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Key People

Management

Jennifer Dulski, Co-founder and CEO

Jennifer Dulski is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Center'd. Prior to Center'd, she held a variety of senior executive roles at Yahoo! during the past nine years, including group vice president and general manager (VP/GM) of local markets and commerce; VP/GM of Yahoo! Autos and VP of business unit marketing. As group VP/GM of Yahoo!’s local markets and commerce division, Jennifer was responsible for the strategy, operations and P&L for Yahoo!’s local, maps, shopping, travel, autos and real estate businesses. Under Jennifer’s leadership, all of those businesses became No. 1 or No. 2 in their category for the first time in Yahoo!’s history (ComScore, Sept., 2007). Prior to that, Jennifer was the founder and executive director of Summerbridge Pittsburgh, an academic program for at-risk students. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University. Jennifer also holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Chandu Thota, Co-founder and CTO

Chandu Thota is a co-founder, and the chief technology officer at Center'd. He was previously the lead developer of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Chandu has authored three technology books, most recently Programming MapPoint and Virtual Earth in .Net published by O'Reilly. Chandu is listed as an inventor on over fifteen patent applications for Microsoft Corporation related to geo-spatial mapping and technology. He is a widely recognized expert in the field of mapping, geo-spatial applications and scalable web services. He holds a B.E. degree in electrical engineering degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Board of Directors

Jennifer Dulski

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Chandu Thota

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Bill Harris

Bill Harris is a private investor and former chief executive officer of Paypal and Intuit. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. Bill has held numerous positions in the media, finance and technology industries. He started at Time Inc. doing consumer marketing for TIME, People, Sports Illustrated and Money magazines. From 1986 through 1990, he ran the non-editorial side of U.S. News & World Report as executive vice president. In 1991, Bill joined ChipSoft as president. ChipSoft merged with Intuit in late 1993, and he served for six years as executive vice president and then CEO. In 1999 and 2000, Bill was CEO of PayPal, an online payment service he helped launch which was later acquired by eBay. Bill serves on the boards of Macromedia, eOne Global, Yodlee, XTec, MyVest, and Center'd.

Sergio Monsalve

Sergio Monsalve is a venture capital investor at Norwest Venture Capital where he focuses on the consumer Internet and software sectors. Prior to NVP, Sergio was the first business executive and vice president of marketing at Photobucket, Inc. He drove viral marketing, public awareness, and user experience at Photobucket which is now part of News Corp. Previously, Sergio was director of new ventures at eBay, Inc. where he developed the company's digital goods marketplace and its consumer created content efforts. Sergio was also a co-founder at Cymerc and led sales and marketing from inception to more than $15 million. Sergio holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University.

Board of Advisors

Lauren Gelman

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Tara Lemmey

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Rajeev Motwani

Rajeev Motwani is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases, data mining, and data privacy, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science.

He has written two books including Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995. Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award.

He is a Fellow of the ACM and serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and VLDB Journal.

Motwani has been on various industry and advisory boards, including: Adchemy, Anchor Intelligence, Baynote, Coral8, Facebook Fund, Flarion, Gigya, Google, Jaxtr, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems, Neopath Networks, Rubicon Project, Singularity, Teracent, and Vuclip.

Hector Garcia-Molina

Hector Garcia-Molina has served as a member of the Oracle Board of Directors since October 2001. Mr. Garcia-Molina has been a member of the Committee on Compensation and Management Development and the Independent Committee for Review of Interested Transactions since August 2005.

Mr. Garcia-Molina has been the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University since October 1995 and served as Chairman of the Department of Computer Science from January 2001 to December 2004. He has been a professor at Stanford University since January 1992. From August 1994 until December 1997, he was the Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Mr. Garcia-Molina also serves as a Director of Kintera Inc.

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