GROW! Awards - Association for Corporate Growth
GROW! Awards - Association for Corporate Growth
GROW! Awards - Association for Corporate Growth
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Keynote Speaker<br />
Ron Conway<br />
Founder, SV Angel<br />
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor <strong>for</strong> over<br />
15 years, and during which time, has worked closely with<br />
hundreds of start-ups including Google, AskJeeves, Facebook,<br />
Zappos, AdMob, Mint, Zynga, and Twitter.<br />
He was recently included in The Vanity Fair 100 most influential people<br />
in the In<strong>for</strong>mation Age. He was awarded Best Angel at The 2009<br />
TechCrunch Crunchies <strong>Awards</strong>. He was named #6 in Forbes Magazine<br />
Midas list of top “deal-makers” in 2009 and is actively involved in numerous<br />
philanthropic endeavors.<br />
Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing<br />
positions (1973–1979); Altos Computer Systems as a Co-Founder,<br />
President and CEO (1979–1990); took Altos public on Nasdaq in 1982;<br />
and, served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991–1995).<br />
PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL).<br />
Philanthropically, Ron is a member of the UCSF Medical Center<br />
Chancellor’s Advisory Board in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods<br />
Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, UCSF Benioff Children’s<br />
Hospital, College Track, and the Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation.<br />
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