People

Paul Hoeper

Founded @invoiceasap. Took us from Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt all the way to the Finals!

Jeff Berman

Media, sports, law, policy, politics. Happily transplanted to LA. Father of 3. Husband of 1. Serve as GM of NFL Digital Media - see @linkedin for more detail.

Travis Skweres

CEO/Co-founder at @coin-market , front-end developer & designer, 2X entrepreneur

Grant Kirkwood

CEO and founder of @unitas-global. Founded Mzima, sold to PacketExchange. Board member at non-profit Web Wise Kids. Mentor at @advise-me and Upstart.LA.

Jaclyn Shanfeld

CEO and Founder @shop-hers • Studied at @southern-methodist-university

James Ellis

Investor in @applied-semantics, @doubletwist, @admarvel.

Ryan Ford

Former Creative Director at @deviantart. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award Nominee. Serial award-winner in branding, UI, and design.

Ursula Hessenflow

Founding role at @a-hundred-years and Channel Factory; Studied at @usc-marshall-school-of-business; Board member, USC IncubatriX (incubator); Advisor, Next Gen

Abel Cuskelly

Founder @pogoseat (@angelpad S'13). Founder & CEO @yocal-music. Programmed early electronic medical record system in high school, honors @santa-clara-university

Austen Bernstein

Founder @BreakoutCommerce • Growth Stage investing at @tiger-global & @insight-venture-partners, Investment Banking at @merrill-lynch. Studied Finance at @new-york-university

Scott Schlichter

Founder/CEO at DOGMA STUDIOS

AJ Vernet

Founder @republic-project, @rey-interactive • Worked at @doubleclick, @digital-broadcasting-group-dbg • Studied at @san-francisco-state-university

Eric Sikola

Started @expensecloud (Sold to @trinet ) Worked at Aperture (Acq. by EMR), Systinet (Acq. by HP), webMethods (Acq. by SoftwareAG) & Forte (Acq. by Sun)

John Linden

CTO at @openx

Joyce Schwarz

Marketing and business development for 75 early-stage venture funded firms -- emusic to Primesense. 50 new product roll-outs. Bestselling author, speaker

Matt Hersh

Head of Enterprise Sales @factual • Founding member @jetblue • Worked at @yodlee, @apple, @redpoint-ventures @originate • Studied at @university-of-california-los-angeles Anderson School of Management, @boston College

Matt MacNaughton

CEO/Co-Founder of @promojam-1, Digital Product Manager at Interscope Records, Artists Management at The Firm, SXSW Panelist, Econ at @claremont-mckenna-college College

Dave Lin

Ilya Kuntsevich

Investor @styleseat, @rescale • Studied at @ucla-anderson-school-of-management-1

Ken Shaw

CEO & cloud-storage expert. Founder/CEO @infrascale.

Amir Ziai

Founder @invesd, investor, developer

Michael Blend

co-founder OpenMail, former President/COO of @demand-media (NYSE: DMD), founder Hotkeys, Investor in @rssgraffiti, @scopely, @jawbone, State.com

Steven Sesar

Adam Shaw

President of Structure: venture capital and advisory firm. Worked at Fox and the NFL. Founded Digital Artists and Spotrunner