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Gil Amelio

Gil has over 35 years high technology experience, 26 years of P&L management, and 6 years of venture capital experience. He has held top executive responsibility at several billion-dollar global corporations.

Gil was Chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, President of Rockwell International, Chairman, President & CEO of National Semiconductor Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of Jazz Technologies. Earlier in his career, he worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International. He is currently the senior member of the Board of Directors of AT&T. Gil has been a Director of Pacific Telesis, Chiron, Sematech, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (as chairman), the American Film Institute and several private technology companies. He is a former Director and Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association. Since 1996, he has been an advisor to Malaysia's Prime Minister and to the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor.

Gil received a Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow and has been awarded 16 patents. Gil is the author of three books, An American Imperative (1993), Profit from Experience (1995), and On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple (1998), the latter two of which were business bestsellers.

Usama Fayyad, Ph.d.

Dr. Usama Fayyad is CEO of Open Insights, LLC, a data strategy, technology and consulting firm he founded to help enterprises understand data strategy and deploy data-driven solutions for competitive advantage. Previously, he was Yahoo!'s chief data officer and executive vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Fayyad was the industry's first chief data officer, responsible for Yahoo!'s global data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing the Company's data analytics and data processing infrastructure.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy consulting and technology company that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. In early 2000, he co-founded and served as CEO of Revenue Science, Inc. (digiMine, Inc.), a data analysis and behavioral targeting company. Fayyad also led the data mining and exploration group at Microsoft Research, which built data mining products for Microsoft's server division. Earlier, Fayyad held a leadership role at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), earning the top research excellence award.

Fayyad earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan and also holds BSEs in both electrical and computer engineering; MSE in computer science and engineering; and M.Sc. in mathematics. He has published over 100 technical articles in the fields of data mining and Artificial Intelligence, is a Fellow of the AAAI (association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and a Fellow of the ACM (association of Computing Machinery). He continues to be active in the academic community and holds adjunct professor positions in Australia and Hong Kong. He regularly delivers keynotes and talks at government, industry and academic conferences around the world.

Seamus McAteer

Managing Director, Majestic Research

Seamus McAteer brings almost two decades of experience in the wireless and online media sectors both as an analyst and entrepreneur. Seamus is currently Managing Director of Market Research at Majestic Research, a leading analytics company. He previously was Chief Product Architect and co-founder at M:Metrics, the leader in mobile media measurement, which was acquired by ComScore in 2008. As an analyst McAteer headed up technology coverage as Research Fellow at Jupiter Media Metrix and was a Senior Analyst with SRI International.

John Hadl

Founder and CEO, Brand in Hand; Venture Partner, USVP

John Hadl splits his time between USVP and Brand in Hand, a mobile media and marketing agency. Since founding the agency in 2005, Hadl has been responsible for more than 450 mobile campaigns and leads the mobile strategies of major brand marketers, including Procter and Gamble, Best Buy, American Express, General Mills and others. BrandWeek has dubbed John as one of the "Marketers of the Next Generation", the publication's highest honor, and Advertising Age acknowledged Hadl as one of its distinguished "40 Under 40" executives.

Prior to Brand in Hand, John was Strategic Advisor to Procter and Gamble for mobile, founded Enverta (acquired 2001) and Creative RX. John was also a managing director at Quigley-Simpson Interactive. John began his career as a corporate lawyer in New York City at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and holds a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.

Bill Bryant

Co-founder and Advisory Chair

William K. (Bill) Bryant has had early and instrumental involvement in over twenty leading software and Internet companies, serving variously as a founder, senior executive, investor and board member. Before he recently joined Mobile Operandi as CEO, Bryant was a partner with Atlas Venture, a large international venture capital firm with $2.5 billion under management, where he originated an investment in Isilon Systems (http://www.isilon.com). Prior to Atlas, Bryant was a co-founder of Qpass, where he served as CEO and later Chairman. He also co-founded and served as president of Netbot, Inc., which built the first comparison shopping agent for the Internet, Jango.

In the early 1990s, Bryant was the founding Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Visio Corporation (now part of Microsoft Corporation). He was an early investor and board member in seven companies that were acquired or went public, including Loudeye, AEI Music (DMX/Liberty Media), Viafone (Extended Systems), Teamplate (Captaris), Exstatic Software (Xchange Applications), Throw (Excite) and Singing Fish (Thomson). In addition, Bryant consulted extensively for Microsoft Corporation, RealNetworks, Getty Images, and Corbis. Earlier in his career, he held VP Marketing and GM roles for Micrografx, Software Publishing and Traveling Software.

Bryant is currently on the Board of three software companies, ACL, Intrinsyc and Jabber. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Qpass, Singlestep, Network Clarity, Web Relevance, Cascadia Capital, vCustomer, Medio Systems, iXmatch and Communitect.

Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan is CEO of Perform Local, Inc., an early-stage startup in local advertising. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Overture Services, Inc., the pioneer in pay-for-performance Internet advertising. While at Overture, Ryan built the largest pay-for-performance search engine on the web, leading the technology team and having overall responsibility for the core technologies and business processes that supported the company's business.

Prior to joining Overture, Ryan was CIO for Delray Farms, LLC, a Chicago-based retail startup, where he built the systems and business process infrastructure for a $250 million retail concept. Before Delray Farms, Ryan spent nearly four years at Deloitte & Touche, LLC as a management consultant, and more than four years as a software engineer, project manager, and lead systems designer for Digital Equipment Corporation. Ryan received a B.S.E. from Princeton University, an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.