Adam Nash is an entrepreneurial executive with a passion for product and deep experience with mobile and social platforms. He joined Greylock Partners in 2011 as an Executive in Residence, where he advises the leadership teams of the firm’s existing consumer technology companies as well as evaluating new investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Greylock, Adam was Vice President of Product Management at LinkedIn. Most recently, Adam led LinkedIn’s Platform & Mobile products, including the launch of LinkedIn’s open developer platform and their highly successful native applications and mobile web experiences. Adam was the founder and architect of LinkedIn Hackdays, a seminal program for driving the innovation culture at the company. He also was responsible for leading LinkedIn’s search & cloud efforts, as well as forming and leading their user experience & design team.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, Adam held a number of leadership roles at eBay, including Director of eBay Express, an innovative new site focused on new, fixed-price products. Previously, Adam also held strategic and technical roles at Atlas Venture, Preview Systems and Apple.

Adam holds an MBA from Harvard Business School as well as BS and MS degrees in Computer Science with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University. He was born and raised in Silicon Valley where he lives with his wife, four children and a beagle.

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A self-confessed biotech addict, Andy Richards is a serial founder and investor in life-science companies and an effusive enthusiast for UK Bioscience.

Andy Richards is an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor specialising in healthcare and life sciences. He is currently Chairman of Altacor, Abcodia, Novacta and Ixico; NonExecutive Director of Summit, Arecor, PsychologyOn-line and is a special advisor to Vectura plc . In addition, he is a Non Executive Director of Cancer Research Technologies (the commercial arm of CR-UK) and Babraham Bioscience Technologies, is a member of the BBSRC Council and a Trustee of the British Science Association. He is a founder member of Cambridge Angels and an advisor to several Venture Capital Funds, Private Equity Funds and Corporate Venture Funds.

Andy Richards is an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor specialising in healthcare and life sciences. He is currently Chairman of Altacor, Abcodia, Novacta and Ixico; NonExecutive Director of Summit, Arecor, PsychologyOn-line and is a special advisor to Vectura plc . In addition, he is a Non Executive Director of Cancer Research Technologies (the commercial arm of CR-UK) and Babraham Bioscience Technologies, is a member of the BBSRC Council and a Trustee of the British Science Association. He is a founder member of Cambridge Angels and an advisor to several Venture Capital Funds, Private Equity Funds and Corporate Venture Funds.

Angela Lin leads all things education at YouTube, including content strategy, partnerships and original programming. Her work reaches across the learning spectrum from Pre-K to higher ed to lifelong learning, featuring educational content that ranges from the purely academic to the wildly inspirational. Prior to joining YouTube, Angela was a strategy consultant specializing in digital media and entertainment and served as a film programmer at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Angela began her career as a Page at NBC where she worked on SNL and the Today Show. She has also worked on productions for the Travel Channel in Peru, TVB in Hong Kong, and the Shanghai Grand Theatre in China. Angela holds a BA in economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Christopher Lukezic joined Airbnb as an early employee in summer of 2009 and now acts as the Director of Communications for Airbnb in EMEA where he oversees brand marketing, media relations, and partnerships. Prior to joining Airbnb Christopher spent 5 years as a professional runner and spokesperson for Reebok and Nissan. Highlights of his career include finishing 7th at the 2006 World Championships in the 1500M and running 3:33.28 for the same distance, making him one of the top 10 American’s over the distance.

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David is the Founder and CEO of eSpark. David has a passion for helping students grow academically through engaging, personalized, mobile technology. Before eSpark, David spent four years teaching using computer simulations and spent four years as a management consultant. David has a BS from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. David lives in Chicago with his wife Aarthi. His favorite educational app right now is Motion Math.

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Geoff is the founder of Imagine K12, an education technology accelerator based in Palo Alto, California which has funded 30 companies which have received over $10 million in funding and created products touching millions of children, and is also a partner in Y Combinator, the well-known startup program founded by Paul Graham. Geoff has been an investor in, board member of, and advisor to a variety of start-up companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this, Geoff was the Chief Executive Officer of Lala Media, Inc., an innovative cloud music start-up in Palo Alto which was purchased by Apple in December of 2009. Geoff worked as the Chief Product Officer at Yahoo! from 1997-2005 after their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11 Geoff was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail’s predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! Geoff was Senior Vice President and general manager of the Communications Business Unit and then served as the company’s Chief Product Officer from 2003-2005. Prior to Four11, Geoff was the creator of the popular LookUP! Internet white pages and do-it-yourself home page service. Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.

