Atul Bagga

VP Equity Research, ThinkEquity

Atul is currently the Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Gaming industry at ThinkEquity. He has been regularly interviewed on TV and quoted in financial and mainstream print media such as Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes, Fortune, USA Today, Bloomberg, Business Week. Previously, Atul worked as Equity Research Analyst with Smith New Court (now Merrill Lynch.) Atul received his MBA from Haas School of Business at University of Berkeley, Masters in Management from University of Bombay and Bachelors in Engineering from National Institute of Technology in India.

Jens Begemann

Founder & CEO, wooga

In January 2009 Jens Begemann founded wooga (world of gaming). wooga launched its first game "Brain Buddies" on Facebook and Germany's VZ.net in summer of 2009 and quickly gained over 10 million users. Its second game, Bubble Island, just launched and quickly became on of the fast growing Facebook games. Game three and four will follow in spring and summer 2010. wooga's goal is to publish the best social games in the world with highly localized content. It is backed by Balderton Capital and Holtzbrinck Ventures who invested over $7.5M. From 2001 - 2008 Jens was at Jamba/Jamster (now known as Fox Mobile Entertainment) and helped growing the company to the world's leading provider of mobile entertainment. From 2005 he was Chief Product Officer & member of the management board. He managed a team of of 130, being responsible for content acquisition and creation and user experience.

Jim Bobowski

Director of Online Partner Marketing, Netflix

Jim Bobowski is the Director of Online Partner Marketing at Netflix, covering affiliates, social platforms and corporate partnerships. As a leading performance based advertiser in virtual goods, Jim provides a unique perspective on the space and how it can continue to evolve to provide value to advertisers, exceed customer expectations and gain greater advertiser participation. Prior to Netflix Jim led new business development at Capital One. Jim holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Richmond and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Adam Caplan

VP Virtual Currency, Adknowledge

Adam Caplan is an experienced Internet/digital media executive with extensive operational history in the online advertising and social gaming sectors. He is currently the Vice President, Virtual Currency at Adknowledge Inc., a diversified online advertising business which recently acquired Super Rewards, the leading monetization technology for social network applications, casual gaming sites, MMORPGs, virtual worlds and other websites using virtual currencies. Prior to joining Super Rewards as President in early 2008, Adam was the Founder & CEO of a social gaming start-up. Prior to that, he was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley for eleven years, where he headed the emerging Internet/new media banking team in New York. Adam has significant experience providing public and private financing and M&A advice to companies across the internet and media sectors. He is a regular speaker at online advertising, virtual goods and social gaming related conferences.

Tim Chang

Principal, Norwest Venture Partners

Tim brings a combination of operational, technical and international business experience to Norwest Venture Partners. Tim focuses on investments in mobile, gaming, digital media, and also leads NVP's investment practice in China and Asia-Pacific. Tim led NVP's investments in and joined the boards of directors of ngmoco, Lumos Labs, Brite Semiconductor and 3jam. He also led NVP's investment in Playdom, a leader in social gaming, and PCH International, a turnkey global supply chain services firm based in Shenzhen. Tim is a board observer working closely with Borqs, deCarta, Double Fusion and Veveo. Prior to joining NVP in 2006, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners where he was actively involved in over a dozen wireless-related deals and led Gabriel's investments in Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm), Sequoia Communications, Sandbridge, and Kajeet. He also contributed to the boards of Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) and Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), TestQuest, NextG Networks, and IPWireless. Tim currently serves on the advisory boards of the Silicon Valley Telecom Council, Dealmaker Media, Digital Hollywood, TiE Wireless SIG, MIT/Stanford VLAB, VC Task Force, and Silicon Valley Chinese Wireless Association. He was also listed on the AlwaysON Hollywood IT List recognizing technology leaders in the entertainment industry, as well as by The Deal as one of five emerging VCs to watch. Tim holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Renata Dionello

