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Whitfield Diffie
Winner, 2015 A.M. Turing Award (equivalent to Nobel Prize in Computer Science)
Kevin Hartz
Partner, Founders Fund ($3B under management); Co-Founder & Chairman, Eventbrite (funded by Sequoia Capital & Tiger Global, valuation $1B)
Andrew Ng
Chief Scientist, Baidu; Chairman & Co-founder, Coursera; Founder, Google Brain project; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Tim Draper
Founder and a Managing Director, DFJ and Draper Associates
Navin Chaddha
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund ($2.7B under management)
Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners; Early Investor, Yandex, Qik (sold to Skype)
Andy Johns
Vice President, Product & Growth, Wealthfront
Claudia Fan Munce
Venture Advisor, New Enterprise Associates (NEA); Director, Bank of the West/BNP Paribas Group, and Best Buy Corporation. Founder of IBM Venture Capital Group
Aaref Hilaly
Partner, Sequoia Capital
Keith Rabois
Senior Investment Partner, Khosla Ventures; Board Member, Yelp, Xoom; early investor in YouTube, Yammer, Palantir, Lyft, AirBnB, Eventbrite and Quora; Senior Executive at PayPal
Mark Gainey
Founder & CEO, Strava
Ilya Strebulaev
Professor, Finance & Venture Capital, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Hans Tung
Managing Partner, GGV Capital ($3.8B under management). Forbes Midas List (early investor: Alibaba, Xiaomi)
Andy Tsao
Managing Director, Global Gateway, Silicon Valley Bank
Nir Zuk
Founder/CTO, Palo Alto Networks (Market Cap $14B+)
Rikard Steiber
President, Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC
Gunnar Carlsson
Co-Founder, Ayasdi ($106+M in funding from Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, IVP, GE Ventures, Citi Ventures, & Floodgate); Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Susan Athey
Economics of Technology Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; Board Member, Expedia (market cap $16B) and Ripple (market cap $20B). Formerly, Advisor to the CEO of Microsoft
Slava Rubin
Co-Founder, Chief Business Officer, and former CEO of Indiegogo
Ricardo Angel
Managing Director, GE Ventures
Lara Boyd
Professor, Center for Brain Health, Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Motor Learning; Director, Brain Behaviour Lab, The University of British Columbia
Jeff Clavier
Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Devdutt Yellurkar
General Partner, Charles River Ventures (early investor, Zendesk, with Market Cap $1.7B)
Jon Callaghan
Founding Partner, True Ventures
Paul Holland
General Partner, Foundation Capital
Leslie Hook
Correspondent, Financial Times
Jonathan Heiliger
Partner, Vertex Ventures
Matt Ocko
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Data Collective; investor in Facebook, Zynga, AngelList, Uber, Fortinet; Founder, Da Vinci Systems
Gennadii Nissenbaum
Head of Export Sales; Google for Entrepreneurs (Ireland)
Steve Jurvetson
Early-Stage Venture Capitalist, Co-Founder of DFJ and Future Ventures; Early VC investor in SpaceX, Tesla, Synthetic Genomics, Hotmail and D-Wave.
