Ken Howery

Co-founder of PayPal, Howery is an American investor who graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. degree in Economics. That same year, he co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek,...

Floyd (Earl) Kvamme

One of five founders of National Semiconductor in 1967, Kvamme went on to work at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has served in science and technology policy on behalf of the...

Richard (Rick) L. Crandall

Founder of Comshare, Inc., a pioneer of computer timesharing and decision support software, Crandall is recognized as a pioneer in the Software Services Industry. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering, a...

Edward M. Esber, Jr.

Credited with the successful marketing of the first productivity software for personal computing, Esber paved the way for the widespread acceptance of personal computers in business. He served as CEO of Ashton-Tate...

Paul Levine

Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner...

David G. Arscott

Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Arscott spent his entire professional career investing in private and public technology companies. In 1968, he joined the group...

Thomas James Perkins

The first General Manager of HP's computer divisions who helped shepherd Hewlett-Packard's entry into the minicomputer business, Perkins was also one of the founders of the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins...

Joe Schoendorf

Board member for industry pioneers such as Authorware/Macromedia, Schoendorf has been active in high-technology industries for 45 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has served on...

Micael Moritz

Noted Silicon Valley investor, Moritz has been a British-American venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, a former member of the board of directors of Google, and a philanthropist and...

Max Palevsky

Founder of Scientific Data Systems, Palevsky was a computer technology pioneer whose company became one of the most successful computer companies of the 1960s. Max Palevsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1924....

Gary Morgenthaler

Builder of the high-speed interface for TYMCOM-10 and TYMNET network—"the Internet before the Internet"—Morgenthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry and has emphasized investments in information...

Peter Andreas Thiel

Co-founder of PayPal, Thiel is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin, and later, Elon Musk, and has served as its CEO. He...

Gary Morganthaler

Co-founder and former CEO and Chairman of Ingres Corporation, a leading relational database software company, Morganthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry and has emphasized investments...

Dennis M. Jennings

Responsible for three critical decisions that shaped the subsequent development of NSFNET, the network that became the Internet, Jennings is an Irish physicist, academic, Internet pioneer, and venture capitalist. In 1985, he...

D. (Jim) James Guzy, Sr.

An Angel Investor of numerous computer corporations, Guzy has served as an Intel Board member for 38 years. He has been a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of SRC Computers, LLC...

Jerry Yang

Co-founder of Yahoo!, Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur who also served as the company's CEO (Chief Yahoo). Born in Taiwan in 1968, Yang immigrated to the United States with his family at...

Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim

One of the earliest investors in Google, Bechtolsheim is a computer hardware scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems. At Stanford University, Bechtolsheim had devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation)...

Stephen (Steve) Walker

Member of the team that developed ARPAnet, the breakthrough packet switching system that evolved into the Internet, Walker is an American engineer who is nationally recognized for his pioneering work on the...

Michael J. Maples, Sr.

Advisor to Microsoft on strategic relationships and management initiatives, Maples is an Angel investor who has been active in the computer industry for more than 30 years, and is sometimes described as...

Yogen Dalal

Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...