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Roger King

Roger King

Roger King

Founder, Bay Angels

Roger King is the Founder Bay Angels, which he launched in 1998. Bay Angels has helped launch a number of well-known companies including OpenTable and Photobucket. He’s the Founder and CEO of ChiefPeople, an executive & technical recruitment firm. He is well known for finding both talent and start-up capital. Roger is an active angel investor, board member, and advisor to a number of tech start-ups including Manage, Mondobox, Trpz, Pinn.AI, AtYourGate, and Bizzinc.

He is an active member of the Bay Area tech community and has served as a judge/moderator at pitch panels in San Francisco, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Athens. He plans to host a startup competition in Havana later this year.

Roger has been published in Forbes and Fortune magazine, and appeared on CNN News as a subject matter expert (recruiting for start-ups). A serious amateur photographer, he’s become a big fan off all things Cuba and has led several photography trips there. As a hobby, he spent 5 years as a game photographer for the San Francisco 49ers.

Testimonials

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

It was great to present at SVOD and meet world-class entrepreneurs and investors. Our venture was off to a fast start in the funding round after the conference, we had an early closing to the round, and I look forward to being part of SVOD in the future!

Alexei Dunayev

CEO &CoFounder, TranscribeMe & Stanford MBA

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates

I am delighted to participate in and sponsor SVOD. It is particularly gratifying at this stage of my professional career to be able to support this unique organization and give back to the high-tech community. Looking back, I regret not having the benefits of SVOD network early on, when I really needed it! It is wonderful to see the new startups taking advantage of this very special forum.

Mike Sandler

CEO of Epiphan

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

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