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Key People

Management

Jordan Glazier, CEO

Jordan has 20 years of leadership, management and operating experience and a track-record of building successful new businesses. As a general manager at eBay, Jordan built three new billion-dollar businesses including eBay’s Computers, Consumer Electronics and Business & Industrial units. As COO of Clientshop, San Diego’s fastest-growing company, Jordan achieved profitability and a successful sale. As VP of GATX Distribution Centers, he established operations throughout South America. Jordan spent five years with BCG and holds a M.M. from Kellogg and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Brian Dear, Founder & Chairman of the Board

Brian founded Eventful in January 2004, because there was no service on the web that helped him really know about all the events going on in San Diego at the time, and he was tired of finding out about cool events after the fact. So, he started a company with the desire to be its first customer, and hopefully in the process help bring the web into the 21st century in terms of event discovery. Previously, he was founding Director of eBay Design Labs at eBay, Inc., where his focus was on managing the overall user experience of the eBay site. Other management stints include Eazel, Inc., MP3.com, RealNetworks, Flatworks, and Coconut Computing, the latter of which he founded in 1987 and sold in 1995. Brian sent his first email in 1979 and has been waiting for a reply ever since. At Eventful, Brian's focus areas include company vision, product strategy, product design, user success, and business development.

Chuck Norris, CTO

Chuck has 20 years experience architecting scalable, innovative, low-maintenance systems. Chuck oversees the technological development of the Eventful.com website and the underlying platform. Prior to Eventful, he was the principle architect of the content delivery back-end for Napster, Inc. Chuck's has held senior roles with MP3.com, Akamai and InterVU, Inc. Chuck holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Texas.

Tim Breidigan, VP, Business Development

Tim Breidigan brings extensive experience in building strategic relationships for software and technology companies. He has over 20 years experience in executive roles with large organizations, start-ups and venture capital. Prior to joining Eventful, Mr. Breidigan served as VP of Business Development at Akonix Systems, Inc. where he managed strategic partnerships with major instant messaging networks such as AOL, Yahoo and MSN, as well as sales partnerships with email archiving partners like EMC, Symantec and Computer Associates. Before joining Akonix, Mr. Breidigan founded and served as President of Breidigan Venture Services, a consulting and interim management service to early stage companies. In this role, he participated as a full time member of start-up management teams, driving business strategy, partnership development, capital raising and strategic initiatives. Previously, Mr. Breidigan held a number of management positions at Microsoft, including Director of Field Marketing, supporting the North American sales organization; strategic roles reporting directly to the VP Worldwide Products and managing the OEM and retail launch of Windows 3.1. In addition to a number of start-up and venture capital roles, Mr. Breidigan also served as Director Industry Relations for Oracle Corporation, where he developed and launched the first Oracle Developer Program. Mr. Breidigan holds a BS from the College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and a MBA from Cornell University.

Paul Ramirez, VP, Operations

Paul Ramirez has over 20 years experience designing and executing mulitchannel marketing, sales, and operating strategies for professional and consumer services. Prior to Eventful, Paul was SVP of Marketing and Alliance Strategy at Client Shop, Inc., where he positioned San Diego’s fastest growing company for acquisition by Internet Brands, Inc., an Idealab company. As GM and EVP for Affinity2, a Knowledge Universe Company, he created and launched its online platform and community, substantially increasing the company’s enterprise value. He is solely responsible for the creation, launch, and success of Apple Computer, Inc.’s first authorized mail order catalog targeting consumer, home, and small business users, and founded and led the marketing department for Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centres’ largest franchise division. Paul holds a BA and MA degrees from the University of California, and was a research fellow at the Claremont Graduate School IAC.

