Alpha Online Marketplaces – April 23

We are hosting our upcoming Alpha Dinner at 25 Lusk in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 23^rd. The theme of the dinner is Internet Marketplaces. The roundtable discussion will include 15-20 CEOs and Founders of various Internet Marketplaces.

 

What:    Alpha Internet Marketplaces Roundtable Discussion

When:   Tuesday, April 23^rd; Cocktails 6pm, Dinner 7pm

Where:  25 Lusk Restaurant, 25 Lusk St, San Francisco, CA

 

	Attendees	Company	Title
1	Allan Grant	Developer Auction	CTO
2	Alan Cole	TakeLessons	CRO
3	Andre Haddad	RelayRides	CEO
4	Art Agrawal	YourMechanic Inc	CEO
5	Ben Lowenstein	Colingo	Founder
6	Bob Bahramipour	Gigwalk	CEO
7	DJ Patil	Greylock Partners	Data Scientist in Residence
8	Gagan Biyani	Udemy	Co-Founder
9	James Currier	Ooga Labs	Co-Founder
10	Joe Ariel	Goldbely	CEO
11	John China	SVB	Head of Relationship Mgmt
12	Mehul Patel	Crosslink	EIR
13	Melody McCloskey	Styleseat	Founder & CEO
14	Michael Silverstein	Liquidnet	Co-Founder
15	Simon Rothman	Greylock Partners	EIR
16	Stephane Kasriel	oDesk	VP of Product
17	Stephanie Palmeri	SoftTech	Principal
18	Steven Cox	TakeLessons	Founder & CEO
19	Stew Langille	Visual.ly	CEO
20	Sunil Rajaraman	Scripted	Founder & CEO

Alpha Pinterest Roundtable – March 18

We are hosting our upcoming Alpha Dinner at Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco on Monday, March 18th. The theme of the dinner is Pinterest and the Social Web. The roundtable discussion with be led by Tim Kendall, the Director of Monetization for Pinterest.

What:   Alpha Pinterest and the Social Web Roundtable Dinner

When:  Monday, March 18^th, Cocktails 6pm, Dinner 7pm

Where: Wayfare Tavern, 558 Sacramento Street, San Francisco 

Alpha Advisory Board Dinner – February 12

We’re holding our next Alpha Advisory Board Dinner Tuesday, February 12 at 25 Lusk. Main topic of discussion will be a planning session for the 2013 Alpha event schedule and early planning for the Alpha Founder Summit in Winter 2013.

Appetizers and Cocktails @ 6PM.

Dinner @ 7PM.

I’d like to thank our Platinum Sponsor, SVB for graciously offering to supply us with some amazing wines for the dinner.

Cheers,

Eric & Mike

Alpha Founders Summit – December 13/14 Sonoma

Alphas: Please mark your calendar for the Alpha Founders Summit On December 13th and 14th in Sonoma, CA. We will have more than 150 CEOs and Founders of the leading Internet and Software companies come together for user-led breakout sessions and informal networking discussing the next generation of the Internet and Software markets. We will be sending out invites to the event over the next 3-4 weeks.

Date and Location
December 13-14, 2012
The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa

100 Boyes Blvd.

Sonoma, CA 95476

Conference Format

• User-generated Breakout Sessions
• Cocktail Hour with Keynote Speaker
• Dinner Reception
• Evening Networking Party
• Send-Off Brunch (December 14

Note: One you register for the event, you will receive an email confirming receipt of your application for the Alpha Founders Summit. Due to limited space, we will be accepting applications on a rolling basis based on length of existing Alpha Club membership and number of past Alpha events attended. Once your application is accepted, you will be invited back to the website to complete your registration. You must complete the entire registration process to attend the event.

Alpha Big Data Roundtable

We are hosting an upcoming Alpha Dinner at 25 Lusk in San Francisco on September 4th on the topic of big data and the cloud. Several members of the AWS team will be also there to discuss how best to leverage their platform and partner with them.

