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Sifry</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Founder & Chairman of the Board, Technorati, Inc.</h3> <p>David Sifry is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of software development and industry experience. Before founding Technorati, Dave was cofounder and <abbr title="Chief Technical Officer">CTO</abbr> of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.sputnik.com/">Sputnik</a>, a Wi-Fi gateway company, and previously, he was cofounder of Linuxcare, where he served as <abbr title="Chief Technical Officer">CTO</abbr> and <abbr title="Vice President">VP</abbr> of Engineering. Dave also served as a founding member of the board of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.li.org/">Linux International</a> and on the technical advisory board of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.nctp.org/">National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement</a>. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.jhu.edu/">Johns Hopkins University</a>. Dave can often be found speaking on panels and giving lectures on a variety of technology issues, ranging from wireless spectrum policy and Wi-Fi, to Weblogs and Open Source software.</p> <p>Dave's blog is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/">Sifry's Alerts</a>.</p> <h2>Joi Ito</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Vice President of International Business and Mobile Devices, Technorati, Inc.</h3> <p>Joichi Ito is in charge of international and mobility development for Technorati. He is founder and <abbr title="Chief Executive Officer">CEO</abbr> of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.neoteny.com/">Neoteny</a>, a venture capital firm which is the lead investor in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.sixapart.com/">Six Apart</a>, and is on the board of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a>. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage, and Infoseek Japan. In 1997, Time Magazine ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002. He was appointed as a member of Howard Dean's Net Advisory Net during the Dean campaign.</p> <p>Joi's blog is <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://joi.ito.com/">Joi Ito's Web</a>.</p> <h2>Ryan McIntyre</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Principal, Mobius Venture Capital</h3> <p>Ryan McIntyre joined Mobius Venture Capital in 2000 as an Associate Partner and was promoted to Principal in 2001. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. McIntyre co-founded Excite in 1993, which went public in 1996 and later became Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM) following the merger of Excite and @Home in 1999. There he held the role of Principal Engineer and was a key technological contributor to the company's search engine and content management systems, and also led the design and implementation of Excite's community and commerce platforms.</p> <p>Mr. McIntyre holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he published research on genetic algorithms in the <em>The First IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation</em>, and studied at Stanford's overseas campus in Berlin, Germany.</p> <h2>Sanford R. Robertson</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Principal, Francisco Partners</h3> <p>Sanford R. Robertson is a principal of Francisco Partners, one of the world's largest technology buyout funds. With a focus on structured investments in technology and technology-related businesses, Francisco Partners is a pioneer in the private equity category of Technology Buyouts.</p> <p>Prior to founding Francisco Partners, Mr. Robertson was the founder and chairman of Robertson, Stephens & Co., a leading technology investment bank formed in 1978, and sold to BankBoston in 1998. Mr. Robertson was also the founder of Robertson, Colman, Siebel & Weisel, later renamed Montgomery Securities, another prominent technology investment bank. He has had significant financing involvement in more than 500 growth technology companies throughout his career, including 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS), America Online, Inc., Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT), Ascend Communications Inc., Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), E*Trade Securities, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETFC), Siebel Systems, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW).</p> <p>Mr. Robertson received both a B.A. and an M.B.A. with Distinction from the University of Michigan.</p> <h2>Andreas Stavropoulous</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson</h3> <p>Mr. Stavropoulos focuses primarily on software investments (enterprise infrastructure and consumer/Internet), wireless networking, and technology-enabled services. Prior to joining DFJ, Mr. Stavropoulos was with McKinsey & Company's San Francisco office, where he worked with senior management teams of corporate clients with an emphasis on information technology. Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior Analyst at Cornerstone Research, a financial and economic consulting firm that helps resolve complex issues arising in high-profile business litigation. Mr. Stavropoulos holds Bachelor's and Masters degrees in computer science from Harvard University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and graduated first in his class.</p> <h2>Steve Katinsky</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Founder and Managing Director of Fruition Ventures LLC</h3> <p>Steve is a founder and Managing Director of Fruition Ventures LLC, a closely held venture capital firm that manages the assets of its founding partners, and an active angel investor. He is the co-founder and current board member of ClosingCorp, parent company of Closing.com, a real estate information services company based in La Jollam CA that is leading the way for consumers and professionals to shop for and compare real estate closing services online. In 2004, Steve co-founded AdEngage, a popular advertising network. In 2002, he co-founded YarnMarket.com, the largest online yarn e-commerce site, and owner of Yarndex.com, the industry standard fibers database. In 1998, Steve founded Supertuner.com, a technology company with browser based, media-stream management systems that broke new ground with AJAX and Web 2.0 functionality and holds a patented IP that is now part of one of the leading patent pools.</p> <p>As co-founder (in 1993) and CEO of Hollywood Media (formerly Hollywood.com), Steve was an early pioneer in the area of streaming and interactive media, with the company being a primary producer and distributor of online interactive campaigns for almost every Hollywood studio. Hollywood Media, sold to The Times Mirror in 1996, is the developer of movietickets.com, and a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: HOLL). Steve was also the founder of Movie Hotline, an information service that boasted the first national movie locator, in partnership with Gannett's USA Today.</p> <p>Steve holds a BA in Communications from Rutgers College.</p> <h2>Richard Jalichandra</h2> <h3 class="subhead">President & Chief Executive Officer</h3> <h2>Advisory Board</h2> <h2>Peter Hirshberg</h2> <h3 class="subhead">Advisory Board Chairman</h3> <p>Peter Hirshberg is an entrepreneur and marketing innovator who has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Peter earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="gamma"> <div id="gamma-inner" class="pkg">  <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">Resources</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/">Technorati State of the Blogosphere Report 2008</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://mashable.com/2008/12/12/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-technorati/">Mashable: How to Get the Most Out of Technorati</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/">State of the Blogosphere archives 2004-2007</a></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.adotas.com/2009/05/the-ftc-steps-into-the-social-media-fray-%E2%80%93-so-what-do-we-do-now/">The FTC steps into the social media fray – so what do we do now? » Adotas</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">What's New?</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://technorati.com/blogs/twitter.com%2Fjalichandra">Claim your Twitter profile on Technorati.com</a><br/></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.typepad.com/site/lists/6a0111685695c8970c011168d18be3970c/item/create">Publishing and auto-tweeting your content on Technorati.com</a><br/></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://beta.technoratimedia.com/home.cfm">Technorati Engage</a><br/>a self-service advertising network of blogs and social media sites is now in beta and open to a limited set of advertisers and publishers.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript">  </script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222js_/http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">_qoptions = { tags:"typepad.extended" }; _qacct="p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM"; quantserve();</script> <noscript> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222/http://www.quantcast.com/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM" target="_blank"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090802143222im_/http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM.gif?tags=typepad.extended" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>