Matt Blumberg
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, Return Path
Prior to founding Return Path in 1999, Matt was General Manager of the Internet division of MovieFone, Inc. from inception to the company's $600 million sale to AOL five years later, as well as Vice President, Marketing and Product Management for the company as a whole. Matt has served as an associate with General Atlantic Partners, a private equity investment firm, and as a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He graduated from Princeton University.
Greg Sands
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company's original product manager, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems, where he was the architect of a global channel management plan, and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting), where he consulted to start-ups and Fortune 500 companies on product development and marketing strategies. Greg also serves as a director for ClosedLoop, Collabrys, iPin, Merced Systems, Pivia, and QuinStreet. He is a trustee of the Stanford University DAPER Fund. He also co-founded, and is a director of the non-profit Start Up, a microenterprise program for entrepreneurs and small business owners in underprivileged communities. He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.
Scott Weiss
Vice President and General Manager, Security Technology Business Unit, Cisco
Scott Weiss is the vice president and general manager of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. Prior to this role, Scott served as the co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems. Now part of Cisco, IronPort is a product of Scott's past experiences with companies that innovate with their use of security technology. He was one of the early team members at Hotmail, the world's largest Web-based email service. At Hotmail, Scott was responsible for all partnership and revenue generating business development efforts. After Hotmail's acquisition by Microsoft, Scott led a business development team at Microsoft with the MSN division. Scott left Microsoft to pursue new start-up opportunities. He developed a concept in the e-commerce space, and pulled together the core team to incubate the idea. In the process of seeking funding for the concept, he met with leaders of the Venture Capital industry, and ultimately resulted in Scott joining idealab! as Managing Director and Entrepreneur in Residence. Prior to joining HotMail, Weiss had been a consultant at McKinsey & Co. He also worked at EDS as a Group Manager and is a graduate of the EDS management training program. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Florida, both with Honors.
Fred Wilson
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. Fred was the Managing Partner of Flatiron Partners and was responsible for securing $150 million of initial capital commitments from Chase Capital Partners (now JP Morgan Partners) and SOFTBANK. He built the investment team, which grew to 10 investment professionals, and managed the creation of a $570 million portfolio. Fred is currently on the Boards of Alacra, Bigfoot Interactive, Comscore, iBiquity Digital, ITXC, Return Path, and Tacoda Systems. Fred has a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred has been a guest lecturer at The Stern School of Business at NYU and is active on a number of community and non-profit boards.
Brad Feld
Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital and Foundry Group
Brad Feld has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital. Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston's leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.