Marc Randolph
Co-Founder, Netflix

Marc Randolph is a serial veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He was co-founder of the online DVD rental service Netflix in 1997, serving as their founding CEO. Marc helped Netflix become an iconic name and revolutionized the at home movie entertainment industry, which today has a market cap of over $4 billion. Marc later handed off the reigns of CEO to fellow co-founder and current CEO, Reed Hastings, and served on the board of directors until his retirement from the company in 2004.

Prior to founding Netflix, Marc was on the founding team of more than half a dozen other successful start-ups in the e-commerce, media, enterprise software and portable device markets – all of which went on to IPOs or other liquidity events. A few of those companies included IntegrityQA, Visioneer, Microwarehouse, and MacUser Magazine.

Since leaving Netflix, Marc has been an active investor and executive mentor for numerous early stage tech companies and currently sits on the boards of Bookrenter.com, ReadyForce and Schedulicity; as well as on numerous advisory boards.

Chuck Templeton
Founder, OpenTable
Co-Founder, OhSoWe.com

Chuck Templeton created and defined the restaurant reservation space after founding OpenTable in 1998, after his wife spent a frustrating evening one night trying to make dinner reservations for his visiting in-laws one night in San Francisco. The online central reservation website for diners has since seated over 200 million diners and serves counts more than 20,000 restaurants as customers around the world. OpenTable’s successful IPO in 2009 was a milestone that helped to reopen the public market for tech companies.

Now residing in Chicago, since leaving OpenTable, Chuck serves as an active investor and advisor to startups and has most recently launched OhSoWe.com, a website that enables local communities to share physical items. Chuck, who is passionate about entrepreneurship, is currently on the board of companies such as GrubHub.com, Rentcycle, PVPower.com and I-GO Car Sharing.

Mark Heesen
President, National Venture Capital Association

Mark Heesen has advocated for the venture capital industry, entrepreneurship and innovation for nearly two decades, first as NVCA's head of public policy and, since 1999 as the Association's president. Under Mark's leadership, the NVCA has grown in both scope and scale as it relates to its public policy agenda, research initiatives, and member programs. Mark is constantly engaged in legislative and regulatory issues surrounding information technology, life sciences and clean technology investing, providing strategic direction for the NVCA professional staff and managing a board of 26 venture capital practitioners.

Mark has taken a leadership position on behalf of the venture capital industry on issues such as carried interest taxation, financial services reform, the FDA regulatory approval process, highly skilled immigration, patent reform, U.S. competitiveness issues, energy reform, support for basic research funding and countless other policy issues that impact America's entrepreneurial ecosystem.

As the primary spokesperson for the venture capital industry, Mark is often called upon by the financial media, NVCA members, limited partners, and regional associations to offer insights and perspectives on trends and developments occurring within the asset class. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, a familiar and trusted source in news articles focusing on the venture industry, and a recurrent guest on CNBC and Bloomberg Television.

Paul Lee
Partner, Lightbank

Paul joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011. Previously, Paul was Managing Director and Group Head for Digital Ventures at Playboy Enterprises where he was responsible for acquiring, investing in, and launching digital businesses on behalf of the enterprise. In addition, Paul also spearheaded the digital strategy implemented in positioning the company for a take-private transaction. Prior to Playboy, Paul was a founding member and Senior Vice President at the Peacock Equity Fund, a joint venture between NBC Universal and GE Capital. In his capacity as a deal partner, some of Paul's representative Board and Observer seats include 4INFO, Greystripe, and Ramp. He first started in digital media as a co-founding employee of Click2Asia, a venture-backed online media company. Paul received a dual undergraduate degree in Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences (MMSS) and Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA.

Marshall Brain
Founder, HowStuffWorks.com

Marshall started the HowStuffWorks.com site as a hobby in 1998 and it was purchased for $250 million by Discovery Communications in 2007. HowStuffWorks has won multiple Webby awards, was among Time Magazine's "25 Web Sites We Can't Live Without", and has been one of PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" four times. In 2007 Discovery Communications purchased HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million.

As a well-known public speaker, Marshall frequently appears on radio and TV programs nationwide. He has appeared on everything from The Oprah Winfrey Show to CNN. He is the host of National Geographic's "Factory Floor With Marshall Brain". Marshall has written more than a dozen books and a number of widely known web publications including "How to Make a Million Dollars", "Robotic Nation", and "Manna".

