OPEN FORUM 2012
***Breaking News***
Salman Khan CEO Khan Academy to Keynote

Al Lieb Co-Founder Evite and Co-Founder & CEO Clearside

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 Al Lieb is passionate about leveraging technology to help people connect in the real world. His unique ability to merge technology, product design, strategy and marketing has contributed to a long track record of creating and growing successful companies. In 1998, he co-founded Evite, which soon became the leading event invitation service helping tens of millions of people organize events. Al has helped to develop and launch a number of other businesses, many of which have gone on to become market leaders, including Expedia, OpenTable and Gifts.com (IAC). He has also advised over 20 startups. As CEO of ClearSlide, Al sets the vision for the company and its products, and drives relentless execution across all fronts.

Aaron Levie – Co-founder & CEO, Box

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 Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box.net was launched from Aaron’s dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box’s product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content anagement with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Accenture Global Summit, South by Southwest, and Svase. Other than spending most of his free time passionately debating the next step for Box with his CFO, Aaron enjoys pretending he can play the piano. He studied business at the Marshall School of Business at the University of
Southern California before taking a leave of absence.

Aaref Hilaly – Partner Sequoia Capital

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 Aaref works with enterprise, internet, and mobile companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2012, he was the CEO of Clearwell, which he grew from a handful of engineers into a profitable company with over $80 million in annual revenue. In 2011, Symantec acquired Clearwell for $410 million. Prior to that, Aaref was the Founder and CEO of CenterRun, a pioneer in datacenter automation, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Aaref holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters degree in economics from McGill University, and BA degree from Oxford University.

Salman Khan – Educator; CEO, Khan Academy

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 Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy – a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30 million lessons delivered to-date). All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry and biology, have been made by Salman.

Prior to the Khan Academy, Salman was a senior analyst at a hedge fund and had also worked in technology and venture capital. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng and B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in mathematics from MIT.

Thuy Vu – Co-Host CBS Eye on the Bay (Three-time Emmy award winner)

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 Thuy is a three-time Emmy award winner is a co-host on Eye on the Bay, CBS 5’s evening magazine program.This past year, she was named “Outstanding Reporter/Correspondent” by the national Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. Other 2010 honorees included The Evening News with Katie Couric, Barbara Walters and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.Thuy’s many interests have led to a diverse body of work. She co-anchored a live, unscripted four-hour webcast on the night of Barack Obama’s historic election. The program won a west coast Associated Press award for “Best Webcast.”She also co-anchored live coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo in December 2007 and provided additional reporting that day on the zoo’s troubled history. The coverage earned an Emmy for “Best Newscast” and a west coast Associated Press award for “Best Anchor Team.”She started her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She later moved on to National Public Radio (NPR), where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C. before returning to their San Francisco bureau.Thuy immigrated from Vietnam in 1975, fleeing the country with her family as Saigon fell to the communists. She lived in two refugee camps before resettling with her family in Duluth, Minnesota. She currently lives in Silicon Valley. She’s a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. She’s also on the board of directors for the Asian Pacific Fund, a community foundation that provides scholarships to students and funding grants for Asian non-profits in the Bay Area.She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.

Stephen West – Deputy Bureau Chief & Editor Bloomberg News.

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 STEPHEN WEST, deputy bureau chief and an editor for Bloomberg News in SanFrancisco, has been a business journalist for almost 30 years, following a decade as an editor and writer about the arts.He was assistant business editor at the Los Angeles Times from 1984 to 1991,responsible for coverage of Wall Street and financial services as well as Hollywood and themedia and entertainment industries. At the Times, he edited coverage of the stock market crash of 1987; insider-trading scandals; Michael Milken and the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert; and the sales of Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios to Japanese electronics firms.Following the Times, West was executive editor of Daily Variety, the entertainmentindustry newspaper in Los Angeles, for five years. He joined Bloomberg News in 1997 and hasedited coverage of U.S. media and entertainment companies and Silicon Valley’s technologyindustry. For four years he was a member of Bloomberg’s arts and culture team and continues to write occasionally about Bay Area theater, museum exhibitions and cultural events.West is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MFA from California Institute of theArts and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He and his wife live inRedwood City.

Natalie Fonseca, Co-founder and Executive Producer – Privacy Identity Innovation

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 Natalie is the founder and owner of SageScape, a conference management company that specializes in developing executive-level events for the technology industry. Some of the conferences she has worked on include The Wall Street Journal’s All Things D, the PayPal Developer’s Conference, VS!Live, Microsoft Windows Anywhere, BlogOn, Innovate!Europe and Real Estate Connect. She has also created the annual Tech Policy Summit and Privacy Identity Innovation conference, both focused on privacy and innovation. Prior to starting SageScape in 2003, she worked in marketing for a technology startup. She was also the director of marketing for a nonprofit trade association. She began her career in Silicon Valley in the late 1990’s and was a writer at Upside magazine before joining a user experience evaluation startup named Vividence. She also currently develops the program for Inman News’ Real Estate Connect conference, and write a column for Inman News called Startup Scene. She received a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of California at Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter at @TechPolicy.

