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Chris Moody is a partner at the venture capital firm Foundry Group, where he invests in technology companies and works with entrepreneurs scaling their businesses globally. He spent more than 25 years as a C-level executive at public and private companies before moving into venture, including serving as CEO of Gnip, a large provider of social data acquired by Twitter in 2014, and then as GM & VP of Twitter's Data & Enterprise Solutions business. Earlier in his career he held executive roles at Aquent, including Chief Operating Officer overseeing operations across 17 countries, and began as a management and technology consultant at EDS, Oracle, and IBM. He is known for his work on data and platform strategy, has spoken on data's role in health and safety at the White House and United Nations, and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Jaclyn Freeman Hester transformed an apprenticeship into partner and offers a rare GP/LP perspective—having led direct investments, helped launch an institutional partner fund strategy, and advised emerging VCs.

Lyndell Eakman built UTIMCO's venture program over 13 years and was recruited to lead a dual LP-and-direct later-stage strategy, building a network of ~45 partner funds and 1,900 network companies.

Ryan McIntyre is a founding partner of the venture firm Foundry. He co-founded the early internet search engine Excite in 1993, working there as a software engineer building infrastructure for a large-scale consumer web site; Excite went public on NASDAQ in 1996 and became Excite@Home after its 1999 merger with @Home. He moved into venture capital at Mobius Venture Capital in January 2000, just before the first internet bubble burst. His engineering background shapes a focus on developer-focused products and services as well as enterprise and consumer businesses. He holds a Symbolic Systems degree from Stanford, where he studied genetic algorithms and neural networks.