Board of Directors

The Socialtext Board of Directors is made up of visionaries who create and build businesses and shape entire new industries.

Tim Draper

Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of Glam, Tagworld, Socialtext, Kyte.tv, Chroma Graphics, Meebo, Increo, and Wigix. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others.

Tim launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai).

Julie Hanna

Entrepreneur. Advisor.

Julie Hanna is a serial entrepreneur who is driven by her belief in information technology as a democratizing force for social, political and business disruption. She has spent the last twenty years pioneering products that have allowed tens of millions around the world to connect, communicate and collaborate.

Julie’s experience creating innovative products and new business models now informs her work as a board member, angel investor and mentor to fellow entrepreneurs and CEO’s. In addition to Socialtext, she is Chair of the Board at Kiva, the world's largest micro-lending marketplace. Called the “hottest non-profit on the planet” by FORTUNE and a Top 50 Website by TIME, Kiva has delivered $200M loans to half a million low-income entrepreneurs in 58 countries, since it’s founding five years ago. Julie also serves as an advisor to leading technology incubator, Idealab, as well as a number of internet startups and social ventures in the US and Europe.

Serving in roles that ranged from founding executive to founder & CEO, Julie has helped build five consumer internet and business software companies. Among them, onebox.com, (acquired by OpenWave Nasdaq; OPNWV) the fastest growing internet communications service in 1999; Portola, the first internet mail system for businesses where she was instrumental to the acquisition by Netscape; 2Bridge where she named and successfully created the enterprise portal category; Scalix, a pioneer and global leader in open source software; and Healtheon, now WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD).

Eugene Lee

Chief Executive Officer, Socialtext

Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Lee assumes day-to-day management and operational control over all aspects of Socialtext's business, including driving product direction and development, strategic alliances, and scaling the sales, marketing and support organizations globally.

Lee comes to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe’s enterprise marketing and vertical market segments. Previously, he held several executive leadership roles at Cisco Systems, ranging from Vice President (VP) Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing to VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. Lee also held key management positions at Banyan Systems, including General Manager for the messaging business unit. He was co-founder of Beyond Inc., developers of the award-winning BeyondMail product, and holds four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies. Lee has a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

Ross Mayfield

Chairman, President & Co-founder, Socialtext

Ross Mayfield is Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext. Prior to Socialtext, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. Mayfield served as the marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an ISP, a web-design company, and has served on a number of Advisory Boards of high tech startups.

Mayfield is a former advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business. A noted blogger and industry expert, Mayfield is a serial and social entrepreneur. He blogs at http://ross.typepad.com

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As the founder of Enterprise 2.0, Socialtext provides enterprise collaboration with social networking software. This new social context for organizations has allowed over 6,500 companies to collaborate faster, decide faster and change faster. We have solid support from our top tier investors, and have attracted a Board of Advisors and Leadership team composed of visionaries who have shaped entire industries and who have execution track records. Our Board of Directors includes Eugene Lee, Tim Draper, Ross Mayfield, and Julie Hanna.