Founder and CEO of Vator, a media and research firm for entrepreneurs and investors; Managing Director of Vator Health Fund; Co-Founder of Invent Health; Author and award-winning journalist.

Tim is a proven venture investor and experienced global executive, and was named on the 2011 Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Dealmakers.

Jed Katz is the Managing Director of Javelin Venture Partners. One of the pioneers of online commerce, Jed has spent his 20 year career developing, advising & investing in early stage tech ventures.

Venture Capitalist
Entrepreneur
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Managing Director, MEST Incubator. Former General Partner with Rustic Canyon Partners (RCP), an early-stage focused investment fund with $500MM under management

Adviser at Advsr, entrepreneur, board member, executive.

David Austin has over 25 years of extensive product and corporate development experience in bringing a multitude of amazing products to consumer markets as well as acquiring and integrating many teams

Tech investor & entrepreneur. Harvard graduate, helped lead the Microsoft Internet Explorer in the 90s. Co-founder at Tellme, iLike. Investor or advisor at Facebook, Dropbox, Zappos, Airbnb, OPOWER

Tom is Founder of Heighten. Pres. at Nextag, CEO Wize, EIR at Mayfield , SVP Markettools, Board Dale Carnegie, weekly wisdom @ http://wizebits.com

Rick is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer in social media. He is the co-Founder & Managing Partner at Dragonfly Ventures.

Tod Francis is with Shasta Ventures. He focuses his investing activity on early stage companies that leverage technology to improve consumer experiences.

Executive Founder, Wellville; Angel investor

Bill is an angel investor and some of his recent investments include Tesla Motors (nasdaq: TSLA), Posterous, Tweetdeck (acquired by Twitter), Kelkea (acquired by Trend Micro), and Zaarly.

Bill established CRV's Silicon Valley office. Past Board Director of 7 public companies from his investments.

World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer Committee; Adjunct Professor of Innovation, Curtin University; Sponsored Athlete in Kiteboarding

Managing director at Launchpad LA