Adam Nash
Executive in Residence, Greylock Partners

Adam Nash is currently an Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners, where he focuses on early stage companies. more

Alexandra Wilson
Founder and CMO at Gilt Group

With over twelve years of international experience in luxury goods and retail, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Founder and Chief Merchandising Officer of Gilt Groupe, is on the forefront of revolutionizing and innovating the landscape of luxury e-commerce.

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Ali Partovi
Angel: Dropbox, Zappos. Co-founder: iLike, LinkExchange

Based in San Francisco, Ali is an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded and sold two high-profile startups: iLike, acquired by MySpace in 2009, and LinkExchange, acquired by Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. more

Allen Morgan
MD at New Ventures, Idealab, Mayfield fund, Angel Investor

Allen Morgan is a Director and also serves as Managing Director of Idealab's New Ventures Group. Mr. Morgan has spent 30 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup process, first as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and, between 1999 and 2011, as a Managing Director at Mayfield. more

Andrew Cleland
Venture Partner, Comcast Ventures

Andrew sources, evaluates, and executes investments on behalf of Comcast, NBC, and Universal Pictures in early-stage media and technology companies. more

Andrew McLaughlin
Execute Director at Civic Commons and Board of Directors Code for America

Executive Director at Civic Commons
Member, Board of Directors at Code for America
Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School; and Fellow, Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School
Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States at Executive Office of the President
Director of Global Public Policy at Google Inc.
Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School
Vice President & Chief Policy Officer at Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers
Counsel at U.S. House of Representatives
Associate at Jenner & Block
Law clerk at United States Court of Appeals more

Aydin Senkut
GP at Felicis Ventures & BM at Imageshack; formerly Google & Silicon Graphics

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He has been named one of the top tech angels by Businessweek and was featured as one of the top up and coming VCs by Forbes’ Midas List. more

Ben Casnocha
Entrepreneur and writer

Ben is an award-winning entrepreneur and writer. He founded Comcate, Inc., an e-government software company, at age 14. Today, hundreds of local governments in the U.S. rely on Comcate for customer service, GIS, and permitting applications. more

Cindy McLaughlin
Co-founder and CEO of Style for Hire

Cindy is co-founder and CEO of Style for Hire, overseeing all aspects of corporate development; including strategy, business development, finance, HR and operations. more

Danielle Morilll

Danielle Morrill is Director of Marketing at Twilio, the cloud communications company. She leads developer marketing, corporate communications, and manages the company's newly launched European headquarters in London. She is also a mentor-at-large for several entrepreneurship programs including 500 Startups. more

David Hornik
General Partner, August Capital

For more than a decade, David Hornik has worked with technology startups throughout the software sector. In 2000, David joined August Capital to invest broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software, as well as consumer facing software and services. more

DJ Patil
Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners

Previously he was the Chief Product Officer at Color as well as the Chief Scientist and led the Analytics and Data Teams at the LinkedIn Corporation. At LinkedIn was responsible for all analytics projects including reporting, web analytics, as well as products on the site that leverage LinkedIn's unique data set. Some of these products include, People You May Know, Who's Viewed My Profile, Talent Match, Skills, Career Explorer, and the other recommendation engines. more

Gil Penchina
CEO at Wikia, Investor at Linkedin, Evite, Paypal; formerly executive roles at eBay, Bain, General E

Gil Penchina is currently CEO of Wikia Inc. He is focused on making the world of information free, in every language in the world.
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Greg Joswiak
Vice President of Worldwide iPod, iPhone, and iOS Product Marketing, Apple

Greg Joswiak is responsible for the company's global product management and product marketing for iPod, iPhone and iOS, reporting to Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller. more

Hans Peter Brondmo
Head of Social Applications and Services, Location and Commerce at Nokia

Hans Peter is a high-tech executive and successful serial entrepreneur who has spent his career at the intersection of technology innovation and empowering consumers. more

Jeff Clavier
Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC

Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. more

Johan Staël Von Holstein
Author and co-founder of Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt

Serial entrepreneur Lars Johan Magnus Staël von Holstein born 5 May 1963 in Halmstad, Sweden, is an author and is best known as the co-founder of dot-com companies such as Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt during the dot-com boom in Sweden. more

Joi Ito
CEO of Creative Commons

Joichi Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He is also General Manager of Neoteny Labs and the Chair of Creative Commons. more

Jon Callaghan
Founder of True Ventures

Jon Callaghan is an early stage venture capitalist and a founder of True Ventures. more

Julie Hanna
Chair of the Board, Kiva

Julie Hanna is a accomplished entrepreneur who's driven by her belief in technology as a democratizing force for social, political and business disruption, and in entrepreneurship as the world's greatest change agent. more

