The Power of Technology & Entrepreneurship in Education featuring Imagine K12 Partners, Tim Brady & Geoff Ralston

Join us for an intimate conversation featuring Imagine K12 Partners, Tim Brady & Geoff Ralston. While Tim was CPO, Yahoo; Geoff is a partner at Y-Combinator and co-found and ran Lala Media, Inc (sold to Apple in 2009).

Date: Monday, May 4th Monday
Time:
12 pm - 1 pm: Group wide discussion
1 pm - 2 pm: 1 on 1 mentorship by Tim & Geoff for select education entrepreneurs. Email us for more info!
Location: Wells Fargo
Lunch: Pizza of course!

About: Imagine K12 is a leading start-up accelerator and investor for tech companies focused on education. Class Dojo, Chalk, Chess Academy and Code HS are a few of the interesting organizations in their portfolio. You can find out more on http://www.imaginek12.com/all-companies.html

Tim Brady, Founder: Prior to Imagine, Tim was CEO of QuestBridge, an educational start-up company that helps bright low-income high school students gain admissions and financial aid to many of the nation's best colleges. Before that, he spent eight years at Yahoo! Inc. during which time he held several positions, the last of which was as the company's Chief Product Officer. After the two founders, Tim was Yahoo!'s first employee. He played a key role in successfully managing all marketing, operation and business development to launch Yahoo! commercially, and to help make Yahoo! into one of the most recognized brands and successful businesses on the Internet. From writing the business plan that attracted the first venture capital financing to helping scale the business, he helped lead the company through multiple stages, challenges and opportunities. Tim also spent three years with Motorola in Tokyo. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Geoff Ralston, Founder: Geoff has been an investor in, board member of, and advisor to a variety of start-up companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a partner at Y Combinator. From 2007-2009 Geoff was the Chief Executive Officer of Lala Media, Inc., an innovative cloud music start-up in Palo Alto that was purchased by Apple in December of 2009. Geoff worked at Yahoo! from 1997-2006 after their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11 Geoff was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail's predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! Geoff was Senior Vice President and general manager of the Communications Business Unit and subsequently served as the company's Chief Product Officer. Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration

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