AlexAnder StrAub
Chairman and CEO
PIXSTA
Alexander Straub is a serial entrepreneur and investor via Straub Ventures. He is the CEO, chairman, and co-founder
of PIXSTA, an image search company. He also co-founded the world’s first 4G network operator (truphone), which
uses Voice over WLAN technology. Truphone holds numerous awards, including the Technology Pioneer from the
World Economic Forum in 2007. Mr. Straub previously served as a general partner at Lazard Technology Partners in
New York. He was also a co-founder and former CEO of mondus, an Internet b2b marketplace, which he managed
to become one of Europe’s leading technology startups in 2000. Mr. Straub was a Rhodes scholar at the University of
Oxford and a DAAD scholar at Stanford University. He holds two engineering degrees, one from TU-Darmstadt in
Germany and one from Cornell University.
ArunA SundArArAjAn
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Social Change
Aruna Sundararajan, over the last decade, has led several pioneering initiatives in the IT domain and is currently
CEO of the IT department’s Common Services Centers (CSC) initiative. The CSC initiative, one of the largest of
its kind aimed at bridging the digital divide, calls for the establishment of more than 100,000 ICT-enabled kiosks
across 600,000 villages in India in the next 12 months. Previously Ms. Sundararajan was the program director, India,
of the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative, led by Kofi Annan at the UN. In this role, she was responsible
for establishing the program in India. Earlier she headed the IT department of the government of Kerala. She also
oversaw the design and execution of several flagship e-governance projects at the state and national levels as well
as the Akshaya project, a rural community e-learning and entrepreneurship initiative that trained more than one
million people.
KArA SwiSher
Co-executive Editor, All ThingD.com
The Wall Street Journal
Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts (with Walt Mossberg) the Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things
Digital,” a major high-tech conference. She and Mr. Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media
website, All ThingsD.com, where her new online-only version of the “Boom Town” column appears. Ms. Swisher served
in the Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau and for many years wrote the column, “Boom Town,” which appeared
on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online. She previously covered breaking news about the web’s
major players and Internet policy issues, and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. Previously she was
a reporter at the Washington Post. She is also the author of
aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads
and Made Millions in the War for the Web (1998), and a sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL
Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future (2003).
dAvid Sze
Partner
Greylock Partners
David Sze joined Greylock Partners in 2000. He focuses on consumer Internet, wireless data, broadband, systems
management, security, and technology-assisted marketing services. Before joining Greylock, Mr. Sze was senior vice
president of product strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, Mr. Sze also held roles
as general manager of Excite.com and vice president of content and programming for the Excite Network. Before
joining Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts and Crystal Dynamics. He started his
career in management consulting for Marakon Associates and the Boston Consulting Group, and was also with HBO.
Mr. Sze’s investments include Facebook, Revision3, digg, Oodle, LinkedIn, SoftCoin, SEVEN, VUDU, Claria, and
New Edge Networks (acquired by EarthLink). He holds a BA degree from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford
University.
