DEMO: Tracking the companies and products launched at DEMO

Howard Bloom

Howard Bloom has been called "the Darwin, Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st Century" by Britain's Channel4 TV and "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine. Christopher Boehm, the director of the Jane Goodall Research Institute says, "Howard Bloom should be taking notes on what he's doing every minute of the day. He is single-handedly creating a scientific revolution."

Bloom comes from the world of cosmology, theoretical physics, and microbiology. He built his first Boolean Algebra machine when he was twelve, co-conceived a primitive but award-winning game-playing computer that same year, worked in the largest cancer research lab in America--the Roswell Park Cancer Institute--when he was sixteen, and did research in B.F. Skinner's programmed learning at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education before his freshman year of college. But he did 20 years of fieldwork in the world of business and popular culture, where he tested his hypotheses in the real world. In 1968 Bloom turned down four graduate fellowships and embarked on what he calls his Voyage of the Beagle, an expedition to the dark underbelly where new myths, new historical movements, and new shifts in mass emotion are made.

The result: Bloom generated $28 billion in revenues (more than the gross domestic product of Oman or Luxembourg) for companies like Sony, Disney, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers. He accomplished this by taking profits out of the picture and focusing on doing good. He applied the same principle to star-making, helping build the careers of figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, John Mellencamp, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, and roughly 100 others. Bloom also plunged into social causes. He helped Launch Farm Aid and Amnesty International in the United States, created two educational programs for the Black community, put together the first public-service radio advertising campaign for solar energy, and founded the leading national music anti-censorship movement in the United States.

Bloom returned to science full time in 1988. Since then, he has founded three international scientific groups, The Group Selection Squad, The International Paleopsychology Project, and The Space Development Steering Committee.

A recent visiting scholar in the Graduate Psychology Department at New York University and a former Core Faculty Member at The Graduate Institute in two fields—Conscious Evolution and Organizational Leadership--Bloom is the author of three books: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"—The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"—The New Yorker), and How I Accidentally Started The Sixties ("a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement." Timothy Leary).

Says Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution's End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, "I have finished Howard Bloom's books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom's on the planet."

Chris Greendale

Chris Greendale brings to Kodiak more than 25 years of software and technology services experience in sales, marketing, investment, and executive management that includes co-founding Cambridge Technology Partners, which had one of the most successful IPOs of the 1990s. As a General Partner, he primarily focuses on investments in the software and services segments but does reach across all of Kodiak's technology segments including communications and wireless, Internet and new media, and semiconductors and equipment. He also is on the boards of directors of the firm's portfolio companies including Astadia; GlassHouse Technologies; HiWired; Kadient; uLocate; and Vettro.

Prior to joining Kodiak, Chris was a seed investor in many successful technology companies. Most recently he served as Managing Director at Internet Capital Group and was a Venture Partner at GrandBanks Capital. In these positions he served as a board member for start-ups, including Surgency, and Context Integration, Inc. (acquired by eFORCE), and Clarify, a publicly traded company. He also served as Chairman of the Board for Breakaway Solutions, Inc., where he oversaw the company's IPO.

His other investments and board memberships during this time include Clarify, Inc., (acquired by Nortel Networks); Rubric, Inc., (acquired by Broadbase); ServiceSoft Technologies, Inc., (acquired by Kana); and MediaBridge Technologies, Inc., where he was Chairman of the Board and was instrumental in the company's acquisition by Engage. He also was an early, pre-IPO investor in Siebel Systems Inc.

In 1991 Chris co-founded and ran sales and marketing for Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), a systems integration company. By 1997, CTP had reached $600M in revenue with 4500 employees in 45 offices worldwide and enjoyed a very successful IPO.

Earlier in his career, Chris served as Vice President of Marketing for Oracle Corp., and Vice President of Marketing at Ingres.

In addition to his board memberships at Kodiak portfolio companies, Chris also serves on the board of Tumbleweed Communications Corp.

Chris is the former Chairman of the East USA Aston Martin Owners Club. He hails from New Zealand, and is an accomplished golfer and ex-professional tennis player.

Chris holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University.

Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey has over ten years of experience reporting on business and technology, most recently as reporter with top technology blog GigaOM. There she covers both the infrastructure that allows companies to deliver services via the web, as well as the services themselves. Prior to GigaOM Stacey wrote about technology and finance for The Deal, a finance publication out of New York, and launched its coverage of angel-backed and seed-stage companies. She joined The Deal from the Austin Business Journal which she wrote for after her return from New York City, where she worked at publications that included The Bond Buyer and BusinessWeek. Stacey graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri

Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates.

Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri joined New Enterprise Associates in January 2006 as a General Partner, and focuses on information technology investments. He serves on the boards of RingCube Technologies, SnapTell, Teracent, Weatherbill and OANDA. He was previously on the board of PortAuthority Technologies (NASDAQ: WBSN).

Prior to NEA, Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager for the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, as a result of NetScreen's acquisition by Juniper Networks in April 2004. Mr. Kolluri was responsible for the firewall, VPN, secure access and intrusion detection and prevention products.

Prior to that, Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri served briefly as the GM of NetScreen's Secure Access Products, as a result of NetScreen's acquisition of Neoteris, Inc. in November 2003. Prior to that, he served for more than two and a half years as President and CEO of Neoteris, the leader of SSL-based Application Security Gateway market.

Under Kolluri's leadership, Neoteris excelled and grew considerably, passing multiple corporate and product milestones. Despite the general freeze on technology spending at the time, Neoteris attracted customers and partners at an unprecedented rate. Kolluri built a company respected as much for its stellar team, fiscal management, and culture, as for its category creation and leading SSL-based access technology.

Prior to Neoteris, Kolluri was at Healtheon/WebMD, where he managed engineering for the company in its early days, later moving through key operational and business development roles as the company grew. His last role before joining Neoteris was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Provider Services. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kolluri worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) where he initially managed developer products, later moving into management of high profile Interactive TV projects.

Kolluri's educational background includes a B.Tech. (M.E.) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and an M.S. in Operations Research from SUNY, Buffalo, NY. He has also studied Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Kolluri was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, Madras in 2005. He is a Charter Member of TiE.

Kolluri is married with two children. His hobbies include golf, photography, and music.

Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall is editor and CEO of VentureBeat. He founded VentureBeat in late 2006. He covered the venture capital and start-up beat for the Mercury News from 2001-2006. He significantly expanded the newspaper's coverage of venture capital and start-ups during that time, in daily articles and a weekly column called the VC Insider, and then online with his blog SiliconBeat from 2004. Matt was awarded Journalist of the Year by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2002, and the James Madison Freedom of Information award in 2003. These awards were for a series of articles he wrote in conjunction with two successful Mercury News lawsuits, in part instigated by Matt, against California's public pension fund (CalPERS) and the University of California. The lawsuits sought disclosure of the financial performance of venture capital and other private equity funds that CalPERS and UC had invested in, arguing that state taxpayers and retirees had a right to know these results. As a result of these laws suits, public employees now have full access to information on the performance of their retirement investments. Matt was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 through 1998. In 1999 he wrote a book while in Germany, The Bank: the Birth of Europe's Central Bank and the Rebirth of European Power (Random House, 1999). He has also written for the Washington Post and several other publications. Matt has a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University.

Walter S. Mossberg

Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991.

He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's most prestigious annual conference, D: All Things Digital, and is the co-executive editor of the technology web site, allthingsd.com, which extends the experience of the D Conference to the Web.

In addition to Personal Technology, Mr. Mossberg also writes the Mossberg's Mailbox column in the Journal, and edits the Mossberg Solution column, which is authored by his colleague Katherine Boehret.

He also appears regularly on television and Internet video as a commentator on technology issues, and has been interviewed repeatedly on programs like Charlie Rose and The News Hour, as well as on National Public Radio.

The Washington Post has declared Mr. Mossberg "one of the most powerful men in the high-tech world" and "a one-man media empire whose prose can launch a new product." And the New York Times calls him a "protean critic of the new economy's tools and toys."

In a major 2004 profile of Mr. Mossberg, entitled "The Kingmaker," Wired Magazine declared: " Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures…Chances are he has influenced the look, feel and performance of your laptop, mobile phone, and MP3 player."

In 2007, The New Yorker magazine profiled him in an article entitled: "Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg."

Mr. Mossberg was awarded the Loeb award for Commentary, the only technology writer to be so honored. He has also won the National Headliner Award, the World Technology Award for Media and Journalism, and has been inducted into the ranks of the Business News Luminaries, the hall of fame for business journalists.

