Mona DeFrawi has guided entrepreneurs and investors for over 20 years, focused on fundraising, financial marketing and business development. As a Director of CapGen Financial in 2007, Mona raised its first time $500M private equity fund, along with Managing Principal Eugene Ludwig, Founder of Promontory Financial Group and former Comptroller of the Currency and Vice Chair of Bankers Trust. As Founder and Managing Partner of VentureQuest, Inc., from 1991 to 2007, Mona led private equity and venture capital fundraising as well as public investor relations for companies preparing for IPOs or newly public. During that time, Mona served as Vice President of Corporate Development for USinternetworking and LLuminari, and Director of Investor Relations for Martek Biosciences, Crop Genetics, and Meridian Medical Technologies, and helped raise funds for dozens of startups. Additionally, Mona successfully lobbied for over $1 B in Maryland pension fund investments in venture capital and also served as a Technology Commercialization Specialist for Maryland State, and as a Licensing Manager for the University of Maryland. She also taught Entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University, School of Engineering. Mona is an honors graduate of both Duke University (BA) and the University of Maryland (MBA).

Marc Rubin brings InsideVenture nearly 20 years of executive financial and operational management within the software development, manufacturing, and retail industries. As Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Accounting Officer at Sequoia Software, a provider of XML-based portal solutions, he led the company's accounting, human resources, recruiting, MIS, facilities, and manufacturing teams through a period of company growth from 8 to 250 employees. He successfully guided Sequoia through three private financings, a successful IPO and acquisition by Citrix Systems in 2001. In his most recent positions, Marc served as Chief Operating Officer for Xlipstream Corp, developers of XML Appliances, and Chief Financial Officer for Sourcefire, Inc., manufacturers of Intrusion Management Systems. Marc is well known and respected in the venture community, by boutique venture banks, large accounting firms, and technology law firms and has frequently been asked to serve as a financial advisor to emerging technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. Marc holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an MBA from University of Baltimore. Before Sequoia, he worked in finance and accounting management positions at Black & Decker and London Fog.

Christopher Linn began his career in Time Warner's Time4Media Division in New York City selling non-traditional media packages including events, product inclusions, and retail promotions. In 2002, Christopher transferred to the Mountain Sports Division of AOL/Time Warner and subsequently expanded his experience into media production and distribution including the sales and management of the highest per screen grossing feature released in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Mr. Linn joined Myriad Interactive in 2004 as the Vice President of Business Development and grew the agency's billings by 1,500% in the first six months by creating a media calculated billings strategy that at the time was new to the interactive agency model. Mr. Linn went on to be a founding partner of Band Marketing & Partners in 2004 in an effort to get back into cross-media promotion industry and within two years built a Lifestyle Marketing division that managed over $4.5 million in annual billing. Mr. Linn received his MA from University of Colorado at Boulder and his BA from Columbia University.

Brita Moeller has over ten years of professional experience in strategy consulting, media, and communications and a background of working closely with company founders and CEOs. Previously, Ms. Moeller served as the Director of Business Development for VentureArchetypes, a business planning and venture advisory firm that assisted over 100 technology, life science and biotech companies in the capital raise process. Ms. Moeller comes from a legacy of entrepreneurship. Her first job was working for her father’s business, a pharmaceutical development company started in a university research lab. Anesta Corp. progressed to a successful IPO and purchase by Cephalon. Ms. Moeller began her career in television, and was responsible for writing and producing commercials, features, and shows to build the PGA TOUR brand name nationally and internationally. She was on the NBC broadcast team that produced the Sydney Olympics and served as President of the Thunderbird Alumni Association in New York and as Chair for the Thunderbird Private Equity Forums. Partnering with Pivotal Labs, she co-founded Project Startup, a series of strategy events for web founders. Ms. Moeller holds an MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management and a BA from the University of Puget Sound.

Sarah Billstein is responsible for investor member sales and platform coordination services. Sarah has experience in various verticals within the financial services industry, including alternative asset management, private equity and investment banking. Previously, she was Senior Financial Analyst at Q Advisors, a boutique investment banking firm, where she executed mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financings for a range of clients across the business services, software and telecommunications industries. Prior to Q Advisors, Sarah was Investment Analyst at Mount Yale Capital Group, where she was in charge of the development of the firm’s proprietary private equity fund-of-funds. Ms. Billstein graduated from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado – Boulder in 2006 with a B.S. degree in Finance.

Kendra Love currently provides consulting and event services ranging from site selection and contract negotiations to full meeting planning along with keynote production and on-site support for clients such as Intel Corporation, Diversified Business Communications and Textron University . Ms. Love started her event services career in 1995 in the hotel industry at the Scottsdale Hilton Resort, in group sales and then conference services. In 1997 she turned to meeting planning with Rosenbluth, the internal meeting planning company contracted to support Intel Corporation. Ms. Love started out planning and managing a 40 city road show in the US and Canada supporting all 40 cities within three weeks, three times a year. After establishing six out of the nine “BKM’s” Best Known Methods for Intel’s worldwide road shows, she was assigned to the Intel Executive Corporate offices in Santa Clara . In the spring of 1999, she managed the high-level events for executives while apprenticing under Intel’s internal corporate events team to organize and manage keynote production for the top 14 executives. After three years of traveling around the world supporting the CEO, President, CTO, COO and CIO’s keynotes and events, Ms. Love had an opportunity to take what she had learned and started her own consulting company, KVL Event Consulting, LLC in the spring of 2002. Ms. Love is a graduate of St. Cloud State University.

Natasha is a key component of the InsideVenture team, working with Corporate and Investor Service Groups. Natasha is experienced in B2B marketing, event marketing, public policy communication, and clean-tech marketing. Prior to joining InsideVenture, Natasha was with Rio Tinto in their Marketing and Sustainable Technologies groups. While at Rio Tinto, she routinely managed multi-level internal and external communication strategies and directed multiple vendor relationships. Prior to Rio Tinto, Natasha was Manager with Fossil, Inc., supervising 21 employees and responsible for Operations, HR, Sales and Administration. Natasha attended Metropolitan State of College of Denver, majoring in Environmental Science and Resource Management.