Ronald Conway

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Mr. Ronald Conway is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at SV Angel. He is the Founder of Smart Tech Foundation. He serves as Advisor at A.Capital Ventures, NewCo, and Elation Health. He is an Angel Investor. He was a Board Member of Ever AI. He co-founded and served as an Investor at Start Fund. He founded and served as Managing Partner at the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005). He was included in 2010's Vanity Fair 100 most influential people in the Information Age. He was awarded Best Angel at The 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards. He was an early investor in Google, Ask Jeeves, Loudcloud, Napster, and PayPal. As a result of the success of these investments, he was included in the Forbes Midas list of top venture investors. In 2009, he raised outside capital for his personal investment vehicle, SV Angel, and subsequently deployed six funds through the firm. He is an active philanthropist and is actively involved in a number of organizations including UCSF Medical Center, Packard Children's Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, and the Sandy Hook Promise. He was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President, and CEO (1979-1990) and took Altos public on Nasdaq in 1982, and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL). Philanthropically, he is a Board Member of the Salesforce.com Foundation, a member of the UCSF Medical Center Chancellor's Advisory Board in SF, and is active in fundraising for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, College Track, Sandy Hook Promise-Newtown CT, Americans for Responsible Solutions-Gabby Giffords, Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, and the THORN Foundation. He is an advocate for technology companies and civic engagement in San Francisco and the founder of sf.citi (San Francisco's tech-backed civic organization). He is also an advocate for immigration reform and a co-founder of FWD.US.