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Management

Julian King, SVP of Marketing & Products

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Ryno Blignaut, VP of Finance and Administration

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Darryl Weatherspoon, VP of Engineering

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Board of Directors

Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY). Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), and has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dick Kramlich

Dick is a co-founder and general partner at NEA and has more than 30 years of venture capital investment experience. His background includes board memberships at companies such as Ascend Communications, 3Com Corp., SGI and Juniper Networks, and he was recently Chairman and President of the National Venture Capital Association. Prior to joining NEA, Dick was a general partner of Arthur Rock & Associates and Executive Vice President of Gardner & Preston Moss. He received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in History from Northwestern University.

Anne Mitchell

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Keith Rabois

Keith is Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Slide, where he is responsible for Slide's corporate strategy and partnerships. Under his leadership, Slide has become the leading application developer on Facebook with more active users than any other developer. Before joining Slide, Keith served as Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at LinkedIn, where he was responsible for generating new revenue streams. Prior to LinkedIn, Keith served as Executive Vice President at PayPal, directing the company's competitive strategy and business development initiatives. After leaving PayPal, Keith was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Clarium Capital Management, the global hedge fund lead by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Keith currently serves on the Board of Directors of Yelp, Vendio, Xoom and FanIQ. He is also an early investor in YouTube and several other high profile early stage start-ups. Keith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Kevin Hartz

Kevin is responsible for the overall vision of Eventbrite.

Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing services to over 30 countries worldwide. Xoom is backed by Sequoia Capital, NEA, Fidelity Ventures, Stanford University, and Peter Thiel.

Kevin began his career as a product manager at Silicon Graphics (SGI) and later co-founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry. ConnectGroup was acquired by Lodgenet (NASDAQ: LNET) in 1998. Kevin then joined Outlook Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on seed and early stage technology companies.

Kevin holds a BA and BS from Stanford University, as well as an MA from Oxford University (University College). He has been an active early stage investor and advisor to startups including PayPal (NASDAQ: EBAY), Flixster, Trulia, Tokbox, Geni, Tripit, iControl, Three Rings, Friendster, and BluBet. Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors of Xoom, BluBet, and TokBox (observer). You can view his full portfolio here. In his spare time, Kevin advises university students on entrepreneurship through Youniversity Ventures.