Board of Directors

Will Harvey, Co-Founder and Chairman

Will (avatar "Will") co-founded IMVU in April 2004 and served as President and CEO from its inception to November, 2007. Prior to IMVU, Will founded two other companies: There.com, which makes the virtual world used by MTV and other consumer brands, and Sandcastle, a networking tools company acquired by Adobe Systems. In high school and college, Will wrote some of the early top selling video games and creativity products. At age 16, Will wrote Music Construction Set, the world's first word processor for music, published by Electronic Arts. Will holds five patents on networking, search and computer graphics.

Will earned a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Outside of work, Will serves on the Board of Trustees of Nueva Day School, an elementary school for the gifted and talented. In his spare time, Will is competing actively in Ironman triathlons and studying the strategy game of Go.

Cary Rosenzweig, President and Chief Executive Officer

Cary (avatar "CaryJay") began serving as the President and CEO of IMVU in November 2007. Previously, he served as either CEO or Chief Marketing Officer at four other technology startups, including mySimon.com (acquired by CNET) and Autoweb.com (acquired by Autobytel). Cary was VP and General Manager at Intuit, responsible for QuickBooks Payroll, which he grew from $100 million to $200 million over a three-year period (2003-2006). Cary began his career in marketing and brand management at Procter & Gamble, where he was Tide Brand Manager. He then went to Clorox, where he rose up the marketing ranks before becoming General Manager of the Clorox Pet Products Company.

Cary earned an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

When he isn't working, Cary dreams of diving again with the beautiful Napoleon wrasses at Blue Corner in Palau and with the enormous Manta rays at Goofnuw Channel in Yap.

Shawn Carolan, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

Shawn (avatar "stc") joined Menlo Ventures in 2002, and he has focused primarily on connected software and services. Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. Shawn was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers. Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics.

Shawn earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Outside of work, Shawn enjoys soccer, snowboarding, and time with his wife and kids.

Spencer Tall, Managing Director, Allegis Capital

Spencer joined Allegis Capital in 2004. Previously, Spencer was a co-founder and General Partner with APV Technology Partners for three funds over 10 years. In addition, Spencer is a co-founder of Asia Pacific Ventures, a consulting and advisory service firm where, over a 13-year period, he assisted more than 50 technology companies in their Asia expansion plans. This included technology licensing, fund raising and distribution arrangements. Spencer has acted as a strategic advisor to global companies including Motorola, Sony, Fujitsu, Samsung, Canon, TDK and Dacom. Prior to founding APV, Spencer, a fluent Japanese speaker, oversaw US sales operations for Marubun Corporation, a Japan-based billion-dollar components trading company. He also worked as a sales manager with GRE America, Inc., a Japanese contract manufacturer, serving U.S. corporations' outsourcing efforts. Spencer serves on the boards of IMVU, Allegiance, Symplified, and AvaLAN Wireless.

Spencer earned a B.S. in Political Science and Japanese from Brigham Young University.

Kuk Yi, Managing Director, Best Buy Capital

Kuk joined Best Buy, the leading global retailer of consumer technology products and services, in 2004. As the Managing Director of Best Buy Capital, the venture investment team of Best Buy, Kuk is responsible for leading all the investment activities to create a portfolio of opportunities for Best Buy's growth, while encouraging the adoption of new technologies, solutions and services for the consumer technology ecosystem. Kuk was previously a founding member of Best Buy's corporate development team, where he was responsible for supporting strategic transactions, including acquisitions and investments. Prior to Best Buy, Kuk was a Senior Investment Manager at Samsung, based in Korea, and a Senior Associate at ABN AMRO Capital.

Kuk earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Outside of work, Kuk enjoys spending time with his family while dreaming of ways to move back to his childhood home in Hawaii.

James Joaquin, Independent IMVU Board Member

James is a seasoned entrepreneur with 25 years of experience building and growing consumer technology companies. He cofounded his first company, Clearview Software, while still a computer science student at Brown University, and sold it to Apple. He later went on to cofound When.com, an Internet calendar and events service acquired by AOL. James was a founding investor and CEO of Ofoto, and led the company from its beginnings through the sale to the Eastman Kodak Company. More recently, he served as a venture partner at Bridgescale Partners, a growth equity investment firm that is an investor in IMVU. James currently serves as the CEO of Xmarks, a startup focused on improving web search results, and is the chairman of the board of Pixelpipe.

James earned a B.S. in computer science from Brown University.

Robert Chaplinsky, General Partner, Bridgescale Partners, IMVU Board Observer

Rob is a co-founder of Bridgescale Partners and brings more than 10 years of venture capital investing experience and more than 15 years of marketing experience to technology companies. Prior to forming Bridgescale, Rob spent seven years as a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) where he focused on investments in the semiconductor and communications markets. At MDV, Rob was the lead investor and board member in companies such as Accelerant Networks (acquired by Synopsys) Brion Technologies (acquired by ASML) Cooligy (acquired by Emerson Electric) Pivotal Technologies (acquired by Broadcom) Pixim Technologies and Quake Technologies (acquired by AMCC). Before joining MDV, Rob was a lead technology research analyst at Hambrecht & Quist. In that capacity, Rob led investment research on some of the industry's most dynamic public and private semiconductors in the United States and Asia. During that time, Rob also made personal investments in successful private companies including FormFactor (NASDAQ: FORM) Galileo (sold to Marvell) Netboost (sold to Intel) and Quantum Effect Design (sold to PMC Sierra). Prior to Hambrecht & Quist, Rob spent seven years at Intel Corporation in various senior marketing and sales positions.

Rob earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Eric Ries, Co-Founder and IMVU Board Observer

Eric (avatar "Eric") co-founded IMVU in April 2004 and served as Chief Technology Officer from its inception to August 2008. Eric is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale University, Eric co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Eric continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. In 2007, BusinessWeek.com named Eric one of the Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs.

Eric earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.

Eric serves on the advisory board of many technology startups including pbWiki, Bunchball, SpeedDate, illumobile, BlueBet and KaChing.