Holly Anderson, VP of Marketing & Artist Relations

Holly Anderson’s combination of experience in event planning, live music venue marketing, and a consumer-facing website start-up led her to Eventful. Holly brings over 15 years of marketing experience in corporate, entrepreneurial and non-profit humanitarian organizations. Prior to joining Eventful, Holly served as Director of Marketing & Sales for the legendary Belly Up Tavern, where she led the charge in marketing the venue for private functions. Prior to the Belly Up, Holly served as Development Associate for Canine Companions for Independence, a non-profit service dog organization, where she directed all aspects of the annual fundraising galas, the Bow Wow Luau and Funny Bone Ball. She created lasting mutually beneficial marketing partnerships with the San Diego Padres, Legoland, Petco and The Toby Wells Foundation. Previously Holly served as Marketing Manager with Southwest Airlines where she managed multi-million dollar sponsorship, promotion and media buys of the Chicago Bulls, Blackhawks, Bears, Cubs, White Sox, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, Browns and Sea World of Ohio. Holly worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, managed a large charitable contribution budget and was in charge of all internal employee relations and training programs for the airline operations, reservations, pilot and flight attendant base. Holly has also held marketing positions with Household Credit Services, one of the largest issuers of MasterCard and Visa, and Health Dimensions, a corporate Health & Fitness Fair event planning and health provider marketing company. She has also served as Marketing Director for a high-tech start up, IWN, Inc., where she developed her passion for new media, new platforms and innovative marketing techniques. Holly enjoys walks on the beach with her golden retriever, Wrigley and loves live music, especially when the artist is one she Demanded.

Bryan Monroe, Director of Product Management

ryan has 11 years of experience designing, building and managing consumer internet properties. As the production manager at SiteLab International, Bryan managed the web development team for all web consulting and development services. Previously, Bryan led project management teams at Chevron and AOL, where he developed consumer and community-based personalization tools. He holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science from University of California, San Diego.

Board of Directors

Jordan Glazier

View bio above.

Brian Dear

View bio above.

Neal Dempsey

Mr. Dempsey is managing partner at Bay Partners, a venture investment firm with interests in information technology and healthcare. He joined Bay Partners in 1989 after serving in a range of roles, including five years as chief executive officer of Qubix Graphics Systems, one year as chief executive of Envision Technology, and several senior management positions with Zentec and Harris Corporation. Mr. Dempsey looks for entrepreneurs with domain expertise and the ability to listen to their customers. He has been instrumental in the success of category-creating companies such as Brocade, Informatica, and Shiva.

Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004.

In the last few years, she has turned her sights on IT and health care, including two issues of Release 1.0, her newsletter (Health and Identity: No Patient Left Behind? in January 2005 and Personal Health Information: Data Comes Alive! in September 2005). Also in September 2005, she ran a seminal Personal Health Information workshop that laid out many of the challenges still bedeviling the health-care community. Currently, she is one of the initial ten subjects of George Church's Personal Genome Project.

Her healthcare investments over the years have included Medscape (board member) and Medstory, recently sold to Microsoft. She is also an investor in Ovusoft, Resilient, and Voxiva (board member), and is an informal advisor to DNA Direct.

Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include Boxbe, CVO Group (Hungary), Eventful.com, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia), and WPP Group. Some of her past direct IT investments include Flickr, Del.icio.us, BrightMail, and Orbitz.

For more than 20 years Dyson wrote the newsletter Release 1.0 and ran PC Forum, the IT market's leading executive conference. She sold them to CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET at the end of 2006. Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN from 1998 to 2000, and was also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90's. In 1997, she wrote "Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Age," which appeared in paperback a year later as "Release 2.1." In 1994, she wrote a seminal essay on intellectual property for WIRED magazine.

In both her investments and her nonprofit activities, she has always been concerned with the impact of information technology on business and society.

Neil Sadaranganey

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Thomas Sammon

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Josh Stein

Josh Stein is a Director and Kauffman Fellow at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he focuses on investments in wireless communications, software infrastructure/applications and consumer services.

Prior to joining DFJ, Josh was a Vice President at Telephia, where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and information to the nation’s largest wireless carrier. Previously, Josh was a co-founder, Director and the Chief Strategy Officer for ViaFone, a leading provider of wireless applications to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Josh has previously held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group.

Josh has been engaged as a strategic consultant and advisor by Tripath Technologies), Mikohn Inc, E-Quill and FutureDial. Josh holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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