia in 1992, Canter started Canter Technology which formed the MediaBand (an interactive music video ensemble), produced the Marc Canter Show (and example of scalable content), and implemented a cyber theme restaurant at his home on Potrero Hill (which was an authoring system for Interactive TV).

After spending all his money, Canter went to work for others - at SuperBowl XXXII (1998) and designed a digital city for Trieste, Italy (1998). Broadband Mechanics was founded in 1999 and immediately helped found DigiScents (a smell based platform) and built an interactive TV authoring system for Richard Li's NOW.com (1999). Subsequent projects included designs for Ealing Studio's Digital Production Studio (2000), a Reuters trading system (2000) and AOL (2001.)

Mike Caren

Mike Caren is Senior Vice President of A&R; at Atlantic Records. He began his music career in 1994, when, at the age of 16, he created his own marketing company, School Rules Promotions. He went on to work for Loud Records/RCA as National High School/College Rep. Coordinator and then Ruthless Records as National Marketing Manager.

At 18, Caren joined Atlantic, doing marketing for the Big Beat label, and attended the Stern School of Business at NYU. Since moving to Atlantic's A&R; Department in 1998, he has been responsible for recruiting a string of top-charting artists. Among Caren's signings are seven artists whose debut Atlantic releases were certified RIAA gold (500,000+) or platinum (1,000,000+): Trick Daddy, Nappy Roots (for which he also served as Executive Producer), Twista, Trina, Sunshine Anderson, Drama, and T.I.. He has also worked on successful soundtracks to Dr. Dolittle, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Osmosis Jones, and Any Given Sunday and launched the Vice Records label (The Streets, The Stills). He is also an accomplished producer in his own right (Pharcyde, Jem, Ludacris), having produced tracks for more than ten albums and five films.

Caren also started his own label, Serious Entertainment, and publishing company, Serious Scriptures and has seen his own records and songs on the Billboard charts.

Juha Christensen

Prior to joining Macromedia, Christensen served as corporate vice president of Microsoft's Mobile Devices Group from 2000 to 2003, where he was responsible for building Microsoft's franchise in the mobile industry. During his tenure, multiple products were brought to market including Smartphone, Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, and Mobile Information Server. Christensen is also credited with building Microsoft's operator centric business model.

In 1996, Christensen co-founded Symbian, Ltd., which began as a Psion PLC spin-off. He developed the business and operational strategy, as well as initiated and led the negotiations with Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and Matsushita to bring them into the venture. Christensen served on Symbian's board of directors and managed the company's commercial activities, including marketing, sales, account management, business development, evangelism, product planning, product management, and all overseas operations.

From 1992, Christensen worked at Psion PLC, where he was responsible for delivering several of its pioneering palmtop products as well as pioneering wireless data solutions such as GSM-based and Mobitex/RAM based mobile messaging products.

Christensen currently serves on the boards of Action Engine, Inc., ExpandIT Solutions A/S, and Skyspire, Inc.

Jeffrey A. Citron

Jeffrey Citron, Chairman and CEO of Vonage, is a technology pioneer and visionary who transformed the financial services industry. In 1995, Citron founded The Island ECN, a computerized trading system designed to eliminate the problems associated with order execution. Today, the newly merged company is one of the largest global financial exchanges, and is responsible for more than one in four NASDAQ trades.

Following on the success of The Island ECN, Citron founded and became the Chairman and CEO of Datek Online Holdings Corp. as Datek transitioned into the online brokerage industry. Under his leadership, Datek had grown to become the fourth largest online brokerage in the US, and was recently acquired by Ameritrade Holdings for $1.3 billion. Citron departed Datek in 1999 and, recognizing a similar opportunity, founded Vonage.

George Conrades

Andrew Conru

CEO Andrew Conru founded the FriendFinder Network in 1996, just as the world was awakening to the Internet revolution. His primary goal was to harness the power of the Net to help people around the world develop and nurture fulfilling relationships.

A cyberspace pioneer, Andrew is one of the first "netrepreneurs," founding more than 25 online advertising and software companies. These early e-commerce ventures include W3, Inc., which was the first company to develop commercial software for membership management, and Adknowledge, which developed centralized web-based advertising. Other companies founded by Andrew include StudyOnline, the Web Personals, and the Dine.com Restaurant Guide Network.

Andrew holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering design from Stanford University, with bachelor degrees in economics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Dick Costolo

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban, who grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, was an entrepreneur at an early age. He began with several small businesses that he launched as a teen, and then put himself through Indiana University by doing everything from providing disco lessons to starting a chain letter. He always seemed to be selling what people wanted. Soon after college, Cuban started his own computer consulting firm, MicroSolutions. By 1990, after seven years of nonstop work, the company was grossing $30 million a year. It was then sold to Compuserve. Cuban retired, but not for long.

In 1995, he and partner Todd Wagner co-founded Broadcast.com, an Internet service that provided streaming audio and video of live news, radio, television and sporting events. Broadcast.com then gained notoriety when it showcased events such as President Clinton's Grand Jury testimony and a Victoria's Secret fashion show. In launching Broadcast.com, Cuban hired a group of industrious and inventive employees, offering stock options in lieu of big paychecks. The gamble paid off when Broadcast.com went public, and was then purchased by Yahoo in 1999, making Cuban one of the wealthiest people in the country.

