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Michael Abbott
Chief Executive, Isis
Michael Abbott leads Isis’ efforts to enable mobile commerce on a nationwide basis, significantly modernizing
the payment and shopping experience and fundamentally changing the way consumers shop, pay, and save.
Before Mr. Abbott joined Isis, he served some ten years with GE Capital, where he led strategy, marketing,
and product development for a host of world-class retail partners. While at GE Capital, he helped transform
the private label cards division into a multi-product business focused on driving billions in retail sales. Before
joining GE, Mr. Abbott was the executive vice president of marketing for credit card services at FleetBoston,
where he launched a series of successful new card products. Previously, he was a partner at consulting firm
Mitchell Madison Group. He began his career in research, analyzing electronic warfare intelligence data for
Syracuse Research Corp., and later conducting primary research in the Supercomputer and Communications
Group for IBM Research. He holds degrees from Stony Brook and Columbia universities.
Carol Adelman
President, Movers & Shakespeares
Carol Adelman, president of Movers & Shakespeares, conducts executive training through leadership
lessons from William Shakespeare. She is director, Center for Global Prosperity, Hudson Institute, publishing
the Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, a comprehensive review of private giving abroad. As
assistant administrator, USAID, she ran aid programs in Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Writing
on development, philanthropy, and global health, Dr. Adelman has published in the Wall Street Journal, New
York Times, and Foreign Affairs. She is past president of Capital Partners for Education, a charity providing
high school scholarships and mentors for low-income children in Washington, D.C. She serves on the board
of the Atlantic Council and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Adelman has a doctorate and
master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in foreign service from
Georgetown University, and BA degree from the University of Colorado and Bonn University in Germany.
Ken Adelman
Vice President, Movers & Shakespeares
Ken Adelman began teaching Shakespeare in 1977 at Georgetown University and, later, with honors students
at George Washington University. During the Reagan administration, he was an ambassador to the United
Nations and director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, accompanying President Reagan on
superpower summits with Mr. Gorbachev. Mr. Adelman is executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Arts &
Ideas series, and a consultant to Edelman PR and DCI Group. He graduated from Grinnell College and received
a master’s degree and doctorate from Georgetown University. Author of five books and hundreds of articles,
Mr. Adelman was for 20 years national editor of Washingtonian magazine and a member of the Defense Policy
Board from 2001 to 2006. While living in Africa from 1972 to 1975, he translated for Mohammed Ali during
“The Rumble in the Jungle” fight in Zaire, and on the Zaire River Expedition down the Congo River on the 100th
anniversary of Stanley’s exploration.
Trip Adler
CEO and Co-founder, Scribd
Trip Adler is the CEO and product visionary behind Scribd. He started the company after realizing how difficult
it was for everyday people, including his own father, to publish written works to the web and find a readership.
Today, Trip Adler envisions Scribd becoming the home for readers everywhere and transforming the ways in
which people share and discover information and ideas. Mr. Adler graduated from Harvard University in 2006
with a degree in biophysics and still regrets not dropping out to start Scribd earlier. When he’s not obsessing
over product, he can be found surfing at Ocean Beach or playing the saxophone.
Roy Bahat
President, IGN Entertainment
Roy Bahat is president of IGN Entertainment, a leader in videogames media. He joined the company in 2007
after serving in a business development role at News Corp. Mr. Bahat is on the board of Revision3, and was a
board observer at Flixster before it was acquired by Warner Bros. He is also a lecturer at UC Berkeley, where
he teaches the media course at the Haas School of Business and the School of Information. Before joining
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News Corp., Mr. Bahat worked on various startups and was in the public sector, both in the office of New York City mayor Michael
Bloomberg and at New York’s 2012 Olympic bid. Mr. Bahat graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes scholar.
Mari Baker
Chief Executive Officer, PlayFirst, Inc.
Mari Baker is president and CEO of PlayFirst, Inc., and best known for building the Quicken business from
1989 to 1999 while at Intuit, and the BabyCenter.com business, acquired by Johnson & Johnson, from 1999 to
2006. Before joining PlayFirst, Ms. Baker was an executive-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
where she incubated and launched Navigenics, Inc., and served as founding president, CEO, and a director.
Ms. Baker was a trustee of Stanford University from 1996 to 2003, and continues to serve as an emeritus
trustee. She is currently a director of Cozi Group, Inc., an officer in the Young Presidents’ Organization, and
an advisor at Stanford’s Clayman Institute. She has been recognized in the San Mateo County Women’s Hall
of Fame, Fortune’s list of Silicon Valley’s Most Influential Women, Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Women of
Influence, and Advertising Age’s Top 100.
Amy Banse
Managing Director and Head of Funds, Comcast Corp.
Amy Banse leads the strategy for Comcast’s venture capital initiatives, which includes overseeing the $500
million Comcast Interactive Capital Fund and the $250 million Peacock Equity Fund. Before joining Comcast
Ventures, Ms. Banse was president of Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), a division of Comcast Corp. she
founded in 2005. At CIM, she led Comcast’s online strategy over the next five years, during which she oversaw
the acquisition of Fandango (the movie ticketing site), Daily Candy (the popular e-mail newsletter), Plaxo (the
smart contacts site), and thePlatform (the industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions) as
well as the in-house development and management of Comcast’s portals as well as Fancast and Swirl. In this
role, Ms. Banse grew CIM into an 800-person team with significant digital capabilities and played a key part
in the industry’s development of its TV Everywhere strategy and in Comcast’s execution of that strategy. Ms.
Banse first joined Comcast in 1991 as an in-house attorney responsible for programming acquisition. She has
received numerous industry awards.
Tony Bates
Chief Executive Officer, Skype
Tony Bates, Skype’s CEO, is responsible for overseeing the company’s direction and strategy, and is
ultimately responsible for its performance. Before joining Skype, Mr. Bates was senior vice president and
general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise, Commercial, and Small Business Group. Earlier he held the same
roles in Cisco’s Service Provider business unit, and previously was vice president and general manager of the
company’s high-end router business. He has also served as a director of YouTube, Inc. Before joining Cisco,
Mr. Bates spearheaded the backbone-engineering strategy for Internet MCI (MCI’s national IP backbone). He
has more than 20 years of experience in the Internet and telecommunications industries. He has published
12 IETF RFCs in the areas of Internet routing and operations, and holds nine patents in the area of Layer 2 and
Layer 3 innovations.
Tom Bedecarré
Chief Executive Officer, AKQA
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Tom Bedecarré, one of the most influential leaders in the advertising industry today, is currently CEO of
AKQA, the world’s largest independent digital advertising agency. AKQA clients including leading brands such
as Audi, Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Nike, Unilever, Visa, and Xbox. AKQA was named Digital Agency of the Year
four times in 2010. An enthusiastic entrepreneur, Mr. Bedecarré was a founder and CEO of Citron Haligman
Bedecarré, San Francisco’s largest independent advertising agency and a leader in launching Internet
brands. He started his career in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather and later was a vice president at Hal Riney
& Partners. Mr. Bedecarré serves on the IAB’s advertising agency advisory board, which fosters dialogue
between agencies, publishers, marketers, and technology providers. Also is a director of the Kraft Fight
Hunger Bowl, Mr. Bedecarré holds degrees from Stanford University and the Kellogg School of Management
at Northwestern University.