Chief of Staff to the CEO, eBay

Renata is currently the Chief of Staff to eBay's CEO. Prior to assuming this role, she led PayPal's efforts in business development and strategy for PayPal's initiative in the micropayments and digital goods space. Renata has over 10 years of experience in business development, strategy, product management and marketing. Prior to PayPal, she led marketing and product management at Pictage, the leading online services provider for professional photographers. Renata's experience also includes heading up strategy at Rent.com, corporate strategic planning at Disney, project management at Universal Music and strategy consulting at the Boston Consulting Group. Renata holds a BA and MEng from the University of Oxford (England) and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Eric Eldon

Editor, Inside Facebook & Inside Social Games

Eric Eldon is the Co-Editor of Inside Facebook and Inside Social Games. Prior to Inside Network, Eric was the first employee at VentureBeat, a leading Silicon Valley technology publication, starting in 2007. There, he became an editor and the lead writer for social networking. Prior to VentureBeat, Eric co-founded WriteWith, a writing software startup. Eric graduated from Stanford University with a degree in International Relations in 2005, where he reported and edited news for The Stanford Daily, and ran its business for a year.

Dave Etling

VP of Product, InComm

David has spent the past seven years at InComm, holding various management positions including Sales Engineering, Merchant Services, and Business/Product Development. Over the past three years he has been instrumental to InComm's success in product partner acquisitions and subsequent successful retail launches; specifically as it relates to prepaid digital entertainment products, including game cash cards as well as digital music and software applications. Prior to his service at InComm, Etling spent seven years at a startup consulting company and last served as VP of Engineering where he managed a team focusing on financial institution network design and implementation.

George Garrick

CEO, Offerpal Media

George has an extensive background in consumer behavior, advertising, direct marketing, and new media as well as proven success in startup company fund-raising, recruiting senior management teams, and scaling growth-stage companies. After joining the company when it was a small startup, from 1994-1996 Garrick served as CEO-North America for Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the nation's leading marketing information services company, where he was responsible for $270MM in revenues and 4,000+ employees. During 1992-93 he served in London as President-IRI Europe, launching IRI services in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Turkey. In 1998 as CEO of Flycast Communications, he grew the company to become the Internet's first and leading direct response ad network, with a performance-based ad model that re-defined the role of Internet advertising to be ROI based. Garrick took Flycast public in 1999 at a $500 million valuation, and subsequently sold it for $2.3 billion. In 2002 Garrick took over as CEO of PlaceWare Web Conferencing, one of the first successful SaaS companies, where he grew the company to $60MM of revenues and negotiated its sale to Microsoft for $200MM. Garrick has also served as CEO of Wine.com, Jingle Networks (1-800-FREE411), and Mochi Media, in all cases accelerating growth significantly through a combination of fund raising, management recruiting, and product innovation and strategy. George has also been an active independent investor and board member with companies such as Shopzilla, Comscore, Adify, and Qik. He earned BS degrees in Math and Engineering, and an MBA, from Purdue University.

Steven Goh

CEO, mig33

Steven Goh is CEO and Co-Founder of mig33. Before starting mig33, Steven was the principal founder and CEO of Sanford Securities Limited, Australia's first online Stockbroker. From a start-up business in 1996, Steven steered Sanford through a growth cycle that saw it achieve a client base of 160,000 customers of which 50,000 were direct and 110,000 were sourced through wholesale relationships with two banks and 150 accounting and financial planning groups, $66 million of sales over six years and the hosting of $2.4 billion of customer assets, and several awards including Deloitte's Fast 50, finalist in the Australian Financial Review Web Awards and a finalist in the AIIA Innovation Awards. Prior to Sanford, Steven spent time in the stockbroking industry with Merrill Lynch (formerly McIntosh West) and Saw James Capel, as a management consultant with Steven Goh & Associates and in the accounting and audit industry with Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Anderson. Steven is recognised as an authority on contemporary IT issues within the financial services sector. He was a finalist in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (Western Region) and was awarded an inaugural WA Business News 40 under 40 Award.

