Advisors
Steve Schoettler
Steve is a co-founder of Zynga, and as VP of infrastructure, is responsible for security, payments, risk management, and platform services. Steve likes to solve hard problems. He's not a gamer, but knows how to build secure, high-performance internet services that support millions of users. Steve held senior engineering and management positions at several pioneering startups including GO, General Magic, and Kontiki.
Mr. Schoettler graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
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Shernaz Daver
Shernaz specializes in building brands for global consumer internet and enterprise companies.
She advises leading public companies and start-ups around the world including Motorola, Openwave, Netflix, Truveo (purchased by America Online), Baidu and Six Apart.
Shernaz served as Vice President of Marketing and Investor Relations for Inktomi Corporation.
She has held management positions at 3DO and Sun Microsystems where she built the Sun and Solaris brands both in the US and Europe, as well as launched Java. She serves on the Advisory Board for Sportgenic (formerly Active Athlete Media, Inc.), the largest ad network targeting sport enthusiasts.
Ms. Daver graduated Phi Betta Kappa from Stanford University with an undergraduate degree in Communications and earned a Master's degree from Harvard University.
More about Shernaz Daver
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Lloyd Taylor
Lloyd is VP Infrastructure at ngmoco:), a leading publisher of video games for the iOS and Android platforms. He is also the president of Netelder Associates, a boutique consulting firm focused on successfully scaling Internet companies. Taylor has developed, implemented and operated an infinitely scalable physical infrastructure for Google's server farms as a director at Google. He held the VP of operations position at LinkedIn, built out a worldwide performance measurement infrastructure for Keynote Systems, and developed one of the first managed hosting architectures for Digex.
More about Lloyd Taylor
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Mark White
Mark is the co-founder of White & Lee LLP, a premier boutique corporate law firm which provides critical legal service and business guidance to early and mid-stage high-technology and other emerging growth companies.
Mark has represented several well known companies, such as HotMail, Tesla Motors, Classmates Online, and 3ware, as well as venture capital funds, such as New Enterprise Associates, FinaVentures, Leapfrog Ventures, Noventi Ventures, and the Band of Angels.
Mr. White obtained his J.D. from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and a M.B.A from Harvard University.
White & Lee LLP, is currently serving as the legal counsel for Rentalic.
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Shehara de Silva
Shehara is a Communications and branding specialist with over 20 years experience in media, marketing, strategic planning, advocacy and competitiveness consultancy. She has several years experience in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and East Asian markets with a proven record in high impact re-imaging and communications strategies. She has, senior level posts in private, multinational, government and I/NGO environments. Strong change management and CSR experience.