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Douglas G. Bergeron
Chief Executive Officer, VeriFone
Doug Bergeron has served as CEO of VeriFone since 2001, when he spearheaded the acquisition of the
company from Hewlett-Packard in a transaction valued at $50 million. In 2005, VeriFone became a public
company and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the past nine years, VeriFone’s sales have more than
tripled and the value of the company has grown to several billion dollars. Mr. Bergeron previously served in
a variety of executive management positions at SunGard Data Systems Inc., including president of SunGard
Futures Systems and group CEO of SunGard Brokerage Systems Group. He was also president of Gores
Technology Group. He serves on the listed company advisory committee of NYSE Euronet. Mr. Bergeron holds
a BA degree with honors in computer science from York University in Toronto and an MS degree from USC.
Adam Bosworth
Founder and CTO, Keas
Adam Bosworth is a technology leader and innovator who was instrumental in building numerous technology
products, including Google Health, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and BEA WebLogic
Integration and Workshop. After facing serious family challenges with the health-care system, Mr. Bosworth
decided to take his 25 years of building databases and software and apply this knowledge to his passion for
helping people become healthy and well. He founded Keas in 2008 to bring together the latest technology,
medical information, and wellness programs to inspire, motivate, and reward consumers to better manage
their own health care and live healthier lives. Before starting Keas, Mr. Bosworth was vice president of
engineering at Google and was instrumental in developing Google Calendar and Spreadsheets. He then
headed Google Health. Previously, he was senior vice president of engineering and chief software architect at
BEA Systems. Before joining BEA, he co-founded Crossgain, a software development firm acquired by BEA in
2001. He also held senior management positions at Microsoft.
Todd Bradley
Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Todd Bradley is executive vice president of HP’s Personal Systems Group (PSG), a $40 billion annual revenue
business that includes personal computers, technical workstations, and HP webOS-powered tablets and smart
phones. He is also a member of HP’s executive council. Under Mr. Bradley’s leadership, PSG has accelerated
profitable growth, firmly establishing HP as the world’s No. 1 PC vendor. During his five-year tenure, the
business has added more than $10 billion in revenues and increased profitability threefold. In addition to driving
significant organic growth globally, Mr. Bradley has deepened HP’s portfolio with key acquisitions in the thinclient segment, high-performance computing, cloud services, and, most recently, the $1.2 billion acquisition
of Palm. During his 30-plus-year management career, Mr. Bradley has held senior roles at GE Capital, Dun
& Bradstreet, and FedEx. Before joining HP, he was CEO of Palm and, earlier, executive vice president, global
operations, for Gateway. He holds a BS degree in business administration from Towson University.
Matt Cohler
General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Matt Cohler has extensive experience working with great entrepreneurs to build lasting consumer Internet
companies, having served in senior management roles at Facebook and LinkedIn. Most recently, he was
vice president of product management at Facebook, overseeing the company’s product development
organizations. Ms. Cohler joined Facebook in early 2005 as one of the first five employees hired by the
company’s founders and its first external executive hire, and he’s been credited with helping drive Facebook’s
strategy, organizational growth, and product direction. Previously, Mr. Cohler served as vice president and
general manager at LinkedIn, where he was a member of the company’s founding team. Before 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, before the company’s IPO. He currently
oversees investments in Asana, Baixing, Instagram, Quora, Peixe Urbano, and Zendesk. A graduate of Yale
University, Mr. Cohler remains a special advisor to Facebook.
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George F. Colony
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Forrester Research
George Colony is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology. During
his nearly 30-year career, he has become a trusted advisor to CEOs of leading global companies by providing
forward-looking and pragmatic analysis on the impact of technology change on business. Throughout his
career, Mr. Colony has made provocative, tenacious, and groundbreaking technology calls, including the birth
of client/server computing, the dot-com implosion, the rise of social computing, the transition from IT to BT
(business technology), and the burgeoning opportunities enabled by the extended Internet (X Internet). He
has participated in the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos for the past eight years, and also
serves as a member of the Forum’s Tech Pioneers selection committee. He has addressed several Fortune
conferences, including the Global Forum in Beijing in 2005, and was a 2006 recipient of the national Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the services category.
Geoff Colvin
Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune
Geoff Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today’s most significant trends in
business. As a longtime editor and columnist for Fortune, he has become one of America’s sharpest and
most respected commentators on leadership and management, the shareholder value imperative, corporate
governance, the infotech revolution, and related issues. As a speaker, Mr. Colvin has engaged hundreds of
audiences worldwide. He has conducted live interviews with leading business figures including Bill Gates,
Jack Welch, Steve Case, Richard Branson, Ted Turner, Peter Drucker, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and many
others. He is the regular lead moderator of the Fortune Global Forum, and he serves as moderator for the
Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum in London. He is heard daily on the CBS Radio Network,
where he has made more than 8,000 broadcasts. A native of Vermillion, S.D., Mr. Colvin is an honors graduate
of Harvard with a degree in economics, and he holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of
Business.
Dick Costolo
Chief Executive Officer, Twitter
Dick Costolo, CEO at Twitter, previously served as the company’s COO, where he was responsible for
monetization and the day-to-day business operations. Before joining Twitter, he was co-founder and CEO
of FeedBurner, a digital content syndication platform that was acquired by Google in 2007. At Google, Mr.
Costolo was group product manager on the Ads team, responsible for social media ads. Mr. Costolo spent
most of the 1990s in Chicago founding and running two other digital media companies: SpyOnIt, a web page
monitoring service; and Burning Door Networked Media, a web design and development consulting company.
He also performed in multiple productions with the acclaimed Annoyance Theater. Mr. Costolo graduated
from the University of Michigan with a BS degree in computer science.
Dennis Crowley
Co-founder and CEO, foursquare
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder and CEO of foursquare. He previously founded Dodgeball, one of the
country’s first mobile social services, which was acquired by Google in 2005. As well as being named to
Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list, Mr. Crowley is one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 as selected by MIT’s
Technology Review magazine (2005), and he has won the “Fast Money” bonus round in the TV game show
Family Feud (2009). Mr. Crowley’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired,
as well as in TIME magazine. He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications
Program, from which he holds a master’s degree. He also earned a bachelor’s degree from the Newhouse
School at Syracuse University.
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Chris Curtin
Vice President, Digital Strategy, Corporate Marketing, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Chris Curtin is vice president of digital strategy for corporate marketing at HP, where he is responsible for
driving the HP brand in existing and emerging digital channels. He oversees digital media buying, social
media, and mobile marketing, and manages HP.com, the company’s global web presence. In overseeing
HP.com, Mr. Curtin is responsible for driving the most ambitious website redesign project in the company’s
history. The new HP.com provides new online customer experiences and world-class web publishing
operations. Before joining HP, he served 13 years at The Walt Disney Company, rising to vice president of
global media and technology. Mr. Curtin holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Denison University
and a JD from Georgetown University.
Egon Durban
Managing Director, Silver Lake
Egon Durban, based in Menlo Park, is a managing director of Silver Lake. He joined Silver Lake in 1999 as a
founding principal and has worked in the firm’s London, Menlo Park, and New York offices. Mr. Durban serves
on the supervisory board of Skype and is the chairman of the operating committee and the supervisory board
of NXP BV, the operating committee of SunGard Capital Corp., and the board of directors of Intelsat Ltd. and
Multiplan Inc. He also oversees the firm’s investments in Groupon and Zynga. For Silver Lake, Mr. Durban
serves on the management, investment, and Fund 3 operating and valuation committees. Before joining Silver
Lake, Mr. Durban was an associate in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division. He graduated from
Georgetown University with a BS degree in finance.
Daniel Ek
CEO and Co-founder, Spotify
Daniel Ek co-founded Spotify (with Martin Lorentzon ) in 2006. Mr. Ek is a serial entrepreneur and
technologist who started his first company in 1997 at the age of 14. In addition to co-founding Spotify,
Mr. Ek founded Advertigo, the online advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler. He previously held
senior roles at Nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by eBay) and Advertigo. Mr. Ek was also chief
technology officer at Stardoll, the fashion and entertainment community for tweens.
