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Carlos Danel (Board Observer), Co-CEO and Co-Founder of CompartamosBanco

Carlos Danel is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CompartamosBanco, one of the largest microfinance institutions in Latin America, serving more than 1,000,000 low-income microentrepreneurs (mostly women). He has been a frequent speaker in conferences and seminars, and featured in several international media stories. Mr. Danel has been nominated a Young Global Leader by the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. He holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana, an MBA from the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa in Mexico City. He is also a board member in Banco Compartamos, Casanueva Perez Holdings and a Partner at Ignia LLC, a social venture capital fund. Additionaly, he serves in the board of two mexican NGOs.

Saar Gur, Charles River Ventures

Saar is a partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV), with over 10 years experience working with entrepreneurs as a founder, investor and advisor. Prior to joining CRV, Saar was a co-founder of Brightroll, the world’s leading Internet video advertising network. Saar has also been an angel investor and advisor to numerous companies including RockYou, Admob, Flixster, Xobni, Lotus Vodka, and Voicestar (acquired by Marchex, NASDAQ: MCHX).

Prior to Brightroll, Saar was VP of online customer acquisition at Adteractive, an online performance-based marketing company and one of the largest buyers of online media. Saar started his career in investment banking and venture capital at Lehman Brothers. He graduated phi beta kappa with a biochemistry degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from Stanford University.

James Gutierrez, CEO

James is a leading social entrepreneur and innovator in financial services serving the unbanked and lower-income. In 2005, James co-founded Progreso Financiero to bring micro-lending to the US Hispanic community and help millions of underbanked families build credit, move up the financial ladder, and achieve their lifelong aspirations.

Since 2006, Progreso has made over 35,000 loans, grown to over 120 employees and 25 locations in California and Texas, been certified by the US Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution, and secured over $40 million in venture capital funding. By 2012, Progreso aims to help over 1 million families enter the financial mainstream while bringing fair and responsible lending practices back to the forefront of America’s banking industry.

James has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the American Banker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, and Bloomberg and is a frequent speaker on topics of financial empowerment for America’s poor. In 2009, James was a featured speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative, Microfinance USA, SOCAP, and the FDIC’s Advisory Board Meeting. He has also pioneered new policies on banking reform, helped co-found the Coalition of New Credit Models, and serves on the Pew Trust/New America Foundation’s Working Group on Small Dollar Lending.

James also serves on the boards of organizations dedicated to strengthening the American middle class from the bottom up, including the Latino Community Foundation, PERC, and Core Innovation Capital. As a young Latino entrepreneur, he enjoys helping other entrepreneurs succeed and has invested in over 15 start-ups. In 2009, James was invited to the White House as a leading young entrepreneur and received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Hispanic-Net.

James received his MBA from Stanford and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Chris Larsen, CEO, Prosper

Chris Larsen is CEO and Co-founder of Prosper Prosper, America's largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Prosper is a continuation of Larsen's commitment to leveraging the Internet to make consumer lending markets more efficient, transparent, and trustworthy.

Prior to Prosper, Larsen co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of E-Loan. Under his leadership, E-Loan was heralded as one of the America's most trusted consumer brands. During his tenure, Larsen pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making E-Loan the first company to show consumers their FICOTM scores. Mr. Larsen also played a pivotal role in the passage of the strongest consumer financial privacy protection law in the nation and was hailed by Congresswoman Jackie Speier as being, "critical to the success of the bill."

Mr. Larsen serves at the Board and Advisory levels at numerous companies and organizations including, ACCION International's Center for Financial Inclusion, Center for Financial Inclusion / Mott Foundation un- and underbanked financial services research group, CreditKarma, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Progresso Financial, Qifang, and The Silicon Valley Community Foundation's anti-payday lending policy committee. He is also a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).

Mr. Larsen holds an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University and a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University, where he was named the 2004 Alumnus of the Year.

TOM PATTERSON, MADRONE CAPITAL PARTNERS

Tom is a General Partner at Madrone Capital Partners, an investment firm based in Menlo Park, CA that was formed in 2005. Prior to joining Madrone, he was at Weston Presidio, a private equity firm focused on growth equity and leveraged buyout transactions, from 1995 until 2004. While at Weston Presidio, he was involved in a diverse range of businesses, including JetBlue Airways, MapQuest, InsulAir, and Jane Cosmetics. Prior to Weston Presidio, he worked for four years at McKinsey & Company and focused on the financial services and building materials industries.

Tom earned an A.B. with honors from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Elie Seidman (Board Observer), Former CEO, Epana

Mr. Seidman is a serial entrepreneur. He lives in Manhattan and is currently the Founder and CEO of a startup that is currently in stealth mode. During 2006 and 2007, Elie was a venture partner at Lime Rock Partners, a private equity firm based in Westport, CT. From 2000 to 2006, Elie was the Founder, President and CEO of Epana, a company he grew to more than 400 employees and $200M/yr in revenue. Epana is a fully vertically integrated branded consumer goods company manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing telephony and money remittance products to North American Hispanic consumers. Prior to Epana, Elie was the founder and President of Wired Business, a Norwest Partners funded startup in the telecommunications services industry. Mr. Seidman has also worked in software product management capacities at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) and Trilogy (Austin, TX). Elie received his BSE from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.

Dave Strohm, Greylock Partners

Dave Strohm joined Greylock in Boston in 1980; at the time Greylock was one of the longest-established American venture firms, founded in 1965. In 1983, Strohm moved to California and opened the Greylock office in Silicon Valley, which has since become the firm’s largest operating unit.

With over 25 years of venture investing, Dave’s primary areas of focus have been on enterprise technology (especially enterprise software), and electronic design. He has been an early/ founding investor in more than 30 companies. Among these, 10 have become publicly-traded, including Mentor Graphics, Ascend Communications, Legato, Forte Software, Doubleclick, and Internet Security Systems. He has also been an early/founding investor in more than 20 companies which have resulted in successful mergers, including ccMail (Lotus/IBM); Kiva (Netscape/Sun); Octane Software (ePiphany); Net Effect (AskJeeves); Decru (Network Appliance); and Wily (Computer Associates).

Dave is also on the boards of AtHoc, CoWare, , EMC Corporation, Lontra, SuccessFactors, VMware and Tabula.

He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School.