Alan Saldich, Vice President of Marketing at Cloudera

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 Alan was the first employee hired at Riverbed Technology in the fall of 2002, and helped build the organization all the way from four people with no products, to becoming a global public company of over 1,000 employees, 7,000 enterprise customers and $400 million in annual revenue. At Cloudera, Alan is responsible for developing and executing Cloudera’s marketing and communications strategy to support continued business growth and brand awareness. With over 22 years of experience, he has held a variety of leadership roles in marketing, finance and operations at eight companies. Alan holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Jim Adler, CPO, Intelius, Board Member, FPF

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 Jim Adler is the Chief Privacy Officer and General Manager of Data Systems at Intelius. As part of the executive leadership team, Jim is the chief consumer advocate for the company as well as responsible for the data systems that power Intelius’ products. Jim is a national leader on privacy, cryptography, and security issues having testified before the Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Congress, National Institute of Standards and Technology and leading academic institutions. Jim also serves on the advisory boards of the Future of Privacy Forum and Helios Voting. Prior to Intelius, Jim served as president and chief technology officer at Identity.net, and prior to that was the founder and CEO of VoteHere. He is a co-inventor of patents related to cryptographic voting and digital signatures. He received his bachelor’s degree with high honors in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and his master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, San Diego. Jim blogs about privacy, data, and leadership at jimadler.me. Follow him on Twitter at @jim_adler.

Arif Janmohamed, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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 Arif joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of infrastructure, communications, networking, and software.
Prior to joining Lightspeed, Arif worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco where he focused on opportunities in the unified communications and SaaS market. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm.

Earlier in his career, Arif worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsystems.

Arif holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Umair Khan, CEO SecretBuilders.

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 Umair is founder and CEO of SecretBuilders, a company that makes engaging and enriching games for children on all screens. Umair Khan is also a Venture Partner with The Entrepreneurs’ Fund (TEFIII), an early stage, software-focused venture fund. Previously, Umair co-founded Clickmarks Inc., a mobile software company acquired by Semotus Inc. in 2005. In 1997, Umair co-founded Chowk, a web 2.0 community focusing on South Asia. Umair started his career at Intel Corporation and has over 20 industry patents. Umair co-founded OPEN Silicon Valley and is a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute. Umair received his SB (1992) and SM (1995), from MIT.

Joe Robinson, Product Lead, Square.

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 Joe Robinson is part of the product team at Square. Prior to joining Square, he designed, built, and launched several startups catering to local businesses. Joe also organizes Designers + Geeks and the Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup – two of the largest startup communities in the Bay Area

Zia Yusuf, CEO Streetline Inc.

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 Zia is currently CEO of Streetline Inc., the leading global provider of senor-enabled Smart City solutions. Just prior to his role leading Streetline, Zia was Entreprenuer-in-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. He spent the last ten years at SAP AG where he was executive vice president and a member of SAP’s Executive Leadership Team. Zia has a MS in International Affairs from Georgetown University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA from Macalester College. He is also an associate consulting professor at Stanford University.

Robert Martyn, Studio CEO Zynga

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 Rob Martyn is a game industry veteran who has held executive positions at EA, AOL Games, and Zynga. He was the executive producer for The SIMS and SimCity, and part of the team for NBA basketball, NHL hockey, PGA Tour Golf, College Football and Basketball, and MotoRacer. He is currently Studio COO at Zynga.

Charles Huang, Co-Founder RedOctane

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 Charles co-founded RedOctane in 1999 as the world’s first online game rental service. At RedOctane, Charles created the best selling dance pad in the US as part of a game accessories business in 2002-2004. In June 2005, RedOctane published a dance game called In The Groove. In Nov 2005, RedOctane published Guitar Hero, which grew to become one of the top 5 best selling video game franchises of all time. In June 2006, RedOctane was acquired by Activision, Inc. Currently, Charles is the co-founder of Blue Goji corp, which develops iPad based fitness apps including BloxParty. Charles received his BA in Economics & Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley.

Kristi Royse – CEO, KLR Consulting

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 Kristi Royse is CEO of KLR Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in leadership development and team building programs. Ms. Royse is also a nationally-recognized speaker who inspires success and enables audiences to capitalize on their strengths to achieve more.

For more than 30 years, Ms. Royse has been inspiring success and higher levels of performance in organizations and individuals with proven best practices and industry expertise. Her company supports Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies to improve communication, implement change, align organizational values and achieve more productivity throughout.

Prior to founding KLR Consulting in 1998, Ms. Royse held senior-level roles at leading Hospitality and Retail companies, including Safeway and Boston Chicken, Inc. where she was Vice President of Training. Ms. Royse has a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. Please visit www.klrconsulting.com for more information on Ms. Royse and her company, KLR Consulting.

Izza Khan – Freshman at Branham High School

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 Izza is currently a freshman at Branham High School. She actively volunteers in many diverse events at the Pakistani American Culture Center and at her school’s humanity club. After graduating high school, she wants to major in law or political science.

Harris Zia – Freshman at Monte Vista High School

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 Harris is a freshman at the Monta Vista High in Cupertino. He actively works on community projects and raises funds for people in need. He is a Boy Scout and assists seniors through the Octagon and CSF community services. Harris was the web leader at Kennedy Middle School where he led a group of new students in school orientation and social activities. He is interested in a career that involves science, technology or both. He enjoys playing soccer, sketching, reading and playing the clarinet.

