Fenwick West

Andrew Albertson, Associate

Mr. Albertson is an associate in the Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP, and his practice focuses on general corporate representation of public and private technology and life sciences companies.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Beacon Law

Chris Hurley, Principal

Over 16 years of experience working with startups in the Valley as well as Seattle. Also raised over $8.5 million of angel and VC money for my own startup as CFO and COO-- sold that company in 2003.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:40, 12:00, 1:30, 3:30, 3:50

Noel Howe, Principal

Over 14 years of startup experience in Southern California and Seattle. Operational experience in a wireless software startup.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:40, 12:00, 1:30, 3:30, 3:50

Foster Pepper

Vin Ricci, Member/Attorney

Vin is an emerging company partner at Foster Pepper PLLC, one of Seattle’s oldest and top 5 largest law firms. Foster is a full service firm with over 100 lawyers in Seattle. Vin represents early stage companies, VC’s and angels in connection with formations, financings, M&A and as general outside counsel. Prior to 2002, Vin practiced with a top NY law firm for six years and has broad experience in complex corporate finance and M&A transactions and general securities and corporate matters.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Mark Munro, Member / Attorney

Mark's practice focuses on US federal and Washington state tax law and business structuring. Mark regularly advises on a wide range of transactions involving partnerships, LLCs and corporations, including startup structures, venture capital investment, private equity investments, real estate projects and business acquisitions. He also provides representation in Washington State tax disputes.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Perkins Coie

Mark Metcalf, Partner

Mark is a partner in Perkins Coie's Emerging Companies practice and focuses his practice on the representation of start-up and high-growth technology companies in the life sciences, information technology, wireless, online media and web services sectors. Mark has represented public and private clients in numerous transactions, including private equity and venture capital financing transactions; and domestic and international M&A transactions.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Naomi Sheffield, Associate

Naomi is an associate in Perkins Coie's Emerging Companies practice and focuses her practice on the representation of start-up and high-growth technology companies.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC

Bob Muraski, Attorney

Bob Muraski’s startup practice covers all stages, from pre-formation through liquidity events and beyond. In addition, Bob’s practice emphasizes trademark and domain matters, including registration, licensing, and protection strategies and the management of trademark portfolios.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40

Serena Sayani, Attorney

Serena works with founders and startups on seed and bridge financings, “Blue Sky” compliance, stock option plans and stock option agreements, the use of independent contractor agreements, and assignments of invention, NDAs and noncompetes.

Meeting times: 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

GARVEY SCHUBERT BARER

Peter Cancelmo, Attorney

Peter B. Cancelmo is an attorney in the corporate finance and securities group at Garvey Schubert Barer. He represents emerging companies in equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. He serves as corporate counsel to startup companies from formation through exit, and represents angel and venture capital investors with respect to their technology investments. Peter previously represented emerging companies and VC investors at a major Boston firm.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Scott Warner, Attorney

Scott G. Warner heads the Intellectual Property/Technology Group at Garvey Schubert Barer. He represents technology and game companies with respect to the development, acquisition, protection and commercialization of technology and intellectual property assets. His practice covers licensing, e-commerce, data collection and protection, privacy, copyright, trademark, trade secret, tech transfer, various internet related issues, and issues particular to clients in the software and game industry.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Garvey Schubert Barer

Bruce Robertson, Attorney

Bruce A. Robertson is an owner in the corporate finance and securities group of Garvey Schubert Barer, where he has practiced since 1977. Bruce has over 30 years of experience representing growth companies and venture capital and angel investors. He has extensive experience representing growth companies in private placements, venture debt financings, IPO's, joint venture formation and mergers and acquisitions. He is admitted to practice in Washington and California.

Meeting times: 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50

Ron Knox, Attorney

Ronald J. Knox is an owner at Garvey Schubert Barer. Since l981, Ron has practiced primarily in the areas of labor and employment law. His clientele includes both public and private sector companies in a variety of industries, including the computer software industry. Ron’s experience encompasses employment advice and consultation, personnel management, consultation and advocacy, labor and business negotiations, business contract negotiation, administrative and civil litigation.

