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Roger Ehrenberg is currently Managing Partner of IA Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on managing and extracting value from "big data." Roger is also founder of Kinetic Trading Strategies, LLC, a quantitative trading firm that develops proprietary, alpha-generating language models for top proprietary trading firms and quantitative hedge funds.

Prior to forming IA Ventures, Roger was an active angel investor pursing opportunities through IA Capital Partners, LLC, an early-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. Roger has made over 35 investments through IA Capital Partners including TheLadders.com, Buddy Media, Clickable, Magnetic, Invite Media, MyTrade (sold to thinkorswim, now TD Ameritrade), Stocktwits, TweetDeck and Wallstrip (sold to CBS Interactive).

Roger currently serves on the boards of Alphacet; Buddy Media; Magnetic; Global Bay Mobile Technologies; Selerity Financial; Stocktwits; Recorded Future; The Trade Desk and Metamarkets.

Earlier in his career, Roger served as President and CEO of DB Advisors, LLC, Deutsche Bank's internal hedge fund trading platform where his 130-person team managed $6 billion in capital across multiple strategies with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Before DB Advisors, Roger was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank's Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, Roger's team won Institutional Investor magazine's "Derivatives Deal of the Year" award. As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Roger held a variety of roles in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.

Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

SoftBank Capital is an independent venture capital firm focused on early stage high-growth technology-based businesses benefiting from the rapid deployment and adoption of broadband and mobile technologies. They are a team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take a hands-on approach to investing in order to help each portfolio company achieve its potential. SoftBank Capital offers entrepreneurs and their management teams valuable experience and resources, including a close association with SoftBank Corp. in Japan. They have direct market presence in two of the most significant areas for technology innovation and development with offices in Massachusetts and New York.

Bay Partners is a Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital firm that has been building successful technology companies since 1976, and has funded more than 350 startups. Notable successes from Bay's portfolio include Brocade, Concord Communications, Exodus, Sonicwall, Placeware, Informatica, Weblogic, Digital Island and NetScaler. Bay is currently investing its eleventh venture fund and has over $1 billion under management. Bay has become a leading SaaS venture capital firm with notable current investments in Eloqua, Xactly, Cornerstone on Demand and eProject.

WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY) is the world's leading communications services group, providing national, multinational and global clients with advertising; media investment management; information, insight & consultancy; public relations & public affairs; branding & identity, healthcare communications, direct, digital, promotion & relationship marketing. WPP companies include JWT, Ogilvy, Y&R, Grey Group, GroupM, MindShare, MEC, MediaCom, Millward Brown, TNS, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Wunderman, Hill & Knowlton, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller, CommonHealth, Landor, Fitch, The Brand Union and G2. Collectively, WPP employs over 141,000 people (including associates) in 2,400 offices in 107 countries. For more information, visit www.wpp.com.

Mark is the visionary behind Zynga and Zynga.org. He founded the company in 2007 to enable users to build social connections through games. On his way to Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003, he launched Tribe.net, one of the first social networks in the industry. Before that, he founded Support.com and built the company into a leading provider of support automation software and took it public. In 1995, he launched FreeLoader, the first web-based consumer push company, and sold it a few months later. Mark started his career working in traditional media, financial services, and venture capital before he discovered his calling as a consumer technology entrepreneur.

Mark graduated summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor to multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.

Ron was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft. Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter,Digg, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content(acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos,Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).

Ron was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ron is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.

Conway is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.'

GGV Capital, formerly Granite Global Ventures, is an expansion stage venture capital firm focused on the United States and China. GGV Capital manages over $1B from its offices in Silicon Valley (Menlo Park), Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore. The firm invests across a range of sectors in information technology, services and healthcare, as well as the consumer growth sector in China.

Founded in 2006, Greycroft is a venture capital partnership formed to invest in promising digital media companies. Greycroft has raised over $200 million across two funds, and invests between $500,000 and $5 million at inception. Their portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on assistance in all phases of expansion, including marketing, finance, and management development.

With offices in New York and Los Angeles, the company leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help investees gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and successfully bring their products to market.

With $3 billion of committed capital, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is one of the premier later-stage venture capital and growth equity firms in the United States. The partnership is currently investing IVP XIII, a $750 million later-stage fund focused on investments in rapidly growing technology and digital media companies. Founded in 1980, IVP has invested in over 300 companies, 85 of which have gone public. IVP has a 30 year IRR of 43.2% and is one of the top performing firms in the industry. IVP specializes in venture growth investments, industry rollups, founder liquidity transactions and select public market investments.

Insight Venture Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital firm focused on the global software, Internet and data-services industries. Founded in 1995, Insight has raised more than $5 billion and made more than 150 investments. Insight has a successful two-team structure: its investment team evaluates thousands of companies globally each year; its Insight Onsite team of consultants works with growth-stage management to provide resources and advice to allow them to achieve long-term success. For more information, visit: http://www.insightpartners.com.

Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is known as the mentor of the PayPal mafia of entrepreneurs, as well as for his warnings of a coming technology deficit with severe economic consequences. He works to accelerate innovation to prevent such a crisis by identifying and funding promising technology ideas and by guiding successful companies to scale and dominate their industries.

In 1998, Peter made e-commerce easier, faster, and more secure by co-founding and leading PayPal, which now has more than 100 million active financial accounts. In 2002, he sold PayPal to eBay and founded a global macro fund, Clarium.

In 2004, he co-founded Palantir Technologies, which offers platforms for finance companies and intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities to integrate, visualize, and analyze the world’s information. In the same year, he made the first outside investment in Facebook, a social networking hub that now has more than 800 million active members. He serves on its board.

Building on his personal success as a venture capital investor, Peter co-founded and manages Founders Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital fund that has pioneered new methods of venture financing that benefit founders.

Peter earned a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he occasionally teaches on globalization and technology and serves on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution. His articles have appeared in Policy Review and the Wall Street Journal. He co-produced the film Thank You for Smoking, was rated a master by the United States Chess Federation, and received the Innovation Award from the Economist in 2010. Peter established and funds the Thiel Foundation. He lives in San Francisco.