Esther Dyson
Chairman, EDventure Holdings

Esther Dyson is Chairman of EDventure Holdings and is a journalist, philanthropist and angel investor. For 25 years she ran EDventure/s PC Forum annual conference and produced its monthly Release 1.0 newsletter.

She has been successful investor in startups a wide range of markets from IT/Internet to new space and health care, and from the US to Russia.   Her past investments include Medstory and Powerset (sold to Microsoft), Flickr (sold to Yahoo!), Dulance and Postini (sold to Google), and PGP (sold to Symantec). and Vizu (sold to Nielsen).  Her current portfolio includes Anchorfree, LinkedIn, Square, Linqia, Nomanini and many health IT startups - and of course the companies on whose boards she sits.

She currently sits on the boards of Yandex (Russia), WPP Group, 23andMe, XCOR Aerospace, Meetup and Evernote, among others. She is an advisor to Credo Ventures (Prague) and to Y+ Ventures (Dubai).