Amit Kumar
Partner at Accel
Vera Shokina
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank
Uwe Higgen
Managing Partner, BMW i Ventures
Kirill Makharinsky
Founder/CEO, Enki.com
Gili Ovadia
Consul, Head of Economic and Trade Mission to the West Coast at Israeli Ministry of Economy
Quentin Hardy
Editorial Head, Cloud, Google
Alex Rosen
Managing Director, Ridge Ventures (formerly, IDG Ventures)
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO, Wonder Workshop ($40M in funding from CRV & Madrona Venture Group)
Alfred Lin
Partner, Sequoia Capital
George Zachary
Partner, Charles River Ventures
Byron Deeter
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Geoffrey Baehr
General Partner, Almaz Capital
Tim Guleri
Managing Director, Sierra Ventures
Manu Kumar
Founding Partner, K9 Ventures
William Draper
CO-Chair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Han Jin
Founder/CEO, Lucid; Inc. & Forbes 30 Under 30
Alex Webb
Reporter, Bloomberg
Galina Fedorova
Co-Founder & CEO, Gooddler; President, Gooddler Foundation; Co-Founder, Social Impact Youth Summit; Member, Strategic Group, UN Initiative The Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Actions
Alex Shubat
Founder & CEO, Espresa
Kaspar Korjus
Managing Director, e-Residency, Estonia
Vlad Shmunis
Founder & CEO, RingCentral
Ira Ehrenpreis
Managing Partner, DBL Partners; Early Investor & Board Member, Tesla (NASDAQ: TLSA) with $25B market cap
Lior Ron
VP, Product Management, Google
Mike Maples
Founding Partner, Floodgate
Dr. Gemi José González López
Consul General, Mexico
Mike Sandler
Founder & CEO, Epiphan
Shlomi Kofman
Consulate General, Israel
Phil Libin
CEO, Evernote Partner
Salil Deshpande
Managing Director, Bain Capital Partners; Midas List. Early Investor, Lending Club (NASDAQ: LC) with $7.5B market cap
Bill Tai
Partner, Charles River Ventures
Saar Gur
Partner, Charles River Ventures
Mitchell Kapor
Partner, Kapor Capital
Vivek Mehra
General Partner, August Capital
Michal Lev-Ram
Senior Writer, FORTUNE
Don Clark
Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal
Miguel Helft
Senior Writer, FORTUNE
Stan Chudnovsky
Co-Founder of Ooga Labs Former Co-Founder of Tickle, SVP of Monster (after Tickle was aquired)
Mark Kvamme
Partner, Sequoia Capital
John Morgridge
Chairman, Cisco Systems
Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
Maha Ibrahim
Partner, Canaan Partners
Casper Klynge
Tech Ambassador, The Office of Denmark's Tech Ambassador (the world's first Tech Ambassador)
Greg Kidd
Co-Founder/CEO, GlobalID; early investor & former Board Member, Ripple, Square, Coinbase, and Twitter
Edward Kozel
President & CEO, Range Networks
Brian Jacobs
Founding Partner, Emergence Capital
Max Levchin
Founder and CEO, Slide; co-founder and former CTO, PayPal
Aydin Senkut
Founding Partner, Felicis Ventures
Leena Rao
Senior Editor, TechCrunch
Shawn Carolan
Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Shanna Tellerman
Partner, Google Ventures
Steve Blank
Guru of Entrepreneurship
Jeffrey Crowe
Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners, Forbes Midas List, Board Member, Lending Club, investor, Spotify and Uber
Noam Bardin
Chief Wazer, Google
Ping Li
General Partner, Accel Partners
Robert Scoble
Blogger & Technology Evangelist
Gili Raanan
General PArtner, Sequoia Capital (Israel)
Kittu Kolluri
General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Ari Levy
Senior Technology Reporter, CNBC Digital
Gary Little
Co-founder and Partner, Canvas Ventures
Oren Zeev
Early investor, Board Member, Houzz; early investor, Chegg (IPO, $700M market cap)
Kira Makagon
Executive VP, Innovation, RingCentral (Market Cap $8.3B); Founder, Octane Software (raised $43M from Greylock & Norwest Venture Partners, acquired by E.piphany for $3.2B in 2002)
Bhaskar Roy
Co-Founder, Qik, Chief Product Office, PlayPhone
Ken Elefant
Managing Director, Sorenson Capital
Jager McConnell
CEO, CrunchBase
Sami Inkinen
Co-Founder, Trulia (sold for $3.6B to Zillow)
Ramneek Gupta
Managing Director, Co-Head of Venture Investing, Citi Ventures
Mike Cassidy
Director of Product Management, Google
Shripriya Mahesh
Partner, Spero Ventures
Theresia Gouw
Partner, Accel Partners
Ron Conway
Managing Director, SV Angels
Pitch Johnson
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
Esther Dyson
Director, 23andMe
Charles Giancarlo
Managing Director, Silver Lake
Trip Hawkins
Founder, Electonic Arts
Ann Winblad
Managing Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Dan Avida
General Partner, Opus Capital
Michael Copeland
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Chris Gerdes
Director, Center for Automotive Research, School of Engineering, Stanford University
Anna Dvornikova
CoFounder & CoChair, SVOD / Managing Partner, TEC Ventures
Dixon Doll
Founding Partner, DCM
Ross Hangebrauck
Managing Director, Almaz Capital
Eric Benhamou
Eric Benhamou, Founder, Benhamou Global Ventures, former chairman and CEO of 3Com and Palm, Inc.
