Matt Blumberg
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.
Chris Wand
Principal, Mobius Venture Capital
Chris Wand joined the Mobius fund in August 1999 as an associate partner in the company's Colorado office. Before joining the fund, Chris was the director of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at one of the firm's portfolio companies, MessageMedia (formerly known as First Virtual Holdings). At MessageMedia, Chris was an integral part of the company's series A through series E private equity fundraising efforts, initial public offering, acquisition of four private companies, and SEC compliance. He was also instrumental in the transformation of its business from being the first secure Internet payment system to being a leader in the email messaging services industry. Prior to MessageMedia, Chris was a management consultant at LEK Consulting, where he focused on mergers & acquisitions advisement and general strategy consulting to Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries including high-tech, media and entertainment, communications, OEM electronics, industrial products and agri-business. He holds a bachelors degree and a masters degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University.
Brad Feld
Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital
Brad Feld had been with Mobius Venture Capital (formerly SoftBank Venture Capital) since 1996. Prior to Mobius, Brad founded Feld Technologies, which was sold to AmeriData Technologies in 1993, where he became Chief Technology Officer. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and founder of the Boston and Colorado chapters. Brad was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Kauffman Foundation Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. He also serves on the board for companies including Channelwave, The Feld Group, Finali, Gold Systems, Prosavvy and Service Magic. Brad has an SB and SM from MIT.
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
CEO, IronPort Systems
IronPort is a product of Scott's past experiences with companies that innovate with their use of email. Scott 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. It was this experience at Hotmail that helped Scott identify the emerging business opportunity that would later evolve into IronPort Systems. 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. Prior to joining Hotmail, Scott Weiss had been a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Scott 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.
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.
Robert Knapp
Managing Partner, Neubrand
Robert Knapp is the former chairman and CEO of Harris Interactive where he changed the scale of their custom market research firm through organic growth and acquisition. He previously served as the EVP Research & Advisory Services, and then the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, at Gartner, the leading technology research and advisory firm. Before joining Gartner, Robert spent eight years at Seigel and Gale, a strategic branding and internet consulting company, ultimately serving as Chief Client Officer and directing all client operations. Robert offers great knowledge and expertise of the market research industry, specific to the online sample segment and the information technology vertical. Robert holds a BBA from the University of Miami.