In January of 2000, Cuban fulfilled a dream by purchasing the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise. The face of the organization began to change immediately. He was successful in instilling a sense of pride and passion into Mavericks' fans by being the ultimate role model, cheering the team from the stands. He also became the only owner in team sports to encourage fan interaction through email on his own personal computer. His commitment to do everything in his power to improve the team has paid off, as the Mavericks finished the 2002-03 season with a franchise record 60 wins.

Today, Cuban's passion is high definition television, and he firmly believes HD is the next step in TV's evolution. His company operates two 24x7 all-HD networks, HDNet and HDNet Movies. HDNet, the leader in high definition broadcasting, produces and televises more hours of original HDTV sports, entertainment and news programming each week than any other network. HDNet Movies also features movies produced and finished in true 1080i high-definition. Live HDNet sports productions include National Hockey League games, Major League Soccer games, NASCAR and CART auto racing, boxing, horse racing, and college football, basketball and baseball games. The HDNet networks are carried on both major satellite providers DIRECTV and DISH Network; and major cable providers including Adelphia Communications, Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable and others.

Cuban has partnered once again with Todd Wagner to create 2929 Entertainment, an entertainment holding company that owns 100% of Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures Distribution, and Rysher Entertainment, and holds a stake in Lions Gate Entertainment. 2929 has also created 2929 Productions to produce television and theatrical releases and HDNet Films to produce high-definition movies.

Cuban is an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies and continues to be a sought-after speaker.

Eddy Cue

Eddy Cue is Apple's vice president of Applications and Internet Services. He oversees Apple's iLife applications, including iTunes, the iTunes Music Store, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD, as well as .Mac and the online Apple Store.

Eddy received a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.

James Currier

James Currier is founder and President of Tickle Inc. and SVP of Consumer Services at Monster.com. A former venture capitalist with a deep passion for digital media and social sciences, James developed an early vision of how the Internet could be used to help people learn more about themselves and better connect with each other.

The inspiration for Tickle came when James attended Harvard Business School in 1998. He saw his class take a career personality test and noticed the striking improvement in how his classmates communicated with each other. Talking with professors at Harvard, MIT and Yale about this phenomenon, James discovered that valuable scientific research into many areas of human behavior –career, relationships, intelligence, finances, sexuality, health – were hidden within academic institutions, inaccessible to the average person.

James believed that an Internet-based company that brought this scientific knowledge directly to individuals could allow people to connect better for jobs, relationships and other services. Staying true to this vision over the last six years, Tickle today provides assessment tests, career profiling, matchmaking and social networking to more than 14 million active members.

Based in San Francisco, Tickle has been ranked by Media Metrix and Neilsen as a top 50 destination site. The company has experienced double-digit growth, and has been profitable for nine straight quarters. Today, Tickle employs more than 65 employees. In May of 2004, the company was acquired by Monster.com for approximately $100 million.

Prior to founding Tickle, James was an Associate with venture capital firm Battery Ventures in Boston. Before Battery, James served as Business Development Manager at STAR TV in Hong Kong. He spent his first years out of college as an Associate with GTE, including GTE New Ventures in the Los Angeles area, building relationships with film studios, ad agencies, broadcasters and publishers to build new digital media companies strategic to GTE.

James graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and Harvard Business School in 1999. He grew up in New Hampshire in a family of teachers and musicians and has been a serial entrepreneur from the time he was 6 years old. He has sailed across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and in 2000 he co-founded an acapella singing group in San Francisco called the Richter Scales. James is married with two children.

Danger Mouse

Rarely does an artist-producer in the hip hop world come out of nowhere to dominate the scene. The Brooklyn-born, Atlanta-reared Danger Mouse might soon prove to be an exception.

Danger Mouse has had an incredible year so far, receiving massive critical acclaim for his debut Danger Mouse & Jemini Ghetto Pop Life CD (SPIN magazine called it "a remarkable debut." URB magazine called it "an instant classic"). The album features guests including Tha Alkaholiks, J-Zone, Prince Po from Organized Konfusion and The Pharcyde).

Danger Mouse raised the bar on hip hop experimentalism by dropping the infamous Grey Album, which used the full vocal content of Jay-Z's Black Album, recorded over new beats and production created using the Beatles White Album as it';s sole source material. The resulting record is a unique hybrid of work, a re-interpretation being touted as the one of greatest remix albums of all time. With one million downloads in a week and ensuing battle between major record companies, the media, Internet and copyright advocates, the release of the Grey Album has been nothing less than a watershed moment for music.

Recently Danger Mouse has produced songs featuring Cee-Lo and Sadat-X for the Danger Mouse & Jemini 26" EP as well as produced the song "Garden Gnomes" for Sage Francis. He executive produced the new Prince Po album which includes tracks produced by Danger Mouse and Madlib amongst others.

Danger Mouse has recently made appearances at some of the biggest events this Summer including Coachella and Bonnaroo.

Current projects include his remix of the Zero 7 single "Somersault" featuring MF DOOM as well as an upcoming remix of N.E.R.D.'s song "Maybe."

Danger Mouse is currently producing array of artists including Gorillaz, MF Doom, and Tha Alkaholiks as well as remixing Tweaker "Ruby" featuring Will Oldham.

Cory Doctorow

John Doerr

Dale Dougherty

Brendan Eich

Eich created JavaScript, did the work through Navigator 4.0, and helped carry it through international standardization. Before Netscape, he wrote operating system and network code for SGI; and at MicroUnity, wrote micro-kernel and DSP code, and did the first MIPS R4K port of gcc, the GNU C compiler.

