Ron Conway is an angel investor at SV Angel. During the past 15 years, Conway has invested in and worked closely with hundreds of startups including Google, OpenTable, Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, and Twitter. He was also the founder and managing partner of the Angel Investors LP funds. Conway was included in Vanity Fair's 2010 list of the "100 Most Influential People in the Information Age" and ranked No. 13 on Forbes' 2011 list of the year's top deal-makers. Conway worked at National Semiconductor Corp. in marketing positions from 1973 to 1979. He founded Altos Computer Systems in 1979 and took the company public in 1982. He was CEO of Personal Training Systems from 1991 to 1995. Conway is a member of the UC San Francisco Medical Center Chancellor's Advisory Board and is active in fundraising for the Benioff Children's Hospital, the Tiger Woods Foundation, the Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation, Teach for America and Donors Choose.

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Silicon Valley Goes Global