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Jason joined Maveron in 2007 and is now a partner focused on investing in education, e-commerce and web-enabled consumer businesses. He is involved with the firm’s investments in zulily, Altius Education, General Assembly, Julep, Everlane, Live.ly, Gigi Hill and Livemocha. Prior to joining Maveron, Jason served as senior director of strategic operations for Career Education Corp., where he co-founded and led admissions and marketing for IADT Online, a for-profit design school. He has also served as an associate at Spinnaker Ventures, an expansion-stage venture capital fund. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in economics from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Jason resides in Seattle with his wife Amanda and two boys Eli and Ari.

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Jose Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Knewton, the world’s leading adaptive learning company. Knewton combines big data with psychometrics to continuously and progressively personalize any publisher or school’s online learning courses. In October 2011, Knewton announced a partnership with Pearson to power their complete line of MyLab and Mastering products, currently used by nearly 10 million students. The company was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the Economic Forum at Davos and Jose was elected to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education in 2012.

Jose earned his MBA from Harvard and was formerly an executive at Kaplan, where he led a company-wide re-engineering effort to re-design the company’s courses. Most recently he was a partner at New Atlantic Ventures (formerly Draper Atlantic), investing in new media and SaaS companies.

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Marc Nager is the CEO and co-director of Startup Weekend. Both a Swiss and US citizen, Marc has enjoyed an amazing 26 years enjoying the outdoors, pursuing seemingly risky endeavors, and following a multitude of career paths. With a degree in International Business from Chapman University in Southern California he left his MBA program after the first semester to pursue a new career path. Scratching his own itch to learn how to launch a startup, Marc found the opportunity to acquire Startup Weekend the for profit entity in order to turn it into a non-profit and then went on a mission to scale it around the world. Passionate and curious about the world of startups, Marc has found a way to help others pursue their ideas and dreams. Startup Weekend has landed him in over 40 cities around the world where he’s listened, observed, and helped over 450 of the earliest stage startups. Among others, his pursuits have caught the interest from the likes of Entrepreneur Magazine and Forbes.

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Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the CEO and Founder of the Pixel Qi Corporation, a high tech startup doing things in display technology that many believed were impossible – and delivering them into high volume mass production. She is also a member of Innovation Board of MEDCO, one of the largest pharmacies in the world, serving 65 million people. Previously she co-founded One Laptop per Child and served as its CTO and the chief architect of the $100 laptop. She has also been on the faculty of the MIT Media Lab, was the CTO of Intel’s Display Division and was the CTO and a co-founder of MicroDisplay Corp. She has received numerous awards for her work including: Time Magazine inducting her into its “Time 100” as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, The Edwin Land Medal from the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE ACE Award for top emerging technology. She holds a Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering (with honors), an A.B. (req) in Art and a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences all from Brown University, and a S.M. in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab.

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Megan is an entrepreneur, tech evangelist, engineer, social change agent and connector. At Google[x], Megan works on a range of projects including co-creating/hosting SolveForX. For nine years prior she oversaw Google’s New Business Development global team managing early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations, and technology licensing. She led the acquisitions of Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps) and Picasa, and led the Google.org team transition to add Google Crisis Response, GoogleforNonprofits, Earth Outreach/Engine and increased employee engagement. Megan was CEO of PlanetOut, the leading LGBT online community and was early at General Magic and Apple Japan. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she now serves on the board. She completed her master’s thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.

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Nicole Vanderbilt is Etsy’s Country Manager for the UK, Australia and Canada. Prior to joining Etsy, she held a variety of leadership roles in the consumer internet industry, including CEO of mydeco.com, VP of International for Bebo, Head of Industry Marketing at Google, and Director of Premium Communications at American Express. Nicole holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSE from Princeton in Architecture and Engineering. She is a slow runner, occasional yoga enthusiast, avid reader, frequent traveler and big fan of independent, creative businesses.