Hossein Eslambolchi

As GNTS president, Eslambolchi leads all network development, engineering and operations, as well as the CIO and CTO organizations including AT&T; Labs. The GNTS team provides the innovation, networking, and technology expertise driving AT&T;'s business transformation to improve Customer Care, Sales and Network Operations. He is responsible for the design, development, engineering, operations, and reliability of AT&T;'s global network, as well as its Global Network Operations Center -- AT&T;'s networking nerve center. Under Eslambolchi, corporate management initiatives for Concept of One (do it once, do it right, use it everywhere) and Concept of Zero (zero defects, zero cycle time and automate where possible), AT&T; is streamlining and automating processes and systems across the company. In less than two years, these initiatives have significantly improved customer-response time, reduced error rates and distinguished AT&T; as the industry's lowest-cost carrier.

As CTO, Eslambolchi oversees the formulation and implementation of a strategic vision to advance technology in conjunction with AT&T;'s business objectives. He is the President of AT&T; Labs and leads some of the world's best scientists and engineers in the development and creation of new services, tools and capabilities for next-generation Internet Protocol (IP) networks to give AT&T; and its customers a competitive edge.

As CIO he provides the leadership to reengineer AT&T;'s business processes and the underlying information technology (IT) infrastructures -- improving productivity and the value of information within the organization. He leads the direction and alignment of IT to support AT&T;'s business planning, applications development, architectural design, sourcing, strategic partnerships, technology transfer, and customer satisfaction. Eslambolchi joined AT&T; Bell Laboratories in 1986 and has more than 17 years of expertise in designing and developing packet networks. Under his leadership and guidance, AT&T; now operates the most reliable and largest packet network in the world -- carrying approximately 4 pedabytes of packet traffic per day. Eslambolchi also served as interim President of Excite@Home Broadband Networks Services, where he improved network reliability by 51 percent, while the customer base grew by 20 percent to more than 3 million subscribers. An expert in network reliability and IP technology, he headed up the development team for Fast Automated Restoration System (FASTAR), which AT&T; successfully deployed in1992, making it possible to quickly restore service when high-capacity fiber optic cables are damaged.

Eslambolchi was honored by Computerworld magazine as one of the Premiere 100 IT Leaders for 2004. The Executive Council of New York recognized Hossein as one of the top 10 innovators of 2003. Additionally, industry newsletter Light Reading named Hossein as the number one "mover and shaker" in telecommunications during 2003. Holding approximately 200 patents and applications, Hossein was named "Inventor of the Year" by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2001. In October 1999, he was appointed an AT&T; Fellow (AT&T;'s highest technical honor). He was honored as a finalist in the 1997 United States National Inventor of the Year competition. The New Jersey Research and Development Council bestowed him with the Thomas Alva Edison award in 1997. In the same year, he received AT&T; Labs' Science and Technology Medal. Eslambolchi is on the Board of Directors for Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. His work has been published in 18 technical publications, and he is on the IEEE editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management. Eslambolchi also serves as AT&T;'s Accessibility Champion.

Eslambolchi graduated with highest honors from the University of California - San Diego with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and in 2002 was elected as UCSD's alumnus of the year. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California - San Diego.

He maintains offices in Menlo Park, California and Bedminster, New Jersey.

Perry Evans

Perry Evans has been a serial Internet entrepreneur for the past several years. Best known as founder of MapQuest, and co-founder/chairman of Jabber, Evans spearheaded the creation of two web businesses that have delivered significant new application value to consumers and application communities.

Mr. Evans new business, Aptas, is focused on the next generation challenges of Local Search. Aptas bridges the worlds of yellow pages, search and consumer publishing. The Company has created new methods of content collection and aggregation, and rich personalized search and shopping. Aptas makes extensive use of map-based personal information management.

He first made his mark in the emerging field of online commerce when he managed R. R. Donnelly's new media development group, which was responsible for interactive yellow pages as well as travel and real estate products. Evans earned a MBA from York University in Toronto, Canada.

Kim Fennell

Prior to Telcontar, Fennell was President and CEO of Pinnacle Systems (Nasdaq: PCLE) where he led the company to over $330 million in revenue and expanded its market reach through several strategic acquisitions. He previously served as President and CEO of StorageWay, a VC-financed data storage service provider. Earlier, Fennell was a corporate vice president at Lucent Technologies with responsibility for the Communications Applications Group, a $2 billion business unit focused on Messaging, CRM, and Internet Protocol applications. He then helped spin-off Avaya from Lucent in 2000 as part of the Avaya executive team.

Fennell was an early executive at Octel Communications in 1986, which was acquired by Lucent in 1997. At Octel, he established and ran several divisions in succession including Canada; Europe/Middle East/Africa; and then all International Operations. He later led Octel as a division of Lucent. Prior to Octel he held sales and marketing management positions at ROLM and Burroughs.

Fennell is a graduate of Queen's University, at Kingston, Ontario, and currently lives in Los Gatos, California with his wife and two children. A native Canadian, he still hangs around ice rinks playing hockey a couple times a week.

Jason Fried

Jason's design principals are best embodied by 37signals' Basecamp product -- a web-based project management tool that has changed the way people think about project management (http://www.basecampHQ.com). And, oh yeah, he thinks the design and web-based application design industry is doing just about everything backwards. He'll be talking about this at eTech. Be sure to ask him about it in the hallways.