Meeting times: 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50

Denali Financial Consulting

Chris Dishman,

We profide financial consulting for start ups on a part-time, as-needed basis.

Meeting times: 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 2:10, 2:30, 3:10, 3:30

Jackson Fish Market

Hillel Cooperman, Founder

Founded Jackson Fish Market in late 2006 with Jenny Lam and Walter Smith. Focused on making high quality hand-crafted consumer software.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40

Lilipip

Ksenia Oustiougova, Founder & CEO

Ksenia Oustiougova is founder and CEO of Lilipip, a company that creates animated videos explaining products, services, and concepts for businesses, start-ups, and non-profits. Ksenia's "tell it like it is" style combined with her strategic use of social media in business development set her apart as a clear example of the contemporary female entrepreneur.

Meeting times: 1:50, 2:10, 2:30

Madrona Venture Group

Greg Gottesman, Managing Director

I love working with entrepreneurs at the earliest stage of development. I have been a Managing Director at Madrona for more than 10 years and focus on digital media and advertising, software, and Internet investments. I look forward to talking with you about your idea.

Meeting times: 11:00, 11:20, 11:40

Role Call

Emily Schrock, Partner

A factor for success for all startups is building a strong team. Startups need to hire quality talent, they need to do it quickly and inexpensively. Role Call, a social recruiting agency, delivers cost effective and flexible staffing solutions. Working with Role Call ensures a professional experience for both the startups and potential talent, while also reducing the time and cost to hire.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 1:30, 1:50, 2:10, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50

Front Seat

Mike Mathieu,

Mike is Chairman and founder of Front Seat, a civic software company based in Seattle. Prior to Front Seat, Mike spent six years as founder and CEO of All Star Directories, an INC 500-listed publisher of online and career school directories that he bootstrapped until selling to a private equity firm in 2006. During the 1990's Mike was General Manager of MSN.com and the MSN Search engine at Microsoft.

Meeting times: 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00, 1:30

remerinc

Dave Remer, remerinc - CEO/Creative Director

Known for his high energy and creative instincts, he is almost immediately invited deeper into a client’s situation. He believes that great creative strategy is born of intelligence and endeavors to live each client’s business challenges before launching creative concepting on any job. In addition to his work with Fortune 500 companies, Dave and his team have launched start-ups and even incubated companies out of the agency.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00, 1:30

Sharein

Colin Wong, CEO

Colin Wong is the CEO of Sharein, a Web 2.0 startup that helps you to share links to Facebook, Twitter, and email. Sharein tracks your influence and impact. Prior to this, Colin worked at Google and helped launch the successful Google AdSense product. Colin also managed many of Google's largest AdWords customers in the Pacific Northwest, including Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, Drugstore.com, Blue Nile and more.

Meeting times: 11:40, 12:00, 12:20

Bill Bryant

Bill Bryant, Venture Partner - Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Please see public LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/billbryant . I have been involved (as founder, investor, board member, advisor) in over 25 successful software, Internet, mobile and digital media startups over the past 2 decades, including three public companies and a dozen positive M&A events.

Meeting times: 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00

Wetpaint

Alex Berg, VP User Experience

After five years with Paul Allen startup Starwave, Alex joined Blue Nile. As the Director of Website Development, Alex dramatically increased site conversion; managing two major site redesigns. He left Blue Nile in 2004 to take a position as Creative Director overseeing Expedia.com's editorial and design teams. Alex currently manages Product Development for Wetpaint. As one of the first five employees he built the team from scratch and participated in all rounds of fund raising.

Meeting times: 2:30, 2:50, 3:10

Estately

Galen Ward, Founder and CEO

I boostrapped Estately to a product used by tens of thousands of people a month, raised a friends and family round and scaled the company from Western Washington focus to 6 states. Currently run a profitable startup with 5 employees, growing at 15-20% a month, and we're hiring.

