Judith (Judy) L. Estrin

Judith is an American business executive. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JLabs LLC (formerly called Packet Design Management Company, LLC), through which she pursues a broad range of advisory activities including sitting on corporate and advisory boards and speaking engagements. Judy is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy (McGraw- Hill; Hardcover, September 2008), a general interest book that challenges national, academic and business leaders to work together to make America competitive again. Estrin is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded seven companies with Bill Carrico and was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000. Estrin serves on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company (since 1998), FedEx Corporation (since 1989). Formerly, she served on the boards of Rockwell and Sun Microsystems. She also serves on the advisory boards of Stanford’s School of Engineering and Bio-X interdisciplinary program, and is a member of the University of California President’s Science and Innovation Advisory Board.

Reid Hoffman

Hoffman was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Berkeley, California. He attended Stanford University, where he won a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in symbolic systems, he attended Oxford University, graduating with a master's degree in philosophy.

 

His first job was a summer internship with Inglenook, a Napa Valley winery. After working at Apple Computer and Fujitsu, Hoffman co-founded his first company, SocialNet.com. While at Socialnet, Hoffman was a member of the board of directors at the founding of PayPal, an electronic money transmission service, and later joined the firm as a full-time employee. At the time of PayPal's acquisition by eBay in 2002, he was Executive Vice President of PayPal in charge of business and corporate development.

 

Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. LinkedIn is a business-oriented Internet-based social network service. He has been called the "most connected man in all of Silicon Valley". He has personally mentored many of the Web 2.0 CEOs and has given valuable advice to many Silicon Valley VCs as well as the United States military where he was honored with a Department of Defense coin for his valuable service to the United States. He invented the term for his people as the new "Second Generation Web Entrepreneurs". He leads as the director of a variety of Silicon Valley businesses, most in the social network domain, including Mozilla, Vendio, Six Apart, Kiva.org, Grassroots Enterprises, and Tagged. He is an investor in Facebook, IronPort, Flickr, Digg, Technorati, Nanosolar, Care.com, Kongregate, and several other firms.[citation needed]

Michael Nelson

Mike Nelson has spent the last fifteen years working in government and the private sector to accelerate the development, deployment, and application of Internet technologies. A large part of my job has always been explaining Internet technology and applications in clear, concise, non-technical terms to decision-makers in government and the corporate sector and to the press and the general public. I believe that the main barriers to development of the Networked Economy are not technological, they are cultural and political, so it is imperative that a broad cross-section of society--in the US and worldwide--understand and appreciate the opportunities offered by the Internet and the Next Generation Internet.