Joshua Reeves
CEO & Co-Founder, ZenPayroll
Leonard Grayver
Founding Partner, Grayver Law Group
Chuck DeVita
President, Growth Process Group, Senior Enterprise SaaS Sales & Marketing Thought Leader
Ashmeet Sidana
Managing Partner, Engineering Capital
Mood Rowghani
Partner, Digital Growth, KPCB (investor: Twitter, Indiegogo, Instacart, DocuSign, Slack, Waze)
Jim Barnett
Founder/CEO, Glint
Caroline Tsay
VP & Chief Digital Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Board Member, Rosetta Stone (Market Cap $190M); Board Member, Travelzoo (Market Cap: $120M)
James Currier
Managing Partner, NFX Guild. Co-Founder, Ooga Labs; Co-Founder, IronPearl (sold to PayPal); CEO, WonderHill (acquired by Kabam); CEO, Tickle (acquired by Monster for $100M+)
Prashant Shah
Managing Director, TiE LaunchPad
Ilya Sukhar
Part-time partner, Y Combinator
Alex Freedland
Co-Founder/CEO, Mirantis
Edith Yeung
Founding Partner, Proof of Capital; Advisor, 500 Startups
Niko Bonatsos
Managing Director at General Catalyst
Ulrich Quay
Managing Partner, BMW i Ventures
Dan Luscher
Managing Director, ADAP
Alastair Goldfisher
Venture Capital Editor, Buyouts Insider
Dave McClure
Founder, 500StartUps
Matt Cohler
General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Roman Stanek
CEO, GoodData
Khaled Nasr
Partner, InterWest Partners
Santi Subotovsky
General Partner at Emergence Capital
Cheryl Cheng
Partner at BlueRun Ventures
Jacques Benkoski
Partner at U.S. Venture Partners
Alexandra Suich
US Technology Editor, The Economist
Andy Page
President, 23andMe
Don Wood
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Daniil Stolyarov
Investment Director, Almaz Capital
Ammar Hanafi
General Partner, Moment Ventures
Rob Theis
Partner, Scale Venture Partners
Scott Hartley
Partner, Mohr-Davidow Ventures
Randy Williams
Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum
Roman Simonov
Managing Director, Siguler Guff
Oded Hermoni
Director (Silicon Valley), Rhodium Capital
Sergio Monsalve
Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Gary Lauder
Managing Director, Lauder Partners LLC
Emily Becher
SVP and Head of Samsung NEXT International
Paul Campbell
Chief Innovation Officer, W.L. Gore & Associates
Reza Malekzadeh
General Partner at Partech Ventures
Jeff Epstein
Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Anis Uzzaman
General Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures
Michael Fertik
Managing Partner, Heroic Ventures
Stas Khirman
CoFOunder & CoChair, SVOD / Managing Partner, TEC Ventures
Hannah Kuchler
San Francisco correspondent, Financial Times
David Bornstein
Social Innovation Journalist, The New York Times; Co-Founder, Solutions Journalism Network
Deborah Gage
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Vivek Wadhwa
Academic, Researcher, Writer and Entrepreneur
Chris Rust
Managing Partner, Clear Venture Partners; early investor, GoPro (IPO, market cap $3B)
Yasmin Lukatz
Executive Director, ICON - Israel Collaboration Network
Munish Khetrapal
Managing Director, Solutions and Business Transformation, Cisco Systems
Erica Lockheimer
Director of Engineering Growth, LinkedIn; Leading Women in Tech @ LinkedIn
Jeff Richards
Managing Partner, GGV Capital
Guy Kawasaki
Founding partner, Garage Technology Ventures
Leroy Chiao
Astronaut, scientist and entrepreneur
David Barrett
Founder and CEO, Expensify
Jim Smith
Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Carol Sands
Founder, The Angels' Forum
Cromwell Schubarth
TechFlash Silicon Valley Editor, Silicon Valley Business Journal
Tony Wasserman
Director of the Software Management MS Program, Carnegie Mellon West Executive Director, Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI)
Vish Mishra
Managing Director, BlueVine Ventures
Rudy Burger
Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners
Eric Young
Partner and Co-Founder, Canaan Partners
Mark Boslet
Senior Editor, Venture Capital Journal
Rob Tiffany
Global Technology Lead, Internet of Things, Microsoft
Pankaj Kedia
Sr. Director & Business Lead, Smart Wearables Segment, Qualcomm
