Rick Dalzell was the Chief Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer and Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Amazon.com from 1997 until Novem­ber 2007. Dur­ing his 10 years at Amazon.com, he was the dri­ving force behind the growth of tech­nol­o­gy, soft­ware, and ser­vices. He retired from Amazon.com on Novem­ber 16, 2007. Pri­or to join­ing Amazon.com in 1997, Mr. Dalzell was Vice Pres­i­dent of Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems at Wal-Mart start­ing in 1990. At Wal­mart he devel­oped their data ware­house strat­e­gy from the ground up, giv­ing their sup­pli­ers direct access to demo­graph­ic sales infor­ma­tion.

From June 1998 to August 2005, Van Nat­ta was Vice Pres­i­dent of World­wide Busi­ness and Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment at Amazon.com, where he man­aged glob­al mar­ket­ing pro­grams and strate­gic part­ner­ships. He was part of the found­ing team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search com­pa­ny, and was respon­si­ble for site oper­a­tions and spon­sored-link adver­tis­ing. Van Nat­ta became the Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer and Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer at Face­book before leav­ing to become the Chief Exec­u­tive Offer of Project Playlist. After­wards, Van Nat­ta became the Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of MySpace, step­ping down to join Zyn­ga as Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent of Busi­ness and a mem­ber of their board of direc­tors. In 2013, he and Grace Stanat found­ed 415 LLC.

Neil Rose­man is an ear­ly stage investor and seri­al entr­pre­neur. As VP of Engi­neer­ing for Zyn­ga, Rose­man was respon­si­ble for start­ing their Seat­tle office in pio­neer square. Pri­or to Zyn­ga, Rose­man was VP Tech­nol­o­gy, Pres­i­dent of Evri. Pri­or to Evri, Rose­man spent more than nine years at Amazon.com, large­ly as Vice Pres­i­dent of Tech­nol­o­gy. He was respon­si­ble for Amazon.com’s Dig­i­tal Media Tech­nolo­gies and Amazon’s Glob­al Sub­scrip­tion Plat­form.

For­mer CTO of Sirqul and Micro­max, India’s largest mobile device com­pa­ny. Tech­nol­o­gy lead­er, inno­va­tor, and author of over 20 patents. Led the incep­tion and launch of sev­er­al ear­ly stage busi­ness­es and tech­nolo­gies at Ama­zon, includ­ing Ama­zon Mobile, AWS, and Ama­zon pay­ments. Man­aged large teams of engi­neers in the US and in India. IIT Del­hi, India and Columbia Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate.

Chris Met­calfe has expe­ri­ence across ear­ly stage finance, pro­duct mar­ket­ing, and cor­po­rate strat­e­gy. He is a co-founder of Con­text Rel­e­vant, a for­mer senior ana­lyst with Atlas Ven­ture, and vet­er­an of Isilon Sys­tems (now part of EMC). Chris holds bachelor’s degrees in com­put­er sci­ence and eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and a master’s in Media Tech­nol­o­gy from the MIT Media Lab where he was a Motoro­la Fel­low.