Jalak Jobanputra
Venture Investor, New Venture Partners LLC

Jalak Jobanputra is a venture investor, most recently the Director of Mobile Investments at Omidyar Network, a fund started by Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay. While there, she invested in an East African mobile tech incubator, invested in an Indian mobile classifieds site, and closed Omidyar's largest for profit investment to date in Latin America. She has over 18 years experience in venture capital, media and technology. She was previously Senior Vice President at the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), co-founder of NYCSeed in 2008, Principal at New Venture Partners and Investment Manager at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Harry Weller
General Partner, NEA

Harry focuses on early stage consumer, enterprise and energy technology investing for NEA. He is frequently recognized as one of America’s top venture capitalists, with recent honors including the Forbes “Midas List”, Washingtonian’s "Titans of Technology” and Business Insider’s “Top 5 East Coast VCs”.

Harry's past investments include Echo Global (NASDAQ: ECHO), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Riverbed Technologies (acquired by Aether Systems), SourceFire (NASDAQ: FIRE), Vertica (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Vonage (NYSE: VG) and webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM, acquired by Software AG).

Reggie Aggarwal
CEO & Founder of Cvent

Cvent is the world’s largest provider of event management technology. Reggie has led the company from a two-person person startup facing bankruptcy to an 900-person company that has been profitable for 34 straight quarters. Cvent has helped manage 350,000 events in 50 countries, and thousands of Cvent customers will send $4 billion in group business to hotels and venues in 2011 through the Cvent Supplier Network, the company’s online marketplace that connects meeting planners with venues. In July 2011, Reggie led the company’s first round of funding in over a decade - a $136 million investment - which, according to the Wall Street Journal, is the biggest U.S. software funding deal since 2007 and the largest in the history of the events technology industry.

Reggie was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year® for Greater Washington in 2010, selected as one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 100 Top Tech Titans in 2011, and named a rising star of Washington by Forbes Magazine. In addition, Cvent was honored for the 2010 “Management Team of the Year” by the American Business Awards, and voted one of the “50 Best Places to Work” in Washington three years in a row by the Washington Business Journal. He has been featured in over 100 articles in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Businessweek, USA Today, Forbes, and The Washington Post, and has appeared on ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and CNN. Reggie is also Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Indian CEO High Tech Council (now the DC Chapter of TiE).

Eric Van Der Kleij
CEO, Tech City Investment Organisation, UK Government

Eric Van Der Kleij is the CEO of the UK Government’s Tech City Investment Organisation, responsible for accelerating the fastest-growing Tech cluster in Europe. Eric leads a unique team of fellow entrepreneurs, tech-sector specialists and Government professionals in developing Tech City as a magnet for technology-led investment, innovation and talent – making it one of the top three destinations in the world for technology companies, entrepreneurs and investors.

A successful technology entrepreneur himself, Eric has over 25 years’ experience, including founding and growing Adeptra, a leading fraud and collections technology business, for which he raised US$40 million in venture capital. Eric is an ‘entrepreneur-in-residence’ with the UK Government, previously acting as Chief Adviser to UKTI’s Directorate for Investment, implementing major investment projects with “exceptional global potential”.

Prior to this, he helped to establish and develop the UK Government’s Global Entrepreneur Programme, the national strategy for attracting ideas and entrepreneurs of exceptional potential to the UK. GEP is one of Europe’s most successful entrepreneurship-in-government organisations operating today.

Sean Marsh
Co-founder & General Partner, Point Judith Capital

Sean focuses on Internet investments including the Firm’s investments in Sittercity.com, Spotlight Ticket Management, Ignighter.com, Multiply.com (acquired by Naspers JSE: NPN), Optasite (acquired by SBA Communications NASDAQ: SBAC) and Vaultus Mobile Technologies which merged with Antenna Software. Prior to joining Point Judith as a General Partner, Sean worked with Point Judith on behalf of Village Ventures beginning in June of 2001 and in that role spent the majority of his time working on Fund I investments. Sean has also been a board member or observer to Newforma, Inc., Handmark, Inc., Tower Ventures which was acquired by American Tower (NYSE: AMT), Andover.net (NASDAQ: ANDN, sold to VA Software, NASDAQ: LNUX), and Medical Metrx Solutions, Inc. which was acquired by AIG. He has been actively involved as a venture investor in 18 companies that have achieved over $1 billion of value through multiple M&A and IPO events.

Lenard Marcus
Principal, Edison Ventures

Lenard Marcus is a member of the Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC investment team for Edison Ventures - identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, while participating in due diligence and structuring investments. His responsibilities include market research, technology assessment and financial analysis. He is actively involved in the entrepreneurial, technology and financing communities in the mid-atlantic region. Lenard began his career at IBM where he worked as a Financial Analyst for IBM Global Services. His main responsibilities were overseeing a budget of $80 million and partnering with international locations to decrease the project costs of IBM Global Services West. Later, Lenard worked for Princeton eCom—an online bill payment company—where, as Manager of B2C Implementations, he oversaw one of the largest joint ventures in the company’s history. Lenard also worked in healthcare investment banking for Wachovia Securities.

