2008 Guest Speakers

Angel Investors

  • Liddy Karter, Managing Director, Karter Capital and Angel Investor Forum

Venture Capital

  • Daniel Schultz, Managing Director & Founder, DFJ Gotham
  • Josh Kopelman, Managing Director, First Round
  • David Rose, CEO, Rose Tech Ventures
  • Bart Stuck, Principal, Signal Lake Ventures
  • Maneesh Sagar, Managing Director, CT Innovations
  • Rob Bettigole, Managing Director, Elm Street Ven-tures
  • Drew Lipsher, Partner, Greycroft Partners
  • Anne Martin, Managing Director, Yale Investments
  • JB Lockhart, Associate, Greenhill SAVP

Corporate Management

  • Kevin Bouley, President & CEO, NERAC
  • Joseph Holland, VP of Finance & Corp Development, Martha Stewart
  • Max Mancini, Senior Director, Disruptive Innovation, eBay
  • Jonathan Rochelle, Product Manager, Docs & Spreadsheets, Google
  • Scott Berkun, Innovation Evangelist, Microsoft
  • June Merwin, Senior Director, Global Clinical Program , Pfizer
  • Jarrod Yuster, Managing Director, Global Portfolio & Electronic Trading, Merrill Lynch

Entrepreneurs

  • Ajaita Shah, Executive Director, SKS Foundation
  • Keith Ferrazzi, CEO & Founder, Ferrazi & Company
  • Andrew Greenawalt, Founder & CEO, Gnostic Verntures
  • Brian O'Kelley, CEO, AppNexus
  • Brad Hargreaves, CEO & Founder, GoCrossCampus
  • Sean Mehra, COO & Founder, GoCrossCampus
  • John Follis, Principal, Follis, Inc.
  • Miles Lasater, COO, HigherOne
  • Jordan Goldberg, CEO & Founder, Stickk.com
  • Rana Gupta , CEO, HistoRx
  • Philip Jacob, CTO, StyleFeeder
  • Jeff Brenzel, Dean of Admissions & Entrepreneur, Yale University
  • Sean Glass, CEO, Pikum
  • Chris Penner, CEO, RemoTV
  • Ashish Deshpande, CEO, frevvo
  • Jesse Youngblood, Founder, Tooble
  • David Cook, Co-Founder, Queralt
  • Leslee Parker, COO, OASYS
  • Rob McGinnis, CTO, OASYS
  • Brent Segal, CEO, Nantero
  • Steve Hafner, CEO & Founder, Kayak.com
  • David Galper, Director, IdeaLabs

Legal and Accounting Experts

  • Mert Gollaher, Partner, Wiggins & Dana
  • Paul Greeley, Partner, Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero, & Perle
  • Frank Marco, Partner, Wiggins & Dana
  • Bill Schnoor, Partner, Goodwin Proctor

Yale Faculty

  • Maureen Burke, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Business, Yale School of Management
  • John Morrell, Assistant Professor, former head of Segway design, Yale University Dept of Mechancial Engineering