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Marty
Abbott and Tom Keeven
Marty is a technology and business executive with experience in Fortune 500 and
internet startup companies. He was formerly the COO of Quigo, an advertising
technology startup. Marty spent nearly 6 years at eBay as VP of Operations, VP
of Operations and IT and finally SVP of Technology/CTO during which time he was
also a member of eBays executive staff. Tom is a veteran IT and technology executive
with both Fortune 500 executive and startup executive experience. Tom's experience
includes 6 years at eBay where he was VP of Infrastructure, VP of Operations
and VP of Architecture. Marty and Tom now run www.akf-consulting.com.
Jeff Ballowe
Before leaving Ziff Davis at the end of 1997, Ballowe led the launches of 5 magazines,
ZDNet on the Web, ZDTV (now TechTV), and the initial ZD/Softbank investments
in Yahoo!, Inc. Currently he serves as a director of Verticalnet and Onvia.com.
He is the co-founder and past President of the not-for-profit Electronic Literature
Organization
Tim Dailey
Tim has been an investment banker for 17 years. He founded ClearCreek Partners
in 1999 to provide advisory services to high tech companies. Before ClearCreek,
he worked at Shoreline Pacific, JP Morgan and Dillon Read. Tim is a frequent
speaker on raising venture capital and is a director of three privately held
companies.
John Elkins
John retired in October 2007 from Visa International where he served as Executive
Vice President since April 2003. In this role, Mr. Elkins oversaw worldwide strategic
brand planning and research for one of the worlds most recognized brands, formulating
innovative global strategic marketing partnerships and alliances, coordinating
internal and external corporate communications worldwide, managed Visa's Global
Olympic and FIFA sponsorships, and was responsible for managing Visas global
corporate reputation. During his tenure, the company experienced annual worldwide
sales volume exceeding $4.5 trillion, compared to $2.476 trillion in 2002. Mr.
Elkins was instrumental in forming strategic partnerships vital to Visas ongoing
corporate reputation. These relationships included work with the United Nations
to develop microfinance activities in developing markets, as well as the creation
of a multi-year agreement with the International Finance Corporation (World Bank)
to help educate and develop credit bureaus in more than 10 emerging markets.
Additionally, Mr. Elkins has overseen the expansion of Visas financial literacy
efforts across more than 20 countries. Mr Elkins also serves on the Board of
FINCA, on the WTTC Executive Committee and on The World Economic Forums Executive
Committee for Travel and Tourism. Mr. Elkins has a BEd from the University of
Exeter, England and an MSc from the University of Oregon.
Guy Longworth
Born and raised in the North West of England, Guy moved to California after 18
years working in the UK in a variety of sales and marketing roles for Procter & Gamble,
Kraft Foods, Kelloggs and Marlow Foods. In his most recent executive roles, Guy
served as CMO for both Kelloggs and Marlow Foods for the UK and Ireland.
Jeffery Merrihue
Jeffrey is the Chief Executive Officer of Accenture Marketing Sciences where
he oversees a group of over 350 marketing professionals providing consulting
services and thought leadership to many of the leading Global Chief Marketing
Officers.
Klaus Oestermann
Klaus Oestermann is group vice president and general manager of the Application
Networking Group for Citrix. He is responsible for the group's revenue attainment
and product marketing, product management, development and strategic direction.
Prior to this role, Oestermann was Citrix area vice president for the Western
Region of the United States and responsible for revenues generated in the 13
western states, as well as Citrix's business development, marketing and support
organizations there. Oestermann has been with Citrix for 7 years and held various
other positions within the company, including sales director for the Nordic Region
of Europe, senior director of worldwide channel strategies and development, and
senior director of enterprise & ISV partners.
Oestermann has more than 20 years' experience in the IT industry. Before joining
Citrix, he was managing director/CEO at CMA Systems, Denmark. He also worked
for IBM Corp. in a variety of roles. He holds a Bachelors degree - HD Business
Diploma Degree in Marketing Management & International Trade from Copenhagen
Business School, as well as an Academy Economist degree in Marketing and Service
Management.
Jeff Rabin
In 2005, having spent his entire career in the financial world, Mr. Rabin decided
to follow his passion and joined Christie's as a Wine Specialist. Mr. Rabin began
his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. with
a focus on financial institutions. Mr. Rabin also ran trading globally for the
trillion dollar asset manager, Barclays Global Investors (BGI). He left BGI to
join the hedge fund side of the business which ultimately led to the creation
of his own firm, Rebus Capital LLC.
Rick Sheldon
Rick is the co-founder and managing partner of Intelisys Corp. Intelisys, a GoldMail
distribution partner, is one of the leading communications sales agencies in
the US, managing over 350 distributors representing approximately 40,000 businesses. |
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