Hal Josephson is CEO and president of MediaSense, a San Francisco firm specializing in strategic marketing planning, international business development and special project management services for high-tech industries. MediaSense clients have included Apple, IDG, Motorola, The Electronic Industry Association, Reed-Midem, InternetWire, Australia Multimedia Enterprise, InfoTech Canada, Australasian Access, Hong Kong…
Beth Winegarner is a writer who has spent much of her adult life working as a reporter and editor for San Francisco Bay Area newspapers and national music publications, including The Lion’s Roar, The Oak Leaf, The Daily Californian, The San Rafael-Terra Linda News Pointer, The Redwood City Daily News,…
Born and raised on a small ranch in Brazil, Steffany Boldrini was destined to become a future green entrepreneur. An environmentalist at heart, her love and passion for nature was awakened by her mother at a very young age. She instilled many of the “green values” that drove Steffany’s curiosity…
Rikard Kjellberg has held several leading positions in the communications and Internet industries over the past 20 years. With a strong technical foundation in the wireless communication domain, he pioneered mobile app store solutions for large scale deployments as the co-founder and CTO of Ellipsus Systems. Sprint was the first…
Paul Mabray has been in the wine and spirits industry for over seventeen years. He has worked for Napa Ale Works, Niebaum~Coppola, WineShopper/Wine.com and also was the North American Beverage Consultant for Sumitomo Corporation of America from 2003 through 2005. He founded Inertia in 2003 as one of the first…
Meet Paul Mabray – Wine Revolutionary making wine work online
Jon Leland, president & creative director of ComBridges, is a leading communications expert who has been a visionary media innovator for almost 40 years. In the seventies, Mr. Leland founded one of the first narrowcast radio networks. In the eighties, he was a network TV pioneer who founded the on-air…
Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist, a site where people can help each other with everyday needs including housing and jobs.
Scott Crawford is the founder and CEO of DebtGoal. A self-described econ geek and spreadsheet junkie, Scott has worked in the Congressional budget office and for HSBC – where he ran product R&D, product management and consumer insights in HSBC’s credit card group. While at HSBC, Scott developed an appreciation…
Chris Wright was born in Butte (that’s not meant to be funny), graduated from the University of Montana, and has been working at Google since 2003. He has worked on many projects at Google that span sales and marketing , and currently is a Product Marketing Manager working on Google…
Founder of The Sharper Image and RichardSolo