Meeting times: 1:00, 1:30, 1:50, 2:30, 2:50, 3:10

VHoldR

Marc Barros, CEO

VholdR is a Seattle based start-up leading the way in making action video easy to shoot and share, and dedicated to creating simple tools that enable hands-free capture and effortless sharing of video online with others.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20

WhitePages

Joe Heitzeberg, VP Eng & Tech

Joe was the co-founder and CEO of Snapvine, a mobile social networking service with over 6m users acquired by WhitePages in 2008 for around $20m. In 1998, Joe created an e-commerce platform and sold it to Infoseek for $4M (pre-launch). He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in computer science from the University of Washington.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:20, 12:40, 1:00, 2:30, 2:50

Picnik

Jonathan Sposato,

Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur and is co-founder and chief executive officer at Picnik.com. Prior to Picnik, Jonathan was the founder and CEO of Phatbits, which he sold to Google in 2005. This allowed for the deployment of Google Desktop Gadgets & Sidebar, which was awarded PC Magazine’s "Best Gadgets Platform." Phatbits has since become a key component of Google’s overall desktop applications strategy that continues to reach millions of users daily. Prior, to that Jonathan was a senior manager in Microsoft’s consumer division and and drove the development of many award-winning consumer software applications in games and MSN. He was also the director of MSN UX and personally delivered the next level of thought to chairman Bill Gates regarding the future of MSN, Messenger, Hotmail, Spaces and MSN Mobile.

Meeting times: 11:20, 11:40, 12:00

Bio Architecture Lab

Nikesh (Niki) Parekh, CEO

Nikesh is CEO of Bio Architecture Lab, which is a cleantech spin-out from the University of Washington. Prior to BAL, Nikesh spent five years as an executive at HouseValues, managing product and marketing, leading to $90m in revenue growth and significant profit growth. Nikesh worked in venture capital at Second Avenue Partners, was a consultant to Europe’s largest private equity firm, and was a biotech investment banker at CSFB. Nikesh received his MBA and BA in biochemistry from Harvard.

Meeting times: 3:10, 3:30, 3:50

Ignition Partners

Michelle Goldberg, Partner

Investing in consumer,internet media and advertising. I love to meet entrepreneurs and be of help if I can.

Meeting times: 11:20, 11:40, 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 1:00, 1:30

Pathable

Shelly Farnham, Founder, R&D Consulting

Shelly Farnham is a leading expert in applying research, theory, and best practices to the incubation of new social technologies. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Washington in 1999, and spent seven years as a researcher on innovation teams at Microsoft Research. In 2006 she joined the startup world, founding her own company, Waggle Labs. Through Waggle Labs she has both consulted for numerous startups and incubated several new technologies including Pathable.

Meeting times: 2:10, 3:10, 3:30

Voyager Capital

Randall Lucas,

Former entrepreneur & technologist, now focused on early stage IT VC. Investment themes include database evolution, viral loops, namespace creation, and massive parallelization.

Meeting times: 2:30, 2:50, 3:10

Robin Elenga

Robin Elenga, President

Robin has started, advised, or funded dozens of start up companies including software, SaaS, consumer products and service companies. Robin is a member of the Alliance of Angels and sits on its screening committee.

Meeting times: 10:40, 11:00, 11:20

TeachStreet

Dave Schappell, Founder and CEO

Dave Schappell is the founder & CEO of TeachStreet. TeachStreet's goal is to create a Marketplace for Lifelong Learning, where people can Teach or Learn Anything. Prior to TeachStreet, Dave worked at online pioneers Amazon.com and JibJab, and microfinance innovator, Unitus. He has a B.S. in Accounting from the Pennsylvania State University and attended the MBA program at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Meeting times: 2:30, 2:50, 3:10

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