Mamoon Hamid<\/strong>\u00a0is Managing Member at Kleiner Perkins where he leads the Venture Practice.\u00a0 Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mamoon was a Co-Founder and General Partner at Social Capital.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Prior to Social Capital, he was a Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP).\u00a0 Mamoon started his Silicon Valley career at Xilinx where he spent six years in various engineering and business roles.\u00a0 He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n Stewart Butterfield<\/strong> is co-founder of Slack, a messaging platform that\u2019s used by more than 6 million people every day, including teams at eBay, Conde Nast, and IBM.\u00a0 The Canadian-born entrepreneur also co-founded and led Flickr until its acquisition by Yahoo!.<\/p>\n In his two decades working on the web, Stewart has been listed on Time Magazine\u2019s 100 Most Influential People in the World and BusinessWeek’s Top 50 Leaders, and was named 2015 Technology Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n Alix Burns<\/strong> 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\u2014in Silicon Valley and Washington\u2014Alix has unique insights into the differing ways that practitioners, principals and policy makers approach problems and seek solutions.<\/p>\n Alix established Bay Bridge Strategies in 2006. Part of the Tiber Creek family of companies, Bay Bridge Strategies focuses on the technology economy from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.<\/p>\n Prior to founding Bay Bridge Strategies, Alix served as Vice President of TechNet, a leading bipartisan network of CEOs and venture capitalists committed to the growth of the innovation and technology economies. In May of 2013, Alix was tapped as the Acting CEO of TechNet, leading the organization, its Executive Council, members and staff through a CEO search and restructure culminating in the successful hire of a top candidate and smooth transition for the organization.<\/p>\n During more than six years at TechNet, Alix worked directly with innovation leaders, entrepreneurs and policy leaders in Washington, DC and technology sectors nationwide, handling a number of issue campaigns and coalitions aimed at the advancement of technology policies in our society. She also spearheaded TechNet Day and the TechNet Innovation Summit. She served on the 2000 Presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore as Finance Director for Major States.<\/p>\n Mary DeRosa<\/strong>\u00a0served 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.<\/p>\n Before joining the government, Ms. DeRosa was in private practice at Arnold & Porter. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Cardamone, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.<\/p>\n Mickey Edwards <\/strong>was a member of Congress for 16 years, serving on the House Budget and Appropriations Committees and as a chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.<\/p>\n After leaving Congress he taught for 11 years at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government before moving on first to Princeton\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Edwards, who grew up in Oklahoma City, has degrees in both law and journalism. \u00a0He began his career as a newspaper editor and reporter and later won awards in advertising and public relations before being elected to Congress. \u00a0While 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\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d.<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0He was a member of the American Bar Association\u2019s select task force on the use of presidential signing statements and the American Society of International Law\u2019s task force on the International Criminal Court and has \u00a0chaired policy task forces for both the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n Among his books are \u201cReclaiming Conservatism\u201d, published in 2008 by Oxford University Press, and \u201cThe Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans\u201d, published in 2013 by Yale University Press. \u00a0His articles have appeared frequently in publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Daedalus, The Public Interest, and the Atlantic. \u00a0 He is a frequent public speaker a<\/p>\n nd has been a guest on many of the nation\u2019s leading radio and television news and opinion broadcasts.<\/p>\n Peter Gardner<\/strong> is a Partner at FGS Global. Based in Washington D.C., Peter specializes in crisis and litigation communications and corporate strategy for a range of clients across industries and sectors. He has provided counsel\u00a0during complex reputational moments including executive transitions, bankruptcies, and congressional and regulatory oversight. Peter also supports clients through high-profile legal matters, including mass tort and appellate litigation and nearly two dozen matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Peter began his career at the Center for Global Development, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. He worked for two years as speechwriter and communications advisor to the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration.<\/p>\n Peter earned a BA at Swarthmore College and an MBA at Yale’s University School of Management (SOM). While at SOM, Peter focused on corporate non-market strategy with a particular interest in public affairs and the interplay between business, government, and civil society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Gaurav Kapadia\u00a0<\/strong>is the Founder of XN, a private investment organization. From 2010 to 2018 Gaurav was the Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner of Soroban Capital Partners, an investment firm that managed over $10 billion. Prior to founding Soroban, Gaurav served as a Partner at TPG-Axon Capital. Gaurav began his career at the Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant. He graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BSC in Economics. Gaurav is involved in numerous philanthropic and civic causes and serves on the Boards of Trustees of The Whitney Museum of American Art, Uncommon Schools, Friends of Hudson River Park, and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in Tribeca with his wife and 3 children.<\/p>\n Neal Katyal <\/strong>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.\u00a0 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\u2019s leading power plants for contributing to global warming, and a variety of other matters.<\/p>\n Kate Kend<\/strong> is extensively involved in supporting the work of non-profits across the arts, education, and public interest law.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Previously, Kate practiced charitable contribution tax law and worked at Christie’s Auction House, running their area of estates and appraisals.\u00a0 Before that, she worked for Cleary Gottlieb in Tokyo, practiced product liability litigation with Chadbourne & Parke in New York City, and clerked for the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n Kate holds a BA in art history and philosophy from Vassar College and a JD from Emory University School of Law.<\/p>\n Rajesh Swaminathan <\/strong>is a Partner and the General Counsel of Jasper Ridge Partners, an endowment-style investment firm\u00a0with expertise across all major asset classes, including\u00a0public equity, fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and natural resources. 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