Eric Goldberg

Managing Director, Crossover Technologies

Eric is a 30-year veteran of the game industry, serving in capacities ranging from game designer to executive. Since 2002, Eric is or has been a board member of, advisor or consultant to over 30 consumer-facing technology companies, from seed-stage to public, in the game, virtual world, consumer Internet, wireless data, and monetization sectors; and to three US venture capital firms. Previously, Eric was co-founder and president of Unplugged Games and of Crossover Technologies, the consumer online pioneer; and president of West End Games, an adventure game company. He's been a speaker and a member of the programs advisory board for seven national game, wireless, and Internet conferences; and a board member for the New York New Media Association and NYU's Center for Advanced Digital Applications. His award-winning games include Paranoia, Tales of the Arabian Nights, The Tom Peters Business School in a Box, and MadMaze, the first online game to draw one million players.

Vikas Gupta

CEO, Jambool

Vikas Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Jambool. Vikas spent several years at Amazon.com leading the Payments groups and Web services products -- building one of the busiest transaction processing systems in the world. Vikas was also the lead inventor for the Amazon's Flexible Payments Service product. In 2004 Vikas co-founded the Amazon.com's India office in Bangalore, and hired and led the engineering teams. Post Amazon, Vikas co-founded Jambool and built several popular applications on the Facebook platform -- all of which employed virtual economy elements and were the foundational pieces to Social Gold.

Sebastien de Halleux

Co-founder and COO, Playfish

Sebastien de Halleux, co-founder of Playfish, is vice president business development & strategic partnerships, EA Interactive. In his role within EA Interactive, Sebastien drives distribution, monetization, business development, and relationships with key partners across the division's three business units, Playfish, Pogo and EA Mobile. He was chief operating officer of Playfish leading up to the company's acquisition by Electronic Arts in November 2009. Prior to Playfish, Sebastien was part of the team that incubated Nokia Ad Service, a business unit aimed at monetizing mobile traffic across Nokia's 850 million mobile devices worldwide. Sebastien also was an early team member of Macrospace Ltd., a company which merged with Sorrent Inc. to become Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), where he was instrumental in building the sales and marketing functions of the organization. He later expanded Glu's distribution footprint in Europe, forged key partnerships with network operators Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange, and reorganized the company's financial planning and sales operations in preparation for its IPO on NASDAQ. Sebastien holds a Master's in Civil Engineering with honors from Imperial College London. He has resided in Brussels, Bangkok and London, and presently lives in San Francisco.

Ron Hirson

SVP of Product & Marketing, BOKU

Ron brings over fourteen years experience in product and general management in the consumer Internet space to the BOKU team. Most recently, Ron served as VP of Product at AT&T Interactive, which he joined through the acquisition of service marketplace and performance advertising company Ingenio. Ron spent 6 years at Ingenio, where he served as VP of Product Management. Prior to Ingenio, Ron was co-founder and CEO of The Digs Network, an early social network focused on Gen Y, which was bought by iDrive. Prior to his role at BOKU, Ron served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Khosla Ventures and actively advises several companies in the consumer Internet space. Ron is frequently sought out for opinions and advice in the mobile payments space, and has been quoted recently in Business Week, The San Jose Mercury News, and Bloomberg News.

