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Phil Libin, CEO
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Amir Behrooz, Founder
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Max Levchin
Max is the visionary behind Slide, the largest social software company in the world. He is also renowned as the co-founder of PayPal, an expert in combating online fraud and one of the hardest working entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Before starting Slide, he incubated several other start-ups, including Yelp, where he currently sits as Chairman of the Board. Max started PayPal in 1998, immediately after graduating from college, and sold it four years later to eBay for more than $1.5 billion at the age of 26. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Max moved to Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Max sits on the board of several other companies and trains for triathlons when he's not obsessing over Slide's business.
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.
Ron Katz
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Stepan Pachikov
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Dayan Henson
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