Karin Klein
New Initiatives, Bloomberg L.P.

Karin Klein leads New Initiatives at Bloomberg L.P. and focuses on business development and corporate development. With more than fifteen years of operating and venture capital experience, Karin assesses acquisition opportunities, crafts strategy and forms new partnerships for Bloomberg.

Before joining Bloomberg, Karin was a Vice President at Softbank where she sourced investment opportunities and worked closely with portfolio companies to help them build their businesses. Karin oversaw the firm's review of new investments and provided post-investment assistance to portfolio companies and their management teams, with a particular focus on business development.

Karin first developed her passion for building companies when she co-founded an educational training business for children. Karin is a mentor for TechStars and for First Growth and advisor to Buddy Media. She also enjoys speaking and serving as a judge at online media and entrepreneurship conferences.

Vincent Stegman
Manager, Private Markets Washington University Investment Management Company

Mr. Stegman joined Washington University Investment Management Company in January 2008. He is a member of the WUIMC Private Markets team, responsible for investments in private equity, venture capital, real estate and natural resources. Prior to joining WUIMC, Mr. Stegman was a Research Analyst at RMB Capital Management in Chicago conducting the firm’s investment manager due diligence and asset allocation research. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Stegman held various positions in the Consulting Group division of Smith Barney.

Robert Peterman
Head, Business Development - Technology, Toronto Stock Exchange

Robert is responsible for global strategy for the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) in the Technology and Clean Technology sectors. TSX and TSXV are home to over 130 Clean Technology and 180 Technology companies representing over $60B of market capitalization. Prior to working at TMX Mr. Peterman worked in Corporate Strategy for a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management. Mr. Peterman completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business; and is a council member of the Ivey Entrepreneurship Council; and an advisor to SVX (Social Venture Exchange).

Catharine Burkett
Principal, Camden Partners

Catharine manages the Camden Private Capital Fund of Funds. With extensive experience as a limited partner, Catharine over the last 20 years has designed, built and managed private equity funds for corporate pensions, foundations, and two major university endowments. Camden has holdings in such venture firms as Silicon Valley’s Bay Partners, Intersouth Partners, Inverness Capital Partners, Galen Partners and Sanderling Venture Partners.

Roland Reynolds
Managing Director, Industry Ventures

Roland Reynolds is Managing Director for Industry Ventures, which manages $1 billion of institutional capital. Industry Ventures invests with two strategies: 1) secondary funds that offer liquidity alternatives for direct investments and limited partnership interests and 2) funds of funds, known as Partnership Holdings, that invest in smaller funds with outsized return potential. Roland is responsible for sourcing and evaluating primary commitments and early secondary and is also actively involved in fundraising and maintaining limited partner relationships. He is on the investment committee for the Industry Ventures Partnership Holdings funds. Roland has eighteen years of experience, including eleven years in venture capital.

Previously, he was the founder and managing partner of Little Hawk Capital Management LLC which was acquired by Industry Ventures. He also spent five years as a Principal with Columbia Capital, a leading communications and information technology venture capital firm with $2.0 billion under management.

Mark Gorenberg
Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Mark Gorenberg is a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, where he joined co-founders Ann Winblad and John Hummer as Hummer Winblad Venture Partners began investing their first fund in 1990. Prior to Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Mark was at Sun Microsystems where he managed emerging new media areas and was a member of the original SparcStation team. Over the last 20 years Mark has served as a board member for numerous successful Hummer Winblad start-ups, including Omniture (IPO and acquired by Adobe), AdForce (IPO and acquired by CMGI), NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Scopus Technologies (IPO and acquired by Siebel). Currently, he serves as a Director of 6connect, Aria Systems, Cenzic, Crowd Factory, Domo,ontheFRONTIER, Replay Solutions, and Signal Demand.

In 2011, Mark was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a 21-person advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers (www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast). Mark is a member of the Steering Committee of Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, the Leadership Board of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation from 2001 to 2011.

Eric Bleeker
Senior Tech Analyst, The Motley Fool

Eric Bleeker is the Senior Technology Analyst for The Motley Fool an online community at www.fool.com dedicated to helping the world invest better. Eric has been a part of The Motley Fool since 2008 focusing on the internet services, semiconductor, and software industries. As an expert in investing in technology, Eric is regularly interviewed on CNBC, NPR's Marketplace, USA Today, Fox Business, the Chicago Tribune and many others. Prior to joining The Motley Fool Eric worked at Microsoft and has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst program. He lives with his dog Pepper and a world champion rhinoceros long-jumper named Smiley Pete.