Maha Ibrahim

General Partner, Canaan Partners

Maha Ibrahim is a technology trend spotter with deep operational experience. She joined Canaan’s Menlo Park office in March 2000 and focuses on digital media, networking and wireless investments. Maha loves to work with some of the nation’s smartest entrepreneurs to build innovative companies from the ground up. A thought leader with deep insight into which business models will disrupt the status quo and propel companies to market dominance, Maha has won numerous industry awards, including The Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 award, and is frequently invited to speak at digital media conferences. She has served as a judge for startup competitions at Web 2.0 Expo, Digital Living Room and Under the Radar. At Canaan, Maha helped to negotiate and manage a partnership between Tacit Networks and Brocade, and established Canaan as a lead investor in Mobilitec and MiNO Wireless. Maha also led the firm’s investments in PicksPal and Watercooler, both leading community applications via social networking platforms. Prior to joining Canaan, Maha held numerous executive-level roles at Qwest Communications, including Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of eBusiness and Internet Operations. While at Qwest, her keen networking skills helped the company forge relationships with Netscape and Microsoft. Earlier in her career, Maha was a management consultant with both the Boston Consulting Group and Price Waterhouse. Maha holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. She currently sits on the boards of eBillme, MiNO Wireless, SenSage , Virsto and Watercooler. Previous board seats include PicksPal (acquired by Liberty Media), Tacit Networks (acquired by Packeteer) and Mobilitec (acquired by Lucent). Maha is an active member of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. In her limited free time, Maha likes to flyfish, play tennis and indulge in her passion for shoes. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young sons.

Benjamin Joffe

CEO, +8* | Plus Eight Star

Benjamin Joffe is a renowned expert on Asia's digital scene. During the past 10 years, he has been part of Japan's mobile revolution, Korea's Internet boom and China's mobile crash and web 2.0 revival. He is the Founder and CEO of the digital strategy consultancy +8* | Plus Eight Star (www.plus8star.com), working with clients such as Microsoft, Adidas, Nokia, Harvard Business School and the European Commission as well as digital and traditional media companies worldwide. He is also a partner in the real-time social gaming company Cmune (www.cmune.com) and founder of Mobile Monday in Beijing where he held over 30 events, welcoming over 3,000 participants since 2006. Benjamin has been invited to keynote dozens of tech, media and investment events in 13 countries. He was selected among China's Top 100 Mobile Industry Influencers in 2007 and 2008.

Nick Lawler

Managing Director, Maverick Capital

Nick Lawler is a Managing Director at Maverick Capital, a large NYC-based investment firm. Nick is responsible for the firm's investments in internet, video games, and casino gaming companies worldwide. He is a Director of Youku.com, the #1 online video site in China, and RealtimeWorlds, a leading independent online game studio founded by Dave Jones, creator of Grand Theft Auto. He previously worked at McKinsey & Co in New York and holds a BA from the University of Virginia. Nick lives and works in San Francisco.

Keith Lee

CEO, Booyah

Keith is a veteran of the interactive entertainment industry with a proven track record of helping create best-selling video games, developing compelling experiences, and attracting broad audiences into the gaming space. Prior to founding Booyah, Keith was the Lead Producer for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III franchise. The Diablo series has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Before Blizzard, Keith's roles as the Project Manager and Lead Programmer for Insomniac Games helped propel the Ratchet & Clank series to surpass 10 million units sold. Leading up to the games industry, Keith worked at several investment banks, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Keith graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in International Relations and Economics.

Vish Makhijani

COO, Zynga

Vish Makhijani is Senior Vice President of Zynga’s Casual and Mobility Divisions. Makhijani was previously CEO of Yandex, a Russian search company, and prior to that had a long career with Yahoo!, with his last position as senior vice president, Yahoo! Search.

David Marcus

CEO, Zong

David Marcus is the founder and CEO of Zong, the leading mobile payment service used by online gaming and social networking web sites. Zong is featured in hundreds of top applications on popular social networks like Facebook and MySpace as well as leading virtual worlds and other online gaming sites, such as Gaia Online, IMVU and Outspark. An experienced entrepreneur, David has created a number of successful venture-backed businesses, including the first alternative telecom carrier in Switzerland, GTN telecom, which he launched in 1996. Under David's leadership, GTN became one of the top three alternative carriers in Switzerland and was acquired by World Access in 2000. In 2003, David co-founded VOX telecom, a leading VoIP and wholesale carrier which services over 60% of the largest incumbent carriers globally. David also spearheaded the creation of echo6 in 2006, now one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in France. In March 2008, David co-founded Twitterfone, the popular and free service that converts a voice message into Twitter updates from any mobile phone.

