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SXSW is proud to announce that the complete judging panel has been named for the 2012 SXSW Accelerator Presented by Microsoft BizSpark competition, and we were lucky enough to gather a phenomenal group for the job. This panel will select the grand prize winner for each category and the results will be announced shortly thereafter. We wouldn’t trust such an important task to just anyone, so the following esteemed judges have agreed to contribute their expertise toward the success of the event.
This judges for the 2012 SXSW Accelerator competition will include:
David Aronoff
General Partner
Flybridge
Tom Ball
Partner
Austin Venture
Rich Barton
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Zillow
Brad Burnham
Partner
Union Square Ventures
Wesely Chan
Partner
Google Ventures
Isaac Ciechanover
Investment Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Tom Conrad
Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President
Pandora
Tony Conrad
Co Founder
about.me and PartnerTrue Ventures
Paige Craig
CEO
BetterWorks
Stephen Downs
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Blair Garrou
Managing Director
DFJ Mercury
Mark Hindsbo
Vice President
Developer & Platform Evangelism
Microsoft
Ben Huh
CEO
Cheezburger Network
Laura Kilcrease
Managing Director
Triton Ventures
Adam Koopersmith
Partner
New World Ventures
Rebecca Lynn
Partner
Morgenthaler
Richard MacManus
Founder and Editor in Chief
ReadWriteWeb
John Mallory
General Partner
BlueRun Ventures
Matt Marshall
Founder and CEO
VentureBeat
Andrew McCollum
EIR
New Enterprise Associates and Co-Founder Facebook
Bob Metcalfe
Professor of Innovation
University of Texas at Austin
Oren Michels
Founder and CEO
Mashery
Ellen Miller
Executive Director
Sunlight Foundation
Frank Moss
Co-Founder and Director
Bluefin Labs, Inc
Gretta Nayyar
Chief Medical Information Officer
AT&T for Health
Charlie O’Donnell
Principal
First Round Capital
Tim O’Reilly
Founder and CEO
O’Reilly Media
Adam Ostrow
SVP Content & Executive Editor
Mashable
Arun Rajan
Chief Technology Officer
Zappos
David Rose
CEO
Gust
Andrew Sack
CEO
Lighter Capital
Erick Schonfeld
Editor
TechCrunch
Chris Shipley
CEO
Guidewire Group, Inc.
Kraig Swensrud
Chief Marketing Officer
Salesforce.com
Maria Thomas
Founder
Axios Ventures
Doug Ulman
President and CEO
LIVESTRONG
Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet
VP, Strategy and New Ventures, EMEA
Turner Broadcasting
We couldn’t be more pleased with the assemblage of personalities we’ve gathered and we’re excited to say that this innovative competition has an inspired panel of judges to match. For more information on Interactive Accelerator, click here and click here to attend the 2012 SXSW Accelerator Presented by Microsoft BizSpark. We hope to see you there!
Contributed by Alan Ferguson
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