Chris De Wolfe
CEO and Co-founder
MySpace
Chris De Wolfe heads MySpace.com, the leading online lifestyle portal. Mr. De Wolfe (with co-founder and president
Tom Anderson) created a new platform for a generation to communicate and discover culture based around the self
expression and connectivity of the site’s 110 million active users. As MySpace’s CEO, Mr. De Wolfe is responsible the
site’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. He has also led strategic initiatives that have
extended the site’s reach into a number of vertical categories, such as online video (MySpace TV), politics (MySpace
Impact), news, music, and film, currently in 29 international markets. Under Mr. De Wolfe’s leadership, MySpace has
grown exponentially since its launch in 2004, with an average of 300,000 new users signing up daily. MySpace has
created a community where users can do everything from plan their weekends to connect with friends to discover new
music. More than 70 million people in the U.S. visit the site each month.
Craig Donato
Co-founder and CEO
Oodle
Craig Donato is co-founder and CEO of Oodle. Oodle.com provides consumers with a great shopping experience
for classifieds. Users search the freshest, most comprehensive collection of classifieds listings, with more than one
million listings per day from more than 75,000 sites across every major category: automotive, real estate, rentals,
employment, personals, tickets, pets, services, and merchandise. Before joining Oodle, Mr. Donato was CEO of Grand
Central Communications, which provides an Internet service for B2B integration. Before joining Grand Central, he
was a senior vice president at Excite@Home, where he oversaw the Excite search and community business units and
managed network programming. Mr. Donato holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS
degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.
James Dougherty
Operating Partner
Great Hill Partners
Jim Dougherty works with portfolio company management teams to maximize performance and participates in
investment evaluation and transaction diligence. Mr. Dougherty has successfully turned around and built three
companies: IntraLinks, Gartner Group, and MetaMatrix. As CEO of IntraLinks, he repositioned a small operation into
a highly profitable and dominant-shared workspace platform. Over three years, he rebuilt the technology, changed
the revenue model, increased booking by a factor of ten, and built a market-leading team. He was head of global
operations for Gartner Inc., overseeing a tech information consultancy with 1,200 people and some $900 million of
revenue. As CEO of MetaMatrix, he repositioned the company and successfully sold the operation. Mr. Dougherty
was previously head of Lotus’ Internet Division and CEO of Prodigy Software. He also serves as a senior fellow in
business and foreign policy for the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a director of the Starbright Foundation and
the Foreign Policy Association.
esther Dyson
Chairman
EDventure Holdings
Esther Dyson is an active investor in a variety of mostly disruptive startups. On the IT side, her investments have
included Flickr and del.icio.us (both sold to Yahoo!) and Medstory (sold to Microsoft). Currently, she serves on the
boards of Meetup, WPP Group, Eventful.com, Evernote, Boxbe, and Yandex, the leading Russian search company. Her
portfolio of private space and air travel investments includes XCOR Aerospace, Space Adventures/Zero G (recently
merged), Constellation Services, Icon Aircraft, Coastal Aviation Software, and Airship Ventures. Ms. Dyson sold her
business, EDventure Holdings, along with its Release 1.0 newsletter and PC Forum conference, to CNET Networks
in 2004; PC Forum and Release 1.0 played key roles in the early development of the PC software marketplace and the
commercial Internet. Ms. Dyson left CNET at the end of 2006 and (with permission) has resumed doing business
under the name of EDventure Holdings.
