Morning Keynote:
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Jeff Jordan
General Partner,
Andreessen Horowitz
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Jeff
is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he is responsible
for managing portfolio companies and deal flow. He is the chairman of
the board for OpenTable and serves on the boards of Airbnb, Booyah,
LikeALittle, Wealthfront and Zoosk.
Jeff was previously chief executive officer and president for OpenTable
where he managed accelerating domestic and international growth,
oversaw the company’s initial public offering, completed the
acquisition of TopTable in Europe and led the development of
OpenTable's mobile initiatives.
Prior to OpenTable, Jeff was president of PayPal and responsible for
establishing the company as the global standard for online payments.
Earlier he was senior vice president and general manager of eBay North
America, helping build eBay into the Internet’s leading commerce brand
and driving the successful acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com.
Prior to joining eBay, Jordan was chief financial officer of Hollywood
Entertainment and president of Reel.com. He also worked as senior vice
president of finance for The Disney Stores, The Walt Disney Co.
Jeff holds an M.B.A from Stanford University Graduate School of
Business and received a B.A. in Political Science and Psychology from
Amherst College.
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Afternoon Keynote:
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Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors
Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
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Geoffrey Moore is a
best selling author and chairman
emeritus at TCG Advisors. His most recent book is Escape Velocity: Free
Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past published in September
of 2011.
Geoffrey has made the understanding and
exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work.
His other books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla
Game, Living on the Fault Line, and Dealing with Darwin are best
sellers and required reading at leading business schools.
Geoffrey
divides his time between consulting on strategy and transformation
challenges with senior executives and developing mental models to
support this practice.
Geoffrey's current and past clients
include Cisco Systems, Oracle, Microsoft, Agilent Technologies, Symbol
Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, BEA, Lawson Software, and Synopsis.
Prior
to founding the Chasm Group in 1992, Geoffrey was a partner and
principal at Regis McKenna Inc., and a sales and marketing executive at
three software companies: Rand Information Systems, Enhansys, and Mitem.
He
graduated in American literature with honors from Stanford University
and has a doctorate from the University of Washington in English
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