Please RSVP to jpye@dartmouth.edu or aonuma@dartmouth.edu by Friday, March 6 with your name, year of graduation and degree, company, and position. Space is limited!
John Donahoe'82 – President and CEO of eBay, Inc.
John Donahoe is President and CEO of eBay Inc., the global ecommerce company. Mr. Donahoe is responsible for growing each of the company’s business units, which include eBay Marketplaces, PayPal, and Skype. As a leader in online commerce, payments and voice communications, the company operates in nearly every country on earth and has approximately 16,000 employees.
Prior to joining eBay in 2005, Mr. Donahoe spent more than 20 years at Bain & Company, starting as an associate consultant directly out of Dartmouth in 1982, and then becoming the firm’s Worldwide Managing Director in 1999.
Mr. Donahoe graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College, receiving a B.A. in Economics. He holds an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar. Mr. Donahoe also serves as Vice Chair on the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth College.
Jeff Crowe'78 – General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Prior to joining Norwest, Mr. Crowe was co-founder and CEO of Edify Corporation – a venture-backed enterprise software company started in 1990. Over nine years, Mr. Crowe grew Edify into a public company with 400 employees and an $80M revenue run rate. Now at Norwest, Mr. Crowe draws upon his entrepreneurial experience while working to provide seed and mid-range funding to companies in the software, Internet, and consumer sectors.
Mr. Crowe graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College, where he received a B.A. in History. He earned his MBA from Stanford Business School as a distinguished Arjay Miller Scholar.
Tench Coxe'80 – Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Since joining Sutter Hill in 1987, Mr. Coxe has invested primarily in telecommunications hardware, application software, semiconductors, and payment infrastructure. Mr. Coxe currently serves on the board of Artisan Partners, eLoyalty, FaceTime Communications, NVidia, PINC Solutions, RedSeal Systems, Inc., Ruckus Wireless, SeeSaw Networks, Swift Financial, and Tower Cloud, Inc. Pass successful investments include Alteon Networks, @mobile, Avant!, Copper Mountain Networks, Edify, Legato, Lynk Systems, Network Appliance, Grand Junction, NCD, OnStream Networks, Synernetics, Primary Access, and XcelleNet.
Prior to beginning his tenure at Sutter Hill, Mr. Coxe worked as a corporate financial analyst with Lehman Brothers in New York City before moving to Atlanta to manage T-1 products and direct internal MIS for Digital Communications Associates.
Mr. Coxe earned his Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Dartmouth College before moving onto Harvard Business School, from which he graduated in 1984.
Scott Sandell'86 – General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Mr. Sandell joined NEA in 1996 and focuses on investments in information technology and alternative energy, in addition to directing the firm's business in China. He currently serves on the board of Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Dexterra, DreamFactory, Fusion-io, HelioVolt, Lianlian Pay, Solfocus, Spreadtrum Communications, SugarCRM, Tableau Software, Telegent, and Teneros. Mr. Sandell is also Co-Chairman of the board of the Software Development Forum and has sponsored investments in 3ware, Amplitude Software, Fineground Networks, Neoteris, NetIQ, Salesforce.com, and WebEx.
Prior to joining NEA, Mr. Sandell worked for Boston Consulting Group and then C-ATS Software as the company's first salesman. He also founded the European Subsidiary and worked for Microsoft as a Project Manager for Windows 95.
Mr. Sandell holds an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
Tracey Turner'93 – Founder, MicroPlace
With over 15 years of experience in social entrepreneurship, Mrs. Turner has made great strides to alleviate global poverty through market-based solutions. With her current company, MicroPlace – an online microfinance service – she works to enable the world's working poor to receive loans from investors all over the globe. Since its acquisition by eBay in summer 2006, MicroPlace has been integral in helping the larger corporation to provide economic opportunity the world over.
Before founding MicroPlace, Mrs. Turner worked as the CFO of KickStart, an organization that designs and sells products focused on poverty alleviation. In 1998, she founded 4charity, an online marketplace for charitable giving, and served as its CEO. Mrs. Turner also launched the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network and is its current chairman.
Mrs. Turner holds a Bachelor's Degree in engineering and economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University.
Lew Cirne'93 – Founder and CEO, New Relic
A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Cirne is CEO and Founder of New Relic, a venture-backed web application performance management company that focuses on Ruby on Rails applications. Mr. Cirne founded Dartmouth-laden New Relic (four out of five officers and two of three board members are alums) not long after the 2006 acquisition of his previous company, Wily Technology. Mr. Cirne founded Wily in 1998 and acted first as its CEO then as CTO, during which time he invented Wily’s flagship product, Introscope. Under Mr. Cirne's leadership, Wily grew revenues by 100% or more every year until its acquisition by Computer Associates.
Along with his seven patents, Mr. Cirne holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Brad Jefferson'98 – CEO and Co-founder, Animoto
Mr. Jefferson leads the charge in driving Animoto to be the global standard for on-demand video production for both consumers and businesses. Animoto's first product, Animoto.com, a web application launched in August 2007, allows consumers to automatically turn images and music into professional-looking video content, in minutes with a click of a button. Follow-up consumer products include a Facebook application and an iPhone application. In June 2008 Animoto launched a commercial version of Animoto called Animoto for Business. Mr. Jefferson and his Dartmouth co-founders founded Animoto in August 2006.
Prior to co-founding Animoto, Mr. Jefferson spent eight years with Onyx Software, a customer relationship management software company founded by two Dartmouth alumni. At Onyx, he was Director of Sales Operations and managed the national team of sales engineers. Previously, Mr. Jefferson managed Onyx's Professional Services team and customer base in the western US. Through Mr. Jefferson's career at Onyx he saw the company grow from a 17-person start-up to an 800-person public company and eventually through an acquisition.
Mr. Jefferson was a two-time All-Ivy selection in football and graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology.
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