Chamath Palihapitiya

Current

• VP, Product Marketing and Operations at Facebook

Past

• Venture Capitalist at Mayfield Fund
• Vice President & General Manager, AIM + ICQ at AOL
• Vice President, Business Operations, AOL Broadband at AOL

• Co-founder at MyMusicChannel
• Executive Director, Product Strategy, AOL Entertainment at AOL
• Director, Product Strategy, AOL Music at AOL
• Senior Manager, Business Development at Spinner.com/Winamp
• Manager, Business Development at Spinner.com
• Associate - Interest Rate Derivatives Group at BMO Nesbitt Burns

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Education

• University of Waterloo

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company

Chamath Palihapitiya’s Experience

• VP, Product Marketing and Operations

  Facebook

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

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Venture Capitalist

  Mayfield Fund

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  Focused on investing primarily in Consumer Internet, Media and Advertising opportunities. Secondary focus on Games and Mobile.

• Vice President & General Manager, AIM + ICQ

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; twx; Internet industry)

  October 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Led resurgence of two of the Internet' most visible and popular brands. Revamped entire brand, product and value proposition of AIM and closed many significant, high profile transactions.

• Vice President, Business Operations, AOL Broadband

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; twx; Internet industry)

  May 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Responsible for Program and Portfolio Management of entire Broadband subscription service. Helped drive revenues over $1Billion+ and achieve profitability well ahead of schedule.

• Co-founder

  MyMusicChannel

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; TWX; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Co-founded VOD Music Channel that grew to become the 2nd most popular VOD channel on TW Cable. Nominated for Emmies in 2005 and 2006.

• Executive Director, Product Strategy, AOL Entertainment

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  February 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 4 months)

  Responsible for Product and Premium Services in multiple entertainment categories within Games, Music, Movies, Television, Ticketing and Sports. Launched Internet's largest legal music subscription service - MusicNet@AOL.

• Director, Product Strategy, AOL Music

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  February 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  Led launch of Internet's largest Radio service - Radio@AOL. Launched one of Internet's first $0.99 legal a la carte music stores, through AOL Music.

• Senior Manager, Business Development

  Spinner.com/Winamp

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

  September 2000 — February 2001 (6 months)

  Responsible for technical, distribution and commerce deals for Spinner.com and Winamp - a leading Media Player.

• Manager, Business Development

  Spinner.com

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

  May 2000 — September 2000 (5 months)

  Responsible for technical and distribution deals for Spinner.com - a pioneering Internet Radio Broadcaster.

• Associate - Interest Rate Derivatives Group

  BMO Nesbitt Burns

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

  April 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  Responsible for creating, pricing and trading complex financial derivatives. Transacted billions of dollars of capital.

Chamath Palihapitiya’s Education

• University of Waterloo

  B. A. Sc., Electrical Engineering, First Class Honours, 1994 — 1999

  Graduated with 24 months of work experience as part of co-op program. Worked at Newbridge Networks (Alcatel), RBC Securities and BMO Nesbitt Burns.

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