 

What:   Alpha Big Data and Cloud Roundtable Dinner with 14 CEOs and AWS team

When:  Tuesday, September 4th; Cocktails: 6PM, Dinner 7PM

Where: 25 Lusk, San Francisco 

 

	Name	Company	Role
1	Adam Gray	AWS	Product Manager
2	Amy Chang	Google	Global Head of Product, Google Analytics
3	Anthony Goldbloom	Kaggle	Founder & CEO
4	Bassel Ojjeh	nPario	CEO
5	Billy Bosworth	DataStax	CEO
6	Bob Van Nortwick	AWS	Venture Capital BD Manager
7	Brian Gentile	JasperSoft	Chairman & CEO
8	Charlie Oppenheimer	Loggly	CEO
9	Christophe Bisciglia	WibiData	CEO
10	Eric Chin	Crosslink	General Partner
11	Eric Jonas	PriorKnowledge	CEO
12	Hardeep Bindra	Ad Brite	CEO
13	Igor Perisic	LinkedIn	Senior Director of Engineering
14	John Akred	Accenture Labs	Data R&D
15	Mark Johnson	Zite	CEO
16	Mike Jung	FCC	Partner
17	Mike Marquez	Code Advisors	Founding Partner
18	Mike Olson	Cloudera	CEO
19	Nick Mehta	Accel Partners	EIR
20	Nikita Ivanov	GridGain	CEO
21	Phil Korn	Square1	Managing Director
22	Quentin Gallivan	Pentaho	CEO
23	Ricardo Garcia	EverySignal	Co-Founder
24	Ryan Lange	EdgeSpring	Founder
25	Salil Deshpande	Bay Partners	General Partner
26	Sam Bhaumik	Square1	Head of Bay Area
27	Simone Brunozzi	AWS	Technical Evangelist
28	Stephanie Palmeri	SoftTechVC	Senior Associate

Alpha SaaS CEO Dinner

We’re hosting a SaaS CEO Roundtable Alpha dinner at Parkside Grille in Portola Valley on August 20th. The dinner is keynoted by Frank van Veenendall, Vice Chairman and Worldwide President of Sales and Services at Salesforce.com. Frank joined Salesforce.com in August of 2001 and has served in a variety of executive management roles.

 

What:   Alpha SaaS Roundtable Dinner with 14 CEOs

When:  Monday, August 20th; Cocktails: 6PM, Dinner 7PM

Where: Parkside Grille, Portola Valley 

 

Name	Title	Company
MIke Jung	Partner	FCC
Eric Chin	General Partner	Crosslink
Sean Jacobsohn	Venture Partner	Emergence
Al Lieb	CEO	ClearSlide
David Barrett	CEO	Expensify
David Selinger	CEO	RichRelevance
Tien Tzuo	CEO	Zuora
Frank Van Veenendaal	President	Salesforce.com
Jeff Clavier	Managing Partner	SoftTechVC
Justin Yoshimura	CEO	500 Friends
Rob Bernshteyn	CEO	Coupa
Dan Rodrigues	CEO	Kareo
John Herr	CEO	Adaptive Planning
Oren Michels	CEO & Co-Founder	Mashery
Oliver Roup	CEO & Founder	Viglink
John China	Head of Relationship Management	SVB
Santi Subotovsky	Principal	Emergence
Ranjith Kumaran	CEO & Founder	PunchTab
Brad Garlinghouse	CEO	YouSendIt
Kris Duggan	CEO & Co-Founder	BadgeVille
Shawn McLaren	CEO & Chairman	ConnectAndSell
Joe Fahrner	CEO & Founder	Queryable
Patrick Salyer	CEO	Gigya
Fabio Rosati	CEO	Elance

 

Cheers,

Eric and Mike

Annual Alpha Advisory Board Dinner

We’re holding our Annual Alpha Advisory Board Dinner Thursday August 16th. Main topic of discussion will be a planning session for the upcoming Alpha Founders Summit we’re hosting in Sonoma December 6. 

Appetizers and Cocktails @ 6PM.

Dinner @ 7PM.

I’d like to thank our Platinum Sponsor, SVB for graciously offering to supply us with some amazing wines for the dinner, and for Karl Jacob for hosting us for the dinner. 

Cheers,

Eric & Mike

 

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