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Profile Team Investors Directors Advisors Rajeev Motwani Anand Rajaraman David E. Shaw Ram Shriram Alex Stein Scientific
Daniel Kahneman Terrance Odean Norbert Schwarz Richard Thaler Buzz |
Rajeev Motwani Rajeev is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He is known for his research in numerous areas of computer science, including computational finance, databases, data mining, and web search and information retrieval. In recognition of his work, he has received the Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the IBM Faculty Partnership Award. He also serves on the advisory board of several startups. Anand Rajaraman Anand was until recently Director of Technology at Amazon.com. Anand co-founded Junglee Corp. in 1996, and as CTO, played a key role in developing Junglee until its acquisition by Amazon.com in 1998 for $240MM. Anand has extensive research experience at Stanford University, AT&T Bell Labs, and Xerox PARC, with numerous publications and awards at leading academic forums in several areas of database and information systems. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he won the President of India Gold Medal for graduating at the top of his class, and his MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. Anand was responsible for technology strategy at Amazon.com, and is an investor in and advisor to several startups. David E. Shaw David is the Chairman and CEO of D.E. Shaw & Co, and Chairman of Juno Online Services. Fortune has described D.E. Shaw & Co. as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street" and as "Wall Street's most technologically sophisticated firm." In 1994, David was appointed by President Clinton to the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, in which capacity he served as chairman of the Panel on Educational Technology. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, and on the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. David was formerly on the computer science faculty at Columbia University, and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Ram Shriram Ram Shriram is Managing Partner and Chief Sherpa at Sherpalo. Until recently, Ram was vice president of business development at Amazon.com, reporting to Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO. During Ram's tenure at Amazon.com he grew the customer count from 3 million to 11 million users. Prior to Amazon.com, Ram was president of Junglee Corp., a company that Amazon acquired in 1998. Before joining Junglee, Ram was an early member of the Netscape Communications executive team. He initiated and built relationships with a targeted set of partners worldwide, helping Netscape to build market share and revenue momentum. In 1996, Ram crafted Netscape's indirect channels of distribution worldwide, and managed several hundred people with 16 direct reports across three continents (North America, Europe, and Asia ), producing well over half of Netscape's $346 million annual revenue. A year later, Ram oversaw the OEM and website sales functions at Netscape, and helped generate more than $100 million in revenue from Netscape's high-traffic website alone. Ram serves on the boards of Silicon Valley startups and is a leading angel investor in Silicon Valley. Alex Stein Dr. Alex Stein is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Gomez Advisors, leading the GomezPro Business to Business e-Commerce Portal division. The GomezPro division covers over 25 e-commerce verticals from Airlines to Video Stores providing research and professional services along with Gomez' well recognized Internet Scorecards(TM). He is an industry expert with unique insight into the strategies for the electronic delivery of financial and retail services. His expertise spans technology, product design and development as well as industry regulation. Alex routinely advises major financial institutions on their Internet financial services strategies and is a well-known industry speaker on the future of online financial services. Prior to joining Gomez Advisors, Alex was a Vice President at D.E. Shaw & Co. and co-founded FarSight Financial Services, now part of Merrill Lynch's ML Direct service. He developed FarSight's Internet business strategy and implemented strategic alliances with partner banks, mutual funds and other financial institutions. Earlier in his career, Alex worked at Digital Equipment's VLSI facility in the Advanced Development group. Alex received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (1991) and both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Dartmouth College. Scientific Advisors Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and is Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at UC Berkeley, the University of British Columbia, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is viewed as an authority in the systematic study of decision-making behavior of individuals in economic contexts. He is a recipient of the Hilgard Award for Career Contributions to General Psychology, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society. He received his PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley. Terrance Odean Terrance Odean is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. He is recognized as a leading researcher in the field of behavioral finance and led the largest study of online retail investors, tracking 60,000 investors over several years. His research interests include investments and financial markets, investor behavior, and behavioral finance. He received his PhD in Finance from UC Berkeley. Norbert Schwarz Norbert Schwarz is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Scientist at Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Prior to joining the University of Michigan in 1993, he taught at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and directed a program on cognitive aspects of survey methodology at ZUMA, a social science research center in Mannheim, Germany. His research interests focus on human judgement, broadly conceived. His major lines of research address the cognitive and communicative processes underlying self-reports of behaviors and attitudes; the interplay of feeling and thinking, including the role of moods, emotions, and phenomenal experiences in reasoning; and the cognitive and affective underpinnings of subjective well-being. Richard Thaler Richard Thaler holds the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. He has also taught at Cornell and MIT and is considered one of the leading scholars in the field of behavioral finance and economics. His published books on behavioral finance include The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life and Quasi-Rational Economics and he co-heads the National Bureau of Economic Research Behavioral Finance Project. He is a Principal at Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, which utilizes insights from behavioral finance and has over $1 billion under management. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Rochester. |
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