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Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure, successor to the company she ran from 1982 to 2004 and sold to CNET Networks in 2004. She left CNET and revived the name this January (2007). Separately, she is an active investor in many IT start-ups, and has participated in the sale of companies to Microsoft, Google, Symantec and Yahoo!, along with several IPOs. Along with early-stage companies, she likes early-stage markets, including Russia, India and Brazil. Her past investments included Medscape (where she sat on the board) and Medstory (sold to Microsoft earlier this year). She is also an investor in Ovusoft, an online fertility site, and an advisor to 23andMe, a not-yet-launched company that has something to do with sequencing genomes. And she is a research subject: She will have her genome sequenced and published along with her entire medical history, as part of George Church's Personal Genome Project. Dyson has a long history of getting there early: She entered college at 16 and lived in Morocco for two months when she was 17 (with her boyfriend who was in the Peace Corps). She worked on Wall Street as analyst covering Federal Express from 1977 to 1980. She visited Microsoft in 1982 and wrote in her newsletter Release 1.0: "If the company really wants to be successful, it needs to be a little more ruthless." She first went to Russia and then Eastern Europe in 1989, the year she started using e-mail actively. She wrote a cover article for WIRED on the challenging future of intellectual property in 1994. And she invested in Voxiva in 2003 and again in 2006, using proceeds from the sale of some of her Google pre-IPO stock.

Peter Kellner
Mr. Kellner is Founder and Managing Partner of Richmond Management, a firm with venture capital investments in technology and communications in the U.S., China and India. Richmond has interests in hedge funds and private equity firms globally, and has provided seed funds to leading investment firms in the US, China, Hungary and India. As a social entrepreneur, Mr. Kellner co-founded Endeavor, a pioneering organization promoting entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He has also founded EMLA, Hungary's leading environmental management and law advisory firm, originally backed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Previously, he was Co-Founder of Ural Petroleum, which later became Khanty-Mansisyk Oil Corporation, one of the largest independent Western-managed oil companies in Russia, and was sold to Marathon Oil in 2003. Mr. Kellner is on the board of Obopay, Inc. and Voxiva, Inc., and the non-profit boards of JustGive.org, Endeavor, and National Student Partnerships (NSP). He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute; Member, Business Executives for National Security (BENS); Member, Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP); Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); and Member, North America Council of Ashoka. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, received a Fulbright Scholarship to Hungary after college, and holds a J.D. from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Carl F. Muñana
Carl F. Muñana is an international investment banker whose current focus is in the area of innovative social investment strategies. Much of his career was spent as a Managing Director at JP Morgan & Co. where his responsibilities included the Mexican business, being Senior Commitments Officer for global investment banking and heading the Latin America risk portfolio. In recent years he has led a number of development finance initiatives in the emerging markets including private development funds, mortgage finance systems and microfinance. He also serves on several international corporate and not-for-profit boards. He is President of Ashoka in Spain and international advisor to the MicroVest Fund. He holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Kellogg.

Ed Scott
Ed Scott is an experienced and successful business executive. Before his career in the high-technology industry, Mr. Scott served as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transportation during the administration of President Carter. During his government career, Mr. Scott served under seven Attorneys General (Republicans and Democrats) and three secretaries of Transportation. He then co-founded BEA Systems, Inc. now the 12th largest software company in the World. Since leaving the business sector, he is fully focused on a number of economic development and HIV/Aids undertakings and is an active supporter of many philanthropic initiatives including orphanages and child development centers in Central America, Compassion International, a faith-based children's development group operating globally in 23 countries, and the Center for Global Development (CGD) which he founded in 2001 as the only organization fully dedicated to the development and advocacy of informed analysis concerning the policies of the World's richest countries toward the World's poor countries. Along with Bill Gates and George Soros, he is co-founder of DATA, an advocacy organization dedicated to building public and political awareness about development problems in Africa, most notably the HIV/Aids pandemic. He also founded "Friends of the Global Fight," a Washington, D.C.-based group dedicated to informing the U.S. public and body politic about the work of the Global Fund. Mr. Scott earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in political science from Michigan State University. He also has a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University (U.K.). Mr. Scott serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for International Economics (IIE), a long-standing leader in international economic policy analysis. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Florida Institute of Technology, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy and the King Center for the Performing Arts. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Indian River Brewing Company and is a member of the Board of StubHub, Inc. He also owns and operates the Kiwi Tennis Club in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida.

Michael Van Vleck
Mr. Van Vleck has extensive worldwide transactional and general management experience with a broad multi-functional background, including finance, strategic planning, marketing/communications and management. Mr. Van Vleck was the former Chief Executive Officer of Phyto-Riker Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Before that, Mr. Van Vleck directed the investment program of a private equity healthcare fund focused on product manufacturing and service provision companies located in Africa, Latin America and Asia. He also founded and built two fiber optic telecommunications companies, Global Fiber Group and Cogent Communications serving in the roles of President and Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, respectively. Mr. Van Vleck also founded and ran his own consulting company for seven years where he represented large U.S. energy, telecommunications and healthcare companies including ATT, Primus, Deutsche Telecom, Unocal, Cogentrix in matters relating to business development, marketing and finance. He began his career in the investment business with the New York LBO firm of Acadia Partners, where he sought enhanced equity returns by investing in operating companies in various industries. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. in International Studies and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and earned his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

Philippe Villers
Philippe Villers is President and Board Member of GrainPro, Inc. He also serves as Founder, President, and Board Member of Families USA Foundation. Mr. Villers previously founded and led Cognition, Inc. where he served as President for three years. From 1980 to 1986, he was the Founder, President, then Chairman of Automatix, Inc., a publicly traded company. Prior to founding these companies, he co-founded Computervision, Inc, a leader in the CAD/CAM industry and a Fortune 500 company for many years. Mr. Villers holds a BA from Harvard, an MS from M.I.T., a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Lowell, and several patents.