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Tony Bates
Tony Bates is Skype's Chief Executive Officer. He is responsible for overseeing the company's direction and strategy and is ultimately responsible for its performance.
Before joining Skype, Bates was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business Group. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Service Provider business unit, and previously Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's high-end router business. He has also served as a Member of the Board of YouTube, Inc.
Prior to working at Cisco, Bates spearheaded the backbone-engineering strategy for Internet MCI (MCI's national IP backbone). He has more than 20 years of experience in the Internet and telecommunications industries, and has published 12 IETF RFCs in the areas of Internet Routing and Operations, and he holds nine patents in the area of Layer 2 and Layer 3 innovations.
Egon Durban
Egon Durban is a Managing Director based in Menlo Park. Mr. Durban joined Silver Lake in 1999 as a founding principal and has worked in the firm's London, Menlo Park and New York offices. Mr. Durban serves on the Supervisory Board of Skype and is the Chairman of the Operating Committee, the Supervisory Board and Operating Committee of NXP B.V., the Operating Committee of SunGard Capital Corp, the Board of Directors of Intelsat Ltd., and Multiplan Inc. Mr. Durban also oversees the firm's investments in Groupon and Zynga. For Silver Lake, Mr. Durban serves on the Management, Investment, and Fund 3 Operating and Valuation Committees.
Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Durban worked as an associate in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division. Mr. Durban graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Finance.
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital fund, Andreessen Horowitz.
Horowitz was a co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP in 2007, and Horowitz was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online's E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company's flagship Shop@AOL service Previously, Horowitz ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. Horowitz also served as vice president of Netscape's widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.
Adam Lashinsky
Adam Lashinsky is a business journalist and commentator with special expertise in finance and technology. An insider to Silicon Valley, he has written in-depth articles on Apple, Google, eBay, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. He has covered hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and the post-Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans.
Lashinsky is editor-at-large for Fortune magazine and has extremely broad experience in both broadcast and print media. He is a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel's program "Cavuto on Business" and appears frequently throughout the week on other Fox News and Fox Business Network programs: "Bulls and Bears," "Cashin' In," and "Your World with Neil Cavuto."
Before joining Fortune, Lashinsky was the Silicon Valley columnist for TheStreet.com and was the first high-tech stocks columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. He has been a reporter and assistant managing editor for Crain's Chicago Business and was a Henry Luce Scholar in Tokyo, working as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan's main economic daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Lashinsky's work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, San Francisco Magazine and many other publications.
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