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Jordan Mitchell, has 12 years and 4 Web technology startups under his belt. He most recently served as COO/Director of 121Media, Inc., an online contextual/behavioral advertising network in England which he helped take public in December 2004 (AIM: PHRM). Prior to this, Jordan was CEO and founder of Siaxx Corporation, developing the first "universal remote control" for IT systems management. In 1995, Jordan founded an internet solutions consultancy which, through a series of mergers and acquisitions, grew to 500 employees by 2000 and the Pacific Northwest's largest. Previously, Jordan was a controller for an advertising firm in Seattle, and prior to that spent four years with an international CPA firm in San Francisco. Jordan is a graduate from Michigan State University. View Jordan's blog ...
Mike Dierken, has 20 years experience in software engineering, architecture and engineering management. Most recently at Amazon, Mike led the engineering team responsible for the storage and publishing of every offer listed for sale on Amazon's global e-commerce platform. Prior to Amazon, Mike worked for a number of years at several startups focusing on XML, e-commerce, internet-scale Web services and publish/subscribe technologies. Mike is an active participant in the Web technology community having been one of the early champions of the REST architectural style and having helped found the Apache XML open-source project. View Mike's blog ...
Neal Richter, has 10 years experience in software engineering and engineering management. For the past seven years Neal has been working actively in the field of artificial intelligence -- as a PhD student at Montana State University and Project Manager of the research team at RightNow Technologies. Neal's focus is on the use of reinforcement learning, machine learning, data mining, text clustering, natural language processing, and information retrieval techniques with a singular focus on developing software able to utilize user interactions as part of a learning algorithm to enable subsequent users to benefit from previous users' activities. View Neal's blog ...
R. Michael Crill. As a high-tech CFO since 1995, Mike has provided financial stewardship to high-tech startups, typically focusing on their initial years of intense growth. He has helped raise over $60MM in angel and venture funding in more than 20 different funding rounds and has completed mergers and acquisitions. Mike's work history includes ExpertCity (GoToMyPC), Software.com, Sandpiper, SeaDragon, Callwave, Catalytic Solutions, AlliedSignal and many others. Mike holds a BS from Syracuse University, magna cum laude, with majors in Finance, Personnel and Industrial Relations, and Managerial Law and a Military Science minor. Mike graduated at the top of his class with an MBA from Duke University.
Doug Schulze. Doug has over 15 years in high-technology markets with both Fortune 50 and startup companies. The common theme throughout Doug's career is the rapid development and deployment of products into emerging markets primarily leveraged through partnerships with the market segment leaders. He has broad experience in marketing, sales, corporate development and general management at public companies (such as Intel, Loudeye Corp, Convera) and private organizations. While at Intel, Doug chartered the expansion plans into e-commerce managing an acquisition of a segment leader, overseeing the integration and driving the division's P&L. Responsibilities at Loudeye included the marketing, strategy planning, and the execution of a corporate investment round, successful IPO and follow-on acquisition of 8 expansion M&A transactions. Doug has a degree from Cal Poly Pomona and Claremont Colleges and is also a graduate of Harvard's Business executive and continuation programs.