Kyna Fong
Co-founder, Elation
Kyna Fong is co-founder of Elation, a startup that is harnessing web technology to reshape the delivery
of health care. The company’s investors include Ron Conway and founders of Facebook and Quora. Ms.
Fong has been involved with physician practices since high school, setting up her father’s medical office
and training all the staff. She is the technical architect behind the Elation platform. Ms. Fong is currently an
economics professor at Stanford (on leave), was recently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in
Health Policy, and has consulted to health-care and technology organizations, including PacifiCare, CalPERS,
and Navigenics. At age 19, Ms. Fong graduated from Harvard University with both a bachelor’s degree in
applied math, summa cum laude, and a master’s degree in computer science. She completed her Ph.D. at
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where she focused on game theory and health economics. She is
also a three-time national collegiate table tennis champion.
Leigh Gallagher
Assistant Managing Editor, Fortune
Leigh Gallagher is an assistant managing editor at Fortune, where she edits feature stories on a variety of
subjects and is responsible for such Fortune franchises as the Best Companies to Work For and 40 Under
40 rankings. Ms. Gallagher is also a seasoned business news commentator, appearing frequently on CNBC’s
Power Lunch, Closing Bell, and Squawk Box; Fox News Channel’s Cavuto on Business; CNN; and a variety of
other programming. She is a regular biweekly guest on NPR’s Marketplace. Before joining Fortune in 2007,
Ms. Gallagher was a senior editor at SmartMoney, where she oversaw the magazine’s consumer-oriented
coverage. Before SmartMoney, she served six years as a writer and reporter for Forbes. She is a graduate of
Cornell University and lives in New York.
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Jonathan Gheller
Co-founder, Mixtent, Inc.
Jonathan Gheller is co-founder of Mixtent, Inc., a web-based product that ranks job-related skills and talents,
utilizing a user-friendly interface to gather and analyze data. Mixtent asks users to choose between people
in similar employment fields and then utilizes complex algorithmically derived determinants to deliver
useful and meaningful professional rankings by field. Mr. Gheller left the academic world in 2006 to found
Fashmatch.com, a website allowing users to make recommendations about which pieces of apparel and
accessories matched appropriately. From a user perspective, Fashmatch.com was a fun toy, but the software
was built on sophisticated algorithms that analyzed user input in order to quantify subjective aesthetics
and amass useful data on fashion preferences that vendors could use to make accurate recommendations.
Fashmatch.com was sold to Like.com in 2009 and turned into Couturious.com, which Mr. Gheller served as
product manager for a year.
Stephen Gillett
CIO and Executive Vice President, Digital Ventures, Starbucks Coffee Co.
Stephen Gillett joined Starbucks in 2008 as senior vice president, CIO, and general manager of digital
ventures. He leads the company’s efforts to use technology to provide robust operational capability and
to connect with consumers and enhance their experience in the company’s stores. As CIO, Mr. Gillett is
responsible for all global enterprise technology activities at Starbucks. As executive vice president, digital
ventures, he is responsible for all digital business activities at Starbucks, which include P&L responsibility
for e-commerce, Starbucks Digital Network, Starbucks Entertainment, strategic digital partnerships,
mobility, and digital music. Before joining Starbucks, he was CIO for Corbis, a digital media company, where
he was responsible for application development and global infrastructure for the company’s key platforms.
Before Corbis, Mr. Gillett held senior technology leadership positions with Yahoo, CNET Networks, and Sun
Microsystems. Mr. Gillett, named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list in 2010, holds degrees from the University of
Oregon and San Francisco State University.
Eric Hadley
General Manager, Worldwide Marketing, Bing, Microsoft Corp.
Eric Hadley, general manager for Bing marketing, is involved in launching the new Microsoft search brand.
He is driving growth through a mix of direct response, brand, and partnership marketing. During his tenure
with Microsoft, Mr. Hadley has held senior positions, including general manager of global marketing for the
company’s advertising team that comprises MSN, Live.com, Xbox Live, and all other Microsoft advertisingfunded properties. He also managed the global rollout of Microsoft adCenter, the company’s advertising
platform. Mr. Hadley developed and launched the iconic MSN Butterfly, and had roles in the Microsoft
Corporate Group’s focus on international markets and the company’s LCA Group in Washington, D.C. Mr.
Hadley joined Microsoft in 1998 from Ogilvy & Mather, where he played a key role in launching the awardwinning worldwide e-business campaign that successfully revitalized the IBM brand. Between stints at
Microsoft, Mr. Hadley was with Heavy Corp., where he managed the company’s sales, marketing, and
business development. He has received numerous honors during his career, including Microsoft’s prestigious
Chairman’s Award.
Jessi Hempel
Senior Writer, Fortune
Jessi Hempel joined Fortune as a writer in 2007. She was previously with BusinessWeek and most recently
served as their innovation department editor, where she worked on cover stories and special reports.
Before this position, she was a staff editor, covering philanthropy, technology, and youth. Before joining
BusinessWeek, Ms. Hempel worked for TIME Asia and various nonprofit organizations. She has appeared
on an array of radio and television programs, including CNBC’s Wakeup Call and Fox’s Good Day New York.
She has also been a regular guest on ABC’s World News This Morning. Ms. Hempel is a graduate of Brown
University and received a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.
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John Hering
Chief Executive Officer, Lookout
John Hering is a technology entrepreneur with a passion for making the mobile experience safe for everyone.
He co-founded Lookout in 2007 with two of his former USC classmates after gaining extensive experience in
the mobile security landscape. Recognized as one of the Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs for 2010, Mr. Hering
is well known for his BlueSniper project, which brought early attention to the vulnerabilities associated with
Bluetooth. Before co-founding Lookout, Mr. Hering founded Daily Wireless, a wireless news aggregation
engine covering all aspects of the wireless marketplace for business, and Unwire Iraq, a nonprofit providing
wireless networks to U.S. combat troops. Frequently called upon to speak about mobile vulnerabilities, Mr.
Hering has appeared on Fox Business News and NBC, and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, and USA Today. He is a regular speaker at industry events, including RSA, CIA, Black Hat,
DEFCON, and Microsoft’s Bluehat Security Conference.
Stephen Hoover
Chief Executive Officer, PARC, a Xerox Company
Stephen Hoover specializes in integrating technology, market, customer, and business opportunities—
from fundamental R&D to commercial scale-up. Motivated by his passion for establishing strong cultures
of innovation, Dr. Hoover has developed strategies for understanding potential markets, customers, and
business models; exploring and incubating early-stage ideas through seed funds; improving IP generation
practices; empowering individual researchers; and bridging functional silos. He has led research and longterm technology investments that span grid and cloud computing, clean tech, nanotech, mobile, and the
Future of Work, as well as advanced printing and mass customization technologies. As vice president of
the Xerox Research Center of Webster (N.Y.), he supported core and next-generation R&D for products
and services, and later led the global organization responsible for the company’s software and electronics
development. Dr. Hoover holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell, and has seven patents
issued and pending.
Glenn Hutchins
Co-founder and Co-CEO Silver Lake
Walter Isaacson
President and CEO, Aspen Institute
Walter Isaacson heads the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in
Washington, D.C. He is a former chairman and CEO of CNN and former editor of TIME magazine. Mr. Isaacson
is the author of American Sketches (2009), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An
American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and
the World They Made (1986). He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans
Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined TIME in 1978 and served in various roles before becoming the
magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, then president and CEO of
the Aspen Institute in 2003. Mr. Isaacson is the chairman of Teach For America, and of the U.S.-Palestinian
Partnership. He was appointed after Hurricane Katrina to be the vice chairman of the Louisiana Recovery
Authority.
