Check out the latest 4 additions to the Summer 2009 Mentoring team:
- Mark Pincus is CEO of Zynga, an online social gaming network. Previously, Mark founded Tribe Networks in 2003, one of the first online communities. Prior to Tribe, Mark founded and served as chairman and CEO of SupportSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRT), a publicly traded enterprise software company, formerly known as Support.com. After business school, he spent a short stint working at TCI and Liberty Media out of Denver, but left to launch Freeloader, and moved to Washington, D.C. and subsequently San Francisco, California, United States.
- Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Lee comes to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe’s enterprise marketing and vertical market segments. Previously, he held several executive leadership roles at Cisco Systems. Lee also held key management positions at Banyan Systems. He was co-founder of Beyond Inc., developers of the award-winning BeyondMail product, and holds four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies.
- Joe Zawadzki is the CEO of MediaMath, a media buying platform and service that is helping transform the modern agency. He was previously the Founder and President of [x+1], a marketing optimization company that was one of Inc 500’s fastest growing. He worked with AOL and Google/DoubleClick on their optimization and yield management strategies, was awarded a patent, and is an active investor in technology, media, real estate and film. In the more distant past, Joe was an investment banker and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard.
- Trip Adler is CEO of Scribd, a fast growing provider of digital paper and document sharing. Scribd currently has more than 50 million monthly users and more than 50,000 documents are uploaded daily in just over two years of existence. Trip joined Y Combinator after Harvard and raised $3.7 million then $9 million in two successive venture rounds.
