Board Members and Advisors
MyLikes is backed by leading venture capital firms and individual investors. Our Series A investment was led by Khosla Ventures and our angel round investors included Paul Buchheit, Georges Harik, Sanjeev Singh, Metamorphic Ventures, XG Ventures, Deepchand Nishar and Aydin Senkut.
Independent board of director:
Paul Buchheit
Paul Buchheit is a prominent entrepreneur and angel investor. He was an early employee at Google, where he worked as a Software Engineer from 1999 to 2007. He created and led development of Gmail and also developed the original prototype of Google AdSense. In 2007, he co-founded FriendFeed which was acquired by Facebook in 2009. He is currently a partner at YCombinator. You can read more about Paul on Wikipedia.
MyLikes is also pleased to have the following group of industry experts on our advisory board:
Joe Kraus
Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. Currently, Kraus is an Investment Partner on the Google Ventures team. You can read more about Joe on Wikipedia.
Rishad Tobaccowala
Rishad is the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at VivaKi - a Publicis Groupe company which is responsible for developing next generation digital platforms across the various Publicis agencies - RazorFish, Digitas and Starcom MediaVest. Previously, Tobaccowala was CEO of Publicis Groupe futures practice Denuo.
Louis Gray
Louis Gray is a well known blogger and author of louisgray.com, a Silicon Valley-based early adopter Web site focused on social media, technology and innovation. The site has most notably championed the emergence of RSS feed aggregators, social media sites and distributed conversations, and has been a platform for discussions on best practices for linking, commenting and advertising. He is currently Vice President of Marketing at my6sense.
David Hirsch
David is a partner with Metamorphic Ventures. Previously, he spent eight years at Google where he started as the second employee in Google's New York office and on the founding team that launched Google's advertising monetization strategy and execution.
Deepchand Nishar
Deep Nishar is the Senior Vice President of Products and User Experience at LinkedIn. He went to LinkedIn from Google, where he headed product strategy for the Asia-Pacific region, led the company’s worldwide mobile initiatives, and built the back-end systems used for managing Google's global customer base.