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Gil Beyda
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Genacast Ventures

Gil Beyda is managing partner of Genacast Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on seed-stage Internet companies. Gil also sits on the board and advises several early-stage companies.

Prior to Genacast, Gil joined TACODA in 2003 as CTO and EVP Engineering, driving its ground-breaking, behavioral targeting ad network technology. In early 2007, he took over the role of EVP Corporate Strategy & Development, culminating in a partnership with eBay and the acquisition of TACODA by AOL (NYSE:TWX) later that year.

Mr. Beyda helped pioneer Internet advertising in 1995, founding one of the first online ad networks and technology companies, Real Media. As founder, board member and CTO, the company grew from a start-up with no employees to a $54 million global marketing services and technology company with almost 600 employees in 19 countries. 24/7 Media (NASDAQ:TFSM) acquired Real Media in 2001 and 24/7 Real Media was acquired by WPP (NASDAQ:WPPGY) in 2007.

For ten years prior to Real Media, Mr. Beyda was a highly sought-after technology consultant with clients worldwide.

Mr. Beyda holds several Internet advertising patents and received his MBA and B.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge.



David Brussin (View LinkedIn | Read blog)
David Brussin is Founder & CEO of Monetate, Inc. Monetate powers Intelligent Personal Promotions(TM) for online retailers. David is a serial entrepreneur recognized as a leading information security and technology expert, and was honored by MIT's Technology Review as one of the world's 100 top young innovators.

In January 2004, David co-founded TurnTide, Inc. around the anti-spam router technology he had invented. As Chief Technology Officer, David also managed engineering and technical operations. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec (SYMC) six months later.

Previously, David co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer for ePrivacy Group, Inc., which created the Trusted Sender program and Trusted Email Open Standard to protect and grow the email marketing channel. David created products to help email marketers increase response and conversion by protecting their trusted relationship with consumers.

In 1996, David co-founded and served as Vice President of Technology for InfoSec Labs, an information security company dedicated to helping Fortune 1000 companies safely transition their businesses into the online world. Partnering with his clients, David balanced security with the emerging technical challenges of doing business online, and helped many established bricks-and-mortar businesses become multichannel. InfoSec Labs was acquired by Rainbow Technologies, now part of SafeNet (SFNT), in 1999.

David is co-author of Computer Security Handbook (4th Edition), and is a frequent speaker and writer on entrepreneurship and technology. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Invite Media, Inc., a stealth-mode start-up working to analyze and optimize online display advertising.


Chris Fralic
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First Round Capital

Chris Fralic is a Partner at First Round Capital, an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.  Chris has over 23 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.  Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Chris was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us through the Yahoo! acquisition.  Chris was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com in 1999, and through the eBay acquisition spent six years with Half and eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development and media roles.    Chris earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.  


Zachary Weinberg (view LinkedIn)
Co-Founder, CEO

Nathaniel Turner
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Co-Founder, President & COO



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