Clara Shih

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Ms. Clara Shih serves as Advisor at Paramark. Ms. Shih co-founded and served as Executive Chairperson at Hearsay Systems. She is an Angel Investor. She served as Advisory Board Member at Seiza. She also serves as Board Member at Starbucks. In 2007, Clara developed the first social business application, called Faceforce, and subsequently authored the New York Times-featured bestseller, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell and Innovate, now used as a marketing textbook at Harvard Business School. Clara has been named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fast Company's Most Influential People in Technology, and one of Businessweek's Top Young Entrepreneurs. Clara is a member of the Starbucks Board of Directors and previously served in a variety of technical, product, and marketing roles at Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. Clara is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and previously served in a variety of technical, product and marketing roles at Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com. She graduated in computer science at Stanford University, where she also received an M.S. in computer science. She also holds an M.S. in internet studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a U.S. Marshall Scholar.