Samreen Imran – Freshman at Pioneer High School

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 Samreen is a freshman at the Pioneer High School. Her passion for community service began at an early age, when she joined Girl Scouts. Since then she has been a part of many community based events – the most gratifying being the clothing drive for Pakistan’s earthquake victims. Another service she really enjoys is tutoring her fellow peers in math. Samreen actively takes part in DIL walkathons to help build schools in Pakistan, and has got sponsorships for the Sehar Garage School in Karachi, Pakistan. Community service is imperative to Samreen and she encourages everyone to make their contribution to the community in their own way.

Zain Umerani – Junior at Cupertion High School

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 Zain Umerani attends Cupertino High School as a sophomore. He volunteers as a tutor at the school library and recently participated in the can food drive for the needy. He is also a teacher assistant for a Biology class. Making a difference in the community is what he aims for all the time and believes that it is imperative that we all commit to community service. He is interested in technology and science as it improves and empowers the quality of life.

Sohail Razzaq – Corporate Strategist at Google

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 A Stanford alum, Sohail has represented Pakistan as a youth ambassador at the United Nations and the British Parliament. At Stanford, he was the graduation student speaker for the class of 2009 and served as the President for the Stanford Muslim Society. Sohail currently works for Google in their corporate strategy team. Prior to Google, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Sohail holds a B.A in Economics and a M.S in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford.

Mahvish Jafri – Deputy Director Coro Center for Civic Leadership

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 Mahvish is currently the Deputy Director at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership. Most recently, she designed program evaluation tools for a First5-funded program, Best Start LA, which empows communities to improve the lives of young children. Also in LA, she coordinated the competitive distribution of $65 million+ in homelessness funding for the City and County of Los Angeles through the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Previous to that, she worked for the Clinton Global Initiative at the Clinton Foundation in NYC and created an impact analysis protocol for 900 international programs in global health, poverty, climate change, and education. In addition, her experience includes work in youth development at the San Francisco Conservation Corps and time in Washinton, D.C. with the online magazine Salon.com. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from USC and an undergraduate degree in Public Policy Analysis and English from Pomona College.

Sabah Khan – Assistance Director MBA Admissions at Stanford GSB

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 Sabah is currently the Assistant Director of MBA Admissions at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She graduated last year from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, where she earned her MA in International Affairs. Prior to grad school she spent 14 months in Meheba Refugee Settlement, Zambia where she was a Project Manager for an NGO called FORGE. Before her time in Africa, she worked as a paralegal specialist for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. She also held internships at the White House, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Nike Foundation (in Malawi). She graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 where she majored in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. When Sabah is not busy working, she spends her time hiking, biking and reading.

K.C. Anderson Youth Coach

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 K.C. has more than 30 years experience in career development and coaching. Her career began with more than 20 years in executive search, followed by 12 years in sales and senior career transition counseling for global firms. K.C. is a member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and continually studies to learn and practice the best career strategies for today’s market. She is a Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) and has a passion for sharing the very best, most practical and effective ways for every person to identify what they uniquely bring to the job marketplace.

Fatima Hasanian – Sophmore Miramonte High School

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 Fatima Hasanain is a 15 year old ninth grade student at Miramonte High School in Orinda, California. She has started her first year of public speaking at Miramonte and has been largely successful, making it to the state tournament. Her entire family has been very involved in the public speaking program, so Fatima has recieved a lot of exposure to it. Also at Miramonte, she participates in Mock Trial in which she earned the role of pretrial attorney her first year. Her team also went to the state tournament in Mock Trial. Fatima is especially excited to be a guest in this workshop because she really wants to spread theword about how important public speaking is. It is a vital skill that everybody will use in their lifetime, and is also a lot of fun to practice. She is looking forward to helping people boost their confidence and realize their potential.

Ali Hasanian – Senior Miramonte High School

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 Ali Hasanain is currently a senior at Miramonte High School in Orinda, CA. For the past four years, he has been an active member of his school’s speech and debate team, through which he has competed at the state level three times and at the national level twice, including this summer. This year, Ali placed 9th in the state of California in National Extemporaneous speaking, in which he has thirty minutes to prepare a seven-minute speech about current events. In addition to being part of his school’s speech and debate team, Ali has also helped to found a local organization, SpeakUp!, which strives to teach those who have been less fortunate than him important public speaking skills; in fact, through SpeakUp!, he has taught both young elementary school children and college students. Ali is excited to be a guest at OPEN, so that he can convey to other people his age just how important public speaking skills are, not just in school, and not just in finding a career, but throughout life.

Naeem Zafar – President and CEO of Bitzer Mobile, Faculty at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

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 Naeem is the founding CEO of Bitzer Mobile and he also teaches entrepreneurship at the University of California Berkeley. He is a serial entrepreneur and has started or worked at six startups. He founded Startup-advisor.com to educate entrepreneurs with all aspects of starting and running a company. Naeem has published six books on entrepreneurship (www.NaeemZafar.com) and on iTunes app store and Amazon.com. Naeem served as the president and CEO of three venture backed technology companies as a board member/advisor to 35 companies. He holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Minnesota, both in electrical engineering.

Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder, Lean Startup Machine

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 Trevor’s had many early entrepreneurial influences, from running a web development company to importing electric scooters from China to the US. Over the past three years Trevor has been a serial community organizer in NYC where he founded Tech@NYU. Through this he created NYU Startup Week and co-created the HackNY Hackathon. His focus on community and helping early entrepreneurs has lead to his passion for Lean Startup Machine.

Omar Siddiqui: CEO Kiwi; former VP Playdom

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 Omar is the CEO of Kiwi. Kiwi is building the next generation of mobile entertainment products. Kiwi is a Sequoia funded startup.

Athar Siddiqee – Head of Global Compensation at Atmel Corporation

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 Athar Siddiqee is the Head of Global Compensation, Benefits, HRIS, and Payroll for Atmel, a 5000-employee semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose. He has been in the Bay Area nearly his entire life and has worked in Compensation throughout much of that time.

At Cisco, Athar ran Executive Compensation and Equity, designed Sales plans, and spent 18 months in Bangalore. At BEA, Athar was Director of Compensation where he spent way too much time trying to figure out what the B, E, and A stood for. Fearing that BEA was about to become part of Oracle, he quickly fled to Synopsys, where he spent 2 ½ years as the Vice President of Global Compensation and Benefits.

Athar holds a B.S. in Mathematics/Economics from UCLA and an MBA in Marketing from Santa Clara University. He is the Compensation Management instructor for UCSC Extension, on the faculty of WorldatWork, and a Board member of the Silicon Valley Compensation Association.

Hasan Rizvi – Senior Vice President Oracle

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 As Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products, Hasan Rizvi is responsible for Oracle’s application server; service-oriented architecture; application and data integration; content management and portal; and identity management, security, and Java product development, product management, and architecture. Previously Mr. Rizvi was Vice President of Oracle Enterprise Manager, responsible for the company’s datacenter automation products.

Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, Mr. Rizvi was Vice President of Engineering for Corio, Inc. where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of software as a service. Prior to that, Mr. Rizvi served as Director of OLTP Technologies for Oracle, where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging and queuing, and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products.

Mr. Rizvi has a MS in computer science from Rutgers University and an MS in engineering management from Stanford University. He also holds eight patents in the database management area.

Shahid Khan – PayPal Global internal innovation evangelist

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 Shahid Khan’s 15+ year career in large and startup software companies has included revenue-focused high-tech marketing, worldwide channel development, and M&A activities.

Currently, Shahid works at PayPal. world #1 payments provider with over 110 Million active users world-wide. Shahid is passionate about his role as Global internal innovation evangelist and coach at PayPal.

Previously, Shahid co-founded SiConcepts Inc., a self-funded Electronic Design Automation startup specializing in design & verification software IP. Until 2002, Shahid was director of marketing at Synopsys, a $1B EDA software company in Silicon Valley, where he created innovative marketing programs for a $150M product line.

Prior to Synopsys, he was Director of Marketing at Viewlogic, Inc., Previously, Shahid spent 3+ years at COMPASS Design Automation, serving as a product marketing manager for design software. Shahid also contributed at CrossCheck, Teradyne, AIDA (a startup that was purchased for $28M by Teradyne), and started his career with Signetics
in Sunnyvale, CA.
Shahid holds a BS in electrical engineering from the United Kingdom and earned an MS in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University while working full-time.

Shahid was a finalist in the 1991 US Open Squash tournament.

Shahid Khan served on HDF for four years; he has choreographed in nine high turn-out Silicon Valley HDF benefit dinners since 2004, raised $1.2M in 9 years.

Sandra Sargent – Info Bank™ Specialist

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 FLEX College Resource Center: Info Bank™ Specialist and College Counselor College Essay pecialist U. Chicago: MA in English Literature UCLA: BA in Comparative Literature, minor in French Former UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions Reader UCLA Alumni Bay area Chair for Alumni scholarships Over 5 years tutoring experience

Sandy Balakrishnan – Programs and Marketing Director at Flex

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 Programs and Marketing Director at Flex & College Interview Specialist
UCLA Admissions: Alumni Admissions Representative for Northern California
UCLA Alumni Scholarship Committee: Application Review and Interview Panel
Marketing Communications Specialist: Sun Microsystems, City of Saratoga, Hitachi Data Systems

Ethan Hutt – Info Bank Specialist, College Counselor

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 Info Bank Specialist, College Counselor & College Interview Specialist FLEX College Prep: Interview Specialist and Director Of College Counseling Yale University: Admission Interviewer Stanford University: PhD in Education

Imran Sayeed, Senior Vice President, Global Application Development & Management, Keane Inc; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management and Chairman, OPEN Global

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 Imran Sayeed is the Senior Vice President, Global Application Development & Management, Keane Inc; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management and Chairman, OPEN Global. Imran leads a 7,000 person team of technology professionals across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia at Keane. Imran came to Keane through its acquisition of netNumina, a boutique technology strategy and consulting firm that he founded and grew from a 15 person startup to one of Computerwold’s Top 100 emerging companies and Inc 500’s fastest growing businesses. Previously, as a founder of Open Environment, Imran grew the company from a 10-person startup to an IPO. Imran is currently a senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he teaches in the MBA program on starting and running software companies. Imran attended Brown University where he majored in Engineering and Harvard University, where he did post-graduate work in business, marketing and product development.

