Scott Thompson

PayPal

Scott Thompson is President of PayPal with overall responsibility for growing the global leader in online payments. Succeeding Rajiv Dutta in 2008, Scott previously served as PayPal's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer where he oversaw information technology, product development, and architecture for PayPal.

Prior to PayPal, Scott worked for Inovant, a subsidiary of Visa formed to oversee global technology for the organization. As Executive Vice President of Technology Solutions at Inovant, he was responsible for all development, support and maintenance of Visa's global payment system. Scott was also Chief Information Officer of Barclays Global Investors, where he implemented a new strategic technology platform and global infrastructure. In addition, he has worked with Coopers and Lybrand, delivering information technology solutions to leading financial services clients such as Wells Fargo.

Jason Pressman

Shasta Ventures

Jason Pressman is a Partner at Shasta Ventures where he focuses on investment opportunities in the software and technology-enabled services sectors. Prior to joining Shasta Ventures, he was the fourth employee at Walmart.com, a venture-backed start-up where he was vice president of strategy, business development and operations. In that role, Jason helped build the business into one of the leading commerce sites on the web. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from The University of Maryland and a master’s in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Peter Fenton

Benchmark Capital

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services. Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.

Tien Tzuo

Founder and CEO

Tien Tzuo joined Zuora after 9 years at salesforce.com and was one of the “original forces” at salesforce.com, which he joined in 1999 as the 11th employee, when the company was still operating out of a house on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Tien built salesforce.com’s original billing system and held a variety of executive roles in salesforce.com’s technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as Chief Marketing Officer for two years, and most recently as Chief Strategy Officer.

Prior to salesforce.com, Tien was at CrossWorlds Software, where he launched CrossWorlds' Telecommunications business unit focused on integration with billing systems such as Portal, Kenan, Amdocs, and MetaSolv, and at Oracle Corporation where he managed several of Oracle's largest Telecommunications accounts, including MCI, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), and AT&T.

K. V. Rao

Founder and President

K. V. founded Zuora after five years at WebEx Communications where he reported directly to the founder and President with strategic marketing and business development responsibilities and played a key role in the growth of this successful start-up. Prior to WebEx, K. V. worked in sales and customer support at SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket scientist (Associate Scientist) at NASA and then spent several years developing products at General Motors. K. V. obtained his Ph. D. in Engineering from Iowa State University, an M. S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B. Tech from IIT, Bombay. K.V is a US patent-holder in computing technology.

Elizabeth Tse

eBay

VP, Global Billing, Payments

Elizabeth Tse is responsible for overseeing worldwide billing operations at eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace. Ms. Tse has held similar executive level positions with Providian Financial (now Washington Mutual) where she was Senior Vice President of New Product Development and American Express. Ms. Tse holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Cornell.

Dan Halabe

Accenture

Former Partner

Dan Halabe is an independent consultant and investor for online businesses. In addition to his position with Accenture, Halabe was a leader of several large-scale billing and development projects at media and telecom companies including Electronic Arts, Hongkong Telecom, and Sony Computer Entertainment. At Netscape he led the development team for Netscape’s “Netcenter” service, the first-of-kind mass consumer content applications such as email, message board, software update and other “push” applications, customer registration and certification. Netcenter accumulated tens of millions of users and was key to Netscape’s valuation at the time of acquisition.

Michael Everett

Cisco

Vice President of Finance

Michael Everett has served since 2003 as Chief Financial Officer of WebEx Communications, the on demand collaboration leader acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. From 2001 to 2003, Everett served as CFO of Bivio Networks, a privately-held provider of secure IP service platforms. From 2000 to 2001, Mike served as CFO of VMWare, Inc., an infrastructure software company that is now a publicly traded subsidiary of EMC Corporation. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Everett was CFO of Netro Corporation, a broadband wireless access company, which completed a successful IPO and was later acquired by SR Telecom. Prior to Netro, Mr. Everett spent approximately ten years at Raychem Corporation, a Fortune 500 telecommunications and electrical components manufacturer later acquired by Tyco. Mike served in several senior executive capacities at Raychem, including General Counsel, CFO and Asian general manager. Prior to entering business in 1987, Mr. Everett practiced securities law as a partner at Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in Palo Alto, Hong Kong and San Francisco. Mr. Everett holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

David Welsh

Adams Street Partners

Partner

As a partner at Adams Street, a private equity firm, Welsh focuses on investing in a variety of technology companies in the enterprise software, infrastructure and mobile software, consumer technology and business services sectors. His investments include: CEON, Excellergy (Acquired by Brinvest), Five9, IP Unity, Jungo Software (Acquired by NDS), Konarka, Microfabrica, Netsize, Msnap, Qpass (Acquired by AMDOCS), Solomio (Acquired by Openwave), Visicu (NASD: EICU) and Vividence (Acquired by Keynote). At McAfee, Mr. Welsh oversaw the strategy and development of bringing SaaS solutions to users of every size and security need. Mr. Welsh also headed corporate development for online billing company Portal Software where he helped grow the company from a start-up to over $200 million in revenue per year. David holds a BA from UCLA and JD’s from UC Berkeley and Harvard Law Schools.