Luke Burns
Partner, Ascent Venture Partners

Luke joined Ascent Venture Partners in 2006. Boston-based Ascent, which has been investing in early stage, emerging technology companies since 1985, manages five venture funds with total commitments of over $450M.

Luke has extensive experience advising growth businesses and has been part of the founding team for a number of ventures. Prior to Ascent, Luke was a management consultant with Bain & Company where he focused on the technology and pharmaceutical sectors. Before Bain, he was cofounder and CEO of e-commerce software provider Emercis Corporation which he led from product concept to successful exit. Luke has also held roles with venture firm Navigator Technology Ventures, and was cofounder of Cognika Corporation, a provider of cognitive computing solutions. He holds his AB magna cum laude in Chemistry & Physics from Harvard University and MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Ali Byrd
Senior Vice President, Private Company Market at SecondMarket

Ali Byrd is the regional head of the New York Private Company Market team for SecondMarket and is responsible for originating and executing all secondary transactions on behalf of private company issuers in Europe and on the East Coast. Ali brings over 15 years of operating and advisory experience within the technology industry spanning sales, marketing, consulting, finance and R&D. Ali joined SecondMarket in 2011 from LimeWire Corporation where he served as Vice President Strategy & Corporate Development, tasked with leading strategic planning and fund raising to facilitate a planned digital music company spin-out and launch for world's leading peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet software provider.

Prior to SecondMarket, Ali spent time with Primafuel and with the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers, where he coordinated deal team execution and conducted in-depth industry assessments, focused on software, services and communications technology clients. Previously, Mr. Byrd served nearly a decade at Microsoft, where he led due diligence and post-merger management and launched 3 global product introductions for the $12 billion Information Worker business unit.

Brian Rich
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Catalyst Investors

Brian Rich is responsible for the general management and investment policy of Catalyst and oversees the management of each fund portfolio. Since the mid-1990s Catalyst has invested in more than 50 portfolio companies and completed 100+ consolidating acquisitions. Prior to co-founding Catalyst, Brian founded and managed TD Capital, the entity that made Toronto Dominion Bank’s U.S.-based equity, mezzanine, and limited partnership investments from 1995 to 1999. As group head, he oversaw approximately 40 investments totaling more than $600 million. Before founding TD Capital, he was a Managing Director in the bank’s Media, Telecom & Technology Group. Prior to joining TD in 1990, Brian held positions at The Bank of New York and Intel Corporation.

Gregory Ager
Managing Director & Partner, Signal Hill

Greg brings 22 years of investment banking experience to his client engagements with a focus on SaaS & Enterprise Software and providing M&A and capital raising advice to growing technology companies. Greg has completed over $7 billion in transaction value and has strong relationships with leading PE and VC firms as well as high-profile strategic acquirers of IT companies (Oracle, IBM, NetSuite, Infor, HP, CA). Prior to Signal Hill, Greg was a Partner at Updata Advisors. Previously, he was Head of East Coast Software at Wachovia Securities and has held various roles at firms in Silicon Valley. Greg received an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale University.

Jason Caplain
General Partner & Co-Founder, Southern Capitol Ventures

Jason Caplain is a co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in software, e-commerce and digital media companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Jason is on the boards at ReverbNation and Zift Solutions and is a board observer at DoublePositive, eTix and WeddingWire. Before SCV, Jason was at Red Hat through the company’s successful IPO in 1999. Jason has received the Triangle Business Journal's "40 under 40" leadership award and was named by TechJournal South as one the Southeast's Internet Mavens. Read his blog www.southeastvc.com and follow Jason on Twitter @jcaplain.

Adrian Wilson
Founder/Managing Partner, Square 1 Ventures

Adrian is Founder and Managing Partner of Square 1 Ventures and is a member of its Investment Committee. Square 1 Ventures was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of Square 1 Financial, a bank holding company, to manage a series of venture capital fund-of-funds. Before joining Square 1, he was the co-founder and managing general partner of two early-stage, technology-focused venture capital firms: The Trelys Funds and Coastal Growth Partners. In this capacity, Adrian served on the board of directors for a dozen portfolio companies. Previously, he practiced law for over a decade with a concentration in corporate governance, M&A, and venture capital. He also worked in general management for Progress Energy. Adrian graduated with a BA from Davidson College and an MBA and JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Joseph Payne
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Eloqua

Joseph Payne brings more than 15 years of leadership and a proven track record with high growth software companies prior to Eloqua. His focus at Eloqua is to drive the company's strategic direction and to oversee all operations of the company. Joe was most recently President and COO of iDefense, a VeriSign company where he was responsible for the operations of the company. Prior to joining iDefense, he was President and CEO of eSecurity Inc., and President and CEO of eGrail. Joe previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at MicroStrategy and held marketing roles at The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, and Royal Crown Company.