Marylene Delbourg-Delphis is a Silicon Valley executive and serial entrepreneur. A graduate from l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in France (philosophy), she started her entrepreneurial career in France, as the founder of ACI (now 4th Dimension) and launched the first bestselling relational database (4th Dimension) on the Apple Macintosh in 1986. She was one of the first European women to start a company in the Silicon Valley where she co-founded ACIUS with Guy Kawasaki in 1987. She later became the CEO of Exemplary Software (a spin off from HPLabs), a lean supply chain management system (acquired by Persistent Systems in 2005) and Brixlogic, a platform for the native implementation of XML Schemas (acquired by Diebold in 2006). Throughout her career, Marylene has assisted about thirty young companies as a shadow CEO, board member, investor, advisor, M&A facilitator or management consultant, including Atomz (acquired by WebSideStory/Omniture), CitizenLogistics (maker of Groundcrew), Lyatiss (a spinoff of INRIA) or Objective Marketer (acquired by EmailVision in 2011) to name of few. Marylene has translated books by Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin and Hugh McLeod into French for French entrepreneurs, as well as written prefaces for these books. She is also a Silicon Valley contributor for Atlantico and has her own blog, Grade A Entrepreneurs.

Dominique Hermsdorff is a veteran of the software industry with several successful startup companies under his wing. He is not only able to manage large teams, but is also a very skilled hands-on programmer, and is fluent with all the latest technologies and programming methodologies. During his 21 year career in Silicon Valley, he alternated VP of Engineering, CTO and senior technological consulting roles. Dominique performed multiple technology missions at companies such as Phoenix Technologies as a TEC Solutions consultant (www.tecs.com). Prior to that Dominique was VP of Engineering at Starview Technology (real time enterprise even-driven platform) Brixlogic (XML business middleware) a company acquired by Diebold., and Openbucks.com, a web service for merchants that allows customers to use gift cards from the major brands as online payment. Dominique was VP of Engineering at 4D.com for more than 10 years.

Geoffrey manages IT operations and leads technical development of TalentCircles. Geoffrey graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 2008 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His passion and natural curiosity for all things computer and programming related started at a very young age. In fourth grade, he taught himself to write HTML and program QuickBASIC by studying other people's source code. As a sophomore in college, his entrepreneurial itch led him to co-found Alumwire, now TalentCircles.

Yuriy designs the TalentCircles platform and manages the product development cycle. In 1993, Yuriy Mikhalevskiy and his family emigrated from Belarus and settled in Los Angeles. Yuriy studied Civil Engineering at Stanford University. After graduating, he decided to explore the local startup scene and joined Academia.edu as an eager intern. He picked up web design and an appreciation of elegant user interface and product experience.

The first 11 1/2 years of Chris Roth's career were spent with two large companies. He performed audit and consulting work with Deloitte & Touche before he moved to his biggest client at Sears, where he progressed from internal audit manager of logistics and imports to various director level positions within finance, merchandising, and marketing. After getting his MBA, he took more of an entrepreneurial route for the remainder of his career, taking positions as Director of Finance and CFO with two turnaround software companies, both of which were acquired or received new funding as part of a recapitalization. He then purchased a 15-year-old fulfillment company and was able to turn it around and sell it successfully after 5 1/2 years, along with another packaging company that he started. He consulted with several small firms in the following two years before joining Alumwire, now TalentCircles, in August 2010.

Jack E. Myers is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Myers Development Company. Since founding his company in 1974, Mr. Myers has successfully developed commercial office, residential, hotel, golf and industrial properties. While overseeing the company’s long-range strategic business activities, Mr. Myers also plays a leading role in property acquisition and entitlement. The company’s aggregate development experience in dollars over 37 years exceeds $1.2B. Mr. Myers has established strong partner and/or lender relationships including: Cousins Properties Incorporated, Prudential Real Estate, Chase Capital Partners, Stockbridge Real Estate Funds, ING, California Bank & Trust, First Hawaiian Bank, Seibu Railway, Nissho Iwai Corporation, GE Capital, Wells Fargo Bank and John Hancock.

David M Dean has been pursuing private investment opportunities since completing the $6.5 billion sale of Crescent Real Estate Equities to Morgan Stanley in August, 2007. Prior to the Morgan Stanley sale, Mr. Dean served for 13 years as chief legal officer and secretary to the board of Crescent, a public real estate investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange. During this period, Mr. Dean was also part of Crescent’s executive management team and a member of its investment committee. Mr. Dean joined Crescent as senior vice president shortly after its formation in 1994, and held various positions including executive vice president and managing director. Immediately prior to joining Crescent, Mr. Dean had served as assistant general counsel of Burlington Northern Railroad Company from 1992 to 1994, where he worked primarily on the series of corporate transactions culminating in the merger of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroads in late 1993. For the period from 1986 to 1992, Mr. Dean was a transactional and tax attorney in private practice with Kelly Hart and Hallman and then Jackson and Walker where he worked on investment and other transactions for Richard Rainwater and his affiliates. Mr. Dean holds a J.D. and an LLM in Taxation from Southern Methodist University School of Law. He graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University in 1983 as a University Honors Fellow with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Philosophy.