About Us

Ben Barokas is President and Co-Founder of AdMeld, a company that provides the world’s top online publishers with the technology, expertise and support to sell their ad inventory smarter. Prior to founding AdMeld, Ben was a Vice President at Jump TV and Director at The Fifth Network.

Nithya Das is legal counsel at AppNexus, a company that provides real-time advertising technology for on-line advertising, where she manages a range of legal matters for management, sales, marketing, product development, operations and other corporate functions. Prior to joining AppNexus, Nithya was an associate and member of the Technology Companies Practice Group at Goodwin Procter. Nithya is experienced in venture capital law, technology transactions and business development having worked on a range of transaction for companies in various technology driven industries. Follow Nithya on Twitter @nithyadas.

Alex Doll is CEO and President at OneID. He is also a Board Member and investor with CounterTrack and Alpha Card Systems. Prior to OneID, Alex spent the last year researching innovative and fresh approaches to the digital identity problem as an Executive in Residence at Khosla Ventures. Alex was a founding executive at PGP Corp. helping steer its growth from inception to global industry leader in trusted data protection. At the time PGP Corp. was sold to Symantec, PGP Corp. had sold its encryption platform to over 5,000 of the world's largest companies and had over 400 employees located across the globe. Alex has also worked at PeopleSoft, Embark and Robertson Stephens. Alex graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Management and Technology program with degrees in Systems Science Engineering and Finance and received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School Business.

Eliot’s investments include Anchor Intelligence (sold to Comscore), Spinback (acquired by Buddy Media), Blaze.io (acquired by Akamai), DoodleDeals (sold to PlumDistrict), Rapportive (acquired by LinkedIn), Klout, IndieGoGo, Yipit, Prescreen, and Enterproid. Eliot founded Templates.com, an online software retailer that was acquired 2002 & subsequently worked at the Permal Group, a multi-billion dollar global fund of hedge funds (acquired by Legg Mason in 2006).

Sean Glass is an entrepreneur, investor and believer in the power of people. He is currently a Venture Partner at Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Founder and CEO of Employ Insight. Prior to that he lived in London while working on Pikum, a social gaming business which was backed by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and various venture capital investors. Prior to Pikum, Sean founded the higher education focused online financial services firm, HigherOne.

Freddy Kerrest is Vice-President, Operations and Co-Founder of Okta, Inc. the market-leading on-demand identity and access management service for business applications. He is also an advisor to the Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT and select startup software companies. Prior to starting Okta, Freddy evaluated early stage enterprise software companies at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and was an early employee in sales and business development at Salesforce.com.

Lizette Pérez-Deisboeck is General Counsel at Battery Ventures. Prior to joining Battery, she was a partner and a member of the Technology Companies and Private Equity Practice Groups at Goodwin Procter. She has also served as Vice President of Legal Affairs and Operations at Idealab, a creator and operator of technology companies, and General Counsel at JuniorNet Corporation, a children’s online service.

Katie Rae is the Managing Director of TechStars in Boston, and is also a founder of Project 11, a firm that invests in and assists early-stage start-ups. Katie specializes in rapid product development and customer growth strategies for Internet businesses that scale.