Anne Frisbie

Gian M. Fulgoni

Long involved with the growth of hugely successful technology businesses, Fulgoni served on the boards of US Robotics and Platinum Technology prior to their respective acquisitions by 3Com and Computer Associates in multi-billion dollar transactions. More recently, he was a member of the board of YesMail, prior to its acquisition by CMGI.

Fulgoni has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including Illinois Entrepreneur of the Year and the Wall Street Transcript Award. Educated in the U.K., He holds a master’s degree in Marketing and a B.S. in Physics.

Lisa Gansky

As president, co-founder and chairman of Ofoto, and general manager of Eastman Kodak Company’s Digital Imaging Services division, Lisa draws on her entrepreneurial spirit and experience developing global services at AOL to set the course for the company. Lisa has worked to develop Ofoto into a world-class consumer services offering for Kodak. In addition to her roles at Ofoto and Eastman Kodak, she serves on the boards of Camera Planet, The Jane Goodall Institute and Dos Margaritas. She also sits on a number of advisory boards of privately held companies.

Lisa was co-founder and CEO of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site and portal. When GNN was acquired by America Online in 1995, she continued on as VP of Internet properties and services, overseeing Webcrawler, GNN, internet software, AOL internet investments and online advertising and e-commerce.

Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor is business and technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. He also writes a daily Web-based column for SiliconValley.com, a KnightRidder.com site that is an online affiliate of the Mercury News. His column runs in many other U.S. newspapers, and he appears regularly on radio and television. He has been consistently listed by industry publications as among the most influential journalists in his field. His new book, "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People," was published in July 2004.

Gillmor joined the Mercury News in September 1994 after about six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Gillmor received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards.

Gillmor has had a longstanding interest in technology. He studied programming in high school. He bought his first personal computer in the late 1970s and first went online in the early 1980s. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.

Seth Goldstein

In 1995, Goldstein founded SiteSpecific, one of New York's first interactive advertising firms, and as CEO, led the business to $3MM sales in its first 18 months. Goldstein and SiteSpecific were featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 1996, and in 1997, SiteSpecific was recognized by Forrester Research as one of the nation's top five interactive agencies, later serving as the subject of the first Harvard Business School case study on Internet marketing. Goldstein engineered the sale of a minority equity stake in SiteSpecific to Harte-Hanks Communications (NYSE: HHS), and subsequently led the sale of the firm to Silicon Valley-based CKS Group, where he then served as senior vice president.

Prior to creating Majestic Research, Goldstein was the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Flatiron Partners, a New York-based $400MM technology venture capital firm backed by Chase Capital Partners and Softbank. At Flatiron, Goldstein established a Pervasive Computing initiative, leading to first-round investments in such companies as Portal Player, Kozmo, Vindigo, and Scout, and negotiated follow-on investments and M&A; transactions, including the $180MM acquisition of Vertical One by S1 Technologies.

Goldstein sits on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee for Valassis (NYSE: VCI), a $2B marketing services firm currently ranked 29th by Fortune Magazine as one of the best companies to work for in America.

Goldstein graduated from Columbia University in 1992 with a BA in Literature, and lives in New York City with his wife Tina Sharkey and sons Jacob and Charlie.

Bill Gross

A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development. In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi.

Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. Bill received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Bill Gurley

Prior to his investment career, he was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq's initial multi-processor server. Before Compaq, he served in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices' embedded processor division.

Other Affiliations: Advisory board of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.

Education: MBA from the University of Texas, 1993 and a BS in computer science from the University of Florida, 1989. Chartered Financial Analyst.

John Hanke

Trip Hawkins

Charlie E. Hoffman

Charles Hoffman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Covad Communications. Hoffman is a 25-year telecommunications veteran with experience in broadband, wireless, cable, and local and long-distance. Since joining Covad in June 2001, Hoffman has successfully restructured the company and dramatically reduced expenses while achieving 36% growth in subscriber lines and EBITDA profitability during 2003. Covad achieved cash-flow positive in the second quarter of 2004.

Prior to joining Covad, Hoffman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers AT&T;, Canada's largest, national wireless service provider. Under his leadership, the company grew from fourth to first place in a market of four national wireless providers. He also successfully negotiated the sale of one-third interest in this publicly traded company (NYSE and TSE) to a partnership of AT&T; and British Telecom. While at Rogers, Hoffman also served as a Senior Vice President of Rogers Communications where he gained extensive experience with Rogers Cable, Canada's largest cable company, a leader in the roll-out of high speed Internet service.

Prior to Rogers, Hoffman held senior management positions at Sprint PCS, SBC Communications, AT&T; and IBM.

David Hornik

Hornik has an eclectic technology background. At Stanford, he studied and taught the impact of technology on music, earning a degree in Computer Music. At Cambridge, England, he explored the power of technology in tracking and combating bias crime, receiving an M.Phil. in Criminology. At Harvard Law School, from which he received a J.D., magna cum laude, Hornik focused upon the convergence of technology and the law, serving as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and publishing papers on digital audio and software piracy.

Hornik has taught business and law internationally and is a lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He currently sits on the board of directors of Nomis Solutions, Notiva, PayCycle, and Transaction Engines and is a board observer with Westbridge Technologies. He previously served on the board of Evite which was acquired by Ticketmaster and was a board observer with Tickle Inc. which was acquired by Monster.