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Josh James
Josh James is the co-founder and former CEO of Omniture, a SaaS-based web analytics company he started
in 1996, took public in 2006, and sold to Adobe in 2009 for $1.8 billion. Named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list
in 2009, Mr. James was the youngest CEO of a Nasdaq or NYSE-traded company at the time that Omniture
went public. Under his leadership, Omniture grew to become the second-largest SaaS company, with $400
million in sales and 1,700 employees worldwide. An esteemed member of the Utah business community, Mr.
James is passionate about promoting the state’s economic development. He is the founder of SiliconSlopes.
com, a private-sector initiative whose mission is to promote the interests of Utah’s high-tech industry. With
former Gov. Leavitt, Mr. James led the charge for the Utah Silicon Valley Alliance for entrepreneurs, designed
to attract the best of California’s technology industry to Utah’s business-friendly environment. Mr. James
supports Brigham Young University’s eBusiness Center, the Utah Technology Council, and Utah’s Women
Tech Council.
Jeff Jordan
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jeff Jordan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he is responsible for managing portfolio
companies and deal flow. He is the chairman of OpenTable and a director of Booyah, Wealthfront, and Zoosk.
Mr. Jordan was previously CEO and president of OpenTable, where he managed accelerating domestic and
international growth, oversaw the company’s IPO, completed the acquisition of TopTable in Europe, and led
the development of OpenTable’s mobile initiatives. Before joining OpenTable, Mr. Jordan was president of
PayPal and responsible for establishing the company as the global standard for online payments. Earlier he
was senior vice president and general manager of eBay North America, where he helped build eBay into the
Internet’s leading commerce brand and drove the successful acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com. Before
joining eBay, Mr. Jordan was CFO of Hollywood Entertainment and president of Reel.com. He also was senior
vice president of finance for the Disney Stores, The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Jordan holds degrees from
Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Amherst College.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Co-founder and CEO, DreamWorks Animation SKG
Jeffrey Katzenberg is the CEO and a co-founder and director of DreamWorks Animation SKG. The company
creates high-quality entertainment for audiences worldwide. DreamWorks Animation is the world’s largest
animation studio and has released 21 animated feature films, including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda,
and How to Train Your Dragon. Under Mr. Katzenberg’s leadership, DreamWorks Animation became the first
studio to produce all of its feature films in 3D and, in 2010, became the first company to release three CG
feature films in 3D in a single year. DreamWorks Animation has been named one of the 100 Best Companies
to Work For by Fortune for three consecutive years. Before co-founding DreamWorks, Mr. Katzenberg was
chairman of the Walt Disney Studios and earlier served as president of Paramount Studios. Mr. Katzenberg
is chairman of the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, and serves as a director or trustee of several
other organizations, including the AIDS Project Los Angeles and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Adam Lashinsky
Senior Editor-at-Large and Co-chair, Fortune Brainstorm TECH, Fortune
Adam Lashinsky, who covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for Fortune, was a contributing columnist for two
years before joining the magazine’s staff in 2001. He is also a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel’s
Cavuto on Business program on Saturday mornings, and appears frequently on other Fox News and Fox
Business Network programs. Mr. Lashinsky co-chairs Fortune’s annual technology conference, Fortune
Brainstorm TECH, and is a seasoned speaker and panel moderator. His articles focus on finance and
technology. Recent cover-story subjects include Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Google. He also has written
in-depth articles on Wells Fargo, Intel, Oracle, eBay, Twitter, the venture-capital industry, and the post-Katrina
economic recovery of New Orleans. Before joining Fortune, Mr. Lashinsky was a columnist for the San Jose
Mercury News and TheStreet.com. Earlier he was a reporter and editor for Crain’s Chicago Business and a
Henry Luce Scholar in Tokyo reporting for the Nikkei Weekly.
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Richard Lemarchand
Lead Game Designer, Naughty Dog
Richard Lemarchand is a lead game designer at Naughty Dog, the successful Sony-owned game studio
in Santa Monica. He led the design of the PlayStation 3 hits Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Uncharted:
Drake’s Fortune, and is currently leading the upcoming blockbuster Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception. He also
worked on Naughty Dog’s Jak 3 and Jak X: Combat Racing, and helped create the successful game series Gex,
Pandemonium, and Soul Reaver at Crystal Dynamics. Mr. Lemarchand has made storytelling character-action
games the focus of his career, and his role at Naughty Dog includes production as well as design. Born in
England, he grew up in a small rural town, dreaming of ancient civilizations and outer space. Before his work in
the videogame industry, he studied physics and philosophy at Oxford University.
Susan Lyne
Chairman, Gilt Groupe
Susan Lyne, who became chairman of Gilt Groupe last year, joined the company as CEO in 2008, less than
a year after its launch as a women’s apparel and accessories business. Today the company has more than 3
million members, 500 employees, and 6 distinct product lines in the U.S. and is the leading flash sale site in
Japan. Ms. Lyne previously was president and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), where she
led the company’s recovery and return to profitability, including a threefold increase in ad revenue and the
diversification of its merchandising business. Before joining MSLO, Ms. Lyne served eight years at Disney/
ABC, rising to president of ABC Entertainment, where she oversaw the development of shows including
Desperate Housewives, Lost, and Grey’s Anatomy. Before assuming her role as president, she ran the
network’s longform division, fielding a schedule of original movies and miniseries that won time periods and
earned numerous awards. Ms. Lyne’s early career was spent in the magazine industry.
Lowell C. McAdam
President and COO, Verizon Communications
Lowell McAdam is responsible for the operations of Verizon Communications’ network-based businesses—
Verizon Wireless and Verizon Telecom and Business—as well as Verizon services. He is also responsible
for the technology management and CIO functions, and chairman of the Verizon Wireless board of
representatives. Before assuming his current roles last year, Mr. McAdam held key executive positions
at Verizon Wireless since its inception in 2000. Earlier, he was president and CEO of PrimeCo Personal
Communications, a joint venture owned by Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch. He also was PrimeCo’s COO,
responsible for overseeing the build, deployment, and successful launch of the new company’s customer
service operations and all-digital network. Earlier Mr. McAdam was vice president, international operations,
for AirTouch Communications and lead technical partner for cellular ventures in Spain, Portugal, Sweden,
Italy, Korea, and Japan. Mr. McAdam is a director and past chairman of the CTIA, the wireless industry trade
association. He is also a director of the National Academy Foundation.
Robert A. McDonald
Chairman, President, and CEO, Procter & Gamble Co.
Bob McDonald has more than 30 years of brand building, market development, business unit, and
operations leadership experience across Procter & Gamble and throughout the world. He has lived
and worked on nearly every continent and has experience in virtually every part of P&G’s business. Mr.
McDonald’s strategy for P&G’s growth is linked to the company’s purpose. He has committed to build
P&G’s business by touching and improving more consumers’ lives in more parts of the world… more
completely, a strategy that will help P&G reach 5 billion consumers in the decade ahead, roughly double the
number of consumers P&G was reaching a decade ago. Mr. McDonald’s belief in the power of purpose and
commitment to service defines him as an individual and a global business leader.
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Frank Meehan
Founder and CEO, INQ Mobile
Frank Meehan is founder and CEO of INQ Mobile, a consumer mobile company backed by Hutchison
Whampoa. INQ is currently shipping the INQ Cloud Touch Android handset in Asia, Europe, and Canada. The
award-winning device deeply integrates social networking, and includes a number of industry-first innovations
developed with Facebook. Before founding INQ, Mr. Meehan was a general manager at Hutchinson Whampoa,
responsible for procuring tens of millions of handsets annually for Hutchison 3G wireless providers globally.
