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William "Bing" Gordon is a tenured executive in the video game industry. He served ten years as Chief Creative Officer of video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts prior to his current partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers . He was a founding director of Audible.com and is... currently a board member of Amazon, Ngmoco, and Zynga. Gordon graduated from Cranbrook School in 1968. He studied drama and literature and earned a BA from Yale University. He waited tables at Max's Kansas City and acted off-Broadway in New York City. He turned down an offer from NYU's drama department and moved to the Bay Area where he received an MBA from Stanford in 1978. After working as an account executive at an advertising firm, Ogilvy and Mather, Gordon joined EA in 1982 working as the marketing department. In 2005, he took a faculty chair position at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division after EA invested in the fledgling program. On April 28, 2008 Gordon announced plans to leave EA to join the venture capital KCPB starting June 2008. Gordon stands 6'2" tall and enjoys skiing and mountain biking.
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A former CFO of Microsoft Corp., Greg Maffei was recently named CEO of cable-television broadcasting's Liberty Media Corp. Prior to that, Greg was... CFO of Oracle Corp., and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 360networks Corp. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
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Bob Cohn is a former partner at Sequoia Capital. He was CEO of Octel Communications, a voice mail systems company which he co-founded in 1982 and... which was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1997. He served as an EVP of Lucent Technologies until 1999. Earlier, he held positions at Banque Rothschild in France, and McKinsey & Company in the US and Canada. Bob has been a director of several companies including Electronic Arts and Trimble Navigation. He served on the Board of Governors of NASDAQ, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business advisory board, and was on a CEO advisory board to the Secretary of Defense of the United States relating to issues of management reform in the military. He holds a BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Florida and an MBA from Stanford. He currently serves on the boards of several companies including Adomo , Blue Lithium , Market Live , and Tilera .
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Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been... called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." He began his technology career in the 1950s and was a founder of National Semiconductor, as well as being a senior sales and marketing executive for Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1972, he founded venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, and in that role was one of the original investors of Apple Computer, Atari, LSI Logic, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube, Dropbox and many other companies. Valentine is currently the Chairman of NetApp and a board member of Traiana. He has, over decades, served on the boards of many other technology companies. Don Valentine has three children and two grandchildren, all of who live in the Bay Area.
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