William H. Janeway

Warburg Pincus: Vice Chairman 2001-Present; Senior Managing Director and Head of the High Tech Team 1999-2000; Managing Director and Head of the High Tech Team, 1988-1999

F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.: Vice President and Director of Corporate Finance, 1979-1988; Vice President (Stockholder), 1975-1979; Associate, Corporate Finance, 1971-1975

Member of the Board of Directors of: BEA Systems, Inc., Indus International, Manugistics, Inc., and O’Reilly & Associates.

Marshall Scholar, 1965-68, Valedictorian, Princeton University, 1965 and Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 1964

B.A., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University 1965 Ph.D., Economics, Cambridge University 1971

Vice Chairman, Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge; Founding Manager, Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, University of Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge; Director, Social Science Research Council.

Brewster Kahle

Brewster earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Brewster helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995.

Mitchell Kapor

Kapor has worn many hats over the past 25 years: software designer, entrepreneur, and social activist, among them. He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app," which made the PC ubiquitous in business. He is the co-founder and former Chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization working in the public interest to protect privacy and free expression on the Internet.

David Karnstedt

Jason Kottke

Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus is co-founder and CEO of JotSpot, the first application-wiki company. A long time entrepreneur, Joe has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1993, he joined with five engineering friends to found the highly successful Internet company, Excite, Inc. The original president of Excite, Joe was deeply involved in product strategy, direction and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development and content.

After leaving Excite@Home in 2000, Joe was a co-founder of Digitalconsumer.org, a non-profit grassroots consumer organization with more than 50,000 members dedicated to protecting consumers fair-use rights to digital media. Joe, along with other co-founder Graham Spencer, continues to work on these important issues. In addition to his non-profit focus, he has also spent many years as an angel investor, working with numerous early-stage technology companies.

Lawrence Lessig

From 1991 to 1997, Lessig was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He then became the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin before moving to Stanford in 2000.

Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is now available online at www.free-culture.cc and from Penguin Press.

Kevin Lynch

Lynch's career has enabled him to participate in the emergence and rapid growth of the personal computer that began in the late 1970s, through the graphical user interface revolution in the 80s, to the convergence of content, applications, and communications on the profoundly networked systems of today.

Lynch defined and led the initial development of Macromedia Dreamweaver, one of the company's core products leading the market among professional web developers. Prior to joining Macromedia, Lynch pioneered a navigational user interface for handheld communicators at General Magic. He also designed the user interface and developed the first Macintosh release of FrameMaker for Frame Technology.

Lynch studied interactive computer graphics at the University of Illinois, working with artists and engineers in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. While he was in school, the first Macintosh was introduced, and Lynch began at his first startup as vice president of product development. He developed and shipped some of the first Macintosh applications, including a graphical adventure game in 1984, a 3D graphics package in 1985, and a desktop publishing application in 1987, which introduced user interface elements in common use today.

Om Malik

Udi Manber

Manber has been involved recently in the following projects (all of which produced available software):

• The Search Broker
• Nabbit -- Creating a Personal Web Notebook (still in beta testing, not available yet).
• WebGlimpse -- Combining searching and browsing on the web.
• NetShell -- Customized Handling of WWW Information.
• Harvest -- an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet.
• Glimpse -- a tool to search entire file systems
• GlimpseHTTP -- an HTTP search server that can combine searching and browsing. (Check here for a list of over 900 sites that use glimpseHTTP.)
• Warmlist -- a facility to cache, search, and organize WWW documents.
• agrep -- an improved grep that allows approximate matching, Boolean queries, user-defined records, and a whole lot more

Manber is the author of Introduction to Algorithms -- A Creative Approach (Addison Wesley, 1989 eleventh printing, 1994), and the editor of three other books. He received three best-paper awards, two patents, and one PYI.

Ross Mayfield

Ross Mayfield is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of startup executive management experience and a focus on helping people and companies communicate effectively.

Most recently, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout developing enterprise software for the telecommunications industry and as Interim VP of Marketing for an Immersive Group Simulation provider to military and homeland defense markets. Previously he was CEO of an enterprise risk management software company.

Mayfield co-founded and served as President of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. RateXchange reached $1 billion market capitalization, raised over $45 million in equity and debt and generated a thousand-fold return on investment for initial shareholders. His management of marketing led to majority market share, perceived leadership in its market category and recognition by Forbes as "The Best of the Web."

Mayfield served as the Marketing Director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an ISP, a web-design company and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups.

Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business. He resides in his hometown of Palo Alto with his wife and two children.

Mike McCue

From 1996 to 1999 Mike was vice president of technology at Netscape. There he helped to establish the company’s client, portal and server lines of business.

John McKinley

Mary Meeker

Meeker's mantra: with Internet stocks, there will be only a few huge winners and hundreds of losers. But the wealth created by the winners can more than made up for the mistakes.

Halsey Minor

Halsey Minor is the chief executive officer, chairman and founder of Grand Central Communications, the leading provider of Integration On Demand solutions.

A veteran entrepreneur, Halsey Minor founded CNET Networks (NASDAQ:CNET) in 1992 and as Chairman and CEO built CNET into one of the world's leading new media companies, recognized around the globe as the trusted source of information related to computers and technology. In 1998, CNET Networks became one of a handful of profitable Internet companies and, in May 1999, was named to the NASDAQ 100. In February 2000, Minor delegated his daily responsibilities as CEO, and in November 2000 he became CNET's Chairman Emeritus.

