Anthony studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford, concentrating in Neuroscience with a minor in Mathematics. His research in a Systems Neuroscience lab investigated sensorimotor contingencies and visual perception. He is primarily concerned with keeping the rest of the world in good working order so his development team can thrive.

Rick is currently a Computer Science masters student at Stanford, and is specializing in Artificial Intelligence, conducting research in computer vision and natural language processing. He is excited to play a strong leadership role and be a key engineer on the team. In addition to research, he has also interned at Amazon and Efficient Frontier.

Lanthe is a Masters student at the MIT Media Lab working to understand the spread of memes across social networks using mobile phones. She received undergraduate degrees at MIT in both EECS and Physics. At Betteroffline she uses her experience with smartphone sensors and information gathering to design and build the mobile platform experience.

Mayank is a computer science Master student at the state university of New York at Binghamton. Before coming to the States for his masters, he worked for two year as an associate consultant for Capgemini India. He is currently assisting with the back-end development for BetterOffline's web and mobile platforms.

Steve Browne is a seasoned technology executive with twenty-five years of experience in software development, consulting, pre-sales technical support, direct sales, business development, telesales, government sales and sales management. Steve is a veteran of multiple startups including Oracle, Patrol (acquired by BMC), Geodesic (acquired by Veritas), Collation (acquired by IBM), General Interface (acquired by TIBCO), Acquis (acquired by Leica) and others. Steve led several startups to their first million in sales and built several sales teams to go well beyond that.

Steve is the author of the book Traction on how technology startups can achieve sustained revenue growth. He used the methodology in his book at the Tivoli division of IBM, for example, to create a $30M annual stream of revenue from scratch in 18 months, starting as a lone sales rep and scaling a sales team up from there. Steve is accelerating the adoption of GIS Planning’s technology into the economic development marketplace. Steve started his career as a programmer/analyst for the MCAUTO division of McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) in 1983 and opened the Oracle St. Louis office in 1987. Steve graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Missouri in 1983 with a BS in Business and a concentration in Management Information Systems.

Freddy is a passionate business leader with over 14 years experience driving rapid market adoption of disruptive products through aggressive product management, sales, and marketing strategy. With proven experience successfully targeting consumers, SMBs, enterprises and service providers, Freddy has a unique view on product monetization, pricing, life-cycle management, definition process, iterative development methodologies and distribution strategies.

Currently, Freddy advises a number of early stage companies looking to build sustainable businesses focused on shifting markets. He is particularly passionate about companies that are developing disruptive energy efficiency, green Information Technology and Web Service products targeting small business, enterprises, service providers and consumers.

Most recently, Freddy served as Worldwide Vice President of Product Marketing for Fortinet, the largest privately held network security vendor. At Fortinet, Freddy owned a product portfolio consisting of over 60 hardware, software and in the cloud subscription services and generated more than $150M in billings worldwide.

Prior to that, Freddy founded a marketing consultancy providing product strategy and marketing services to companies including IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco), Sarvega (acquired by Intel) and Permeo (acquired by Blue Coat) to name a few. He has also held numerous sales, senior technical marketing and consulting engineer roles with companies such as Cisco Systems, WheelGroup and UUNET Technologies.

Freddy holds a B.S. in economics with honors from George Mason University and has completed additional studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, American University, Georgetown, University of Colorado, Stanford and Princeton

Jon has 20 years experience in the trade show and conference market, having held several senior roles in the US and UK spanning diverse and innovative ventures.

In 1994 Jon was recruited to launch a UK business into the US market, “SoftWorld”, whose events counted Microsoft, Oracle, CA, SAP, JD Edwards and all the major software vendors as their exhibitors. As CEO Jon successfully built the company from start up to 10 events a year with 25 staff and revenue of $7M+. In 1999 Imark Communications acquired both the London and Palo Alto offices of SoftWorld.

Jon then accepted a role in London with Gartner, where he was responsible for all of their international events. He managed a business unit of 40 staff located in three international offices that had P&L responsibility for $30M. During the three years that Jon managed this business he launched many new subject specific conferences and drove new clients to Gartner using his deep audience acquisition experience.

After returning to the West Coast, Jon accepted a role with United Business Media (CMP) as VP of Enterprise Events where he was responsible for a portfolio of technology conferences including Information Week. During this time with CMP he was involved with the acquisition of Medialive and also initiated the acquisition of the Software series of conferences from Sandhill Group. Jon left CMP to launch a small event management company and successfully launched “IT Connect” in 07, an IT conference for the Midsize Enterprise and has also researched new events in the Green IT space.

Michael is a board member and co-founder of the Clean Tech Open, the nation's leading competition for clean technology start-ups. Michael is also a partner with the Cleantech Circle, a group of serial entrepreneurs and investors based in Silicon Valley who are committed to the growth and adoption of renewable energy generation and resource/energy efficiency technologies.

Starting in 1994, Michael was the CEO and co-founder of the early Internet start-up Four11. He led the company from two person start-up until the successful acquisition by Yahoo in 1997. Four11 provided white page directory and web based e-mail services through a network of partners including Yahoo, Infoseek, WebTV, France Telecom, Verizon, and many others. The company's Rocketmail e-mail service, now known as YahooMail, continues to be one of the Internet's most popular services. Four11 was backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Tim Draper served on the board.

After leaving Yahoo, Michael became an active advisor, investor and board member with a number of early stage companies. He was an investor and board member with DirectHit, a successful search company acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2000. Currently, he is an advisor to ProspX, Brandmail Solutions, and GoGoVerde.

Prior to Four11, Michael spent 10 years in a variety of engineering, project management, and product marketing roles working on products ranging from consumer electronics to high speed fiber optic transmission systems. His achievements from this period include a patent in the field of telecommunications and a Business Week Product Design Award. Michael holds a BSEE from M.I.T.

Chris has been an Internet entrepreneur since the late 1980s. He started his career building a secure, global Internet for the US Government from 1988-1991. He was part of the military team that built DARPANET (the predecessor to the Internet) in the late 80s, which was actively deployed in Operation Desert Storm. From 1991-1999 he was a senior executive at Cisco Systems, in sales and marketing. Following that, Chris was President of F-Secure Ltd, a Finnish Internet security company, where he col-lead the IPO from 1999 - 2001. He then became CEO of Proficient Networks, a networking infrastructure company. In 2003 Chris started Generations Investments LLC, a private investment company.

Chris was a member of The Angels' Forum, an early stage venture capital group in Palo Alto, California, from 2005-2008. In October 2007 he founded The Cleantech Circle LLC, an early stage Cleantech investor Partnership. He focuses his venture and private equity investments exclusively in Cleantech businesses. Chris has been a judge and Chair of the California Cleantech Open (CCTO) business competition since its inception in 2006. Chris also founded and manages Harbour Ventures LLC, a european real estate investment company.

Chris was a Fulbright scholar to Finland from 1987-88 and received a M.S. Electrical Engineering ('87) and B.S. Computer Engineering ('85) from the University of Notre Dame. Chris is involved in a number of nonprofits, including Vice-Chair of Social Ventures Silicon Valley (SV2), Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), NRDC, Chairman of the Bullis Charter School Foundation and Member of the Bullis Charter School Board of Directors, and served on multiple Committees that serve the town of Los Altos Hills. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California with his wife Marita and three children.