Kim Polese
Chairman at Clearstreet; formerly founder and CEO of Marimba, Sun Microsystems

Kim Polese formerly the CEO of SpikeSource, Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley. more

Marcus Salolainen

Markus Salolainen has been on the investor side of the table for many years of his career as a Venture Capitalist General Partner at Nokia Growth Partners and as a Principal at Blue Run Ventures.  Markus has many years of experience working closely with the founders and CEOs of technology and telecommunications organizations.  Not only has Markus invested in seed stage startups, but he has also done large, late stage financings and IPOs. In addition to his venture and growth investing experience, he has significant experience doing large telecom project financings, M&A transactions and spectrum license auctions. He has degrees from Surrey and London School of Economics and was a Navy Diver.

Megan Smith
Vice President, New Business Development

Megan oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships, explorations and technology licensing. She joined Google in 2003 and has led several of the company's acquisitions, including Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps), and Picasa. She also co-led the company's early work with publishers for Google Book Search and more recently led Google.org’s transition to expand on its technology projects. more

Michael Shepherd
Founder of GrowthPoint

Mike Shepherd has done 5 technology focused start‐ups, two of which did IPOs. His first startup experience was working on the financing and startup of The Independent Newspaper in 1985/86. After being a Manager at what is now Accenture, and a few years at Booz Allen, Mike started a software company in San Francisco, called Pyramid Imaging, that focused on electronic Image processing, document management, publishing and payment solutions. As CEO, Mike spun out a couple of smaller technology companies, in interactive entertainment and music publishing and sports video indexing. Pyramid sold to Nextera, which then did
an initial public offering (IPO) in 2000. Mike’s latest startup is GrowthPoint, which helps entrepreneurs and investors with the strategies, activities and decisions they make on the timing and value of their strategic partnerships, financings, acquisitions and exits. He has degrees from Imperial College and Stanford Business School. more

Mike Brown
Founder of AOL Ventures

Mike Brown is a Founder of AOL Ventures, the VC arm of AOL. more

Nancy Lublin
CEO & Chief Old Person, DoSomething.org

Nancy Lublin is the CEO and Chief Old Person of DoSomething.org's, that supports and awards grant money to young people who want to make a difference. more

Philipp Moeser
Co-Founder and CTO, wooga

Philipp studied computer science and economics at University of Karlsruhe. For the last 10 years he has been running software projects, working in mobile entertainment, ecommerce and games. more

Raj Kapoor

Raj started and ran Snapfish as CEO since 1999. It's now one of the largest online photo services in the world with over 16M members. The company was profitable and growing faster than the market. We sold Snapfish to HP in April 2005 for a great return to our employees and owners.


Prior to this, he ran e-commerce products and sales for excite@home. more

Reid Hoffman
Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. His areas of focus include consumer Internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, and social networks. Reid likes to work with products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. more

Rohan Silva
Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister

Rohan Silva is Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser for the 2010 General Election and Economic Adviser to the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. Prior to this, Rohan was a Policy Analyst at HM Treasury.

Rohan works across all areas of government policy, but has a particular passion for technology and innovation. He has more

Sarah McVittie

Prior to co-founding Dressipi, Sarah was the co-founder and CEO of Texperts the world’s first text message question answering service. The company won numerous awards for its concept and technology. In 2008 the company was sold to KGB, owners of the 118118 directory enquiries service, in a multi-million pound deal. The Times recently called Sarah one of the UK’s “top rising female entrepreneurs”, and she was named by Management Today magazine as one of the top 35 female entrepreneurs under the age of 35. Sarah also has a passion for motorbikes and in 2001 rode her motorbike and sidecar from London to Beijing along the oldest Silk Route. more

Shaukat Shamim
Founder and CEO of Buysight

Shaukat is CEO and Founder of Buysight, Inc. Prior to Buysight, Shaukat founded Rhythm NewMedia, an industry leading startup that pioneered mobile video advertising where he was a member of the Board of Directors and played the role of CTO and Senior Vice President of Business Development.
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Sherry Coutu
co-Chair of Silicon Valley Comes to the UK

Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.

As an angel investor, she loves working with great entrepreneurs to solve problems that matter and specialises in consumer internet, information services and education. She has made angel investments in more than 40 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms. more

Sonia Arrison
BM at Singularity University, Author and Columnist

Sonia Arrison is a futurist and policy analyst who has studied the impact of new technologies on society for more than a decade. more

Ted Shelton
Managing Director, PwC

Ted Shelton is a Managing Director with PwC US, and leads a social business consulting team as part of the firm's Digital Transformation initiative. more

Thomas Ryan
CEO of Threadless

Entrepreneur, board member and investor who has repeatedly built successful businesses that advance the creative arts through Internet technology. more