Lisa Marino

CRO, RockYou

Lisa Marino is the Chief Revenue Officer for RockYou, overseeing all business functions and leading all brand and ad sales initiatives for the company. Prior to this role she served as RockYou's Vice President of sales where she created and led a team which generated more than $6 million during its first year. Prior to joining the RockYou executive team, Lisa was the National Sales Manager for eBay Motors, calling on major automotive original equipment manufacturers as well as their franchise dealers. Lisa co-founded Cima Systems, a leading fixed operations customer relationship management provider for auto dealers. She began her career in Silicon Valley as a technology mergers and acquisitions investment banker for Montgomery Securities. Lisa is a thought leader in social media marketing and has spoken at leading conferences and events including, OMMA, iMedia Summit and Digital Hollywood. She holds an Masters in Business Administration from Stanford University's School of Business and a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dave McClure

Investor, Founders Fund & fbFund

Dave McClure likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally help or invest in their startups if they let him. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O'Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. Many years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter. Dave also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don't hurt.

Rex Ng

Co-Founder and CEO, 6waves

Rex Ng co-founded 6waves, an international social games publisher, in January of 2008. As CEO & Chairman, Rex focuses on company strategy, marketing, and data analytics. Prior to 6waves, Rex served as the Director of Product Marketing at Watercooler Inc. Rex was an early employee at Yahoo! where he managed the strategic data teams in Europe and Asia for over 10 years. Rex holds a BS of Computer Science & Engineering and a BA of Philosophy from University of California, San Diego.

Jason Oberfest

VP Social, ngmoco

As Vice President, Social Applications at ngmoco:) Jason is charged with bringing ngmoco:) games to social networks while also developing and discovering social games that can be adapted to iPhone and mobile devices. Prior to ngmoco:) Jason served as SVP of Business Development at MySpace where he worked with Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, Twitter, Slide, RockYou and other strategic partners to launch the MySpace Open Platform and grow the platform to over 30 million monthly active users in nine months. Jason has lectured at Stanford University and has been a frequent speaker at industry events including South by Southwest, Social Gaming Summit, Silicon Valley Microfinance 2.0 Summit, GamesBeat, TieCon, Digital Hollywood, SNAP Summit, OMMA Global, Engage Expo and AdWeek DC. He has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mashable, PaidContent, The Wall St Journal, BusinessWeek, Variety and CNET.

Mark Pincus

Founder and CEO, Zynga

Mark Pincus is a leading Internet entrepreneur, having founded and established four successful companies. His latest venture Zynga, founded in January 2007, is the largest social gaming network, and marries his knowledge of social networks with his desire to create the next mass market video game phenomenon. With a visionary eye, Mark foreshadowed the popularity of social networks when he founded Tribe Networks (tribe.net) in 2003, one of the first online communities and social networking sites. Tribe partnered with major local newspapers and was funded by The Washington Post, Knight Ridder Digital and Mayfield Venture Capital. Four years later, Cisco purchased the core tribe.net assets to provide an initial platform for its digital media services group. Prior to Tribe, Mark co-founded SupportSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRT), originally known as Support.com, a provider of service and support automation software. Mark served as chairman and CEO and led the company through its successful IPO to become one of the world's leading publicly traded enterprise software companies. Mark's initial Internet success began with Freeloader, the first web-based consumer push information service. Freeloader was acquired seven months after launch by Individual, Inc. for $38 million. Prior to Freeloader, Mark worked in various capacities in venture capital, business development and financial services. Mark earned his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and his MBA from Harvard Business School. A native of Chicago, Mark has lived in several cities across U.S. including Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC and Denver and currently resides in San Francisco.

