Steve Blank | Lecturer, Technology Venture Formation | UC Berkeley, Mr. Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 28 years of experience in high technology companies and general management as a founder and executive. He has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978. His last company, E.piphany, started in his living room in 1996. His other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company (Rocket Science Games). Total score, two large craters (Rocket Science and Ardent), one dot.com bubble home run (E.piphany) and several base hits. Concurrently, Mr. Blank teaches at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and at the Columbia Business School. There he created the "Customer Development in High Tech Enterprise" course. He is the author of the course text "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" (http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch). Steve is on the board of Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN), as well as two private companies; CafePress.com, an on-line marketplace and IMVU, a 3D IM social network. Steve is also on the board of Audubon National, is Chairman of California Audubon and was appointed by the governor to the California Coastal Commission.

Suzan Briganti | President and founder |Totem, Suzan Briganti is the President and founder of Totem, a strategic marketing consultancy in Palo Alto, California. Raised in Silicon Valley drinking the innovation "Kool-Aid," Suzan spent 25 years in leadership positions on such clients as Bank of America, Procter & Gamble and Kellogg's, helping to create and build global blockbuster brands. She started Totem when she was on sabbatical and former clients "stalked her" at home. Today, Totem offers strategic counsel to clients facing defining opportunities, across B2C, B2B and non-profit sectors, from high tech to financial services, from packaged goods to social innovation. With impressive senior consultants from Cisco, Intel and Garage.com, Totem is increasingly helping early stage European companies entering the US market. Suzan is a frequent speaker and instructor on strategic marketing.

Vijay Chattha | Founder & Cheif Talker | VSC/AppLauncherPR, Vijay Chattha has led strategy and public relations efforts for over 35 mobile and gaming companies resulting in over $1B in exits and transactions. VSC's AppLaunchPR clients have experienced over 350 million downloads on and off deck since 2002. Most notably on the PR front, Vijay and VSC launched Admob (acquired by Google for $750m, largest mobile startup deal in the u.s.), Virtual Zippo Lighter (reaching more than 11,000,000 downloads to make it the most popular branded app of all time), Romplr, the iphone remix platform, and buzzd, the real-time social event/activity guide with currently over a half million users. Vijay has great speaking experience and is one the most respected executives in the industry, most recently speaking at both SXSW & CTIA: Mobile Web and Apps Forum. He is a great fit for any track on advertising, marketing and monetization strategies as well as social media and viral marketing strategies for mobile apps. Vijay's insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Examiner, OMMA and written pieces for TechCrunch and BusinessInsider. Vijay Chattha was named one of the young PR professionals of the year by PRWeek in 2006.

Spencer Greene | Vice President of Corporate Development | Juniper Networks, Spencer Greene joined Juniper Networks in 1999 through the acquisition of Layer Five Inc., an intellectual property development and licensing company he co-founded, and serves as Vice President of Corporate Development. In this role, he is responsible for Juniper Networks' mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, and creation of new strategic partnerships. Prior to this, Greene was Vice President of Product Management for Juniper Networks' IP core and edge router product lines. During his seven years with the company, Greene has also led a number of engineering development teams. Prior to Layer Five, Greene was in the semiconductor and personal computer industries, holding marketing and engineering positions. Greene also worked in Yokogawa Electric's research laboratories in Tokyo, Japan. Greene holds bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and French from Rice University, as well as a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He also holds numerous patents in the networking and graphics acceleration fields.

Rob Goldman | Founder & CEO | Threadsy, Rob Goldman is the creator and Founder of Threadsy, the worlds first integrated communication client that combines email, facebook, twitter and the broader social web into a very new and cool communications tool. Goldman also co-founded Geodelic, where he currently serves as a board member. He served as a board member at teracent, which was acquired by google in November 2009 . Prior to that they were pioneering a new generation of dynamic advertising. He currently serves as a board member at thisnext, a pioneering social shopping company, and finally at announce media which is a very successful vertical content network. Prior to Threadsy and Geodelic, Goldman held various executive positions at Shopping.com from 2001 through their IPO and subsequent acquisition by eBay, where he ran Shopping.com’s US business Unit from 2006 to 2007.

Scott Smith | Partner | Hanson Bridgett, chairs the firm's Emerging Companies practice. His practice emphasizes corporate, tax and real estate law. Scott has significant experience counseling corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and nonprofits in connection with all aspects of operations. He works with private and public companies on equity financings, debt transactions, securities matters, mergers and acquisitions and general business matters. Scott also represents emerging companies in connection with entity formation issues, licensing and other technology related matters. He works with venture capital firms in connection with fund formations and equity investments, as well as large institutional investors in connection with their investment activities. Scott regularly advises clients regarding federal and state tax matters and his work often involves a complex tax planning component. In addition to Scott's corporate and tax practice, he often works with real estate owners and developers in connection with partnership and joint venture structuring and tax planning, acquisitions, dispositions, financing and leasing.

Gary Swart | CEO | oDesk, Gary brings to oDesk a passion for helping small businesses succeed and more than 17 years of experience in the enterprise software market. Before oDesk, as the VP of Worldwide Sales for Intellibank, he was responsible for building the sales organization, but Gary's enthusiasm for small businesses was born during his tenure as a Business Unit Executive for IBM's Rational Software Product Group, where he led Small and Medium Business sales for the Americas. Gary came to Rational through its merger with Pure Software, where he held sales, management and leadership positions.Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.