Harvard Business School
#1 on the Thinkers 50 list of management thinkers, Author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Harvard Business School Professor, Founder of Innosight, Former Oxford University basketball player.
Clayton Christensen
Mark Goines
Intuit, Mint.com, WePay
Morgenthaler Ventures, Investor in Mint.com, Paycycle, Nolo, Twilio, UC Berkeley; car enthusiast, Chairman of the Los Altos School Board
Mark Johnson
Yahoo, NetFlix, Groupon
Groupon, Netflix, Yahoo. Advisor: Room77, Nor1. Indiana U, Princeton. US National Team Triathlete / Ironman.
Alex Lloyd
Zappos, Zynga, Tapulous
Accelerator Venture Capital Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Activision, Apple, Goldman Sachs. Investor: Zappos, Zynga, Tapulous. Penn, Wharton; heli-skiier.
Rebecca Lynn
Practice Fusion, Lending Club, Socrata
Venture Law Group, Next Card, P&G. Board Member: PageOnce, Socrata, LendingClub. University of Missouri, UC Berkley.
Mitch Kapor
Lotus, Mozilla, UUNet, Real Networks
Founder and Chairman of Lotus Corporation (IPO then sold to IBM), Mozilla, Real Networks, UUNet. Investor: StumbleUpon, Cardpool, Optimizely, Bit.ly. Yale.
Stephen Deberry
CircleLending, Prosper, InnoCentive
Bronze Investments, Omidyar Network, The California Endowment. UCLA, Oxford University. Former collegiate athlete (sprinter).
James Currier
Tickle, Ooga, Wonderhill
Founder of Tickle (sold to Monster), Ooga Labs, Wonderhill (sold to Kabam). Princeton, Harvard. A Cappella singer and consummate optimist.
Ben Golub
Plaxo, Verisign, Gluster
Plaxo (sold to Comcast), Verisign, Gluster (sold to Redhat). Board Member: TrustE. Princeton, Harvard.
Michael Tanne
AdForce, Wink, Icon Aircraft
AdForce (IPO), XDegrees (sold to MSFT), Wink (sold to Reunion.com), Verity (IPO). Investor/advisor in LinkedIn, ICON Aircraft, PayNearMe, BrightRoll, Cloudmark. University of Alberta, Stanford. Audiophile.
