JIM LANZONE
Founder and CEO, Clicker
Jim Lanzone is the founder and CEO of Clicker, the complete programming guide for Internet television. GQ
has called Clicker “TVGuide for the Internet age.” Launched in 2009, Clicker has been named one of “eight
companies reinventing TV online” by Mashable, and one of “ten sites and services that will matter in 2010” by
PCWorld. Mr. Lanzone previously served as CEO of Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), a leading global Internet
property and search engine owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp. Before his role as CEO, he was senior vice president
and general manager of Ask.com U.S. Mr. Lanzone joined Ask as vice president of product management in 2001
after its acquisition of e Tour, a website discovery service, where he was co-founder and president.
ADAM LASHINSKY
Senior Editor at Large, Fortune
Co-chair, Fortune Brainstorm TECH
Adam Lashinsky covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for Fortune. He was a contributing columnist for two years
before joining the magazine’s staff in 2001. He is also a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel’s Cavuto
on Business on Saturday mornings, and he appears frequently on other Fox News and Fox Business Network
programs. Mr. Lashinsky’s articles focus on finance and technology. Recent cover-story subjects have included
Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Google. He also has written in-depth articles on Wells Fargo, Intel, Oracle, eBay,
Twitter, the venture-capital industry, and the post-Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans. Before joining
Fortune, Mr. Lashinsky was a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and TheStreet.com. Before moving to
California, he was a reporter and editor for Crain’s Chicago Business. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he worked for a
year in Tokyo as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan’s main economic daily.
GARY LAUDER
Managing Partner, Lauder Partners LLC
Gary Lauder is the managing partner of Lauder Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm investing
primarily in information technologies. He has served as a venture capitalist since 1985 and has invested in
more than 70 private companies. He is also chairman of ActiveVideo Networks, a developer of interactive
television technology for cable, IPTV, and other forms of Internet delivery. His other directorships include
Promptu, MediaFriends, and ShotSpotter. He has made investments primarily in television/IPTV technology
and WWW arenas. In the 1980s, he served the venture firms of Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures,
and Wolfensohn Associates. Mr. Lauder holds a BA degree in international relations from the University of
Pennsylvania, a BS degree in economics from the Wharton School, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business. He is the co-creator (with his wife, Laura) of the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society, and is a
Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute. Co-inventor of 11 patents, he has spoken at more than 80 industry forums.
LAURA HELLER LAUDER
General Partner, Lauder Partners LLC
Laura Lauder joined her husband, Gary, in their venture capital partnership, Lauder Partners, in 1992,
specializing in Internet and cable-related investments, and now focuses on their family foundation and
nonprofit work. She has served on the board of the National Public Radio Foundation and is active with
YPO, and recently became a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. She and Mr. Lauder co-founded the
Socrates Society of the Aspen Institute. She chairs two committees of the Jewish Community Endowment
Fund of San Francisco (JCEF), and is the founder of DeLe T, a fellowship that gives selected applicants access
to a career in day school teaching, modeled on her experience as a fellow of the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Ms. Lauder was awarded the San Francisco Bay Area Dinkelspiel Young Leadership award in 1999, and the
Jim Brooks Achievement award in 2004. She was also named one of Ten Women to Watch in 2004 by Jewish
Woman magazine.