Earlier he was an executive at Ericsson. Mr. Meehan represents several of Mr. Li Ka-Shing’s Internet
investments, and is a board member of Spotify, TOM Group (China), Tout, and Trapit.
Stephanie N. Mehta
Executive Editor and Co-chair, Fortune Brainstorm TECH, Fortune
Stephanie Mehta oversees technology, international, and Washington coverage for Fortune, and helps set
the editorial direction for the magazine. She serves as co-chair of two of Fortune’s live events, Brainstorm
TECH and the Most Powerful Women Summit, an annual gathering of powerful women in business,
politics, and culture. Previously Ms. Mehta was assistant managing editor and global editor. Before moving
into editor roles, she was one of the magazine’s most prolific writers; her stories included a profile of
telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, an essay on the demise of the old AT&T, and a look at the impact
of the gaming industry on Tunica, Miss. Ms. Mehta joined Fortune in 2000 from the Wall Street Journal, where
she was an assistant news editor, reporting and editing technology stories. She wrote extensively about
telecommunications at the Journal. Before joining the Journal, she was a business reporter for the VirginianPilot in Norfolk.
Before Yahoo, she was with Ziff Davis. Previously, Ms. Millard was a founding member of the executive team at
DoubleClick. She has been recognized with numerous industry awards.
Ren Ng
Founder and CEO, Lytro
Ren Ng, before starting Lytro, produced seminal Ph.D. research on light field technology that earned the field’s
top honor, the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for best thesis in computer science and engineering, as well
as Stanford University’s Arthur Samuel Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation. He then purchased his first DSLR
camera and saw the potential to apply light field technology to capture pictures as well as generate images.
As a result, instead of continuing on a purely academic path, he decided to apply and extend his theoretical
work by making light field cameras that everyone can use. That’s how the Lytro picture revolution began.
When the company originally received funding, Mr. Ng was running the business solo. He and a core team
made breakthrough engineering innovations, setting a strong foundation for the world-class crew he’s now
leading to produce light field cameras that make groundbreaking living pictures. In addition to his Ph.D., Mr.
Ng holds a BS degree in mathematical and computational science from Stanford.
Wes Nichols
Co-founder and CEO, MarketShare
Wes Nichols is co-founder and CEO of MarketShare, the leading predictive analytics company that enables
companies to grow more efficiently by identifying what is really driving demand. MarketShare has developed
a unique analytics platform optimizing offline, online, and in-store marketing investments via patented crossmedia and cross-channel analytics. Deployed by over half of the Fortune 50, MarketShare has influenced
the investment of more than $100 billion marketing investments. Mr. Nichols previously was with Omnicom
Group as president and CEO of TBWA\TEQUILA, the interactive agency group of TBWA. Marrying innovation,
marketing, and analytics with creativity and digital solutions, TEQUILA served Nissan, Sony, Adidas, and
others. Mr. Nichols is a director of Canoe Ventures, Wharton’s Future of Advertising Global Advisory, and
MASB, an organization focused on marketing accountability standards and practices. An active Young
Presidents’ Organization member, Mr. Nichols graduated from Randolph-Macon College and the Johns
Hopkins University, with degrees in psychology and business, respectively.
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Brayden William Blaine Olson
Founder and CEO, Novel, Inc.
Brayden Olson is a young entrepreneur, videogame designer, and CEO of Novel, Inc. He is building Novel into
a venture-backed, fast-growing organization that combines videogame design and behavioral science. This
vision will create a new category of business products called enterprise simulations. Novel is now partnered
with the University of Washington, and its executive team consists of members with more than half a century
of professional leadership in the videogame industry and who previously held key roles at such startup
successes as Playdom and Big Fish Games. Novel is also working with a number of Fortune 500 organizations
who share the company’s belief that these enterprise simulations are poised to shake up the entire business
world. Mr. Olson was selected by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization as the Student-age Entrepreneur of the Year
in the Pacific Northwest (2009) and the West Coast (2010). He was also recognized by the Bellevue Chamber
of Commerce as the 2011 Young Professional of the Year.
Tim O’Shaughnessy
CEO and Co-founder, LivingSocial
Tim O’Shaughnessy sets and communicates LivingSocial’s core strategy, and oversees the entity’s
growth as the next great consumer brand. Before co-founding LivingSocial, Mr. O’Shaughnessy led the
consumer products team at Revolution Health and managed product launches at AOL. He graduated from
Georgetown University with degrees in marketing and operations and information management.
Babak Pahlavan
Co-founder and CEO, Clever Sense, Inc.
Babak Pahlavan is co-founder and CEO of Clever Sense, where his entrepreneurial spirit and passion
for mobile products and technology guide the design and development of Seymour. Specializing in data
mining and handling large-scale data, Mr. Pahlavan applies cutting-edge technology to solve real-world
problems. Before co-founding Clever Sense, Mr. Pahlavan founded several e-commerce businesses and
managed product development at companies like Intel. As product line manager for mobile platforms at
Wyse Technology, he successfully launched the company’s smartphone software business, which enables
hundreds of companies to offer employees and customers mobile access to critical information. He has
shipped products on iPhone, Android, and iPad, and he loves delving into the nuances necessary to create
great products. Mr. Pahlavan earned his dual-degree bachelor’s with honors from UC Berkeley in electrical
engineering and computer science. He earned his master’s degree in EE, with an emphasis in CS, from
Stanford, where he met his co-founder, Nima Asgharbeygi, and started conceptualizing the technology behind
Clever Sense.
Barbara Pantuso
Founder and CEO, Hey, Neighbor!
Barbara Pantuso recently launched Hey, Neighbor!, a network for trusted neighbor connections and
collaboration, a social network site designed for the kinds of things people like to share and do with neighbors.
After graduating from Cornell University, Ms. Pantuso was a pastry chef in Italy and then a general manager of
two restaurants in San Francisco. She changed careers to join 415 Productions, an interactive agency where
she became managing director. After moving to New York, she launched an interactive division for a healthcare marketing company called HealthEd. Most recently at frog design, Ms. Pantuso led innovation programs
helping clients to create and launch new products. She has spoken at numerous conferences, won many
awards, and is published in several magazines. And she’s a fanatical traveler and food lover.
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John Partridge
President, Visa Inc.
John Partridge oversees Visa’s marketing, product, client service support, processing, CyberSource, and
technology to ensure that the company continues to accelerate progress on growth initiatives. Before
being named president, Mr. Partridge served as COO and led efforts to transform Visa from a membership
association owned by financial institutions into a global, publicly traded company. Previously, Mr. Partridge
served as the first president and CEO of Inovant, the company that owns and operates VisaNet, Visa’s
electronic payment processing service. Under his leadership, Inovant developed a reputation for customer
service. Mr. Partridge led major efforts to reorganize Inovant, diversify the organization’s corporate footprint
to include remote development centers, create new centers of excellence for emerging technologies and
e-commerce, and examine alternative processing approaches for the global marketplace. Before joining Visa,
Mr. Partridge served as the senior vice president of program management and CIO for UNUM Corp. Earlier he
was with Banco de Credito del Peru in Lima and Wells Fargo Bank.
Filippo Passerini
President, Global Business Services (GBS), and CIO, Procter & Gamble Co.
