Sabrina ElliS
Vice President of Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Inc.
Sabrina Ellis oversees the product and business operations for Yahoo’s consumer IM and voice initiatives. Before
leading the Yahoo! Messenger team, she was the senior director of product management for Yahoo! Mail, responsible
for overseeing all development projects, including the introduction of consumer webmail services such as the new
Yahoo! Mail, unlimited storage, and Yahoo! Messenger integration in Yahoo! Mail. Ms. Ellis’s efforts helped secure
global leadership as the No. 1 webmail service and played a major role in product development initiatives for Yahoo!
Calendar, Address Book, and Small Business Mail. Before joining Yahoo! in 2001, Ms. Ellis was a product manager
at Vividence and a strategy consultant at Monitor Co. She holds an MBA and a BS degree in computer science from
Stanford University.
Dan H. Elron
Managing Partner, Technology Strategy
Accenture
Dan Elron is the managing partner for technology strategy at Accenture. In this role, he is responsible for defining
the firm’s strategy across all technology domains, for the development of Accenture’s technology ecosystem, and for
M&A activities in the systems integration and technology space. Previously he was the managing partner for the
communications industry in Accenture’s Communications and High Tech Global Operating Group. In this role he
helped drive Accenture’s business in the wireline, wireless, and cable segments. Mr. Elron is a member of the IEEE and
ACM. He also serves as the advisor for the telecommunications and information technology industries for the World
Economic Forum.
FaDi ElSalamEEn
Director of Institutional Advancement
American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP)
Fadi Elsalameen, before joining ATFP, was a program advisor at the Imaginenations Group, where he worked with
teams of international development finance and youth experts to design investment strategies for young people in
the Middle East and South America. Since 1998, Mr. Elsalameen has been an active participant in the international
organization Seeds of Peace, where he participates in and lectures at numerous leadership summits and conferences
on topics related to Middle East youth, conflict resolution, and extremism. Mr. Elsalameen graduated from Earlham
College with a BS degree in biochemistry and political science, and is an MA degree candidate at the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies. Mr. Elsalameen speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and Chinese.
DrEw EnDy
Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering
MIT
Drew Endy, Ph.D., earned degrees in civil, environmental, and biochemical engineering at Lehigh and Dartmouth, and
studied genetics and microbiology as a postdoctoral candidate at UT Austin and UW Madison. His research interests
are the engineering of integrated biological systems and error detection and correction in reproducing machines.
From 1998 through 2001 he co-founded the Molecular Sciences Institute, an independent not-for-profit biological
research lab in Berkeley. He started a group as a fellow in the biology department and the Biological Engineering
Division at MIT in 2002; he joined the MIT faculty in 2004. Dr. Endy co-founded the MIT Synthetic Biology working
group and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, and organized the First International Conference on Synthetic
Biology. With colleagues, he taught the 2003 and 2004 MIT Synthetic Biology labs that led to the organization
of iGEM, the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition; teams of students at some 30 schools
worldwide competed in iGEM 2006.
