Guy Kawasaki   (Guy's Slidespace)

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Truemors and a managing

director of Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a columnist

for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at

Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including

The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive

Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh

Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from

UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Hal R. Varian   (Hal's Slidespace)

Hal R. Varian is Chief Economist at Google. He is also Class of 1944

Professor at the School of Information (iSchool), the Haas School

of Business, and the Department of Economics at the University

of California, Berkeley. From 1995-2002, he served as the founding

dean of SIMS.

Professor Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the

Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences. He has served as Co-Editor of the American Economic

Review and is on the editorial boards of several journals.

Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic

theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics

and information economics. He is the author of two major

economics textbooks which have been translated into 22

languages. His current research has been concerned with

the economics of information technology and the information

economy. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business

strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network

Economy and writes a monthly column for the The New York Times.

Ross Mayfield   (Ross's Slidespace)

Ross Mayfield is CEO & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki

company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted

blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social

entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 2,000

customers with Software-as-a-Service, Appliance and Open Source

solutions. Mayfield partnered with Dan Bricklin, the creator of

the first spreadsheet visiCalc, to co-develop and distribute

SocialCalc. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP

Ventures and Omidyar Network.

Previously, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu

spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software

company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of

RateXchange (AMEX:RTX). He also served as the

marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications

group in Eastern Europe. He also founded an ISP, a web-design

company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high

tech startups.

Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of

Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a

B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at

Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for

Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business.

He resides in his hometown of Palo Alto with his wife and two

children.

Dave McClure   

Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over

fifteen years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup

advisor, angel investor, blogger, and internet marketing nerd.

He is currently an advisor or investor for Mint Software,

Spock Networks, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet,

Oortle, CrazyEgg, Eventvue, AppFuel, HealthUnity, and

Canopy Financial.

Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a

co-chair for O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo.  He is also a guest lecturer at

Stanford University for a new course on building Facebook

Apps.  Dave is a board member for microfinance accelerator

Unitus, advisor to microfinance lender Kiva.org, and a co-founder

of the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. 

From 2005 to 2006, Dave launched & ran marketing for job

search engine SimplyHired.com, and its evil twin

SimplyFired.com. From 2001 to 2004, Dave worked at PayPal

(acquired by eBay in 2002) as Director of Marketing, where he

founded & ran the PayPal Developer Network program. Prior

to PayPal, Dave was a database consultant & programmer for

several companies, including Microsoft and Intel. In 1994 he

founded Aslan Computing, an internet & e-commerce firm that

was later acquired by Servinet/Panurgy in 1998.

Before coming to Silicon Valley, Dave barely graduated from

the Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Mathematical Sciences

Engineering and a minor in frisbee, billiards, & foosball. His

interests include microfinance and economic innovation,

entrepreneurship and venture capital, ultimate frisbee, cartoons

and animation, and an ever-growing collection of funny-looking

hats.