Viktoriya Tigipko
TA Ventures, Managing Director
Ben Shih
Icon Ventures, Partner
Esteban Sosnik
Partner, Reach Newschools Capital
Diana Moldavsky
Angel Investor
David Cao
Founder, F50 & F50 Ventures
David Wu
General Partner at Maveron
John Dougery
Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners
Amit Shah
Partner, Artiman Ventures
Shankar Chandran
Head of Samsung Catalyst Fund
Lu Zhang
Managing Partner, Fusion Fund
Umesh Padval
Partner, Thomvest Ventures
Brent Ahrens
General Partner at Canaan Partners
Matthew Bigge
Partner at Crosslink Capital
Upal Basu
General Partner at NGP Capital
Don Butler
Partner at Thomvest Ventures
Aaron Jacobson
Partner at New Enterprise Associates
John Gardner
Partner at NGP Capital
Arvind Purushotham
Global Head of Venture Investing at Citi Ventures
Duncan Davidson
Managing Partner at Bullpen Capital
Matthew Davie
Managing Director, Financial Inclusion & Blockchain, Kiva
Zach Noorani
Partner at Foundation Capital
Paula Goldman
Senior Director, Global Lead for Impact Investing, Omidyar Network
Owen Thomas
Editor-in-Chief, ReadWrite
Eric Buatois
General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures
Spencer Tall
Managing Director, Allegis Capital
Cindy Padnos
Partner, Illuminate Ventures
Serge Plotkin
Venture Partner, Opus Capital
Hugh Martin
Chairman & CEO, Sensity Systems
Sanjit Dang
Intel Capital, Investment Director
Steve Miranda
Executive VP, Applications Product Development, Oracle
Umair Akeel
Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Lyon Wong
Managing Partner at Spectrum 28
Kent Ho
Founding General Partner at Spectrum 28
SC Moatti
Managing Director, The Angels' Forum
Adam Goldberg
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Pavel Korolev
Founding Partner at Pulsar Venture Capital
Gil Ben-Artzy
Founding Partner at UpWest Labs
Roy Glasberg
Global lead Google Accelerator & startup program
Angelo Del Priore
Partner at HP Tech Ventures
Susan Mason
General Partner at Aligned Partners
Alexander Lupachev
Director, SigulerGuff
Andrew Filev
CEO, Wrike
Dror Berman
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors
Kyle Lui
DCM Ventures, Principal
Ariel Tseitlin
Scale Venture Partners, Partner
Christian Thaler-Wolski
International Venture Capitalist
John Yu
Founding Partner of Oriza Ventures
Alisa Yaffa
Founder and Managing Director, Step Up Funding
Alex Liang
Partner at Oriza Ventures
Ken Sobajima
Senior Director of Investments at KDDI
Gregory Leproux
Vice President of Business Development, Swisscom
Minal Hasan
General Partner, K2 Global
Ajoy Mallik
Founding Managing Partner at Follow[the]seed
Cyril Ebersweiler
General Partner at SOSV
Catherine Cheney
Journalist at Devex
Aarti Chandna
Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund
Alex Niehenke
Principal, Scale Venture Partners
Igor Taber
Director, Intel Capital
Matt Carbonara
Senior Director at Cisco Investments
Raymond Liao
Samsung NEXT Ventures, Managing Director
Alexey Girin
General Partner, Starta Capital
Adi Ruppin
Angel Investor
Vitaly Golomb
Managing Partner, GS Capital
Guy Resheff
Partner, Grove Ventures
Victor Orlovsky
Managing Partner of FortRoss Ventures
Patrick Guerra
Band of Angels / Co-founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator
Dmitry Grishin
Founder, Grishin Robotics
Michael Minkevich
Angel Investor, Managing Partner at GTSaaS
Alex Scherbakovsky
General Partner AXA Venture Partners
Phin Upham
Managing Partner, Haymaker Capital
Tiemin Zhao
IPV Capital, Partner
Tirto Adji
General Partner, Palapa Ventures
Andrei Ponomarev
CEO of Enter Capital
David Waxman
Managing Partner at TenOneTen Ventures
Ryan Scott
CEO of Causecast
Matthew Le Merle
Managing Partner at Keiretsu Capital
Bill Reichert
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Albert Malikov
Angel Investor
Andre Gueziec
Angel investor
Loic Comolli
Co-CEO at NESsT
Eyal Bilgrai
Managing Partner, Pomegranate Ventures
Ben Laufer
Angel and Impact Investor
Vish Makhijani
Chief Operating Officer, Board Member, Udacity
Andriy Dovzhenko
Managing Partner, SMRK VC Fund
Andrew Karasev
