The 2000 Winner of the San Jose Business Journal Entrepreneur of the Year award, Royal Farros co-founded and was CEO of MessageCast, Inc., sold to Microsoft (NASD:MSFT) in 2005, founded and was CEO of iPrint.com (taken public in 2000 and merged with 12th largest promotional products company in U.S. in 2001), was an Officer and General Manager at Deluxe Corporation (NYSE:DLX), and was Chairman and EVP of T/Maker Company (sold to Deluxe Corporation in 1994). Royal hold multiple patents, has appeared numerous times on CNBC, and received his B.S. (1981) and M.S. (1983) in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Rob Wrubel is the CEO & President of Aptimus, Inc a publicly traded (Nasdaq: APTM) next-generation Internet advertising network. Wrubel has been CEO of the company for three months and has been president for a year. Before that Wrubel was co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Body / Yoga Works based in Santa Monica, CA. Yoga Works is the largest operator of Yoga and alternative fitness studios in the county with locations in Los Angeles, Orange County, and New York City. Rob was an Entrepreneur-in-residence at Highland Capital Partners in 2001 and 2002 where he developed new business concepts for funding. From 1998 to 2001, Rob was the founding CEO of Ask Jeeves, one of the leading Internet brands and search advertising success stories. Wruble grew the company from a 15-employee start-up in 1998 to a public-market software and services company with over $100 million in sales. Ask Jeeves was sold in 2005 for $1.95 billion to Barry Diller’s IAC. Before Ask Jeeves, Rob was one of the founding team members of Knowledge Adventures, Inc, the country’s largest educational software company. From 1993 to 1998, Rob was VP of Product Development and Chief Operating Officer of Knowledge Adventure, Inc., growing it from $10M in sales to over $200 million in sales. Knowledge Adventure was eventually sold Cendant Corporation and then to Vivendi Entertainment.

A leader and innovator in technology, media and consumer products, Mark has spent more than 20 years launching, building and restructuring high-growth global businesses. Mark led the $300mm Global Technology Brands group at consumer products company Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE: NWL); has served as President of Strategy for brand consultancy Addis Creson (where he is a board member); and co-founded and built a $150mm division at Sony which was focused on consumer products, content licensing and e-commerce. He was the founding CEO of pioneer online payments company WebOrder, now part of Motorola; and earlier in his career was a strategy consultant with Ernst & Young. He has advised leading technology and media businesses such as DirecTV, Intel, Sony and Viacom/MTV, and has also worked with many innovative earlier stage companies. Mark serves on the boards of a number of private companies. He also spends time with students at UC Berkeley where he is an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business. He is an alumnus of UC Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. and MBA degrees. He lives just north of San Francisco, in Tiburon, with his college sweetheart Lori and their two children.