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Beth Axelrod
eBay |
As Senior Vice
President of
Human Resources at eBay, Beth is responsible for all aspects of the
company’s global human resources capabilities including
recruiting, learning and development, compensation, benefits and the
continuing evolution of the company’s corporate culture. Prior to
joining eBay, Beth was chief talent officer at WPP Group, one of the
world’s leading communications services groups, responsible for
the recruitment, development and retention of WPP staff worldwide.
Before WPP, she was a principal with McKinsey & Company where
she
was co-leader of the firm's global organization and leadership
practice. |
Jack Hughes
TopCoder |
Jack is founder
of TopCoder,
an Internet-based software development and services firm with a
proprietary component catalog and a global community of professional
programmers. TopCoder creates objective ratings of programmers’
skills and builds opportunities and a community for programmers through
ongoing programming tournaments and employer connections. Prior to
founding TopCoder, Jack was Co-founder and Chairman of Tallán
Inc., a provider of web-enabled business solutions. In 2000, CMGI, Inc.
acquired a majority ownership of the company for $1 billion. |
Venetia
Kontogouris
Trident
Capital |
Venetia is a
Managing
Director at Trident Capital, a leading private equity and venture
capital firm. Prior to joining Trident, Venetia was an executive of Dun
& Bradstreet Corporation in their new product development and
marketing departments. Previously Venetia was also President of
Enterprise Associates, the venture capital division of IMS Health,
where she represented Enterprise Associates with respect to its
partnership interest in Information Associates and Information
Associates-II (Trident’s Fund II and Fund III). Prior to that,
Venetia was Senior Vice President of Venture Development at Cognizant
Corporation. Venetia has held include sales management positions at
AT&T and IBM and was founder of a start-up telecommunications
company. |
Ken Pasternak
Chestnut
Ridge |
Kenny is CEO of
hedge fund
Chestnut Ridge Capital. Prior to founding Chestnut Ridge Kenny was
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Knight Capital, a
leading financial services firm that provides market access and trade
execution services in nearly every U.S. equity security and a large
number of international securities, futures, options, foreign exchange
and fixed income. Prior to Knight, Kenny was Director of Trading at
Spear, Leeds and Kellogg, a specialist firm on the New York Stock
Exchange. Kenny represented the financial industry in 2001 and 2002 by
serving on the NASDAQ Board of Directors and the NASD Board of
Directors. |
Sandy Robertson
Francisco
Partners |
Sandy pioneered
the creation
of West Coast technology banking as an industry in the late 1960s, and
has remained one of the industry's most renowned participants. He
served as Vice President and Director at Smith Barney before founding a
firm that later became Montgomery Securities. In 1978, he founded
Robertson, Stephens & Co, one of the most significant
underwriters
of IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions. After selling the company in 1998
he founded Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private
equity fund, where he currently serves as a Founding Partner. Sandy has
had significant financing involvement in over 500 growth technology
companies, including 3Com, AOL, Applied Materials, Ascend, Dell
Computer, E*Trade, Siebel, and Sun. |
Eric Upin
Makena Capital |
Eric is a
Partner with Makena
Capital. Prior to Makena, Eric was Chief Investment Officer for
Stanford Management Company, overseeing the investment strategy of
Stanford University’s endowment. Prior to joining Stanford
Management, Eric was Director of technology research at Wells Fargo.
Eric was also previously a Managing Director and senior research
analyst at Robertson Stephens, a leading boutique investment bank. |
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