Chamath Palihapitiya

Current

• VP, User Growth, Mobile & International Expansion at Facebook

Past

• VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook
• Venture Capitalist at Mayfield Fund
• Vice President & General Manager, AIM + ICQ at AOL

• Founder at MyMusicChannel
• Director then Executive Director, Product at AOL
• Product & Bus Dev at Winamp & 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, User Growth, Mobile & International Expansion

  Facebook

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

  2008 — Present (1 year)

  Responsible for overseeing core growth components, building new systems to maximize adoption and virality and successfully introducing and growing Facebook adoption throughout the world.

• VP, Platform & Monetization

  Facebook

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year)

  Original exec in charge of FB Platform as well as launching and managing monetization efforts including online advertising channel.

• Venture Capitalist

  Mayfield Fund

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

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  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)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

  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. Oversaw ICQ team in Israel.

• Founder

  MyMusicChannel

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year)

  Started Emmy-nominated VOD Music Channel now a part of AOL/TimeWarner.

• Director then Executive Director, Product

  AOL

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

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  Responsible for Product and Premium Services for multiple entertainment categories including Games, Music, Movies, Television, Ticketing and Sports.

• Product & Bus Dev

  Winamp & Spinner.com

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  Responsible for product and bus dev at Winamp and Spinner.com - a pioneering media player and online radio company. Both companies were acquired by AOL.

• Associate - Interest Rate Derivatives Group

  BMO Nesbitt Burns

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BMO; Financial Services industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Responsible for creating and trading interest rate derivatives. One of the youngest people in bank history to be given their own P&L and proprietary trading account.

Chamath Palihapitiya’s Education

• University of Waterloo

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

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