Filippo Passerini, who joined P&G as a systems analyst in Rome in 1981, is responsible for delivering more
than 170 services and solutions to the company’s 127,000 employees. He oversees GBS, an organization of
more than 7,000 people. Innovative in structure, scope, and philosophy, GBS has saved the company more
than $800 million to date. Under Mr. Passerini’s leadership, the GBS organization has created a business
model that is considered unique and progressive in the shared services industry. The organization’s focus
is on transforming the way business is done, driving growth, value, and competitive advantage for P&G.
GBS has been recognized three times as one of the Ten Most Admired Shared Services Organizations. Mr.
Passerini has some 30 years’ experience with P&G and has held leadership roles in the U.K., Latin America,
Greece, Italy, Turkey, and the U.S. He is also a director for United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment rental
company. A native of Rome, Mr. Passerini earned his doctorate in statistics and operating research.
Patrick Pichette
Senior Vice President and CFO, Google Inc.
Patrick Pichette, Google’s CFO, has some 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in
the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive
vice president of planning and performance management. At Bell Canada, he held various executive positions
and was instrumental in managing the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing
migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure. Before joining Bell Canada, Mr. Pichette was a partner
at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey’s North American Telecom Practice. He
also served as vice president and CFO of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., a Canadian telecommunications company.
Mr. Pichette is a director of Amyris, Inc. He also serves on the boards of two nonprofits, Engineers Without
Borders (Canada) and the Trudeau Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Université du Québec à
Montréal and a master’s degree from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes scholar.
Dan Primack
Senior Editor, Fortune.com
Dan Primack joined Fortune.com in 2010 to cover deals and dealmakers, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road.
Previously, he was an editor-at-large with Thomson Reuters, where he launched both peHUB.com and the
peHUB Wire e-mail service. In a past journalistic life, Mr. Primack ran a community paper in Roxbury, Mass.,
and currently lives just outside of Boston.
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Frank Quattrone
Partner, Qatalyst Partners
Frank Quattrone, a founder and CEO of Qatalyst, began his career with Morgan Stanley in 1977, has advised
technology companies since 1981, and ran the global technology groups for Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank,
and Credit Suisse. Over the past three decades, Mr. Quattrone and his teams have advised on more than
400 mergers and acquisitions, with an aggregate transaction value of more than $500 billion, and on more
than 350 financings that raised over $65 billion for technology companies worldwide. During this time, Mr.
Quattrone advised technology leaders, and led the IPOs of Amazon.com, Cisco, Intuit, Linear Technology,
Netscape, STMicroelectronics, Synopsys, SynOptics, and Xilinx, among many others. He advised Apple on its
$400 million acquisition of NeXT (which led to Steve Jobs’ return to Apple); Google on creating an alternative
to Microsoft’s $45 billion hostile takeover attempt of Yahoo; and others. He serves as chairman emeritus and
a director of the Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif.
Keith Rabois
Chief Operating Officer, Square
Keith Rabois is COO at Square, the revolutionary service that enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere.
In that role, he oversees the company’s business operations including marketing, communications, business
development, distribution, human resources, and risk management. Mr. Rabois specializes in transforming
early-stage startups into successful businesses and has deep expertise in the financial services industry and
government affairs. An accomplished executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor, he has held leadership roles
at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Slide, and began his career practicing law at Sullivan & Cromwell. He was an early
investor in several high-profile Internet companies, including YouTube, and currently serves on the board
of directors of Yelp, Xoom, and Milo. Mr. Rabois holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate
degree in political science from Stanford University.
Jennifer Reingold
Senior Editor, Fortune
Jennifer Reingold is a senior editor at Fortune, where she is responsible for the First and Career sections. She
joined Fortune as a senior writer in 2006 and specialized in management issues. She is the co-author (with
Dan Reingold) of the book Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst (2006). She is also the co-author (with Barbara
Ley Toffler) of the book Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen (2003). Previously,
Ms. Reingold was senior writer at Fast Company magazine and associate editor at BusinessWeek magazine,
where she was in charge of the management department and supervised BusinessWeek’s coverage of business
schools and executive education. She was nominated in feature writing for the Gerald Loeb award in 2008,
won the AFJ’s Best Magazine Food Feature in 2007, and received the Newswomen’s Club Front Page award for
magazine writing in 2006 and the Deadline Club award for Best Business Reporting in 1999.
John Riccitiello
Chief Executive Officer, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA)
John Riccitiello is CEO of Electronic Arts, the world’s leading developer and publisher of games and services
for consoles, PCs, phones and tablets. He joined EA in 1997 as president and COO but left the company in
2004 to become a partner and managing director of Elevation Partners, a private equity group focused on
media and entertainment. Since he returned to EA as CEO in 2007, the company has begun a transformation
to a new business model stressing direct-to-consumer distribution of digital games and services. During
this time, EA has seen an increase in game quality and developed more new intellectual property than at any
time in its 26-year history with blockbuster franchises such as The Sims, Mass Effect, DeadSpace, Battlefield,
NeedForSpeed, Madden NFL, and FIFA Soccer. Before joining EA, Mr. Riccitiello served as president and CEO
of the Worldwide Bakery Division at Sara Lee Corp. He also was president and CEO of Wilson Sporting Goods
and held executive positions at Häagen-Dazs, PepsiCo, and Clorox.
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Cyriac Roeding
Co-founder and CEO, shopkick
Cyriac Roeding founded shopkick, focused on bridging the physical retail and the interactive worlds through
smartphones, in 2009. The app rose to the top among 300,000 applications in the Apple App Store to
become the country’s largest location-based shopping app, reaching 1 million users within six months of its
August 2010 launch. Shopkick, named one of the Top 10 Apps of 2010 by the Wall Street Journal, is the first
program that rewards consumers simply for walking into participating stores, including American Eagle, Best
Buy, and Target. Before co-founding shopkick, Mr. Roeding spent a year at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as
an entrepreneur-in-residence identifying next-generation cross-platform mobile and online venture concepts.
He earlier was founder and executive vice president of CBS Mobile and co-founded 12snap, a European
mobile marketing and entertainment company. Before that, he developed growth strategies at McKinsey &
Company for global media, software, and high-tech players in Europe and in Silicon Valley. He has received
several industry honors.
Dan Rose
Vice President, Partnerships and Platform Marketing, Facebook
Dan Rose, vice president of partnerships and platform marketing, is responsible for Facebook’s worldwide
business development and M&A activities, and he leads product marketing and partnerships for Facebook
platform and credits. Mr. Rose joined Facebook in 2006 after seven years at Amazon.com, where he held
various positions in business development and general management, including his last role where he helped
incubate and develop the Amazon Kindle. Mr. Rose earned a bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and
attended the University of Michigan Business School for one year before joining Amazon. He currently serves
on the board of Borders Group, Inc.
Marc Ruxin
Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, Universal McCann
Marc Ruxin leads Universal McCann’s global Innovation Practice across businesses and disciplines. In
this capacity, he works with traditional media companies on cutting-edge brand integrations, develops
groundbreaking social media ideas, and works with VC’s and emerging media technology startups to create
scalable digital marketing opportunities for clients. Mr. Ruxin spent the previous three years in a similar role
at sister company McCann WorldGroup. Before joining UM/McCann, Mr. Ruxin was COO of the Mill Group, the
leader in commercial visual effects, and Beam.tv, the leading advertising digital asset management system.
Before that time, he served as vice president of business development at iVast, the early leader in MPEG4
technology, and as vice president of business development and marketing at Eveo, Inc., one of the earliest
use-generated content portals. He also served WPP Group, where he was an MBA marketing fellow and
ultimately led West Coast new media strategy. He serves on boards and advisory boards of numerous Internet
and technology startups in Silicon Valley.
