Board of Directors

Julie Hanna | Chair of the Board, Kiva

Julie Hanna is a serial entrepreneur who is driven by her belief in information technology as a democratizing force for social, political and business disruption. She has spent the last twenty years pioneering products that have allowed tens of millions around the world to connect, communicate and collaborate. Her experience creating innovative products and new business models now informs her work as a board member, angel investor and mentor to fellow entrepreneurs and CEO’s. In addition to serving as Chair of the Board at Kiva, Julie is a member of the board at Socialtext, the leading social networking SaaS provider for small and medium businesses, and an advisor to leading technology incubator, Idealab, as well as a number of internet startups and social ventures in the U.S. and Europe. Serving in roles that ranged from founding executive to founder & CEO, Julie has helped build five consumer internet and software companies. Among them, onebox.com, (acquired by OpenWave Nasdaq; OPNWV) the fastest growing internet communications service in 1999; Portola, the first internet mail system for businesses where she was instrumental to the acquisition by Netscape; Scalix, a pioneer and global leader in open source software and Healtheon, now WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD).

Reid Hoffman | Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal where he was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Reid was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in significant technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master's degree in philosophy and a Marshall scholarship.

Amy Klement | VP Investments, Omidyar Network

Amy leads Omidyar Network's Access to Capital initiative, investing in and supporting organizations that create economic opportunity for millions of people living at the base of the pyramid. Focusing on Microfinance, Entrepreneurship, and Property Rights, her team concentrates their investments in India and sub-Saharan Africa. Amy also plays a leadership role in Omidyar Network's strategic approach to the mobile technology and consumer payments sectors, with a particular focus on the developing world. Amy has spent much of her career at eBay, Inc., joining PayPal as one of its earliest employees 11 years ago. As Vice President of Product, she spearheaded the creation of PayPal's enormously successful payments platform, facilitated the company's oversees expansion into Europe and Asia, and was instrumental in the launch of PayPal Mobile. Amy transitioned to eBay as Vice President, Relationship Marketing to lead email, onsite, and other retention marketing channels. Most recently, as Vice President, Product & Strategy Operations, she drove the development of eBay's long-term product vision and led the User Experience and Design organization. In addition, Amy helped shape the strategy and subsequently launch both Kiva and MicroPlace, which fueled her passion for the microfinance sector. Earlier in her career, Amy worked in corporate strategy and development at Gap Inc. and as an analyst at JP Morgan. Amy holds a BS in mathematics from Bucknell Univesity, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Tabreez Verjee | President and Director, Betawave

Tabreez has been President of Betawave since 2007. He has directed more than $500 million in committed assets across multiple venture capital funds and over 40 portfolio companies in the U.S. and Europe. and he has helped raise more than $150 million in capital for media financings. He co-headed Sonique (IMDI) and successfully negotiated its sale for more than $70 million to Lycos. Tabreez is also an early investor and member of the board of directors at Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer microfinance platform. He is also a charter member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. Tabreez started his career at Bain & Company and received a bachelor of science in Engineering with honors from University of California at Berkeley.

Alex Edelstein | CEO, CloudCrowd

Alex Edelstein is the CEO of Servio CloudCrowd, a leader in the Internet crowdsourcing space. Previously, Alex ran Gemstone Capital, which successfully invested in the private stages of Shopping.com, Tellme Networks, and Google. Before that, Alex worked at Netscape, where he managed the Netscape Navigator 2.0 and 3.0 products, Microsoft, where he was on the design team for Microsoft Exchange and what would become Microsoft Outlook, and Inktomi, where he ran the seminal Search Engine business unit in the late 90's.

Geoff Davis | Former CEO, Unitus

Geoff Davis is a serial entrepreneur turned social entrepreneur, who believes in the power of using business principles to solve a wide variety of social problems.  He has more than fifteen years' experience in the microfinance space, including co-founding a microfinance program in Mexico, working with Muhammad Yunus in creating the Grameen Foundation and Grameen Investments, and as the CEO of microfinance accelerator Unitus, which he guided from startup to global leader in microfinance.  Geoff also co-founded the Unitus Equity Fund, the first commercial microfinance venture fund.  In addition to serving on Kiva's Board, Geoff is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation, Chairman at Waste Ventures, which incubates solid waste management companies, and member of the Board at Vittana, empowering young people around the world through education.  Geoff has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Entrepreneur of The Year by Ernst & Young, an Entrepreneurial Thought Leader by Stanford University, and one of Seattle’s “40 under 40” by the Puget Sound Business Journal. He earned degrees from Brigham Young and Harvard universities.

