About the Speakers

Will Porteous is a Principal with RRE Ventures. He is a Director of Frictionless Commerce and TestQuest, Inc. During 1994-1995, he served in various marketing and business development roles for NetMarket, an Internet commerce pioneer now owned by Cendant Corporation. From 1996 to 1998 Mr. Porteous served as Product Manager for SupplyWorks, Inc., an application service provider for corporate purchasing. Mr. Porteous also served as a consultant to the Internet Purchasing Roundtable in the development of the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) standard. In 1999 he was a Summer Associate at Euclid Partners.

Mr. Porteous holds an MBA from Harvard University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA with Honors from Stanford University.

Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founding editor of the Venture Reporter magazine, which was previously published under the title Silicon Alley Reporter for five years. SAR was re-branded Venture Reporter at the end of 2001 in order to expanding its focus beyond New York's Internet community and take a more national and vertical-independent approach using venture capital investing as a roadmap to where technology, the economy and our society is heading. The VentureReporter.net website tracks every single venture capital investment on a global basis as they happen and has over 150,000 visitors a month.

Mr. Calacanis is considered a leading thinker on the Internet, entrepreneurship, technology and the economy and is frequently quoted and appears regularly in the press in venues including ABC News, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, NY1, Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, 60 Minutes, the New York Times, WIRED and the New Yorker.