John Montgomery, Founder, Montgomery & Hansen

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 John Montgomery is a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, executive coach and writer. He is the founder of Montgomery & Hansen, LLP, a Silicon Valley based corporate law firm. He is also the founder of Startworks, a technology incubator. He works primarily with high-potential entrepreneurial teams to help them translate their visions into successful companies.John recently received a California Lawyer of the Year award from California Lawyer magazine for his work as a co-chair of the legal working group behind California’s new benefit corporation law. A frequent speaker on venture capital, he has produced professional education programs for SmartPros/Cognistar: Understanding the Venture Capital Term Sheet Process and Introduction to Venture Capital Financing Agreements. Prior to founding Montgomery & Hansen in 2003, John was co-chairman of the venture capital practice at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP.John is a student of non-dual philosophical systems, neuroscience, developmental theory and organizational development. In 2010, he co-founded Chrysallis, a human development company that aims to change the human development paradigm and support healthy, full, productive lives for billions of people.

Jaude-Olivia Dufour, VP Marketing, John Molson Sustainable Group

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 Aude-Olivia Dufour is the founder of Invup and was the VP Marketing for the John Molson Sustainable Group until recently. This association was responsible for promoting sustainability among business students. While working in sales, she realized points and incentives were powerful and decided to create a venture using these game mechanisms and social media to get people to do more volunteering and donations, Invup. They are now finalists in the world’s largest startup competition, MassChallenge. The Invup platform aims to manage social responsibility for companies so that they can have a better social impact.

Javed Hamid – Sr Managing Director, International Executive Services Corps

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 Javed Hamid worked in the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) from 1979 to 2006. He was a member of the management group of IFC and for the last nine years, he was the Regional Director responsible for IFC’s business in East Asia and the Pacific Region. During this period, he was the chief architect of IFC’s investment strategy in China. Before that, Javed held various senior positions in IFC, including manager of IFC investments in Middle East and Central Asia, and Lead Economist of IFC’ Economics Department.

Javed took a leave of absence from IFC from 1984-88 and directed the establishment of the first privately financed university in Pakistan, the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Today, LUMS is the leading business school in Pakistan. Javed chaired the IFC steering committee for the Global Business School Network from 2004-2006. He also chaired the first international conference of African Business School deans in Accra in 2005. Javed has been a regular speaker at international conferences and has published in the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and various other academic journals. He has a BA (Hons) degree in economics from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Javed sits on the Boards of several companies, including an insurance company in Pakistan and a bank training institution in China. Javed is also the chair of the International Advisory Board for the Karachi Business School for the Karachi Education Initiative.

Junaid Qureshi – Founder & CEO SSJD Energy LLC

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 Junaid Qurashi is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SSJD Energy LLC, a California based energy investment company developing the first agricultural based social energy project in rural Pakistan. Mr. Qurashi is a seasoned social entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in founding and managing sustainable development and high-tech firms in Pakistan and Silicon Valley, California. Prior to founding SSJD Energy LLC Mr.Qurashi worked in strategic position for well know Silicon Valley companieslike VMware/EMC, Wyse Technologies and Phoenix Technologies. He is a US patent holder of the Virtualization technology, an underlying logic of Cloud Computing. Mr. Qurashi is also a founder of Pakistan Green Building Council and a Board of Director of Council on Pakistan Relations, a Washington based advocacy organization whose mission is to impact U.S. policy towards Pakistan. He also sits on the board of various think tanks working towards a fostering lasting peace, democracy and prosperity for Pakistan. Mr. Qurashi is a charter member of Organization of Pakistan Entrepreneur of North America (OPEN), Karachi Chapter. Mr. Qurashi holds an M.B.A from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from California State University, San Luis Obispo.

Bryon McDougall – Partner – Alchemy Search Partners

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 Partner – Alchemy Search Partners

Tey Scott – Talent Acquisition Manager – LinkedIn

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 Tey Scott joined LinkedIn in 2011. She currently leads the company’s University Relations and Recruitmentteam and is responsible for building the global university talent bench for LinkedIn’s future workforce. Throughout her career, Tey has been a proponent and early adopter of social media; she was one of the first 500,000 members to join LinkedIn. She has directed high-volume, high-performance technical staffing teams across many disciplines and also served as a member of the Executive Recruiting function. Prior to joining LinkedIn, she was the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition at Citrix Systems, Inc., where she led the North America recruiting team that hired hundreds of talented professionals into the company. Previously, Tey held a staffing management role with AOL; she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada.

Carol Sands – Founder and the Managing Member of The Angels’ Forum

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 Carol Sands is the Founder of The Angels’ Forum and an active Angel Investor. Her investments focus is on “must-have” vs “nice-to-have” products and services that make the world a better place. She continuous proves that it is possible to make big money while doing good.

Prior to investing, she started several entrepreneurial companies, and/or large corporate institutions. Carol’s career started in the Midwest working for First Bank Systems, Motorola and Xerox Computer Services. After moving to San Francisco, she held executive positions at Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) and Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Then Carol founded Sands MarketingPlus, an international sales management and marketing consulting firm with advertising & PR agencies.

