Soon after Peter Fredell established his own investment banking boutique, named Fredell & Co., the company became one of the top players in the European asset backed debt market. Fredell & Co. also experienced success in their emerging markets operations, with significant mandates in Russia, Lebanon, Georgia, the Czech republic, and Hungary. Along with ABB, The Belgian Government and Boufonds,... read full bio
Porter Gale is a forerunner in the marketing world, with more than twenty years under her belt of working in branding, social media, advertising and filmmaking. She has been honored with the Changing The Game Award from The Advertising Women of New York, included on AdAges Digital Hotlist, iMedias Top 25-Digital Marketers, and named a Digital Passionista by The Huffington... read full bio
Cyan Banister, a globally renowned startup founder and angel investor, is currently a partner at Founders Fund. She invests across sectors and stages with a focus on heavily regulated industries, marketplaces, SaaS and businesses that assist people with basic skills in finding meaningful work. As an angel investor, Cyans portfolio has included Uber, Thumbtack, SpaceX, EShares, Postmates and Affirm. Cyan... read full bio
Adeo Ressi has been one of the most prominent figures in the Silicon Valley since establishing TheFunded ten years ago. Created to provide entrepreneurs with the tools to write anonymous reviews about venture capitalist groups and their processes, TheFunded became wildly popular among entrepreneurs. Ressi also started The Founder Institute, a startup accelerator and entrepreneur training program based in Palo... read full bio
Michael Jackson is the former COO of Skype, and now General Partner at Mangrove Capital Partners. Throughout Europe, Russia and Israel, Michael seeks out investable projects and advises portfolio companies as they grow into significant operations. Overseeing all aspects of Skypes paid services, he led the company into over 150M euro in just three years. Now actively involved in the... read full bio
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, investor and author, dedicated to helping creative people, teams, and networks make ideas happen. He was co-founder and CEO of Behance, a prominent online portfolio platform, until Adobe bought the company. Scott then became VP of Products at Adobe, re-launching their mobile product strategy. Now, Scott is an early-stage investor, a venture partner at the... read full bio
Padmasree Warrior is the Chief Development Officer at NIO and a member of its Board of Directors, overseeing the brains of NIOs autonomous, electric vehicles and the overall user experience. Warrior has established a career as a creative, visionary leader. Forbes named her among their list of The Worlds Most Powerful Women three years in a row, Business Insider included... read full bio
Prior to Yelp, Jeremy Stoppelman was the VP of engineering at PayPal. He left PayPal to attend the Harvard Business School. Upon completing his first year at HBS, Jeremy joined an incubator started by Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal) for a summer internship. It was there that he was reunited with his old colleague Russel Simmons and the two teamed... read full bio
Web developer and online entrepreneur David Karp is known as the creator and CEO of the popular short-form blogging platform, Tumblr. Growing up in Manhattan, Karp started studying web design and HTML at the young age of 11. At age 14 he did an internship for Frederator Studios under animation producer Fred Seibert. He was influenced by the computer... read full bio
Known as an angel investor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, Mark Suster is an investment partner at UpFront Partners and also a well-known blogger. His blog, Both Sides of the Table, publishes a wide variety of articles on entrepreneruship, business, investing, success, and more. He often invest in early-stage technology ventures. Suster grew up in Northern California, and he attended the... read full bio
John Smedley is a game enthusiast and the former CEO of Sony Online Entertainment, which has since changed its name to Daybreak Game Company. He also started Knight Technologies and co-founded Verant Interactive, which became SOE after its purchase by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Smedleys first heavy involvement with games started with the table-top role playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and... read full bio
Gina Bianchini is an expert is developing niche social networks both online and in the real world. She is the founder and CEO of Mightybell, a professional social networking platform that serves a purpose for specialized groups. Gind has been named among NPRs 5 Nerds to Watch, Marie Claires New Guard, Fortune Magazines 40 Under 40, Huffington Posts 20 technology... read full bio
Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, whose mission is to build a better Internet. He also co-founded Unspam Technologies, an anti-spam startup where he continues to serve as Chairman. Matthew co-created Project Honey Pot, the largest open source community tracking online fraud and abuse. Matthew has been included on the San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 list,... read full bio
Caroline Hyde is an anchor for Bloomberg Technology, interviewing the top names in technology such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Airbnb Founder Nathan Blecharczyk, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, founder of the internet Tim Berners-Lee and Whatsapp CEO Jan Koum. While at Bloomberg Television, she covered European business and technology, interviewing economic leaders... read full bio
Canadian video game journalist and TV personality Geoff Keighley well known for hosting the show GameTrailersTV. He also co-hosted G4tv.com, which was a weekly video game talk show. His work spans various forms of media including print, TV, and online. He has worked as a freelance writer, and some of his work has appeared in Kotaku, a video game blog... read full bio
Canadian computer programmer and online entrepreneur Ryan Holmes is known as the creator, founder, and CEO of Hootsuite, a platform created to manage social media and integrate social networks. Holmes grew up on a farm that had no electricity. He started his first business in high school, which was a paintball field turned online retailer. His second business was... read full bio
"Technology industry veteran Pat Gelsinger is a businessman in the technology industry who serves as the CEO of VMWare. Prior to his time at VMWare, Pat was president and COO of EMC’s Infrastructure Products, and he worked for Intel for 30 years and served as the company’s first CTO, helping develop crucial technology such as Wi-Fi and USB connection. Pat... read full bio
Chief technology officer and vice president of online shopping industry giant Amazon.com, Werner Vogels is an innovative thinker and go-getter who focuses on time saving and scalability. He has won the CIO/CTO of the Year Award from Information Week for his role in cloud computing, and he was voted the Clouds Most Influential Executive by readers of ReadWriteWeb. ExecBank... read full bio
Martin Bryant is a technology journalist and editor at Tech North, a web publication focused on growing the digital business sector in the North of England. He is formerly an editor-at-large at The Next Web, another well-known online publication in the technology industry. Martin is especially interested in apps, digital media, and European startups. Martin has led panel discussions at... read full bio
Patrick Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and startups. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Rotten Tomatoes, an extremely popular entertainment site that largely focuses on movie reviews; it is one of the top 600 most trafficked sites in the world. He has also co-founded Hobo Labs, a creator of casual mobile games. He... read full bio