Minor's history of entrepreneurial ventures, savvy technology innovations and successful investments traces back to 1995, when he conceived of and developed a software technology called PRISM, which he sold to Vignette Corporation in 1996 in exchange for a 35 percent equity interest in the company. PRISM served as the foundation for Vignette's StoryServer, the industry's leading Web content application system. At the same time, he built and launched BuyDirect.com, which in 1998 was sold to online software retailer Beyond.com for $130 million. In 1997, he introduced Snap.com, redefining the search engine space with a new business model. Under Minor's leadership through March 1999, Snap quickly joined CNET as one of the top 15 most visited web sites, according to Media Metrix. Minor was a founding investor in Listen.com, which was recently acquired by Real Media (NASDAQ:TFSM), and Salesforce.com.

Louis Monier

Monier began his career in the United States as a post-doc at Carnegie-Mellon in 1980, working with H.T. Kung on theory of circuit complexity, VLSI and CAD tools. In 1983, Louis moved to XEROX P.A.R.C. where for six years he explored novel CAD tools and designed a number of VLSI chips. In 1989, Monier joined DEC Western Research Laboratory (WRL) in Palo Alto where he continued to explore high-performance circuits, CAD tools, and software engineering tools.

In 1995, while at WRL, Monier launched AltaVista, which became the leading Web search engine. From 1995 to 1999 he was the CTO of AltaVista, introducing powerful technical innovations: the fastest web crawler, an efficient and powerful search engine, BabelFish, the first free automated translation site on the Web, and many others. After leaving AltaVista in 1999, Monier spent a year as the CTO of BigVine, a Kleiner-Perkins start-up in the Internet barter space. He then joined eBay in 2001.

Born and educated in France, Louis got his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1980 from the University of Paris.

Bob Morgan

In his role, Bob Morgan develops and oversees the major business relationships between Kodak Mobile Services and mobile operators, handset manufacturers and wireless technology providers, globally. He has been integral in working with the team broadly to define a compelling service as well as craft key strategic partnerships.  

Prior to Eastman Kodak Company, Morgan was Vice President, Business Development for MessageVine, a leading provider of mobile instant messaging and presence solutions. In this role, he initiated and managed relationships with major wireless communications firms and strategic planning for the company. Prior to MessageVine, Morgan served in a variety of business and channel development roles for Macromedia, Inc. and Oracle.

Craig Newmark

Newmark is a senior Web-oriented software engineer, with around twenty-five years of experience (including 18 years at IBM), and has become a leader in online community by virtue of running www.craigslist.org for over 9 years. He's compiled extensive experience evangelizing, leading and building, including work at Bank of America and Charles Schwab. In 1995, he started craigslist which serves as a non-commercial community bulletin board with classifieds and discussion forums. Using a common sense, down-to-earth approach, craigslist strives to make the 'net more personal and authentic, while advocating social responsibility through the promotion of small, non-profit organizations.

Newmark's community activities include being on the advisory boards of Climate Theatre and Haight-Ashbury Food Program as well as supporting local writers through Grotto Nights. Newmark has been featured in the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Business Week, Time Magazine, and Esquire Magazine.

Martin Nisenholtz

Prior to joining The Times, Nisenholtz was director of content strategy for Ameritech Corporation, where he was responsible for guiding development of new video programming opportunities and interactive information and advertising services.. From 1983 to 1994, he worked at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. In 1983, he founded the Interactive Marketing Group (IMG), the first creative development unit at a major U.S. advertising agency devoted specifically to interactive communication. Upon his departure, he was a senior vice president and a member of the operating committee. Nisenholtz began his career in 1979 as an assistant professor and research scientist at New York University, where he participated on the founding faculty of the Interactive Telecommunications Program and worked on pioneering interactive media efforts in the areas of education, healthcare and public information.

In June 2001, Nisenholtz founded the Online Publishers Association (OPA), an industry trade organization that represents the interests of high-quality online publishers. He serves on the board of directors for the Ad Council, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Center for Communications. He is also an advisory board member for Tacoda Systems.

Nisenholtz received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication in 1979.

Peter Norvig, Ph.D.

Peter Norvig is the Director of Search Quality at Google Inc.. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field.

Previously he was head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis, neuro-engineering, collaborative systems research, and simulation-based decision-making. Before that he was Chief Scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison shopping service; Chief designer at Harlequin Inc; and Senior Scientist at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Dr. Norvig received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Professor at the University of Southern California and a Research Faculty Member at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in various areas of Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering including the books Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX.

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to publishing pioneering books like Ed Krol's The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog (selected by the New York Public Library as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century), O'Reilly has also been a pioneer in the popularization of the Internet. O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator site (GNN, which was sold to America Online in September 1995) was the first Web portal and the first true commercial site on the World Wide Web.

O'Reilly continues to pioneer new content developments on the Web via its O'Reilly Network affiliate, which also manages sites such as Perl.com and XML.com. O'Reilly's conference arm hosts the popular Perl Conference, now part of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and co-presents the Web 2.0 Conference.

Tim O'Reilly has been an activist for internet standards and for Open Source software. He has led successful public relations campaigns on behalf of key internet technologies, helping to block Microsoft's 1996 limits on TCP/IP in NT Workstation, organizing the " summit" of key free software leaders where the term "Open Source" was first widely agreed upon, and, most recently, organizing a series of protests against frivolous software patents. He received Infoworld's Industry Achievement Award in 1998 for his advocacy on behalf of the Open Source community.

For more, visit the archive of O'Reilly's online articles, talks, and interviews.