In 1997, she started one of the first organized angel investing groups in the United States. The Angels’ Forum provides individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest as a single entity after doing shared due diligence. Each member decides whether or not to invest and how much. The Angels’ Forum’s key to high investment returns is their on-going mentoring, appropriate continuous investment and active board management.

The Angels’ Forum has invested in over 100 Silicon Valley entrepreneurial start-ups. Investment focus ranges from Technology to Life Sciences to Consumer Products. Investments include Smart Therapeutics (sold to Boston Scientific), NetScaler (sold to Citrix), Sensant (sold to Siemens), Safeview (sold to L3), Ensignten, MOG, PanTerra Networks, Penumbra, Specialty’s Café & Bakery, and Taula.

Carol also teaches at Stanford University a 10 week class called: Angel Investing for the Serious Investor. In addition, she guest lectures at other universities across the world on angel investing and entrepreneurship.

In addition to her investment based responsibilities, Carol is the Chair of the Global Women’s Leadership Network (www.gwln.org) . She is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (www.TiE.org), a member of the International Women’s Forum (http://www.iwfnorcal.org). She is also a Director of the Sands Family Foundation which funds early stage and pre NIH research relating to prostate and ovarian cancers. Carol received her B.A. in Business Administration from The University of Iowa.

Riaz Karamali – Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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 Riaz has over twenty years of experience in partnering with technology-driven clients in their most strategic and game-changing transactions. Working closely with a diverse array of clients, including publicly held, private equity backed and venture capital financed companies, Riaz has structured and negotiated numerous complex, long-term technology-based and service-based alliance agreements relating to business process outsourcing, information technology outsourcing, manufacturing outsourcing, research and development outsourcing, software OEM transactions, internet search and display advertising alliances, university technology transfer and traditional corporate joint ventures. Riaz leads Sheppard Mullin’s Outsourcing Team which was named to the 2010 List of World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors published by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Riaz also has extensive experience in domestic and international mergers
and acquisitions. Riaz has worked with hundreds of start-up companies,
taking them from their pre-founding stages through their angel and
venture capital financing rounds and strategic alliances to their
ultimate exit transactions. Riaz takes pride in being a hands on, responsive counselor who takes the
time to understand the client’s business, and is known as a pragmatic,
creative, win-win negotiator.

Adil Syed – Associate, Redpoint Ventures

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 Adil Syed is an Associate with Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on late-stage growth equity investment opportunities in internet, digital media, mobile, software and financial technology companies. Adil supports Redpoint investments in these sectors and has been involved in the firm’s investment in Viajanet.Prior to joining Redpoint, Adil was a Senior Analyst in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs where he focused on high-growth clean technology and renewable energy companies, power and utility companies, and industrials. Adil’s client coverage included strategic business development and financing discussions, execution of private investments, public offerings and M&A processes including the Amyris IPO and the Clipper Windpower sale to United Technologies Corporation. Prior to investment banking, Adil worked as an Financial Analyst for a wealth management team managing over $10B in assets in the Goldman Sachs San Francisco office. Adil earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Farooq Javed – Associate, Rho Ventures

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 Farooq Javed is with Rho Ventures.He joined Rho in 2010 from Battery Ventures, where he focused on early, growth, and buyout stage investments in the communications and digital media sectors and was part of the team that led Battery’s investment in Groupon. Prior to Battery, he participated in the United States and Canadian auctions of wireless spectrum as an investor and entrepreneur. Farooq has also held positions as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, advising Fortune 500 consumer and industrial goods companies on strategy, and The Brattle Group, advising companies and governments on economic and financial matters.He received a B.A. with honors in economics from Washington University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Sarfaraz Rehman – CEO The Dawood Foundation

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 Sarfaraz is a chartered accountant with 28 years of professional workexperience, mainly in the FMCG industry, with some Healthcare experience.He started his career with Unilever in 1983 and spent time in Finance, MarketingServices and Business Development Projects.Moving on to Smithkline Beecham, he was involved in the Merger and StrategicPlanning role.Later he spent several years with Jardine Matheson mainly in businessdevelopment and then set up a logistics service provider for them.He then moved to PepsiCo and among other assignments, he spent severalyears managing the Pakistan and Afghanistan Unit. He won several performanceawards in this successful tenure.On his return to Pakistan, he launched Engro Foods Limited and for over sixyears was in the position of C.E.O. EFL is an iconic success reaching $400mn in5 years and is an acknowledged business leader in Pakistan.In 2012 he decided to move out of commercial operations into philanthropy andis now heading Dawood Foundation.His family comprises of a wife and two sons.

Noman Ali, Founder & CEO Peanut Labs

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 Noman Ali is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Peanut Labs, an innovative company that provides monetization for social media sites through advertising and market research surveys. Noman has over 10 years of experience working for startups focusing initially on creating an online presence for brands and later on social media and online gaming. He co-founded Peanut Labs in 2005, and has been instrumental in connecting market researchers with social media giving the social media industry a revolutionary monetization platform along the way. The company went on to becoming the market leader in social media sampling and was acquired by e-Rewards in October 2010 to be part of one of the largest permission-based digital data collection and advertising offers companies with over 1000 employees worldwide.

Noman is a frequent conference speaker and has spoken at a number of national and international events covering social media, gamification, market research and monetization.

