Scott Banister

Current

• Chairman, Co-Founder at Zivity
• Technology Director at Cisco Systems
• 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

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Scott Banister’s Summary

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

Scott Banister’s Experience

• Chairman, Co-Founder

  Zivity

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

  November 2007 — Present (10 months)

  Be sexy. Be seen. Zivity.com

• Technology Director

  Cisco Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Board of Directors

  Slide

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

  February 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  This is Max's next PayPal. Join the rocketship now for maximum fun and profit. Python hackers and product managers especially encouraged. Funded by the VC that funded PayPal, John Malloy of BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Ventures). http://slide.com

• 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

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