Christopher Payne

Kim Polese

She holds a Bachelors degree in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley (1984) and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Mike Pusateri

Mike Ramsay

Before he had the inspiration for TiVo along with co-founder Jim Barton, he was Senior Vice President of the Silicon Desktop Group for Silicon Graphics Inc. There he was responsible for engineering, marketing and business development for all desktop products, with P/L responsibility for approximately half the company's revenue. Prior to joining this group, he was President of Silicon Studio, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics focused on enabling applications development for merging interactive digital media markets.

Before joining Silicon Studio, Ramsay was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's Visual Systems Group. He also held positions of Director in the Advanced Systems Group.

Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Ramsay held R&D; and engineering management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Convergent Technologies. He earned a first-class B.S.E.E. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Richard F. Rashid, Ph.D.

Before joining Microsoft in September 1991, Rashid was professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After becoming a CMU faculty member in September 1979, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems, and published dozens of papers about computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure at CMU, Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of many modern operating systems and remains at the core of a number of commercial systems.

Rashid was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for his work in operating systems and for innovation in industrial research.

He also is credited with co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, "Alto Trek," during the mid-1970s. An updated version of this game has been developed by Microsoft and has been released under the name "Allegiance."

Rashid is a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Directorate Advisory Committee. He is a past member of the DARPA UNIX Steering Committee and the CSNet Executive Committee and a former chairman of the ACM Software System Awards Committee.

Rashid’s research interests have focused on artificial intelligence, operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. He has participated in the design and implementation of the University of Rochester RIG operating system (1975&1979), the Rochester Virtual Terminal Management System (1976&1979), the CMU Distributed Sensor Network Testbed (1980&1983) and CMU’s SPICE distributed personal computing environment, which included the Accent network operating system (1981&1985). He has published papers on computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communication security.

Rashid received a Master of Science (1977) and Doctoral (1980) degrees in computer science from the University of Rochester. He graduated with honors in mathematics and comparative literature from Stanford University in 1974.

Safa Rashtchy

Rashtchy has developed his research coverage with a focus on online advertising, search and e-commerce, and related Internet services. Rashtchy's research in online search has been the most extensive in the industry, and he is often considered an authority. Rashtchy came to Piper Jaffray with an extensive background on the Internet, as well as experience in the digital imaging industry. From 1992 to 1996, Rashtchy was president of ColorWorks Graphics, the digital imaging company he founded in Boston. Prior to that, Rashtchy worked in various technical and management capacities in computer graphics and engineering companies.

Rashtchy holds a master's degree in business administration, summa cum laude, from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in engineering from Purdue University.

Danny Rimer

Zack Rosen

Dan Rosensweig

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Rosensweig was president of CNET Networks, a position he took on following the merger of ZDNet and CNET in 2000. In this capacity he was responsible for many of the operations globally, and played a critical role in overseeing the successful integration of the two companies. During his tenure, he was also a key participant in company-wide efforts to develop and introduce innovative new Internet advertising formats, such as interactive messaging units.

Before joining CNET Networks, Rosensweig was an 18-year veteran of Ziff-Davis, where he served in many capacities, including president and chief executive officer of ZDNet, Inc. from 1997 to 2000. Rosensweig built ZDNet as a standalone company from Ziff-Davis, successfully took the company public, grew the business to become both profitable and among the top 20 most visited networks on the Internet, and finally merged with CNET. Rosensweig was president of Ziff-Davis Internet Publishing Group from 1996 to 1997, where he oversaw magazine titles such as Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life. He was vice-president and publisher of PC Magazine from 1994 to 1996, and associate publisher from 1992 to 1994. Under his tenure, PC Magazine became the leading computer magazine in both audience reach and revenue. He also held various other positions at Ziff-Davis in advertising sales, classified ad sales, and circulation. Rosensweig received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Hobart College, Geneva, New York.

David L. Sifry

Andrew Singer

Dr. Andrew Singer is an executive and technologist best known for producing best-selling Macintosh software and hardware. As VP of Product Development and Founder in 1982 of Think Technologies, he created market-leading Macintosh software, including MacPascal, Think C (LightspeedC) and Think Pascal. Following the sale of Think to Symantec, he joined Radius in 1989 as VP of Engineering. Radius went from $18M in revenue to a successful IPO with a $350M market cap in three years. During that period, Radius delivered dozens of products, most notably the Pivot landscape/portrait display.

At Interval Research, a Paul Allen company, Dr. Singer was highly influential in shaping a unique research community throughout its eight-year lifespan. His specific research focused initially on the future of computer-mediated interpersonal communication. Dr. Singer also provided investment due diligence and assistance to Vulcan Ventures, Interval’s parent company, including acting as both CTO and CEO of a network hardware startup. From 1998 to 2001, he was project leader of Interval’s reconfigurable computing project and CEO of Bitsqueeze, Inc., a startup created to commercialize large-scale reconfigurable computing. Currently, he is CEO of Rapport Incorporated, a company that creates reconfigurable components for handheld wireless information appliances.

Dr. Singer holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. His Ph.D. work helped define the 7-layer ISO model that modern networks are based upon. He co-authored programming texts and is the inventor on three issued US patents. Early in his career, Dr. Singer worked on numerous hardware and software projects, including the first full text searchable database for medical records and the first interactive environment for speech synthesis tools. He currently serves on the National Advisory Board of Mystic Seaport Museum.