Shayan Zadeh Co- Founder of Zoosk

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 Shayan Zadeh is co-founder and co-CEO of Zoosk, the social network with over 50 million members worldwide. Prior to starting Zoosk, he held program manager and software engineer titles at Microsoft. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Sharif University of Technology, a Master of Science in computer science from University of Maryland, and an MBA from University of Washington. In his spare time, Shayan helps other startups as an adviser and/or an angel investor.

Brian Wong, CEO Kiip

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 Brian Wong is the founder and CEO of kiip (pronounced “keep”), a mobile rewards network, backed by True Ventures. Kiip has raised over $4.4 million in funding to date and is redefining the advertising industry through a “moments”-based value model, versus the traditional attention based screen estate model. Very recently, Kiip was listed by Forbes as one of the “4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List”. Brian was also recently listed to AdAge’s Creativity Top 50.

Techcrunch and the Wall Street Journal called Brian the “youngest person to ever receive funding by a venture capital firm”. He was an early Bachelors of Commerce graduate from the University of British Columbia, graduating at the age of 18, after skipping four grades in elementary and high school. He was recently lauded in Mashable as one of “The Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs to Watch”, and the Vancouver Sun called him “a budding internet visionary”. He was also recently a recipient of the Top 20 Under 20 awards in all of Canada.

Before starting kiip, Brian was responsible for key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com. He also launched the Digg Android mobile app, adding to the company’s rising mobile presence.

Rahim Fazal, CEO Involver

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 Rahim Fazal is Chief Strategist and Co-Founder at Involver where he focuses on business development, product strategy, recruiting and evangelism. He is a three-time company co-founder, including a web-hosting company he sold for $1.5 million dollars while taking his senior year final exams during high school. He then started a web services platform business and eventually took it public, becoming one
of the youngest directors of a publicly traded company in the United States. Rahim completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business, the top ranked business school in Canada, and was the youngest student in the school’s 80-year history to be accepted without a prerequisite undergraduate degree. He is a frequent and popular speaker to high school and college students across the U.S. and Canada and also an advisor to the Extreme Entrepreneurship Education Corporation in New York City. Rahim currently sits on the Direct Marketing Association’s Social Media Council. He has been named one of America’s “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30″ by Inc. Magazine, and one of the “Top 25 Digital Thought-Leaders” by iMedia.

David Helgason, Co-founder & CEO Unity

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 David Helgason has served as CEO of the game technology company Unity Technologies since cofounding it in 2003. Unity Technologies’ vision is to democratize game development, and develop technology for the next generation of the industry. From in-browser MMO, through mobile, to social, casual, serious, and beyond. The most amazing thing is that it’s working: Unity is used by dozens of big game publishes and media companies, hundreds of smaller studios, and thousands of independent professionals, hobbyists, students, and 14 year old boys. Over 400 schools worldwide use Unity to teach or train students.

Rehan Jalil – venture advisor at Mayfield Fund

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 Rehan Jalil is a venture advisor to Mayfield Fund. He was President of WiChorus (A Tellabs Company) and SVP, Mobile Internet of Tellabs. He led WiChorus as founder and CEO through inception, product delivery, major customer wins and eventual merger with Tellabs for about $200 million in cash and stock. Previously, he was chief architect at Aperto Networks, where he led development of broadband wireless silicon and carrier-grade equipment. Rehan also worked for Sun Microsystems, where he contributed in development of one of the industry’s earliest advanced multi-core multithreaded processor for throughput computing and graphics applications. At Siemens, he managed large-scale projects related to system-level design and implementation.

He contributes to social entrepreneurship projects, is on the board of OPEN and Koshish and is a charter member of TiE. He holds a Bachelor of electrical engineering from NED University and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and has 25 patents pending. He was named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist for 2010.

Aquila Ismail – Author

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 Aquila Ismail nee Rahman was born in East Pakistan and moved to Karachi in 1972 following the creation of Bangladesh. She has worked as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the NED University, Karachi, and as Development Engineer for Glaxo Laboratories Pakistan. She has written extensively on literature, women’s issues as well as development concerns of Karachi in leading Pakistani newspapers and magazines. Ismail continues to document the work of Karachi based development NGOs, the Orangi Pilot Project [OPP] and the Urban Resource Center [URC]. Her published works include translated fiction such as Harvest of Anger and Other Stories, Godavari, Reflections in a Cracked Mirror and Zindabahar Lane. She has edited and written several non-fiction books including, The Microcredit Program of the Orangi Charitable Trust, and articles in the international magazine Environment and Urbanization. She currently lives in Abu Dhabi with her family.

