Ramu Potarazu started Avail Media after leading the $1.2 billion global company Intelsat. What he likes about startup life is the ability to be agile and make things happen.

Mollie is a recognized industry leader and advocate, having been named “Best Marketing Executive” by the American Business Awards and one of the Baltimore Business Journal’s “Top 40 under 40.”

Jack has a deep history in the payments industry, having helped found the Electronic Funds Transfer Association 30 years ago.

Alan Grant, CEO of Exchange Solutions, is the originator of the “value exchange” business performance improvement model. Alan first described the opportunity to directly optimize customer-company “exchange economics” in a lead article published in the Harvard Business Review in October of 1995.

Prior to founding Fishbowl, CEO Scott Shaw was co-founder and President of Amy's Ice Creams, Partner & Chief Operating Officer of CAFÉ TU TU TANGO, a Nation's Restaurant News "Hot Concepts" award-winner, and Chief Operating Officer of the Austin Grill, an award-winning seven-unit chain based in Washington, DC.

CEO Michael O’Neil’s interest in GetWellNetwork began when he was a recovering cancer patient.

JumpTap CEO Dan Olschwang left the big company environment of Comverse to take on the challenge of beating big competitors in the emerging market of mobile search and advertising.

KZO Innovations’ CEO Wes Cruver and a friend started their first company in high school, putting kids online. They saw the need for a better video platform and started KZO Innovations.

LeftHand CEO Bill Chambers revolutionized the networked storage by delivering the first SAN over IP.

Tim Davenport, a seasoned software veteran with over 25 years of high-tech industry experience leads Parature's growth and innovation strategies.

Persystent CEO Joe Loughry has over 30 years of successful hands-on experience in public and privately-held software companies.

RealOps CEO Sean McDermott saw a big opportunity automating the procedures that make big datacenters run.

CEO Mark Logan thinks Rivermine has one of the best ROI stories he’s seen in 20 years’ experience in the enterprise software business.

SafeNet CEO Mark Floyd is a proven company-builder.

SEPATON CEO Mike Worhach has 30 years of experience in the computer and storage industry.

Mr. Dering completed the successful sale of ServiceBench to N.E.W. Customer Services. Mike is now an active advisor and board member of several technology companies.

CEO Joe Ruef has deep roots in the electronic components business that Verical hopes to revolutionize with its exchange approach to component resale.

Jeff Anderson started Quick Hit in 2008 with the simple idea of bringing fun, fast-action, high-quality sports games to the Internet.

Jeff brings a 20 year successful record in higher education business publishing to the venture. He has personally acquired some of the most successful business textbook authors in print today.