Dheeraj Prasad

Entrepreneur turned investor. Co-founder AbeBooks (sold to Amazon), early-stage investor through @versiononevc (60+ investments, including Abstract, Ada Support, Coinbase, Outreach, Shippo, Top Hat). Husband and dad of 4.

Chris C. Kemp is an entrepreneurial executive with a passion for igniting innovation in high-tech organizations. He is the Chief Strategy Officer of Nebula, a company he founded after serving in various roles at NASA. Chris also co-founded the OpenStack project. As the Chief Technology Officer at NASA, Chris was responsible for pioneering work in cloud computing, open source, and open government. Chris served on the White House Cloud Computing Executive Steering Committee, and chaired the Cloud Standards Working Group. Previously, he served as the CIO of NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley where he forged partnerships with Google and Microsoft and helped create Google Moon, Google Mars, and Microsoft World Wide Telescope. Prior to joining NASA, Chris helped create the third largest online community Classmates.com, was the founding CEO of the leading web-based vacation rental platform Escapia (AWAY), and, as the founding CEO of Netran, developed the first online grocery shopping platform for Kroger, the world’s largest grocery store chain.

Now: Co-founded Founders Circle Capital in 2012 Co-founded Panorama Capital in 2007 ($240M post product/market fit fund) Hanging with great entrepreneurs leading mobile and social startups helping them grow faster Board Member: Federated Media, Jiwire, Fixmo, Syncapse, and Vyatta Past: General Partner at JPMorgan Partners ($6.5B fund) leading tech practice Helped grow four startups most recently as Chief Strategy Officer for Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISLD; acquired by Cable & Wireless) Started a $217 million corporate venture fund at Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN) Invested in 37 companies, including Tynt (acquired by 33Across), Belair Networks (acquired by Ericsson NASDQ:ERIC), Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR), Cambrian Systems (acquired by Nortel), Abatis Systems (acquired by Redback), Fastlane (acquired by Quest Softwart), BNI (acquired by Nortel), PixStream(acquired by Cisco), Reflectivity(acquired by Texas Instruments), Valere Power (acquired by Eltek), and Greenfield Networks (acquired by Cisco). Passions: Entrepreneurial companies I am fortunate to work with including Federated Media, Jiwire, Belair Networks, Fixmo, Syncapse, and Vyatta. Enjoy doing the speaker, panelist, and judge thing at Web 2.0, Milken Global Conference, GROW, UC Berkley, Banff Venture Forum, Next Generation Networks, Red Herring Top 100, Canada's Top 10 Technology Start Ups, and the Gilder's Telecosm conference. My family, all things Canada, triathlons, Marin county aka paradise, and University of Michigan football Building community: Co-Founder of C100 for Canadian entrepreneurs, Marin Internet Entrepreneurs & Founding board member of the Lark Theater Most importantly board member of my kids school(-: Next adventure: Looking for suggestions!