Mahmood Panjwani EIR Artiman Ventures & Chairman Infinisim

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 Mahmood Panjwani is an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Artiman Ventures, an early stage SiliconValley based Venture Capital Firm. He is also the Chairman of Infinisim, Inc. a technology startupin Electronic Design Automation.Mahmood was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of iManage Inc. (NASD: IMAN) that mergedwith Interwoven Inc. (NASD: IWOV) in 2003. During his tenure at iManage, Mahmood led thecompany from its inception in 1995 to its IPO in 1999 and finally its merger with Interwoven.In the pre IPO phase, Mahmood took on the challenge of displacing a formidable competitor,a publicly held company, by focusing on building superior products and attaining unsurpassedcustomer satisfaction and becoming the de facto standard in the legal industry. In the post IPOphase, Mahmood was responsible for building a world class profitable company with technologythat was a leader in its category, a worldwide organization of over 250 people. He successfullyled the company through its toughest period during the technology downturn of early 2000s.He accomplished this by practicing sound financial discipline, maintaining the motivation of atalented team and building a trusting relationship with the Wall Street investors and analysts.Post iManage’s merger, Mahmood stayed on as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Interwoven, toensure a successful transition. Before iManage, Mahmood was the founder and CEO of Q-ImageCorporation, a privately held software consulting company for 7 years. His prior experiencesinclude working in Software Engineering with companies such as Northern Telecom and AT&TBell Labs.Mahmood has a BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from theUniversity of Illinois. He is a board member of the American Pakistan Foundation (APF), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the social and economic condition of the people ofPakistan. He is a charter member of Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN), and The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE).

Sharon Vosmek CEO of Astia

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 Sharon Vosmek has been CEO of Astia since 2007, previously joining as COO in 2004. As CEO of Astia, Sharon has an unwavering passion and a uniquely well-suited background to drive forward the organization’s mission of propelling women’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fueling innovation and driving economic. Under her guidance, the Astia community of investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders has grown ten-fold and now spans North America, Europe and India.Previously, Sharon founded SJ Vosmek & Associates and held management positions at American Express and in the office of U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini. Ms. Vosmek currently serves as founder and lead of the We Own It Collaboration, an effort of over 65 organizations globally committed to exploring women’s participation in high growth businesses and identifying solutions to move us forward. She also serves on the Steering Committee for the Cherie Blair Foundation, the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst Experts Advisor Group, Illuminate Ventures Advisory Board, and the City of San Francisco Mayor’s Commission on Biotech (MayBAC). Sharon has a master’s in public policy and administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a bachelor’s in political science from Arizona State University.

Ammar Hanafi, Partner Alloy Ventures

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 Ammar is a partner at Alloy Ventures focusing on investments in cloud computing infrastructure and services. Ammar previously served as Vice President of New Business Ventures at Cisco Systems and Vice President of Corporate Business Development prior to that, where he was responsible for Cisco’s acquisitions, acquisition integration, investment, and joint venture activity on a global basis. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a member of the Corporate Business Development Group. During Ammar’s tenure at Cisco, he helped the company complete over 100 investment and M&A transactions, including 50 acquisitions and over $750 million in venture capital investments. Ammar
received a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1988) and an MBA from Stanford University (1995).

Naveed Sherwani, President & CEO at Open-Silicon

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 Dr. Sherwani brings over 23 years of experience in technical engineering and general management to his position as President and CEO of Open-Silicon. Prior to co-founding Open-Silicon, Dr. Sherwani was the founder and General Manager of Intel Microelectronics Services where he led efforts to promote the use of disciplined ASIC methodologies to improve design efficiency and time-to-market. He currently sits on the GSA (Global Semiconductor Association) Board of Directors.

Naveed co-architected the Intel microprocessor design methodology and environment that has been used in various leading microprocessors. Prior to joining Intel, he worked as a consultant for various telecommunications and computer companies, mainly focusing on ASIC design flow and cell library design to improve time-to-market. He also served as a Professor at Western Michigan University, where his research concentrated on VLSI Physical Design Automation, combinatorics, and graph algorithms.

Dr. Sherwani is the author of the main textbook on Physical Design, which is widely used at major universities around the world. In addition, he has authored or co-authored 3 books and over 100 articles on various aspects of Physical Design Automation and ASICs.
In the last 15 years, he has been a frequent speaker at DAC, ICCAD, the International Conference on VLSI and other major conferences around the world.

Dr. Sherwani received his Ph.D from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ashkan Soltani, Independent privacy researcher, WSJ technical consultant on privacy

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 Ashkan Soltani is an independent researcher and consultant specializing in consumer privacy and security on the Internet. He has more than 15 years of experience as a technology consultant and has published three major reports on the extent and means of online tracking: “KnowPrivacy: The Current State of Web Privacy, Data Collection, and Information Sharing”, “Flash Cookies and Privacy”, and “Flash Cookies and Privacy II” (addendum here). His work highlights the prevalence and practice of tracking online, including the use of specific technologies designed to circumvent consumer privacy choices online. He has served as a staff technologist in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission and also worked as the primary technical consultant on the Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series investigating Internet privacy and online tracking.

Finally, he recently testified as an independent expert in front of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on “The State of Online Consumer Privacy” and the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy”

Shahab Riazi, Enterprise Software Professionals at SAP

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 Shahab Riazi is a veteran Enterprise Software professional who works on enhancing the revenue stream for SAP Services with some of the biggest corporations including Intel, Microsoft, GE and HP. Before this Shahab worked at Mercury Interactive on managing and enhancing the support and services revenue for the company.

Having worked with large enterprises Shahab has unique insight with respect to corporate social responsibility effort and has played an active role in advising companies on sustainability, while promoting SAP’s unique sustainability products. He is part of the SAP Sustainability champion’s group for the local campus of 2000+ people in Palo Alto