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Note: Matt Flannery, Co-founder and CEO; and Premal Shah, President also serve on the Board of Directors

Advisory Board

Jessica Jackley | Co-Founder, Kiva

Jessica is a Cofounder of Kiva, and served as Kiva's first Chief Marketing Officer. Jessica was first inspired to start Kiva in the spring of 2004, working in East Africa with rural entrepreneurs. She became deeply moved by their stories of success, and wanted to provide a way for her friends and family to participate in the next chapter of those stories.Jessica is currently Founder and CEO of ProFounder (www.profounder.com), a platform providing new ways for small business entrepreneurs in the U.S. to access start-up capital through crowdfunding and community involvement.Jessica has also worked with the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, World Vision, and others. Jessica is an active advisor and board member on a number of organizations championing microfinance, women's issues, tech, and the arts. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Certificates in Global Management and Public Management, and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University. She teaches Global Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.

John Hiler | CEO and Co-Founder, Xanga.com

John is the CEO and co-founder of Xanga.com, one of the world'€™s largest weblog communities. Prior to Xanga, John he consulted to software, media, and wireless companies at Mercer Management Consulting. As an Adjunct Professor at NYC, John teaches a course on Internet Civilization and his current research interests are in Social Capital, Emergent Journalism, and Cyber governance.  John graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Asian Studies from Dartmouth University.

Phu Hoang

Phu came out of retirement to join Kiva in 2009 and served as Kiva's VP of Product Development. Phu left Viet Nam along with his family in April 1975, when he was 10 years old. He considers himself extremely fortunate in his life in America and is thrilled to be able to help others get a similar opportunity to improve their lives. Prior to Kiva, Phu spent over 11 years at Yahoo heading up Engineering for Yahoo's consumer web sites, advertising systems, and platform. His greatest gift in life is his wife Tamar and their three children: Jason, Grace, and Allison. Phu hurts himself frequently playing basketball, tennis, and poker. He studied at the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of California, Berkeley

Dave McClure | Founder, Paypal Developer Network

Dave McClure has worked in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry for over fifteen years and is on the Board of Directors of Unitus, a venture accelerator for microfinance institutions around the world. Dave also helps run the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network and co-chairs the Silicon Valley Search SIG for SDForum. His most recent positions include VP of Marketing at SimplyHired and Director of Marketing at PayPal, where he started PayPal'€™s Developer Network, a technical marketing & education program comprised of over 300,000 web merchants & developers.  Dave is currently an advisor & investor in several startups including Feedster, HealthUnity, and WellFund.  Dave holds a bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

Sundeep Ahuja | Co-founder, RichRelevance

Sundeep is Kiva's former Marketing Director, a role he filled from March of 2006 to June of 2007. He is currently co-founder of RichRelevance, a hosted automated merchandising engine for commerce sites. Sundeep also actively advises and consults for cause-oriented organizations in marketing and product capacities, leveraging product management experience from MySpace and eBay, finance experience from JPMorgan H&Q, and acting experience on several television shows. Sundeep holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Ken Howery | Founders Fund, PayPal Co-founder

Ken is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital group founded in 2005 with several hundred million dollars under management, which seeks to provide the capital, insights and support required to build a company from the ground up with a non-traditional, pro-founder focus. Ken has led or co-led investments in a number of companies at Founders Fund including Facebook and Quantcast. Ken is a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's first CFO. While at PayPal, Ken helped raise over $200 million in private financing, worked on the company's public offerings, and assisted in the company's $1.5 billion sale to eBay. Ken has also been a member of the research and trading teams at Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund based in San Francisco, and at Thiel Capital Management, a multistrategy investment fund, where Ken made venture investments beginning in 1998, including leading the seed round in pioneering anti-spam firm IronPort (acquired by Cisco for $830 million). Ken has lectured on entrepreneurship at Stanford and Harvard Business School and has helped students develop business models at UC Berkeley and UT Austin's McCombs School of Business. Ken is a member of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers Selection Committee and a member of the Council on Competitiveness. Ken received a BA in Economics from Stanford.

Kiran Jain | Attorney, Bingham McCutchen LLP

Kiran is an attorney at Bingham McCutchen, specializing in the finance practice. Kiran graduated from from Georgetown Law, where she participated in the Housing and Community Development Clinic that assisted low-income tenants in maintaining affordable housing and accessing low-interest credit. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Jain was an economics consultant in the International Transfer Pricing Group at Arthur Anderson LLP in New York, and Washington, D.C. Upon graduating from Columbia University, Ms. Jain served as a consultant to the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. During the summer of 1997 and 1998, she studied language, history and community development in India. She served as an intern at the White House in 1996.

Scott Smith | Attorney, Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos Rudy LLP

Scott is an attorney at Hanson Bridgett, specializing in corporate and tax law. Scott has significant experience counseling nonprofits in connection with all aspects of operations and represents emerging companies in connection with entity formation issues, licensing and other technology related matters. Scott sits on the Advisory Board of MicroMentor, which connects low-income business owners to individuals who have successfully navigated business ownership or management in the same industry. Scott has a B.A. from California State University, Fresno, an M.A. from University of Southern California and a law degree from University of Houston.