Yaron Samid

Founder & CEO, CrowdSpot

Yaron Samid is founder and CEO of CrowdSpot, a personal finance security startup powered by crowd-sourced vigilance. He previously co-founded Pando, the leading P2P content delivery company and DeskSite, the net's first PCTV network. A consumer Internet guy obsessed with UX, his products have been used by over 100 million people in over 150 countries. Yaron's last "real jobs" were leading product management and marketing teams at Zend, BackWeb and Register.com. In his spare time Yaron organizes TechAviv (http://techaviv.com) and NY Video (http://nyvideo.org), two of the world's largest grassroots startup organizations, with over 5,000 members combined meeting monthly in New York, Silicon Valley, Boston and Israel. Yaron chairs the TechAviv Angel Club and serves on the board of directors at Aprigo and Pond5.