Managing Partner at 3F Capital
Monali Jain
Angel Investor, Space Angel Network
Alex Stolyar
Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Eric Gambrell
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Sean Coutain
Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, Snap
Dušan Stojanović
Founder and Director, True Global Ventures
Aymerik Renard
General Partner at Hardware Club
Andrey Kolodyuk
Founder and Managing Partner, AVentures
Peter Ciurea
Chief Technology Officer, Visa
Bo Parker
Managing Director, Center for Technology and Innovation, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Jesper Jensen
GM Yahoo Games, ex CEO PlayerScale
Serguei Beloussov
Senior Partner, Runa Capital
Jim Connor
Managing Director, Sand Hill Angels
Duncan Logan
Founder and CEO, RocketSpace
Dylan Tweney
Executive Editor, VentureBeat
Matt Marshall
Co-founder, VentureBeat
Tim Wilson
General Partner , Artiman Ventures
Evgeni Utkin
CEO, Kvazar-Micro
Peter Lee
Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners
David Feinleib
Partner, Mohr-Davidow Ventures
Claire Lee
Principal, Microsoft Ventures
Marc Sokol
Partner JK&B Capital
Igor Y. Khandros
CEO, FormFactor
Arkady Borkovsky
CTO, Yandex Labs
Dr. Rafiq Dossani
Senior Research Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Reseach Center, Stanford University
Deirdre Moran
VP High Growth Companies, IDA Ireland
Naren Gupta
Founding Managing Director, Nexus India Capital
Barry Cowan
Manager International Brand Strategies, Cisco
Tom Byers
Professor, Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Rajeev Motwani
Founder, Dot Edu Ventures; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
John Balbach
Managing Partner, Cleantech Group
Jason Pressman
General Partner, Shasta Ventures
Lydia Mazzie
Senior Program Manager, Google's International Engineering Operations
Jake Seid
General Partner, Lightspeed Venuture Partners
Beth Seidenberg
MD, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Andy Mattes
Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
Leon Shklar
Head of technology, Reuters Media
Saeed Amidi
CEO, President &Founder Plug and Play Tech Center Founding General Partner, Amidzad
Isaac Fehrenbach
Principal, Greylock Partners
Doug Hamilton
Managing Director, SVB Capital
Eldad Tamir
President and Joint CEO, Tamir Fishman Group
Joshua Goldman
General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Dmitri Simonenko
President and CEO of Innalabs Inc; Founder, Plesk
Dave Girouard
General Manager, Google Enterprise
Mike Selfridge
Northern CA Region Manager, Silicon Valley Bank
Nathan Low
Founder, Zion Tech Angels, Israel
Mike Cassidy
Storyteller, BloomReach
Charles Holloway
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Professor of Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Jeffrey Yu
Managing Director, The Angels' Forum
Anne Lidgard
Director, VINNOVA Silicon Valley Office
Sigal Admony-Ravid
Consul for Economic Affairs, State Of Israel
Amy Rubin
Head of Brand Strategy, SanDisk Corporation
Mark Tsimelzon
Founder, President and CTO, Coral8
Kip Knight
Vice-President of Marketing, eBay
Vimal Solanki
Vice President, Corporate Strategy, McAfee
Baris Cetinok
Director of Product Management and Marketing, Microsoft Office Live Small Business, Microsoft
Thorsten Claus
Director at Northgate Capital
Douglas MacMillan
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Ash Lilani
Managing Partner, Saama Capital
Najib Khouri-Haddad
AITV, general partner
Chetan Puttagunta
NEA, Partner
Adam Draper
Boost, founder
Peter Zaitsev
CEO, Percona
Andre Bliznyuk
Runa Capital, Partner
Alexei Agratchev
Founder/CEO, RetailNext ($140M in funding from August Capital, Nokia, Qualcomm)
Barney Pell
Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, LocoMobi; Associate Founder, Member, Board of Trustees, Singularity University
Abe Kleinfeld
CEO, GridGain Systems
Dr. Gemi José González López
Vishal Vasishth
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Obvious Ventures
Adam Lashinsky
Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine