Southeast Venture Conference 2008

With over 8 billion page views per month, San Francisco-based Craigslist has become a household name with forums in 450 cities worldwide. Craig Newmark, its founder, has become an Internet icon in the process, winning such accolades as Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. He spends a considerable amount of time on community efforts and sits on the boards of Sunlight Foundation, OneVoice, FactCheckED, VotoLatino Consumers Union.

John Sculley
Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple

One of the top business innovators over the past 30 years, Sculley built his reputation as President and CEO of Pepsi. By the time he left to join Steve Jobs at Apple, Pepsi had become the number one packaged soft drink in America. After ten years as CEO of Apple, he left having the number one market share position of PC's in the world. Today, Sculley continues to be a visionary and business innovator as a venture partner at Rho Capital Partners.

Jim Steele
President, Salesforce.com

The worldwide leader in on-demand CRM services, Salesforce.com has been a continuous innovative disruptor since its inception. As president, Steele is charged with advancing the companies winning on-demand strategy, customer success, and growing the customer base.

Wayne Jackson
CEO, Sourcefire

Under Jackson's leadership, Sourcefire has grown from a fledgling open source startup to a category leader with a successful IPO. Previously Jackson co-founded Riverbed Technologies and served as its CEO until a cool $1 billion exit.

Frank Bonsal
Founding Partner, NEA

One of the godfathers of the venture capital industry, Bonsal is a founding partner of one of the leading venture firms in the country, NEA, with over $8 billion under management. Bonsal has been a key investor and advisor to a number of venture capital firms and is a founding member of Red Abbey Venture Partners.

Todd Forrest
Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

With Hummer Winblad since 2002, Forrest is a partner for one of the most highly respected venture firms in the country. Located in San Francisco, Forrest and his firm focus entirely on the early-stage software industry.

Mark Barry
Partner, OpenView Venture Partners

The Founder and former Managing Director of Microsoft's Emerging Business Unit, Barry now focuses on expansion stage capital for high-growth software, internet, and technology-enabled companies.

Renee LaBran
Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners

LaBran co-founded Rustic Canyon, an $800 million west coast firm considered one of the leaders of a new generation of private equity firms. Focusing on growth stage companies, LaBran's investment focus has been on software, digital media and business and consumer services.

Roger Krakoff
Venture Partner, Sigma Partners

Krakoff focuses on early-stage investments in information technology, enterprise software, technology-enabled media and information services for a $2 billion fund that's been a pillar of the venture capital industry for over 20 years.

Jeffrey Bussgang
General Partner, IDG Ventures

Bussgang's investment and entrepreneurial experience is in consumer, Internet commerce, marketing services, software, and wireless start-ups. His blog on helping demystify the venture business for entrepreneurs, "Seeing Both Sides", can be found at www.bostonvcblog.com

Khaled Nasr
Partner, Interwest Partners

A veteran to technology start-ups in Silicon Valley, Nasr focuses on investments in the data center and communications sectors, including systems, software and semiconductors for a $2 billion fund.

Rick Rudman
CEO, Vocus

Under Rudman's leadership, Vocus has produced 10 years of record growth and product innovation including a successful IPO. A leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management, Vocus is available in five languages and in use around the world.

Alex Pinchev
Worldwide Sales, Red Hat

Pinchev is an Executive Vice President, in charge of worldwide sales at Red Hat. He holds an impressive international career and has developed an outstanding knowledge of US, Israeli, European, and Pacific Rim markets. Previously, Pinchev served as Chairman, CEO, and Founder of MainControl, Inc.

Karin McKinnell
Vice President, Nasdaq

McKinnell is responsible for the new listings and IPO business in the US for the Nasdaq Stock Market. Additionally, she is a key member of the Corporate Client Group serving an unprecedented 40% of the top 25 Nasdaq issuers.

Catharine Burkett
Camden Partners Holdings, LLC

With extensive experience as a limited partner, Burkett over the last 20 years has designed, built and managed private equity funds for corporate pensions, foundations, and two major university endowments.

John Huntz
Executive Director, Arcapita Ventures

Huntz heads the venture capital arm of Arcapita, a dedicated fund focusing on growth stage enterprises primarily in the US. A leader in the southeast's venture community, Huntz is the founder and chairman of the Atlanta Venture Forum.

Hooman Radfar
CEO, Clearspring Technologies

Radfar founded and serves as CEO of Clearspring Technologies, the leading provider of widget syndication services to publishers and advertisers. Named by BusinessWeek as one of tech's best entrepreneurs, his highly rated blog can be found at www.widgify.com.

Philip Bronner
General Partner, Novak Biddle Venture Partners

Serving on numerous boards in the Mid-Atlantic region, Bronner focuses on investments in information technology with experience in media technology and high-tech advertising.

Chad Morgan
Director of Investments, University System of Maryland Foundation

Morgan is responsible for the private equity allocation of the Maryland University System endowment. He also serves as a generalist focusing on international markets and public equities.

Reggie Bradford
Founder & CEO, Vitrue

A rapidly growing social media firm, Vitrue already boasts a growing roster of customers that represent some of the world's leading media companies and consumer brands. Bradford, a serial entrepreneur, also served as President at Tandberg Television, President & CEO of N2 Broadband, and CMO at WebMD.

Ravi Ugale
Managing Director, Crossbow Ventures

Ugale has shown a distinct ability to source, build and exit investments successfully in his 22 years of investment and operations experience. Among other entrepreneurial community involvements, Ugale is the founder of TiE Florida.

Scot Wingo
President & CEO, ChannelAdvisor

A serial entrepreneur and innovator, Wingo co-founded ChannelAdvisor in addition to co-founding and serving as the CEO of AuctionRover.com (acquired by GoTo.com) and Stingray Software (acquired by RogueWave).

Matthew Shaw
Managing Director, Sunrock Ventures

Representing a new $100 million fund based in Florida focusing on investments in the southeast, Shaw brings a wide array of experience is the region. He previously served in the same role with Crossbow Ventures, a $170 million fund with a similar focus.

Vimal Patel
Principal, Sierra Ventures

Based in Silicon Valley, Patel brings a combination of experience from both the Southeast and on the West Coast. He current focus is on Clean Tech, Infrastructure Hardware, and Semiconductors for a $1.5 billion fund.

Peter Harrison
CEO, GlobalLogic

The 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the North-Atlantic Region, Harrison currently heads GlobalLogic, the world leader in the rapidly expanding Global Product Develpment market.

Greg Ager
Partner, Updata Advisors

Ager brings 16 years of investment banking experience, having completed approximately 60 transactions aggregating over $7 billion in value for emerging and middle market technology companies.

Kathy Harris
Partner, Noro-Moseley

With more than 20 years of financial and private equity experience, Harris focuses on identifying and evaluating attractive early and growth stage companies for Noro-Moseley Partners. Founded in 1983, Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley is one of the oldest and largest venture capital firms in the southeast.

Paul Slaats
Managing Director, Internet Capital Group

With over 20 years of experience and a succesful track record as a operating executive and venture capitalists, Slaats provides an extraordinary level of expertise in emerging interent-based business models, leading mulitiple investments in on-demand internet software and services.

Kip Frey
Partner, Intersouth Partners

Frey specializes in information technology companies at the largest venture fund in North Carolina. Having previously served as CEO at several firms and guiding them to exits, Frey brings a range of experience in the entrepreneurial world.

John Burke
True Ventures

Burke focuses on investing in promising entrepreneurs at the earliest stages in the highest-growth segments of the technology market. Throughout his 20 years of building and growing companies, Burke focuses on the guiding principle of team in developing early stage success.