Judah Schiller
Co-founder and CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi S
Judah Schiller is co-founder and CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, a San Francisco-based consulting firm focused
on activating companies for good. He provides executive leadership across the spectrum of Saatchi &
Saatchi S’ employee engagement, internal communications, and sustainability/CSR platform development
services. As CEO (chief “engagement” officer), he uses his expertise in architecting social movements and
people strategies that link the creation of meaning, inspiration, and purpose for employees with building
stronger, more responsible companies and sensational brands, efforts that have made him an influential
change agent for good. In addition to providing strategic advice to senior leaders and stakeholders in some
of the world’s largest organizations, Mr. Schiller is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from social network
building to health engagement. He holds a BA degree from Brandeis University and a JD from UC Hastings
College of the Law, and has served in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Michael Schrage
Fellow, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School
Michael Schrage holds research appointments at MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business and Imperial
College’s Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Group in London. His research and advisory work focuses on the
behavioral economics of models, prototypes, and experiments as collaborative media for both innovation and
risk management. Mr. Schrage has consulted on innovation issues for firms, including Alcoa, Brambles, BT,
Embraer, Facebook, Intuit, iRise, Mars, Microsoft, Milliken, and Procter & Gamble. He is a featured blogger on
the Harvard Business Review site and wrote the “Brave New Work” column for Fortune. He has also written on
design and innovation issues for the
Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times,
and the Wall Street Journal. The author of several books, including Serious Play, about the economics and
culture of prototyping, as well as Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration, he is finishing a book
on design experimentation.
Aydin Senkut
Founder and President, Felicis Ventures
Aydin Senkut has been named one of the top 25 tech angels and was featured as one of the top eight up-andcoming VCs. Felicis Ventures’ portfolio encompasses more than 50 companies, including Bump, Brightroll,
Disqus, DNANexus, Dropcam, Inkling, Justin.tv, Meraki, Room 77, Rovio, Shopify, Weebly, and Yume. In the last
four years, 19 Felicis-backed startups have been acquired by firms such as Google, Twitter, Groupon, Microsoft,
AT&T, Disney, eBay, and Intuit. Before starting Felicis Ventures, Mr. Senkut was Google’s first product manager
and launched its first ten international sites in 2000. He then became the company’s first international sales
manager, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, he was a product manager at SGI.
He has a BS degree in business administration with honors from Boston University, an MBA from the Wharton
School, and an MA degree in international studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Senkut serves on the
boards of Imageshack, Massive Health, and the Wharton Entrepreneurial Program. Andy Serwer
Managing Editor, Fortune
Andy Serwer oversees Fortune magazine and FORTUNE.com, with a combined audience of more than 11
million readers. He was named managing editor of Fortune in 2006. Fortune, the only business magazine with
a truly global distribution, received a Loeb Award and a New York Press Club award for its 2009 reporting on
Bernie Madoff. Mr. Serwer has also overseen a significant expansion of both FORTUNE.com and the Fortune
Conference Division. Fortune was the first business magazine with an iPad app and has more than 200,000
followers on Twitter. Mr. Serwer joined Fortune in 1985 as an intern from Columbia Journalism School and
went on to cover and edit Wall Street, investing, information technology, and entertainment for the magazine.
In 2000, he was named Business Journalist of the Year by TJFR Business News Reporter. He is a regular guest
on MSNBC’S Morning Joe and CNBC’s Squawk Box and, from 2001 to 2006, he was the business anchor for
CNN’s American Morning.
Eric Setton
Founder and CTO, Tango Video Calling
Eric Setton oversees all areas of product development at Tango and leads the technical direction of the
company. As the company’s key technologist, he leverages his expertise in multimedia communication,
peer-to-peer networks, and video compression to connect people worldwide through video calling. Before
founding Tango, Mr. Setton co-founded Dyyno, a video streaming and distribution company, which he served
as CTO and vice president of marketing, and also worked as a research scientist at HP Labs. He is one of the
world’s leading experts in peer-to-peer video streaming and video compression, and wrote the first book
on the subject, Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming, in 2007. Mr. Setton has contributed to more than 30 research
papers in his field and holds six patents either granted or pending. Mr. Setton has a BS degree from Ecole
Polytechnique, France, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Gary Shapiro
President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of CEA, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000
consumer electronics companies, and owning and producing the continent’s largest annual tradeshow, the
International CES. Mr. Shapiro leads a staff of 140 employees and thousands of industry volunteers and has
testified before Congress on technology and business issues more than 20 times. As chairman of the Home
Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC), Mr. Shapiro led the manufacturers’ battle to preserve the legality of
recording technology and consumer fair use rights. He has held many exhibition industry leadership posts,
and was awarded the industry’s highest honor, the Pinnacle Award. Mr. Shapiro authored the bestselling
book, The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream (2011). He received his law degree
from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in economics and psychology from
Binghamton University.
Barry Silbert
Founder and CEO, SecondMarket
Barry Silbert is the founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the world’s largest marketplace for buying and
selling alternative financial assets, including private-company stock. Since 2009, more than $600 million
in private-company stock traded over SecondMarket in numerous venture-backed companies, including
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a
2011 Technology Pioneer. Earlier this year, SecondMarket was also recognized as one the Ten Most Innovative
Companies in Finance. In 2009, Mr. Silbert was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year
award and a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. He was also included that year on Treasury &
Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance.
Dawn Song
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Dawn Song is associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Before joining UC Berkeley, she was
an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007. Her research interest lies in security
and privacy issues in computer systems and networks, including areas ranging from software, networking,
database, and distributed-systems security to applied cryptography. She is the recipient of various awards,
including the MacArthur fellowship, the Guggenheim fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan
Research fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 award, the IBM Faculty award, the George Tallman
Ladd Research award, the Okawa Foundation Research award, and the Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in
Science Distinguished Lecture Series award. She is also the author of multiple award papers in top security
conferences, including the best paper award at the USENIX Security Symposium and the highest-ranked
paper at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Peter Sonsini
Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Pete Sonsini joined NEA in 2005 and is co-lead of the firm’s Enterprise, Infrastructure & Services (EIS) Practice
Group. His current investments include Apprenda, BeachMint, BuzzMedia, Conviva, Engine Yard, Eucalyptus
Systems, MapR, Splashtop, and Tintri. Previous boards include Xensource (acquired by Citrix Systems) and
Teracent (acquired by Google). Mr. Sonsini also serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Forum. Before joining
NEA, Mr. Sonsini was senior director of strategic alliances at VMware, where he struck the company’s OEM deals
and grew annual sales through OEMs to $40 million, from $0, in four years. Before VMware, he was one of the
first hires on the business side at Mirapoint, where he ran product management. He also served in various sales
and marketing positions in Hewlett-Packard’s Server Division, and began his career at Montgomery Securities
in the firm’s Technology Corporate Finance Group. Mr. Sonsini received his MBA from the Kellogg School at
Northwestern University and his BA degree in political economy from UC Berkeley.
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John T. Stankey
President and CEO, AT&T Business Solutions, AT&T Inc.
John Stankey is responsible for AT&T’s sales, marketing, and customer service operations for retail business,
government, and wholesale customers of AT&T worldwide. He also leads research and development,
architecture and planning, engineering, network operations, information technology, and corporate shared
services. Before assuming this assignment, Mr. Stankey served as president and CEO of AT&T Operations,
Inc. He also served as group president, telecom operations, where he was responsible for sales, marketing,
operations, and network for the company’s former five regional telecom units. Mr. Stankey’s other
responsibilities have included CTO, CIO, president, and CEO of AT&T’s Southwest region, and president of
industry markets. He began his career with Pacific Bell in 1985. Mr. Stankey is vice chairman of the National
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Lawrence Summers is president emeritus of Harvard University and former Nathaniel Ropes Professor
of Political Economy, and, in the past decade, he served in a series of senior public policy positions,
including director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011 and
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. As Harvard’s 27th president, he focused on laying the
university’s foundations into the 21st century. He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at
Harvard. He received a BS degree from MIT in 1975 and, after completing his dissertation, he was awarded
a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. Dr. Summers was the chief White House advisor to President Obama on the
development and implementation of economic policy; he led the president’s daily economic briefing and
was a frequent public spokesman for the administration’s policies. Dr. Summers holds membership in the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council on
Competitiveness, and the UNCTAD Panel of Eminent Persons.
