Advisory

Scott Walchek

Scott Walchek was a founding member of Macromedia, an innovator in interactive media for entertainment and education, and a pioneer in internet shopping technologies. His C2B Technologies was acquired by Inktomi, in turn acquired by Yahoo!. He was the lead investor and a director of Baidu, China’s leading search engine, which in 2005, completed the most successful IPO by a foreign company in NASDAQ history.

Duncan Hill

Duncan Hill is a founder of Basecamp Partners, an incubator and accelerator for the development and commercialization of technology innovation. Duncan recently served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ventures West, and currently sits on the board of directors of RapidMind, and on advisory boards at Brainpark, Pushlife, Chango, Opalis, Cirba, Embotics, and ServiceMesh.

Robin Axon

Robin Axon is a founder of Basecamp Partners, an incubator and accelerator for the development and commercialization of technology innovation. Prior to founding BaseCamp Partners, Robin was a partner at Ventures West where he was part of the IT & Communications team with a focus on SaaS and wireless technology investments.

Harvey Gordon

Mr. Gordon is an experienced executive with extensive senior management experience in both private and public companies, domestic and international. For organizations that range in size from startups to $100M + , he has served as CEO and as business development, sales and marketing executive. Mr. Gordon has started his own businesses; taken a company public on a major American stock exchange; held key senior executive positions with several industry leading software and service firms, including Algorithmic Inc., Changepoint Corporation, Infonet Services Corporation and Magic Lantern Group.

Kevin Kew

Kevin Kew is an accomplished and enterprising leader who leverages 20+ years of domestic and international experience in developing high-impact strategic alliances and worldwide channel programs for the high-tech industry. Passionate about building and inspiring high-performance teams empowered to lead change and deliver results, Kew is currently Chief Information Officer for the Anthony H. Kruse Foundation. He is additionally responsible for early-stage investment opportunities that can assist the Foundation in growing its endowment.

Traci Fenton

Traci Fenton is the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc., an Austin based leadership and business design studio specializing in organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership. As a leading expert in organizational democracy, she is recognized as one of the business thought leaders of her generation as well as of the next generation of business.

Martin Cleaver

Martin’s early career focused on IT integration technologies. Serving major blue chip and top-tier finance organizations using large scale Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies, Martin succeeded in positions as hard-core systems programmer, IT architect and Enterprise Integration team leader. In 2004, after taking a year to backpack around South East Asia, Martin used his MBA skills to refocus his attention to understand industries, company strategy and optimal motivation of the knowledge worker and what collaboration means to enterprise competitiveness.

Alistair Croll

Alistair Croll is an analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, where he covers emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications; and a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, where he advises companies on product and marketing strategy. Prior to working at Bitcurrent, Alistair cofounded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as the research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.

Paul Eisen

Dr. Eisen specializes in conceptualization and design of world-class user-centered business solutions enabled by technology. He has led design of award-winning global portals, Web sites and rich internet applications.

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