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Confirmed Participants List for the September 25th USV Sessions Event:

We don't plan on doing traditional introductions on the day of the event. Doing so would take a good deal of time that could be used for better purposes. Therefore, we encourage you to click through on each of the links below to learn more about the participants of this event. Each link is the strongest piece of web presence for each individual: in some cases it's a bio, in other cases it's a blog, and in a few cases it's an interview or news story. Cruising through the names you don't recognize will be very helpful in anticipation of the event.

If you don't like the link on your name and prefer to point elsewhere on the web for your bio, please feel free to edit this page (or email andrew@unionsquareventures.com with the requested change if you are uncomfortable editing a wiki).

• Craig Newmark - craigslist.org - Founder, Chairman, Customer Service Representative.
• Megan Casey - Squidoo.com - Editor-in-Chief
• Scott Heiferman - Meetup - Founder, CEO;  Fotolog - Co-Founder
  
• Charles Best - DonorsChoose.org - Founder, CEO
• Brian Trelstad - Acumen Fund - Chief Investment Officer
• Jason Knight - Wesabe - Co-Founder, CEO
• Peter Semmelhack - Bug Labs - Founder, CEO
• Jonah Peretti - BuzzFeed - Co-Founder, CEO
• Dick Costolo - FeedBurner - Co-Founder, CEO
• Bob Young - RedHat and Lulu - Founder and CEO
• Merrill Brown - NowPublic - Advisor
  
• Jamie Daves - Platform Equity - Founding Partner
• Marty Kearns - Green Media Toolshed - Executive Director
• Jason Paez - Party4APurpose.com - Founder and CEO
• Fred Wilson - Union Square Ventures - Managing Partner
• Brad Burnham - Union Square Ventures - Managing Partner
• Albert Wenger - Union Square Ventures - Venture Partner, Former President of del.icio.us
• Andrew Parker - Union Square Ventures - Analyst
  
• Tom Watson - Changing Our World - Chief Strategy Officer
• Jeff Weiner - Yahoo - Executive Vice-President, Network Division
• Martin Varsavsky - FON - Founder and CEO
• Tom Reis - Kellogg Foundation - Director of Innovation and Design
• Premal Shah - Kiva.org - President
• Ray Chambers - MENTOR - Co-Founder ; Amelior Foundation - Founder and Chairman
• Sebastian Traeger - Razoo.com - Founder, CEO
• Sushmita Ghosh - Ashoka - President Emeritus
• Anil Dash - Six Apart - Vice President ; Influential Blogger
• Ken Grouf - City Year - Founder, Co-Executive Director
• Cassandra Ryan - Millennium Promise - Development Officer
• Scott Edward Anderson - Ashoka - Vice President for Global Development; Green Skeptic Blogger
• Terry Kellogg - 1% for the Planet - Executive Director
• Leslie Crutchfield - Author of Forces for Good
• David Galiel - Public Interest Entertainment Corporation - Executive Director
• Vicki Saunders - impactanation - Co-Founder and CEO
• Jay Godsall - Idea Bank - CEO
• Victoria Vrana - Venture Philanthropy Partners, Vice President, Communications and Assessment
• John Johnson - BuzzFeed, Co-Founder and Chairman; Eyebeam, Founder
  
• Phil Cutter - Goldhirsh Foundation, Chairman of the Board
  
• Ami Dar - Idealist.org - Founder, Executive Director
  
• Saul Griffith - SQUID Labs
  
• Jonathan Soros - Soros Fund Management, LLC - President & Co-Deputy Chairman
• Tom Cohen - PTC Advisors, Principal
• Jeffrey Walker - CCMP Capital, Chairman
• Micah Sifry - Executive Editor, Personal Democracy Forum
• Andrew Rasiej - Founder and Publisher, Personal Democracy Forum
• Graham Hill - Founder TreeHugger?.com recently acquired by Discovery
• John Goldstein - Google.org