Shervin Pishevar

Founder & Exec. Chairman, SGN

Shervin is a visionary technology entrepreneur, published researcher and technology incubation expert. Shervin has raised nearly $40m in venture funding for his start ups. Currently Shervin is the founder and CEO of SGN, one of the leading social and mobile gaming companies, with over 11 million users on the iPhone with title such as iBowl, iBasketball, i(fluff)friends and most recently the hugely popular Agency Wars and tens of millions of users of SGN's profitable games and applications on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. To date Shervin has raised a $15m Series A for SGN from such investors as Greylock Capital, Founders Fund and Bezos Expeditions. Shervin was founding President and COO of Webs (formerly Freewebs), one of the largest social publishing communities in the world with over 30 million members and which is still adding 1 million members every 60 days. Shervin raised $12m for Webs from Novak Biddle and Columbia Capital. Shervin currently serves on the Board of Directors of both SGN and Webs. Shervin has co-founded such companies as Hotprints to revolutionize the personal printing and direct marketing world and Hyperoffice, a leading Saas provider for small businesses. Shervin is an active angel investor or advisor in such companies as Launchbox Digital, Mechanical Zoo, Inviteme.to and Kissmetrics. Shervin was a member of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) policy working group that helped create the Obama Technology and Innovation Plan. Shervin has an extensive track record for technology innovation and his achievements have been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, LA Times, CNN and CNBC.

John Pleasants

CEO, Playdom

Before taking the helm at Playdom, John served as President of Publishing and Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts (EA), where he oversaw global operations for the four billion dollar gaming company and led its consumer-facing businesses, including EA Mobile, Pogo, EA.com, global online gaming and Rupture. In addition, John drove a push to move EA from a software to a services model, and spearheaded the company's expansion into social gaming. Prior to joining EA, John served as President and CEO of Revolution Heath and CEO of Ticketmaster, the world's leading live event ticketing company. During his tenure at Ticketmaster/InteractiveCorp (IAC), John also oversaw several leading online entities such as Evite.com, Match.com, CitySearch.com and ReserveAmerica.com. John is a Director of the Board for The Artists Den, a music production and promotion company, and previously held Board of Director positions with Expedia.com, Active.com, Fastclick, Going.com and Extend Health. John earned a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Keith Rabois

VP Strategy & Bus. Development, Slide

Keith is Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Slide, where he is responsible for Slide's corporate strategy and partnerships. Under his leadership, Slide has become the leading application developer on Facebook with more active users than any other developer. Before joining Slide, Keith served as Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at LinkedIn, where he was responsible for generating new revenue streams. Prior to LinkedIn, Keith served as Executive Vice President at PayPal, directing the company's competitive strategy and business development initiatives. After leaving PayPal, Keith was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Clarium Capital Management, the global hedge fund led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Keith currently serves on the Board of Directors of Yelp, Vendio, Xoom and FanIQ. He is also an early investor in YouTube and several other high profile early stage start-ups. Keith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Alex Rampell

CEO, TrialPay

Alex Rampell is the co-founder and CEO of TrialPay, where he is responsible for general management and building corporate infrastructure. Alex invented the "pay-by-offer" concept that every offer-based monetization platform uses today. Prior to TrialPay, Alex co-founded FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company, which merged into SiteAdvisor and was acquired by McAfee in April 2006. Alex began his career writing and selling consumer software on bulletin board systems and the nascent Internet. His first successful company gained hundreds of thousands of paying consumers worldwide and had products featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, "Today," CNBC and BusinessWeek. He holds an AB in Applied Math and Computer Science, cum laude, from Harvard University.

