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Adam Pisoni
Mr. Adam Pisoni co-founded Yammer, Inc. in 2008 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer and Director. Mr. Pisoni served as Director of Web Engineering at Shopzilla, playing a pivotal role in systems architecture and product development. Mr. Pisoni also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of Cnation, a web development consultancy with clients including CBS MarketWatch, BizRate.com, Fox Interactive, Nissan of Japan, and Honda. Cnation's work for Honda earned them the 1997 Clio award for interactive design.
| Investors: | Website: https://www.yammer.com/ | Email: |
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Bob DeMaria
Dr. Robert DeMaria is a catalyst for health and well-being. As owner of the Drugless Doctor brands, Dr. Bob’s techniques have restored optimal health to thousands of patients without the need for prescription medication. His research and daily experiences can be seen throughout his seven books, including the bestseller, “Dr. Bob’s Drugless Guide to Balancing Female Hormones”. Dr. Bob has consulted for FedEx, VitaMix, and other national brands, and appeared on multiple media portals including ABC Family, TBN, Fox 8 Cleveland, and WFAN NYC.
| Investors: | Website: http://druglessdoctor.com/ | Email: [email protected] |
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Deborah Quazzo
Deborah is an advisor and small business owner. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of GSV Advisors, which she started in April 2009. GSV Advisors is a broker dealer providing advisory services to the education and business services sectors. Additionally, GSV Advisors co-hosts an annual Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, AZ with Arizona State University, the nation's largest public university. This event, now in its fifth year, and attended by over 1,400 people, celebrates innovations and innovators across the education landscape from early childhood to lifelong learning. Prior to GSV Advisors, Deborah co-founded ThinkEquity Partners an investment bank with offices across the U.S. While at ThinkEquity, Deborah was President and Head of Investment Banking. The firm was acquired in March 2007 and Deborah was a board member of the London-based Panmure Gordon (AIM: PMR) through December 2008. Previously, Deborah was a Managing Director in Investment Banking and head of the Global Growth Group at Merrill Lynch & Co.
| Investors: | Website: http://gsvadvisors.com/ | Email: |
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Fabrice Grinda
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors. He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll. Fabrice is currently investing in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding. Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets. Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.
| Investors: Investor | Website: http://www.fabricegrinda.com/ | Email: |
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Frank Bonsal Jr.
Frank Bonsal Jr. joined New Markets Venture Partners as a Special Partnerin 2007. He has over 30 years of exemplary venture capital experience as General Partner of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which he co-founded in 1978 and has become one of the U.S. ‘s largest venture capital firms ($8.5B managed) and as Co-Founder and Director of Red Abbey Venture Partners, a vintage 2004 life sciences fund.Since retiring from his General Partner role at NEA in 2003, Frank has remained an active venture investor, as Founder and Managing Partner of Bonsal Capital, LLC and as advisor to and Limited Partner in numerous funds in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe, including Amadeus Capital Partners (UK), Boulder Ventures (MD/CO), Novak Biddle Venture Partners (MD), Sterling Ventures (MD), Trellis Partners (TX), Venturehouse (DC), and Windward Ventures (CA).Frank is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment Board. He serves on numerous Boards, including Brown Investment Advisory & Trust Co., CeraTech, CIBERNET, CorasWorks, and Veran Medical Technologies. Prior to co-founding NEA in 1978, Frank was a General Partner with Alex. Brown & Sons for 15 years. Frank graduated from Princeton University where he majored in Economics. He is married with three children and seven grandchildren.
| Investors: | Website: http://www.newmarketsvp.com/ | Email: |
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Greg Waldorf
Greg is CEO of Invoice2go and is responsible for driving global expansion of the business. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Greg was affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide. He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.
| Investors: | Website: https://www.invoice2go.com/ | Email: |
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Joanne Wilson
Joanne Wilson is an angel investor and blogger. Joanne has had several careers starting out as a buyer at Macys to running a company in the rag trade eventually leading to spearheading sales for a start-up magazine/e-zine/events company called Silicon Alley Reporter. On to the non-profit world where she chaired MOUSE (Making Opportunities in Upgrading Schools in Education) an organization focused on technology in inner-city schools. She has sat on a number of profit and non-profit boards and has been involved with a variety of real estate transactions from beginning to end. Joanne has been blogging since 1994 under the name Gotham Gal. She is involved with the start-up community as an angel investor and adviser. She has been a champion of women in tech by starting and co-chairing the Women’s Entrepreneurial Festival with the ITP division of NYU. Many of the companies she is working with are owned or started by women.
| Investors: Investor | Website: http://gothamgal.com/ | Email: |