Anne M. Sweeney
Co-chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney/ABC Television Group; The Walt Disney Company
Anne Sweeney is co-chair, Disney Media Networks, and president, Disney/ABC Television Group, which
includes The Walt Disney Company’s global entertainment and news television properties, owned television
stations group, as well as radio and publishing businesses. Ms. Sweeney joined the company in 1996 as
president, Disney Channel, and executive vice president, Disney/ABC Cable Networks. She was promoted to
president, Disney Channels Worldwide and ABC Cable Networks Group, in 2000 before assuming her current
role in 2004. Ms. Sweeney previously served as chairman and CEO of FX Networks, Inc., from 1993 to 1996.
She also served 12 years at Nickelodeon in various executive positions. A director of A&E Television Networks,
the Paley Center for Media, the American Film Institute, and the Special Olympics, Ms. Sweeney holds a BA
degree from the College of New Rochelle and an Ed. M. degree from Harvard University.
Hans Swildens
Founder and Managing Director, Industry Ventures, LLC
Hans Swildens manages Industry Ventures, LLC; his responsibilities include investment processes, operations,
and limited partner relationships. He focuses on secondary direct investment opportunities and limited
partnership interests in funds invested primarily in technology companies. Mr. Swildens sourced and led the
acquisition of more than $500 million of secondary venture investments. Before founding Industry Ventures,
he was a successful entrepreneur who co-founded and acted as president of Microline Software, which was
acquired by Blaze Software (which, in turn, was acquired by Fair Isaac after completing a successful initial
public offering). He also provided board advisory services to Discovery Mining (acquired by Interwoven), nCircle
Network Security (private), Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai), and StepUp Commerce (acquired
by Intuit). Mr. Swildens holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA with honors from UC Santa
Barbara.
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SPEAKERS
Nancy Tellem
Senior Advisor to the CEO, CBS Corp.
Nancy Tellem, named to her current position at CBS in 2010, explores business and strategic opportunities—
both domestic and global—involving content partnerships, new production models, developing technologies,
and emerging media. She continues to oversee CBS’s interest in the CW Television Network. As president of
the CBS Network Television Entertainment Group from 2004 to 2009, Ms. Tellem ran CBS’s Entertainment
operations during a period of great success. Before CBS established a formal Interactive Division, Ms. Tellem
oversaw the company’s efforts to expand its content across emerging platforms, including CBS.com, and
orchestrated CBS’s entry into the mobile arena, securing licensing agreements with Verizon’s V-Cast, AT&T,
Sprint, and MediaFLO USA. Ms. Tellem also led the company’s launch of CBS Records that utilizes CBS’s
television and digital platforms to market and distribute new music. CBS Consumer Products, a licensing and
merchandising unit, also reported to her. Ms. Tellem joined CBS in 1997. Earlier she was with Warner Bros.
Television.
Stephanie Tilenius
Vice President, Commerce and Payments, Google Inc.
Stephanie Tilenius, vice president of commerce and payments at Google, is responsible for digital content,
product search, mobile and local commerce, and payments. Before joining Google, she was with eBay for nine
years, most recently as senior vice president of eBay North America and global product. As general manager
and vice president of PayPal Merchant Services, Ms. Tilenius built PayPal’s platform on the web from the
ground up to be used on 50% of websites today and into a multibillion business. She also ran eBay Motors
and eBay Asia Pacific and Latin America. Previously, she was a co-founder of PlanetRx.com and worked at
Intel, AOL, Firefly, and Alex Brown. Ms. Tilenius is on the board of Etsy.com, IronPlanet.com, and the Harvard
Business School Research Center. She holds BA and MA degrees from Brandeis University, as well as an MBA
from Harvard.
Christine Varney
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Christine Varney was confirmed as assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice in 2009, continuing a distinguished career in both the public and private sectors.
Immediately before her appointment, Ms. Varney was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hogan &
Hartson LLP, providing full service assistance on antitrust, competition policy, regulatory matters, privacy,
business planning and corporate governance, intellectual property, and general liability issues to companies
doing business globally. From 1994 to 1997, Ms. Varney served as a federal trade commissioner at the Federal
Trade Commission. Earlier she was an Assistant to the President and secretary to the Cabinet. Ms. Varney
received her JD from Georgetown University in 1986, an MPA degree from Syracuse University in 1978, and a
BA degree from the State University of New York at Albany in 1977.
Reggie Watts
Comedian, Musician
Reggie Watts is a staple of the international performance scene. His improvised musical sets are created
on-the-spot using only his formidable voice and a looping machine. No two songs are ever the same. An
avowed “disinformationist,” Mr. Watts loves to disorientate his audiences in the most entertaining way. As
a solo performer, he was handpicked by Conan O’Brien to open nightly on Mr. O’Brien’s North American
“Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” tour. Mr. Watts was featured Hot Comedian in Rolling Stone’s
Hot Issue 2010 and profiled in GQ’s Man Of The Year issue 2010. He released his debut comedy cd/dvd,
Why $#!+ So Crazy?, on Comedy Central Records, also in 2010. On screen, he has appeared on Late Night
With Jimmy Fallon, HBO’s The Yes Men Save The World, and others. He can also be seen in short comedic
interstitials during Comedy Central’s late-night block and has a pilot for the channel in the works. He has
played sold-out solo runs in New York and internationally.
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Lauren Zalaznick
Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, NBCUniversal (NBCU)
Lauren Zalaznick was named to her current role at NBCU Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated
Media early this year, when Comcast and GE completed their transaction creating a joint venture consisting of
NBCU businesses and Comcast’s cable networks, regional sports networks, and certain digital properties. In
this role, she oversees Bravo Media, Oxygen Media, Style, mun2, Sprout, and Telemundo. She also heads the
digital properties iVillage, DailyCandy, Swirl, Fandango, and the Integrated Strategic Marketing Group, which
includes the companywide initiatives Green Is Universal, Healthy at NBCU, Hispanics at NBCU, and Women
at NBCU. For the past seven years, Ms. Zalaznick held various positions within NBCU. She joined NBC after
the network’s acquisition of Universal in 2004. She is a member of the NBCUniversal Foundation board and
chairs the Women at NBCU advisory board. She is also is a member of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s
MediaNYC2020. Fortune named her a Most Powerful Woman in 2010 and TIME magazine to its list of the
World’s 100 Most Influential People in 2009.
Tony Zingale
Chief Executive Officer, Jive Software
Tony Zingale oversees Jive Software’s strategic direction, planning, and execution. He currently serves on the
boards of Coverity, Jive Software, McAfee Software, and Service Source. He has some 30 years of experience
building profitable, high-growth information technology companies. Most recently he was president and CEO
of Mercury Interactive, the worldwide leader of business technology optimization solutions. He successfully
grew Mercury to more than $1 billion in annual sales and then engineered the $5 billion merger with HP, which
was completed at the end of 2006. Mr. Zingale holds a BS degree in electrical and computer engineering and
a BA degree in business administration from the University of Cincinnati. He is a member of the University of
Cincinnati Foundation’s board of trustees.
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