Peter Relan

Exec. Chairman, CrowdStar

Founder and CEO of Business Signatures: In 2002, Peter embarked on building a behavior based fraud detection technology based on "real time stream processing" databases, used to prevent online consumer fraud. Financiers were angels including Ram Shriram, angel investor in Google, and Dave Roux, co-CEO of Silver Lake Partners, and subsequently Texas Pacific Group Venture and Walden International. Business Signatures was sold to Entrust in 2006, a public company in the security software space. Peter served as the President of Entrust Business Signatures and subsequently as the Chief Strategy Officer of Entrust Founding CTO of Webvan: In 1998, Peter joined Louis Borders, founder of Borders Books and Music, to build and launch Webvan's automated distribution and delivery service for online grocery shopping in a 15 month sprint with the help of over 100 engineers recruited from Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, Intel and dozens of high talent technology companies in Silicon Valley. Early Advisor to X.Com which was merged by Sequoia Ventures into PayPal: Peter developed the concept ZipPay, or payments via email with an ex-Citibank executive and merged ZipPay with X.com which in turn became PayPal. Founding VP of Oracle's Internet Division: In 1994, Peter led Oracle into the Internet market with the creation of Oracle's Application Server in 1995. The Application Server is now a multi-billion product line at Oracle. Peter was principal Architect of OpenView at Hewlett Packard from 1988 - 1994, also a multi-billion dollar business for HP. Peter lives with his wife and two children in Atherton, CA. He is an avid tennis player, children's basketball coach and percussionist in Indian Classical Music. He holds a BS from UCLA and a MS from Stanford University.

Justin Smith

Founder, Inside Network

Justin Smith founded Inside Facebook, the first service dedicated to providing information about Facebook to businesses, marketers, and researchers, in April 2006. In 2007, he wrote the Facebook Marketing Bible, the most widely referenced book on Facebook marketing today. The Facebook Marketing Bible has been used by thousands of brands, agencies, businesses, universities, and non-profit organizations to craft their Facebook marketing strategy. In 2008, he founded Inside Social Games, the first service focused on tracking the convergence of games and social platforms. From 2007 to 2009, Justin served as Head of Product for Watercooler, a venture-backed startup based in Mountain View, California, and one of the leading developers of applications on Facebook and other major social platforms. Under Justin's leadership, Watercooler's Facebook applications reached well over 30 million Facebook users, and Watercooler established itself as the leading network of sports and television entertainment applications. Justin remains an advisor to Watercooler today.

Kavin Stewart

CEO, Lolapps

Kavin Stewart is co-founder and CEO of LOLapps. He has led the company from its founding to a base of over 50 million monthly unique visitors across various social networks. Kavin graduated from Berkeley's school of engineering with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. While he feverishly dreamed of becoming a game programmer the way most little boys dream of becoming an astronaut or racecar driver, his first job post-college turned out to be coding Java installers, which is just as exciting as it sounds. From there he held a wide range of programming and product management roles, most recently including PM at Offermatica (acquired by Omniture).

Rick Thompson

Chairman, Playdom

Rick serves as Chairman of Playdom, the social gaming company he cofounded in 2008. Prior to Playdom, Rick cofounded and served as CEO and/or chairman of two successful Internet technology companies, Adify and FlyCast Communications. Rick was also on the founding team of Octel Communications, a leading manufacturer of voice information processing systems. A successful serial entrepreneur with a passion for social games, Rick believes Playdom and social gaming will transform the online entertainment industry. Rick holds a BS in psychology from UCSC and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Jay Weintraub

Founder, LeadsCon

Jay Weintraub is the founder of the LeadsCon conference series servicing the online lead generation industry. He is recognized as a thought leader on customer acquisition marketing and is also the co-founder of LeadsCouncil, an independent association that helps lead buyers connect with trusted sellers and improving the consumer experience. Prior to founding LeadsCon and LeadsCouncil, Jay at spent two and a half years at Advertising.com and five years at Oversee.net in roles ranging from corporate strategy to new product development. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Season Xu

Co-Founder, Five Minutes

Season Xu, co-founder and COO of Five Minutes, Inc., a leading social game developing and publishing company based in Shanghai. Prior to starting Five Minutes, Season co-founded Inu Interactive, Inc., a web application outsourcing company in 2006. He studied entrepreneurship in USC for his undergraduate degree. Five Minutes is the original creator of Happy Farm, the biggest social game of Asia in 2009. The success of Happy Farm is phenomenal. It has generated over tens of millions users on Asian SNS platforms. In 2009, the company received Series A funding from DFJ. Aiming to taking social game to the next level, Five Minutes recently launched Happy Farm 2 globally and expects to establish a global presence in 2010.

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