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Charles Hudson is the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive, the fastest growing online hangout for teens. Prior to Gaia, Charles worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google, he was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances that was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007.

Charles spent several years working at In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency. While at In-Q-Tel, he focused on identifying investment opportunities that could deliver significant value to the CIA and the commercial market in both the short and long term.Charles Hudson holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University.

David Sachs was most recently a Senior Associate at Trident Capital, a growth equity firm in Palo Alto, where he focused on venture capital and buyout investments in online media and marketing, financial technology, software-as-a-service and health care. Prior to Trident, David was an Analyst at Redpoint Ventures and Brentwood Venture Capital, where he worked on investments in early-stage software, internet, and communications infrastructure companies.

Before that, he was a Product Manager at online golf retailer Chipshot.com, and an Analyst in the Software and Internet group at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities. David has also consulted for private equity clients at Bain & Company, worked on IPO and merger transactions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and researched counter-drug strategies at the U.S. Department of State's Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau. He is a co-founder of Valuative Software, a provider of capital structure modeling and analysis software.

David earned an A.B. degree in Government from Harvard University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar.


Jeremy is a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Jeremy invests primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, and methods for increasing monetization. He joined Lightspeed in early 2006. Previously, Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO and then as General Manager of Netscape. Jeremy joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks), where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there, he was responsible for acquisitions, divestitures and investments in TV Networks, consumer Internet companies, and online travel companies.

Jeremy started working in the consumer Internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996, where he held a variety of sales management, operational, and business development roles. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Jeremy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics. Jeremy is a frequent contributor to the Lightspeed blog at http://lsvp.wordpress.com.