Mamoon Hamid is Managing Member at Kleiner Perkins where he leads the Venture Practice. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mamoon was a Co-Founder and General Partner at Social Capital. Mamoon has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Box, Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Intercom, and Netskope.
Stewart Butterfield is co-founder of Slack, a messaging platform that’s used by more than 6 million people every day, including teams at eBay, Conde Nast, and IBM. The Canadian-born entrepreneur also co-founded and led Flickr until its acquisition by Yahoo!.
Alix Burns brings a broad range of professional experience to the table, allowing her to customize strategic plans for her clients to meet their specific needs. Her experiences in the private sector, political campaigns and in public affairs for a national technology association have provided Alix with the expertise to execute on the goals of her clients. With significant time spent on both coasts—in Silicon Valley and Washington—Alix has unique insights into the differing ways that practitioners, principals and policy makers approach problems and seek solutions.
Mary DeRosa served as Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel to the President, and as National Security Council Legal Adviser in the Obama Administration. After leaving the White House in the Summer of 2011, she served as Alternate Representative of the United States to the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly, an Ambassador-level position with the US Mission to the United Nations. Prior to joining the Obama Administration in 2009, Ms. DeRosa was Chief Counsel for National Security for the Senate Judiciary Committee, working for the Chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy. She has also been a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, served on the staff of the Clinton Administration National Security Council as Legal Adviser and Deputy Legal Adviser, and was Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the Department of Defense.
er of Congress for 16 years, serving on the House Budget and Appropriations Committees and as a chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.After leaving Congress he taught for 11 years at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government before moving on first to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and then back to Washington, DC, as vice president of the Aspen Institute, where he directs a bipartisan fellowship for elected public officials.
Edwards, who grew up in Oklahoma City, has degrees in both law and journalism. He began his career as a newspaper editor and reporter and later won awards in advertising and public relations before being elected to Congress. While teaching at Harvard he returned to journalism as a weekly political columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times and broadcast a weekly commentary on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”.
Edwards is a board member of both the Constitution Project, where he has chaired task forces on judicial independence and the war power, and the Project on Government Oversight. He was a member of the American Bar Association’s select task force on the use of presidential signing statements and the American Society of International Law’s task force on the International Criminal Court and has chaired policy task forces for both the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Among his books are “Reclaiming Conservatism”, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press, and “The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans”, published in 2013 by Yale University Press. His articles have appeared frequently in publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Daedalus, The Public Interest, and the Atlantic. He is a frequent public speaker and has been a guest on many of the nation’s leading radio and television news and opinion broadcasts.
Neal Katyal is the Faculty Chair of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection as well as the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University. He has served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States, where he argued several major Supreme Court cases involving a variety of issues, such as his successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, his victorious defense of former Attorney General John Ashcroft for alleged abuses in the war on terror, his unanimous victory against eight states who sued the nation’s leading power plants for contributing to global warming, and a variety of other matters.
Kate Kend is extensively involved in supporting the work of non-profits across the arts, education, and public interest law. She is chair of the Martha Gaines and Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation and a member of the President’s Advisory Council at Vassar College, the Guggenheim Education Committee, and the New York Public Library Council.
Rajesh Swaminathan is a Partner and the General Counsel of Jasper Ridge Partners, an endowment-style investment firm with expertise across all major asset classes, including public equity, fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and natural resources. He joined the firm in 2017 and oversees legal, compliance and tax support for its executive management, investment activities and corporate operations.