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5 ARIEL POLER Angel Investor United States ANDY TSAO Silicon Valley Bank United States Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of Freedom Financial Network, MixTent, Strava and Scan Inc. Ariel's angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children. Ariel is addicted to kitesurfing. Andy is a Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank where he leads SVB's Global Gateway program, which assists innovation companies in emerging markets with their US and international market expansion. In addition, Andy leads SVB Global Private Equity Services, working with SVB's international private equity and venture capital clients, particularly those in emerging markets. Andy brings more than 20 years of experience banking dynamic companies in technology industries worldwide. Previously, he led and helped found SVB's U.K.-based operation. For six years, he was responsible for building senior debt relationships with high- growth technology, life sciences, and clean technology companies in the U.K. and Europe.