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Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder, CEO
Scott Heiferman is CEO and co-founder of Meetup, dedicated to revitalizing local community everywhere. Scott also co-founded Fotolog, the #1 social network website in six South American and European countries. Fotolog was recently acquired by Hi Media, a Paris-based interactive media company. Scott founded i-traffic (a top online ad agency in the 90s) after working at Sony, and graduated from The University of Iowa. Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship in 2005 and was named the 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review "Innovator of the Year". He's the Organizer of the NY Tech Meetup, New York's top tech community group, and has posted a photo on his Fotolog every day since early 2001.
Matt Meeker, Co-founder & Advisor
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Greg Whalin, Chief Technology Officer
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William Bradley
Esther Dyson is the daughter of physicist Freeman Dyson and mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, and sister to digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977, she joined New Court Securities as "the research department," following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, renaming it EDventure Holdings. She sold EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET in January 2007 when CNET declined to continue her PC Forum conference.
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.
Pierre Omidyar
Founder and Chairman | eBay
Inspired by the social value created through eBay and Meetup, Pierre established Omidyar Network with his wife Pam in 2004. Omidyar Network is a mission-based organization committed to unleashing human potential on a global scale. Omidyar Network funds businesses and nonprofit organizations that promote equal access to information, tools and opportunities; connections around shared interests; and a sense of ownership for participants.
Andreas Stavropoulos
Andreas Stavropoulos is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he serves on the Boards of Akimbo, AppStream, everdream, H5 Technologies , MeetUp, Mobile 365 , Pronto Networks, SilverPop, Technorati and Wavemarket. In addition, he led the firm’s investments in Centerpost, ePocrates, 4info, Mimeo and Polaris Wireless. Andreas focuses primarily on software investments (enterprise infrastructure and consumer/internet), wireless networking, and technology-enabled services. Prior to joining DFJ, Mr. Stavropoulos was with McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco office, where he worked with senior management teams of corporate clients with an emphasis on information technology. Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior Analyst at Cornerstone Research, a financial and economic consulting firm that helps resolve complex issues arising in high-profile business litigation. Mr. Stavropoulos is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College in computer science. He also holds an MS degree in computer science from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and graduated first in his class.
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