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Board of Advisors
Victor Cho
Vice President, Web Marketing & Web Commerce Group, Intuit
Victor Cho is vice president of Web marketing and Intuit's Web commerce group, responsible for increasing sales through all channels using the Internet. He oversees all elements of the company’s Web sales activities, including strategy, marketing, design, development, analysis and infrastructure.
Before joining Intuit in April 2004, Vic was senior vice president of strategy and operations at iVillage.com and held multiple marketing positions at Microsoft’s consumer products and Internet divisions. He is also a technology entrepreneur and continues to advise multiple Internet start-ups. Vic earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jerry Colonna
Writer, Consultant, (Nassau, New York)
Jerry Colonna is a recognized expert in organizational development and entrepreneurialism. Most recently a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private-equity arm of JPMorgan Chase where he led the firm’s investments in companies such as ProfitLogic Inc. Colonna had previously been an investor in early-stage information technology companies for more than seven years.
During his time at JPMP, his commitment to the non-profit sector increased significantly. In the fall of 2001, he worked with The Partnership for the City of New York to help launch the Financial Recovery Fund, a $10 million-plus program that made recoverable grants to small businesses impacted by the attacks on the World Trade Center.
In January 2002, he was named co-Executive Director of NYC2012, the organization designed to secure the City’s designation as the representation in the competition to host the 2012 Olympic Games. In that year, he helped the organization raise more than $6 million to further those efforts.
He joined JPMP from Flatiron Partners. With his partner, Fred Wilson, Jerry launched Flatiron in August 1996. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early stage investment programs. During its six years of active investing, Flatiron invested more than $500 million and has, to date, returned more than $1.7 billion. Those companies currently in the active part of that portfolio represent more than $150 million of investments.
During his tenure with Flatiron, Jerry was responsible for the firm’s investments in such notable companies as Geocities Inc. and Gamesville Inc.
Jerry joined his first venture firm, CMG@Ventures L.P. ("@Ventures"), in February 1995 as a founding partner. CMG@Ventures was the first "Internet-specific" venture firm. Prior to joining @Ventures, Jerry worked for ten years for CMP Media Inc. From 1985 to 1993, he served in a variety of roles at InformationWeek, including a three-year stint as its Editor.
Since leaving JPMP at the end of 2002, Jerry has split his time between writing a column for Inc magazine’s website, Inc.com, and consulting with a variety of organizations. In 2003, for example, he and his partner Sarah Holloway formed Hudson Heights Partners. HHP is a for-profit effort that works with non-profit clients to: a) diversify their earned revenue streams, b) effect strategic reorganizations, and c) revitalize and enhance their boards of directors. HHP’s clients include the National Academy Foundation (a national leader in the "small school" initiative); the Children’s Museum of Manhattan; and Readnet Foundation (a developer of alternative pedagogical models for early childhood and the operator of a charter school in the Bronx based on those principles).
Jerry currently serves on the boards of directors of PlanetOut Partners Inc., ProfitLogic Inc., Breathe Media LLC, Gurunet Inc., SnapBridge Inc. He also serves as a director of a number of non-profit organizations including Pencil, NPowerNY Inc. (which he helped found in 2000), The Queens College Foundation, Exploring the Arts Inc., Kripalu Center, and NYC2012.
Jerry has been named to Upside Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People of the New Economy, Forbes ASAP’s list of the best VCs in the country, and Worth’s list of the 25 most generous young Americans. A graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, Jerry lives in Port Washington, New York with his wife, Barbara Chang, and their three children: Sam, Emma, and Michael.
Christine Herron
Director, Omidyar Network
At Omidyar Network, Christine makes investments in enabling technologies, grassroots marketplaces, and platforms for information sharing. Prior to Omidyar Network, Christine was the vice president of marketing for Mission Research. As a principal with Cycle Partners, she conducted strategy, marketing, and research projects for technology vendors and social community groups. Christine is the founder of Mercury2, an international trade policy software vendor, and has driven Internet products and strategy for both NetObjects and Microsoft. She started her career as an investor with Geocapital Partners, where she focused on early Internet infrastructure and network management software. Christine serves on the board of ArtSFest, an emerging arts nonprofit, and Nickel Tour Productions, a fledgling film production group, and she is an advisor to Zeum, a hands-on children’s museum for arts and technology. Christine was ranked one of the Top 20 Women in Technology in 2000 by AltaVista and holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.A. in English from Columbia University.
Ben Quinones
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop
Ben is an attorney with a long history of working on the startup side of venture capital deals. Ben was the attorney for ChiliSoft. Ben lives in San Francisco with his wife and 3 children.
Josh Mailman
Josh Mailman is a founder of the Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Threshold Foundation, and a founding investor in Grameen Phone, Stoneyfield Farms, Seventh Generation, Utne Magazine, Stirling Energy Systems, Global Telesystems, Wayfinder Systems, A.B., Motivano, Econergy International plc., the Fund for Global Human Rights, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, U.K., the Joshua Mailman Foundation, and an advisor to the Pema Fund.
He serves on the boards of the following organizations: Human Rights Watch, the Fund for Global Human Rights, Blacksmith Institute, Afropop Worldwide, Environmental Defenders Law Center, Witness, Chiliad Inc., Pride Diamonds, and Bioresources International. He is also the managing director of Sirius Change Investments, a pool of capital dedicated to adding strategic capital to early stage ve ntures that exemplify a commitment to creating a more just and sustainable world.
Mal Warwick
Mal Warwick & Associates, Founder and Chairman, (Berkeley, Calif.)
Consultant, author, and public speaker Mal Warwick has been involved in the not-for-profit sector for more than 40 years. Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc. a fundraising and marketing agency that has served nonprofit organizations since 1979, and of its sister company, Response Management Technologies, Inc., a data processing firm for nonprofit organizations. He has written or edited seventeen books of interest to nonprofit managers, including the standard texts Revolution in the Mailbox and How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters, both of which are now in second editions. His latest is The Mercifully Brief, Real-World Guide to Raising $1,000 Gifts by Mail.
He is editor of Mal Warwick's Newsletter: Successful Direct Mail, Telephone & Online Fundraising™, and is a popular speaker and workshop leader throughout the world. He has taught fundraising on six continents to nonprofit executives from more than 100 countries.
Mal is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (Alexandria, Va.); a member of the Board of the Resource Alliance (London, UK), organizers of the annual International Fundraising Congress in Amsterdam, and the Congress' Ambassador to the USA; and served for ten years on the board of the Association of Direct Response Fundraising Counsel (Washington, D.C.), two of those years as president. In 2004, he received the Hank Rosso Award as Outstanding Fundraising Executive from the Association of Fundraising Professionals Golden Gate Chapter and Northern California Grantmakers.
Mal was a co-founder of Business for Social Responsibility in 1992 and served on its board during its inaugural year. In 2001, he was elected to the board of the Social Venture Network and now serves as Chair. He was also a member of the Founding Advisory Board of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Mal was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador for more than three years. Since 1969 he has lived in Berkeley, California, where he is deeply involved in local community affairs. Early in the 1990s, he co-founded the Community Bank of the Bay, the nation's fifth community development bank, and the Berkeley Community Fund, where he remains active on the board. He also served for 11 years as Vice President of the board of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (1991-2002).
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