Advisors
Esther Dyson
Esther is Chair, EDventure Holdings; Editor, Release 1.0; Author, world-recognized consultant and investor. She is also an investor in Parity. Esther is chairman of EDventure Holdings , which publishes the influential technology-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two of the industry's premier annual conferences, PC Forum and EDventure's High-Tech Forum. She also writes a fortnightly column for the New York Times syndicate (Release 3.0). She focuses on emerging technologies and business models (peer-to-peer, artificial intelligence, the Internet, wireless applications), emerging markets and emerging companies. In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals' lives, Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age. She is a trustee to emerging organizations (Bridges.org, the Santa Fe Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Eurasia Foundation). She recently finished a two-year-term as founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international agency charged with setting policy for the Internet's core infrastructure independent of government control.
John Sviokla
John is Vice Chairman at DiamondCluster and a former Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is also an investor in Parity. Recently, he has been focusing on CRM and big IT projects (and why they fail). He is a founding board member of Journal of Electronic Commerce, and an associate editor of Organization Science, as well as a member of the National Academy of Management and the Institute for Management Science. He is also Executive Director for Exchange, an interdisciplinary roundtable for senior executives working to use technology for value and innovation. John has authored several books and many publications.