Patrick Keane was named Chief Executive Officer of Associated Content, Inc., in March, 2009. He manages and leads all aspects of Associated Content's corporate, business, consumer and legal initiatives.

Prior to Associated Content, Keane was EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at CBS Interactive where he managed partnerships and strategy for the Interactive division. In addition to sales strategy, he managed CBS Interactive's efforts in advertising operations, sales marketing, research and analytics, sales training and search engine optimization.

Prior to joining CBS, Keane spent more than four years at Google, Inc. He served as Head of Advertising Sales Strategy at Google, overseeing the group responsible for developing and managing the strategic plans and relationships critical to growing Google's advertising customer base. He was the original founder and programmer of Zeitgeist, Google's annual thought leadership forum. Keane also built and led Google's North American field marketing team, an organization comprising industry marketing, sales analytics, sales marketing, and corporate events.

Prior to Google, Keane was Vice President and Senior Analyst at Jupiter Research where he contributed to all facets of their marketing and media research, as well as the company's conference division and business development. As head of Jupiter's Online Advertising service, Keane led research on the buying and selling of interactive media. He and several analysts delivered insight into, and advice on, strategies that helped online advertisers maximize return on investment, publishers generate ad revenues, and technology vendors and service providers position themselves to prospective clients.

He is a former member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Board of Directors and was featured in AdAge's "40 Under 40" section in 2007. Patrick graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

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 is the Founder and President of Associated Content. Prior to his career in online media, Luke was a school teacher and administrator. In 2000, Luke joined the executive management team at WAND, Inc. 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.

Luke is recognized for his expertise in social media, online advertising models and digital media collection and distribution strategies. In 2007, Luke was selected as one of the Business Journal's "40 Under 40." Among other advisory roles, he serves on the board of directors of Publish2, a next-generation 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. He holds a bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and a master's degree from Harvard University. A Colorado native, Luke lives in Denver with his family.

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.

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.

Gokul Rajaram is Co-Founder and CEO of Chai Labs, an Internet company developing a content and community platform for web publishers. Prior to Chai Labs, Gokul was Product Management Director for Google AdSense. He helped conceive and crystallize the product in early 2003, and played a key role in its launch and growth from 2003 onwards into a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was also product lead for a number of acquisitions for Google, including DoubleClick (display advertising/ad serving) and AdScape (in-game advertising). Earlier in his career, Gokul worked as a software engineer and technical lead at Juno Online, an early free e-mail provider ISP in New York (later merged with NetZero to form United Online), where he developed the back-end advertising system that drove much of Juno's revenues and helped it go public in 1999. Gokul has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a MS in CS from UT Austin, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur where he received the Presiden's Gold Medal for being Class Valedictorian.