Ron Conway
Founder, Managing Partner, Angel Investors

Ronald Conway, CURRENTLY SPECIAL LIMITED PARTNER AT BASELINE VENTURES, was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. He is actively involved in numerous philanthropic causes and now invests independently as an angel investor and was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “dealmakers” in 2006.

Ron worked with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems, as a co-founder, President and CEO, (1979-1990) and Personal Training Systems (PTS) as CEO (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL).

Ron has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Facebook, Plaxo, Photobucket, Digg.com, Bright Mail, Ask Jeeves, Napster, Rupture, Gerson Lehrman Group, Associated Content, RockYou, PurePlay, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, Simply Hired, StumbleUpon (acquired by eBay), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).