– Aber Whitcomb was most recently CTO and a co-founder of MySpace where he was responsible for the engineering and technical operations groups of one of the world's most successful social networking sites. Since its founding, Aber has overseen the technologies that have enabled MySpace to grow from 0 to over 130 million users. Aber is a recognized expert in large scale computing, networking and storage and frequently speaks about these matters.
– Ashwin Navin was the President and Co-founder of BitTorrent until August 2008. He hails from Yahoo where he was an influential member of the company’s Corporate Development group. He possesses extensive experience in structuring and negotiating acquisitions, partnerships and alliances in the tech industry.
– Jim Young was a co-founder, CTO, and CEO of HOTorNOT.com, among the earliest web services to use Linux, MySQL, and PHP at large scale. Since the company's acquisition in 2008, he has been an angel investor and continues to personally hack on new projects. Jim holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
– Paul Bragiel is the co-founder of Lefora, a product bringing forums into the 21st century. Previously he co-founded Meetro, the first location based social network and was the founder of Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile with offices in Chicago and Krakow, Poland.
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