Scott Banister

Current

• Board of Directors at Topsy
• Chairman, Co-Founder at Zivity
• Board of Directors at Slide

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Past

• Board of Directors at Powerset
• Chairman, Co-Founder at IronPort Systems
• Board of Directors at eVoice

• VP Ideas at Idealab
• Board of Directors at PayPal
• Lead Singer at LinkExchange
• VP Technology, Co-Founder at Submit It!
• Webmaster at Sloan Foundation

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Websites

• My Twitter feed
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Scott Banister’s Summary

Are you a Python, Perl or Ruby on Rails programmer? Or a kick-ass product manager? Let's talk.

Scott Banister’s Experience

• Board of Directors

  Topsy

  (Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Search powered by the social web. If you use Twitter, you'll really love it. We're hiring.

• Chairman, Co-Founder

  Zivity

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Be sexy. Be seen. Zivity.com

• Board of Directors

  Slide

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

  Entertainment meets analytics. See also Max Levchin.

• Board of Directors

  Powerset

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

  Like Wikipedia on steroids. The iPhone version is especially useful.

• Chairman, Co-Founder

  IronPort Systems

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2000 — June 2007 (6 years 7 months)

  Founded during the tech bust, IronPort became the leading provider of enterprise email routing and anti-spam solutions, and we were acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007 for $830 million. If another company has ever had a higher percentage of all-stars at all levels of the organization, I'd like to hear about it! If you see IronPort on someone's resume, they're very likely to be an A player.

• Board of Directors

  eVoice

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; TWX; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — December 2000 (1 year )

  Email-enabled home voicemail service. Acquired by AOL. Funded by idealab!, Nokia Venture Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, and Oak Investment Partners.

• VP Ideas

  Idealab

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 4 months)

  Got to work closely with Bill Gross, one of the coolest people you will ever meet. I landed this gig through my earlier contributions to the business model at GoTo/Overture.

• Board of Directors

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; EBAY; Internet industry)

  January 1999 — July 1999 (7 months)

  Short stint as board member. My role as an advisor/investor continued after I left the board to make room for Nokia Ventures. Luke Nosek and I invented "email payments", which was part of a rich history of cool innovations at PayPal -- "instant" ACH transfer, random deposit account verification, consumer CAPTCHAs, proprietary antifraud systems... This was an awesome team, and they are all out doing cool new startups now.

• Lead Singer

  LinkExchange

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; MSFT; Internet industry)

  June 1998 — January 1999 (8 months)

  Welcome to free banner advertising. Such a lovely place.

• VP Technology, Co-Founder

  Submit It!

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; MSFT; Internet industry)

  February 1995 — June 1998 (3 years 5 months)

  We also developed ListBot and ClickTrade. Merged with LinkExchange and then acquired by Microsoft.

• Webmaster

  Sloan Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Philanthropy industry)

  September 1994 — May 1996 (1 year 9 months)

  Maintenance and expansion of the content available at sloan.org for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which was then hosted on a good ol' MacHTTP server.

Scott Banister’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  None , Computer Science , September 1994 — January 1996

  Campus Honors Program Scholarship, Dean's List. Dropped out and moved to Silicon Valley.

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM

Additional Information

Scott Banister’s Websites:

• My Twitter feed
• Banister Advisors
• My Facebook profile

Scott Banister’s Groups:

•    SF Bay Illini Club
•    The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies [OFFICIAL GROUP]

Scott Banister’s Contact Settings

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