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Phil Chen
Phil Chen is a General Partner at Race Capital, the Decentralized Chief Officer at HTC, and original creator of the HTC Vive and HTC Exodus product lines. He was previously a managing partner at Presence Capital and advisor to Horizons Ventures. He sat on the board of over 15 companies around the world including Improbable, Soul Machines, and Kneron, among others.
Alfred Chuang
Alfred Chuang is the founder of Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO, Alfred Chuang an accomplished entrepreneur and venture investor. Alfred is also the Founder and Chairman of Magnet Systems. Magnet is a next generation mobile and web platform company that is also the provider of Magnet Beauty. Also known for being the co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems, Alfred led BEA Systems to its acquisition by Oracle for $8.6 billion. Alfred is a proud Hong Kong entrepreneur and alumnus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. He also received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master's degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. Alfred's notable awards include C/F Silicon Valley Philanthropist of the Year, SD Forum Visionary Award, CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honoree and Community Star from Asian Americans for Community Involvement, eChina Forum Silicon Valley Award Honoree, and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. University of San Francisco President’s Ambassador, UC Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award, UC Davis Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal. Alfred is also an independent advisor at the University of San Francisco School of Engineering 2020, Member of the UC Davis Chancellor Advisory Board, Member of the UC Davis School of Engineering Dean’s Committee, Member of the School of Business Dean’s Committee, City University of Hong Kong, and Member of the School of Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Alfred is also a Trustee Emeritus at the University of San Francisco.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Neeva, the world's first ad-free, private, subscription search engine. He is also a venture partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm where he works with companies that leverage data at scale, artificial intelligence-based machine learning and analytics. Prior to joining Greylock in 2018, Ramaswamy held various roles at Google including senior vice president of advertising and commerce, and senior vice president of engineering and at Epiphany, a marketing software company. Ramaswamy has held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Bell Communications Research, and has published numerous papers on database systems and theory, an area in which he holds several patents. He is currently on the board of directors of Gretel.ai, a machine learning-based privacy engineering company, and was a former board member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Palo Alto Networks. Ramaswamy earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University in 1995.
Sarah Tavel
Sarah Tavel is a general Partner at Benchmark and was previously a partner at Greylock Partners and a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. He co-founded and served as executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners and a co-founder of Inflection AI.
Edith Yeung
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Sarah Guo
Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction and a former Greylock general Partner.