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Panni is currently leading all product development at Wonga. She has been with the company since the beginning and has been instrumental in launching Wonga and scaling it to 5 million loans and growing. In addition, Panni was responsible for setting up and implementing the international expansion strategy. Prior to joining Wonga, she was in charge of product development for iModel Music, a global mobile marketing company. Panni was also part of the founding team behind ExchangePath, a CMGI company based in New York. There she was responsible for developing the business plan, creating key partnerships, and driving its successful exit. Panni began her career as a management consultant and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York City.

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Rahul is currently a Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn, where he leads email integrations that make you brilliant with people. Most recently, he was Co-founder & CEO of Rapportive, which shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn.

Rahul holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Cambridge, and currently splits his time between San Francisco and Mountain View. GQ described him as “a slender 27-year-old Englishman of Indian extraction, who’s 50% hair and 50% brain.” Rahul writes at blog.rapportive.com and tweets at @rahulvohra.

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Raj Kapoor is an entrepreneur, internet veteran, and venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He is currently a partner at Mayfield Fund investing in consumer internet/mobile, e-commerce, online advertising technology, and SMB/enterprise SaaS businesses. Raj is starting an innovative new entity next year called Cofounder.co where he will be a minority cofounder deeply helping a few companies from the founding stage to global scale and rapid growth. His goal is to bring his wealth of experience as a successful founder/CEO/venture capitalist to startups in a deep and ongoing manner helping the founders with all key decisions.

Prior to joining Mayfield Fund, Raj was co-founder and CEO of Snapfish, a leading global online photo service. He orchestrated the sale of Snapfish to Hewlett-Packard in March 2005, and it is now one of the largest online photo services in the world with over 80 million members. Prior to Snapfish, Raj was an executive at Excite@Home, where he led the company’s e-commerce and broadband applications business, driving new music, entertainment, and e-commerce initiatives. He also held positions in strategic planning, business development, and product management in consumer interactive services at Bell Atlantic Corporation, which is now Verizon. Raj received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS with honors in mechanical/robotics engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Raj serves on the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Advisory Council, Harvard Business School’s California Research Center Advisory Board and Do Something’s (www.dosomething.org) board of directors, the largest nonprofit focused on youth engaging in social entrepreneurship. He enjoys singing in a rock band (www.facebook.com/coverflow), surfing, fitness, infrequent triathlons and family. Follow him on twitter @Rajil

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Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. Ramesh Raskar joined the Media Lab from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2008 as head of the Lab’s Camera Culture research group. His research interests span the fields of computational photography, inverse problems in imaging and human-computer interaction. Recent projects and inventions include transient imaging to look around a corner, a next generation CAT-Scan machine, imperceptible markers for motion capture (Prakash), long distance barcodes (Bokode), touch+hover 3D interaction displays (BiDi screen), low-cost eye care devices (Netra,Catra), new theoretical models to augment light fields (ALF) to represent wave phenomena and algebraic rank constraints for 3D displays(HR3D).

In 2004, Raskar received the TR100 Award from Technology Review, which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35, and in 2003, the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. In 2009, he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2010, he received the Darpa Young Faculty award. Other awards include Marr Prize honorable mention 2009, LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, US State Dept and NIKE, 2010, Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project Award (first place), 2011. He holds over 40 US patents and has received four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. He is currently co-authoring a book on Computational Photography.

Personal webpage: http://raskar.info
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Renaud Visage is the founding technical architect and CTO of leading online event management company Eventbrite. With engineering degrees from Cornell University (USA) and Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), Renaud started his career as an environmental consultant. Fascinated by the Internet, Renaud joined, as the Director of Engineering, Internet photo-sharing pioneer, Zing Networks which was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and later acquired by Sony ImageStation. In 2006, he joined forces with Kevin & Julia Hartz to found Eventbrite. Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any event. With funding from Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, and Tenaya Capital, Eventbrite has been widely successful and recently announced that it has sold more than $1 billion of tickets to date.

