Mr. Perlis joined SoftBank Capital in 2000 from SoftBank's former subsidiary, Ziff-Davis. He has served as a media industry CEO with over 20 years experience managing a wide range of content and multi-media brands. Until its sale in 2000, Mr. Perlis was President and CEO of Ziff-Davis Publishing. He was responsible for the worldwide management of these pre-eminent technology publishing properties and related products worldwide. Mr. Perlis dramatically repositioned the core Ziff Davis brands from a PC focus to an Internet-centric position. He also directed the partner relationship for content and brand development with ZDNet.

Before joining Ziff-Davis, Mr. Perlis was President and COO at TVSM from 1996 to 1998, the largest publisher of customized television listings and guidance in print and on-line. He directed all strategy and operations, culminating in the sale of the company to NewsCorp.

From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Perlis was the President of the Playboy Publishing Group, overseeing all publishing and related product activity worldwide. The Playboy brand was actively exported overseas during these years, resulting in operations in 17 countries. He also was responsible for the launch of the Playboy new media initiative (playboy.com) and managed the company's direct marketing businesses.

Mr. Perlis was previously the President and CEO of IDG Peterborough, publisher of Gentlemen's Quarterly and built the Rodale Active Sports Network (including the founding of Men's Health and the acquisition of Runner's World). He began his career in media as the co-founder of New England Publications in Camden, Maine.

He serves on the boards of several public and private companies, including Webhire, GSI Commerce, A.V.M. Software, Viacore, Enpocket, World Publishing and Zinio. Mr. Perlis is highly respected as an organizational and marketing professional and is a regular speaker at media and related industry gatherings.

Mr. Perlis graduated from Syracuse University with a BA. He also serves on the board of the Newhouse School of Public Communications and is a trustee of Outward Bound.

Luke Beatty is the founder and President of Associated Content. Before starting Associated Content, Luke was on the executive management team at WAND, Inc., a closely held corporation located in Denver, Colorado. WAND is a leading developer of online directory, search and advertising taxonomies and technologies. WAND's ontology-driven search applications power some of the world's largest business to business and business to consumer online directory and search platforms, many used by Fortune 500 companies.

He has offered his expertise in consumer diven multi-media content, social networking, contextual advertising models and online media collection and distribution strategies at numerous conferences and events held by InfoCommerce, YPPA, Venture Capital in the Rockies, CSIA, among many others. In 2007, Luke was selected as one of the Denver Business Journal's "Forty Under 40". This list celebrates 40 Denver top business leaders under the age of 40. Luke serves on the Board of Directors of Publish2, a social network and web 2.0 platform for journalists.

Luke is an avid fly fisherman, youth lacrosse coach and sits on the Board of Directors for the Denver Chapter of Bread for the Journey, a non-profit organization that nurtures neighborhood philanthropy. Luke holds a bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Ron Conway is the founding general partner at Angel Investors, LP. Angel Investors LP has two Funds with committed capital of $175M and invested in the early stages of Google, Ask Jeeves, Brightmail, PayPal, Loudeye, Red Envelope, Opsware, Good Technology, Metamatrix, SNOCAP, and many other high technology startups.

Ron worked with National Semiconductor Corporation in various marketing positions (1973-1979). Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO, and as a member of the Board (1979-1990). He led Personal Training Systems (PTS) for five years as President and CEO (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft and Ron served on their Board of Directors until September 2002. Ron has served on Boards/Advisory Boards including: The Red Herring Magazine, AtWeb (sold to Netscape/AOL), SNOCAP, SendMail, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Supportsoft, Plaxo, Soliel Securities, Marimba, AVP, ROJO, Associated Content, RightsLine, FaceBook, SnapJot,and The Band of Angels.

Ron is involved in community activities as a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer for The Altos Foundation (1993 - 2000), which has contributed over $10M to Bay Area Charities. He is on the development committees of UCLA, St. Francis High School, Sacred Heart Schools, The UCSF Medical Center in SF, Packard Childrens Hospital, Legacy Ventures, and Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. Ron co-founded the UCLA VC Fund whose investments benefit UCLA, and was a member of the DAPER VC Fund that benefits the Stanford Athletic Department (1999-2002). Ron is also on the Benefit Committee of the Tiger Woods Foundation.

Mr. Hippeau has been involved in various capacities with SoftBank Capital's investing activities since 1995, and joined SoftBank Capital in 2000 from SoftBank's former subsidiary, Ziff-Davis. He has served as a media industry CEO, having spent over 25 years in senior management positions at large media companies. Mr. Hippeau joined Ziff-Davis in 1989, and he became Chairman and CEO in 1993. In 1995, SoftBank acquired Ziff-Davis, and Mr. Hippeau continued in the role of CEO until 2000, when the company was sold.

During his career at Ziff-Davis, Mr. Hippeau was early to recognize the trend toward on-line media. Under his stewardship, ZDNet became one of the few successful examples of a strong on-line business model evolving from traditional magazine content, and he was instrumental in SoftBank's first investment in Yahoo! in 1995. Mr. Hippeau was also responsible for founding ZDTV, a cable channel dedicated to technology and the Internet, and an early success in integrating television and the Web. He also directed several successful magazines and marketing service launches in the technology and Internet field.

Mr. Hippeau was President of SoftBank International Ventures, where he established SoftBank's international private equity funds and expanded them into Europe, Latin America and Asia. He was also SB Capital's board representative for its direct investments in industry leading companies, such as Yahoo!, Geocities and CNET.

His experience prior to joining Ziff-Davis includes senior executive positions at International Data Group.

Mr. Hippeau serves on the boards of several public and private companies, including Yahoo!, Danger, Odimo (diamond.com/ashford.com), Insider Pages, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, National Leisure Group, Perpetual Entertainment, Beliefnet, Purevideo, and Thumbplay. He is also on the investment committee for the SB Asia Infrastructure Fund.

He graduated from the Lycee Francais de Londres and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Warren brings significant operational experience and proven investment talent to Canaan Partners, with expertise in communications, digital media, and software. His current investments at Canaan include Associated Content, Motionbox, Tremor Media and Vivox.

Warren joined Canaan in August 2005 from Comcast Interactive Capital, where he led its investments in and served as a director or observer on the boards of Arbor Networks, Arroyo Video Solutions (acquired by Cisco in August 2006), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola in July 2006), CommunityConnect, Counterpane Internet Security (acquired by British Telecom in October 2006), netForensics, ReefEdge (acquired by Symantec), and Tripwire.

Before joining the venture community, Warren worked as an engineer and project manager at Solectron Corporation, a corporate development manager at Sun Microsystems, a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, and an investment banker in Alex Brown's technology group.

Warren holds a B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Economics with honors from Stanford University, and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Warren also sits on the boards of Motionbox, Tremor Media and Vivox.

Rich LeFurgy is the founder of Archer, an online and brand advertising consultancy based in San Francisco. Rich is the Founding Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the Chairman of the Bay Area Interactive Group, a Venture Partner at Walden VC and a Director of Web Clients. Current and past Archer clients include: America Online, Feedster, Google, Iconoculture, MeeVee and Real Networks. Rich holds a BS in Advertising from Syracuse University's Newhouse School.