Marcin Szajda
UNC Management Company

Szajda manages the private equity, venture capital, real estate, energy & natural resources, and distressed dept for the University of North Carolina's $2.5 billion endowment. In addition, Szajda serves on the advisory boards of several private capital partnerships.

David LaVallee
Managing Director and Co-founder, Revolution Partners

LaVallee co-founded Revolution Partners, an investment bank specializing in M&A and private capital fundraising for emerging growth companies. Revolution's focus is in support of small to mid-sized technology companies.

Amit Srivastava
President, Entrepia Ventures

Entrepia Ventures manages VC funds that invest in global expansion-stage technology companies. After investing, they actively support business development initiatives of their portfolio companies in Japan and other Asian markets. Srivastava offers investment experience in the United States, India, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Dr. Shan Nair
Co-founder, Nair & Co

Dr. Nair is an Oxford University Ph.D. nuclear physicist and Charter Member of TiE-Boston with a high technology/software and accounting background. Possessing an excellent understanding of international issues, Dr. Nair has lived in 13 countries and speaks regularly about emerging markets and international trends.

Michael Guptan
Managing Director, Stanford Group

Guptan is Managing Director and head of technology investment banking in Stanford Group's investment banking division. He possesses over 15 years of experience in strategic and financial advisory to technology companies, having worked transactions aggregating over $10 billion.

Laura Lederman
Principal, William Blair

For 18 years, Lederman has covered technology software stocks for William Blair and now focuses her time on software as a service. Lederman also provides expertise across the landscape of technology, having covered everything from mainframes to personal computers.

John Alouf
Director of Private Equity, Virginia Retirement System

Serving the Commonweath of Virginia's $60 billion pension fund, the Private Equity Program has committed over $9 billion to over 200 partnerships, Alouf allocates investments to a mix of venture capital, buyout, growth capital, mezzanine, distressed, and energy funds.

Robert Power
Vice President, NYSE Euronext

Power serves as VP for the Global Corporate Client Group for the NYSE Euronext. In this role, he is responsible for new listings on the NYSE Arca, the NYSE Euronext US based listings platform for emerging growth companies.

Fitzgerald's corporate and securities practice focuses on the representation of public and private technology clients with matters ranging from early-stage venture capital to joint listings of publically traded securities on US and foreign exchanges to complex cross-border transactions.

Chris Hoffman
TripleTree

Hoffman possesses over 19 years of experience in the technology industry as a operating executive, entrepreneur and analyst. His current role is that of Research Director as well as assisting on M&A and financing engagements across the technology sector.

John Fogg
Hutchison Law Group

Fogg is the leader of his firm's M&A group after coming from Silicon Valley 3 years ago. His areas of specialization include initial and secondary public offerings, venture capital financings, m&a, corporate governance and securities compliance.

Jai Saboo
Saboo Business Group

Saboo is a serial entrepreneur, continuing to seek and tap technology and 'old economy' opportunities in the US and India. He possesses a strong understanding of both business cultures as well as a deep business network in India and the US, both in government as well as industry.

John M. Paris, Jr.
Williams Mullen

Paris is the leader of the private equity and venture capital team at Williams Mullen. The core of his practice is in securities, but he also spends time in tax counseling, structuring, and handling capital transactions, in addition to maintaining a corporate practice.

Rob Marks
McGuire Woods

Marks has extensive experience representing private equity funds, as well as small and mid-sized companies. He has devoted substantial efforts to the special interests of private equity funds at every stage of their investment cycle.

Thomas J. Knox
Morrison & Foerster

Named Washington's top corporate finance lawyer in 2007, Knox represents public and private companies on a wide variety of corporate, finance and technology matters. He executes a wide range of transactions for his clients, including IPO's, private equity and venture capital investments, and M&A transactions.

Helga Leftwich
Hutchison Law Group

Leftwich focuses on corporate and securities law and transactional matters for life science and technology companies at all stages of development. Her areas of specialty include venture capital financings, public offerings, m&a, corporate governance, and securities compliance.