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Sam is the co-founder and CEO of ClassDojo. Sam holds a Double First-class degree in economics from Cambridge, and taught high school after graduating. He subsequently worked in the education arm of consultancy firm McKinsey & Co in London, before moving to Palo Alto as part of the inaugural class of the ImagineK12 incubator – the “Y-combinator for education technology”. Sam and his co-founder Liam founded ClassDojo in 2011 to help teachers, parents and students improve classroom behavior and build positive learning habits and character strengths. Since then, ClassDojo has become one of the world’s fastest-growing education technology companies, currently being used by millions of teachers and students in more than 30 countries.

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Sheila founded Care.com in 2006 and today, the Company is the largest online care destination in the world. Care.com allows families to connect with millions of caregivers to manage the lifecycle of care challenges families face. Sheila’s introduction to technology started when she was a management consultant at Monitor Company and a teaching fellow at Harvard Business School. Her growing appreciation for the power of technology led her to positions at Internet companies, including VP, Product Management and Marketing at Upromise.com, and VP and General Manager of TheLadders.com. Sheila has been honored with numerous media accolades, including one of the “10 Most Powerful Women in Boston Tech” by The Boston Globe’s Innovation Economy (2012) and one of the “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit” (2009).

Sheila serves as a Board Trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that regularly works with the Philippine government on education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Sheila is also a frequent speaker on female entrepreneurship, women in technology, and female leadership, and currently mentors numerous young female entrepreneurs around the world.

Sheila graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Economics and received her M.B.A. and J.D. degrees with Honors and the Dean’s Award from Harvard University. She resides in the Boston, MA area with her husband, two sons and two dogs.

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Steve Schlenker has 20 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience. He is currently a Managing Partner of DN Capital. He is particularly involved in investments in enterprise application software and consumer facing Internet applications. His companies at DN Capital include Endeca (acquired by Oracle), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Lagan (acquired by Kana), FamilyBuilder (acquired by Intelius), Digital Chocolate, FNBox, Apsalar, Invino, Yogiplay and Geckoboard.

Prior to co-founding DN Capital, Mr. Schlenker was a senior member of the investment team in his capacity as chief investment officer for SUN Technology Investors. At SUN he was also involved in the investment and successful sale of PlanetAll to Amazon, and also invested in Cyberview Technologies (AIM: CYBV), eMode (later Tickle.com, acquired by Monster Worldwide), PlasmaNet and others. Prior to joining SUN, he spent four years with Interlaken Capital, a buyout fund in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he worked on private equity investments in companies in the consumer goods, industrial distribution and service industries.

Mr. Schlenker received a BSc in Economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of Finance with dual concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management, and an MBA, with high distinction, from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

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Suranga founded blinkx.com, the Video Search Engine in 2004 and launched it in 2005. Suranga served as blinkx’s CEO from start-up through its IPO and growth to a profitable, $100M+ business with an $800M market capitalization. He recently took a new role as Chief Strategy Officer and now primarily focuses on future product at the company. Suranga was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Manchester and lives in San Francisco. He has a Masters in Computer Science from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society for the Arts.

Ulla-Maaria Engeström is the founder and CEO of ThingLink, a technology that makes it possible to serve the web on images, prints and physical objects as an interactive layer on top of it. Used by 40 thousand publishers including brands such as National Post, Universal Music, EMI, and Ikea, ThingLink changes the way people consume and navigate on the web.

Since its launch in 2009, Ulla has been responsible for the company’s strategic vision and business development, fundraising, key recruitments and account management. Under her direction, Thinglink has grown into being the largest rich media image network with user generated content.

In addition to Thinglink, Ulla is co-founder of a lifestyle company Nopsa Travels and a shareholder in the Finnish cross-media brand Koto Living. Previously, Ulla was the CEO of Social Objects Oy, a Helsinki-based social media incubator, and the director of Institute for Design Research in Finland.

As well as being a serial entrepreneur, Ulla has studied for a PHD at the University of Helsinki where the idea of Thinglink was first conceived. She has spent time living in Spain, the UK and US, but as a Helsinki-native now lives and works there at the company’s headquarters.

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