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Esther Dyson
EDventure Holdings, Inc.

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings. She brings to her work insights from economics, information technology, management practice, and practical psychology. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Boxbe, Eventful.com, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, Advisory Board), Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva, Yandex (Russia), and WPP Group. Her past IT investments include Flickr, Del.icio.us, BrightMail, Powerset, Plazes, and Orbitz, among others. She sits on the advisory board of LiveJournal, and is a principal investor in TerraLink (both in Russia).

Ms. Dyson is a director of the Sunlight Foundation, devoted to transparency in government, and sits on the board of Eurasia Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy. In 1997, she published the book "Release 2.0: a design for living in the Digital Age." Her writings have been published in the Moscow Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Project Syndicate, and Slate, among others.