He is a trustee of Brandeis University and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Rhode Island.

Mr. Mossberg, 61, has been a reporter and editor at the Journal since 1970. He is based in the Journal's Washington, D.C., office, where he spent 18 years covering national and international affairs before turning his attention to technology. A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, he holds degrees from Brandeis and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc he was Director of Search Quality, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002-2005, and has been Director of Research from 2005 on. Previously he was the head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering, including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence.

Mark Radcliffe

Mark F. Radcliffe concentrates in strategic intellectual property advice; private financing; corporate partnering; software licensing; Internet licensing; and copyright and trademark.

The respected English publishers Chambers and Partners names him in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, describing him as "outstanding." Mr. Radcliffe is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2008 edition. In 2004, he was named one of Northern California's Top 100 intellectual property Super Lawyers, in a joint project of Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines.

He is also listed in The International Who's Who of Internet and e-Commerce Lawyers 2008 and in numerous other guides, including the 2003 Expert Guide – The World's Leading Trademark Lawyers and many annual editions of The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. In 1997, the National Law Journal cited him as one of America's 100 most influential lawyers.

Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan has been the head of Yahoo! Research since 2005. His research interests include text and web mining, and algorithm design. With his considerable expertise in search technologies Prabhakar leads Yahoo!'s Search Strategy. He is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM. He has co-authored two textbooks, on randomized algorithms and on search. Raghavan received his PhD from Berkeley and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was the chief technology officer at Verity and has held a number of technical and managerial positions at IBM Research.

Nova Spivack

Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, what is sometimes referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop the next-evolution of social software, Twine, based on the Semantic Web. Twine is a unique, Semantic Web application that that helps users organize, share and discover information around their interests, with networks of like-minded people.

In 1994, Nova co-founded EarthWeb (IPO 1998). Nova has worked at Individual, Xerox/Kurzweil, Thinking Machines, and also with SRI International on the DARPA CALO program and nVention. Nova founded Lucid Ventures and co-founded the San Francisco Web Innovators Network.

As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker, Nova shares his grandfather's interests in the evolution of knowledge work. He has a BA in Philosophy from Oberlin College and did graduate study at the International Space University. In 1999 Nova flew to the edge of space in Russia with Space Adventures.

Nova blogs at Minding the Planet.

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital," with Walt Mossberg. It is a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.

She and Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com, where her new online-only version of the "BoomTown" column appears.

Kara Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column, "BoomTown," which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also on The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home issues called "Home Economics."

Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University's School of Journalism.

She is also the author of "aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web," published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, "There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future," was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.

Eric Tilenius

Eric Tilenius recently joined Maveron, a consumer-focused venture capital firm, as a partner. He will be opening the firm's San Francisco Bay Area office. Maveron helps entrepreneurs achieve their dreams of building great consumer businesses. Past and current Maveron companies include eBay, Shutterfly, Pinkberry, Motley Fool, Potbelly Sandwich Works, and VideoEgg.Prior to joining Maveron, Eric was an active angel investor whose portfolio includes Powerset (sold to Microsoft), UpTake, Xoopit, Ustream.TV, and MixBook. Eric has also been an entrepreneur-in-residence for venture capital firm Mayfield. Prior to becoming an investor, Eric was CEO of Answers.com (NASDAQ: ANSW), co-founder, Chairman, and Founding CEO of Netcentives Inc., and has held management positions with Oracle Corporation and Intuit Inc. Eric also served as a management consultant for strategy consulting firm Bain & Company. Eric founded his first software company, ColorVenture Software, while still in high school. Eric received his Bachelor's degree in Economics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Jon Udell

Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell was formerly a software developer at Lotus, BYTE Magazine's executive editor and Web maven, and an independent consultant. A hands-on thinker, Udell's analysis of industry trends has always been informed by his own ongoing experiments with software, information architecture, and new media. From 2002 to 2006 he was InfoWorld's lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. During his InfoWorld tenure he also produced a series of screencasts and an audio show that continues as Interviews with Innovators on the Conversations Network. In January 2007, Udell joined Microsoft as a writer, speaker, and producer of another series of interviews: Perspectives. This show features projects in which Microsoft works with partners -- universities, governments, NGOs -- to develop new and socially impactful uses of its technology portfolio.