Rich Skrenta

Jim Spohrer

From 2000-2002, Spohrer was CTO of IBM's Venture Capital Relations Group, where he identified technology trends and worked to establish relationships between IBM and VC-backed portfolio companies. Previously, he directed the IBM Almaden Research Center's (ARC) Computer Science Department, and before that was senior manager and co-strategist for IBM's User Experience/Human Computer Interaction research.

From 1989-1998, at Apple, he was a DEST (Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, and Technologist) and program manager of learning technology projects in Apple's Advanced Technology Group. He led the effort to create Apple's first online learning community and vision for "mobile anytime, anywhere" e-learning. From 1978-1982, he developed speech recognition algorithms and products at Verbex, an Exxon Enterprises company.

Spohrer received a B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 1988. In 1989, Spohrer lived in Rome where he was a visiting scholar at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and lecturer at major universities across Europe. Spohrer has published broadly in the areas of speech recognition, empirical studies of programmers, artificial intelligence, authoring tools, online learning communities, open source software, intelligent tutoring systems and student modeling, new paradigms in using computers, implications of rapid technical change, as well as the coevolution of social, business, and technical systems. Spohrer has also helped to establish two education research non-profit web sites: The Educational Object Economy and WorldBoard: Associating Information with Places. He is a frequent advisor to the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, and other groups (http://www.merlot.org, http://www.newmediacenters.org) on the implications of rapid technological change to the future of education.

Steve Steinberg

Stephanie Tilenius

An eBay employee since early 2001, she is responsible for the strategy, growth, and financial performance of PayPal's merchant services group, the business unit providing payment solutions to small and large e-commerce merchants.

Tilenius has been at eBay for three years, working for both the international and domestic aspects of the business. Prior to her current position, Tilenius was vice president and general manager for eBay Motors, the world's largest online used car marketplace, where she nearly doubled revenues for the category.

Prior to running eBay Motors, Tilenius focused on the expansion of eBay into regions beyond Europe and became general manager of eBay's Asia Pacific and Latin American operations where she was responsible for operations in nine countries including Korea, Taiwan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mexico, Argentina and Latin America. While in this position, she completed the acquisition of Neocom in Taiwan and made investments in China's Eachnet and Latin America's MercadoLibre. Tilenius grew these regions to profitability before assuming leadership for eBay Motors.

Before eBay, Tilenius was senior vice president of sales and marketing for PlanetRx.com, a company she co-founded and took public on the NASDAQ in 1999. Previously, she was vice president of business and product development for Firefly, a software start-up that was sold to Microsoft Corp. in 1997. Early in her career, Tilenius spent several years as an investment banker at Deutche Bank Alex Brown, primarily focusing on software and telecom. In this capacity, she worked on the Initial Public Offering for America Online in 1992, and she subsequently decided to join its corporate development group where she managed mergers, venture investments and strategic partnerships.

Tilenius graduated with high honors from Brandeis University where she earned both her bachelor's degree in economics and her master's degree in international finance. She also received her master's in business administration from Harvard Business School. Tilenius also spent time as a presidential management intern through a two-year fellowship with the U.S. government where she worked for Treasury Secretary Brady and Carla Hills on Japan-U.S. trade negotiations.

Jeff Veen

Allan Vermeulen

Before joining the AWS group in 2003, Vermeulen ran the Amazon.com Platform Technologies team which is responsible for the company's technology architecture.

Vermeulen was previously Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Development at Rogue Wave Software, which builds reusable software components and services for application development.

Vermeulen earned his doctorate in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Jeff Weiner

From 2001 to 2002, Weiner was the senior vice president of corporate development at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for overseeing the development and modification of overall corporate and individual business unit strategy as well as mergers and acquisitions. Prior to coming to Yahoo!, Weiner was co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1996 to 2000, he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Brothers Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division, one of the first entertainment groups to take advantage of the Internet medium. Prior to Warner Brothers, he was a strategic planning analyst at Braxton Associates, the strategic management consulting division of Deloitte and Touche.

Weiner holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Weiss

Jake Winebaum

Jake Winebaum is the founder and chief executive officer of Business.com. The idea for Business.com emerged from Winebaum's experience in the world of business publishing and his belief that the Internet will become the dominant medium for business information, communication, and marketing. Winebaum is also co-founder of eCompanies with partner Sky Dayton.

Prior to Business.com and eCompanies, Winebaum worked for The Walt Disney Company for more than seven years. Most recently, he served as chairman of Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG), which included Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, ABC.com, and Family.com.

Prior to this role, Winebaum served as president of Disney Online, where he led the team that developed the strategic and creative plan for Disney's expansion into the Internet. Winebaum's interest in the Web began when he was the editor and publisher of FamilyPC magazine, where he noticed the large increase in families logging on to the Internet. He suggested that Disney develop an Internet strategy, which he later created and executed.

Before Disney Online, Winebaum was president of Walt Disney Magazine Publishing. He also founded both FamilyFun and FamilyPC magazines and served as president, editor, and publisher of both publications. Winebaum sold FamilyFun to The Walt Disney Company in 1992.

Prior to FamilyFun, Winebaum served as senior vice president of marketing for five years at U.S. News & World Report. He also founded and served as president of U.S. News Productions, a television production company. Prior to that position, Winebaum worked for Time Warner at Fortune and Time magazines.

Winebaum's expertise and contributions to the Internet industry have been recognized by Time magazine, which awarded him a place in the Top 50 Cyber Elite, and Wired, which named him one of the Wired 25. He is a Dartmouth College graduate and an avid skier, mountain biker and runner. Winebaum is married and the father of two daughters.

Jerry Yang