Directors

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world.

O’Reilly Media also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. In addition to being on the Wesabe board, Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Brad Burnham is both an experienced operator and venture capitalist.

His first experience with venture capital was as a member of the founding team of a mainframe software company in 1984. From 1985 until 1990, Brad was a marketing and business development executive for AT&T Computer Systems. In 1990, Brad founded Echo Logic, a Bell Laboratories spin out. As the first AT&T "venture," Echo Logic was the catalyst for the creation of AT&T Ventures, an independent venture capital partnership formed by AT&T in 1992. When Echo Logic was sold in 1993, Brad joined AT&T Ventures as an Executive In Residence. He became a Principal in 1994 and a General Partner in 1996. At AT&T Ventures, Brad was responsible for 14 investments including, Argon Networks, Audible, Avesta Technologies, Classic Sports Network, Multex Systems, Physicians Online, and Paytrust. In addition to being on the Wesabe board, Brad currently serves on the boards of Passlogix, Indeed and Tacoda Systems. Brad has a BA in Political Science from Wesleyan University. Brad is married with two kids and lives in New York City.

Jason Knight is co-founder of Wesabe.

With more than a decade of experience marketing and selling products, Jason saw first-hand the vast amounts of data that businesses compile on their target audiences. As a consumer, he felt a real inequity – he didn’t know nearly as much about the places he was shopping as they knew about him. Recognizing how powerful it would be if consumers could aggregate and share their insights on businesses, he joined forces with Marc Hedlund to create Wesabe.

Prior to Wesabe, Jason served as vice president of marketing and business development of Asurion Asia Pacific, where he signed the company’s first Asian carrier, Korea Telecom Freetel, and launched Asurion’s consumer direct marketing campaign. He was previously a Tokyo-based managing director at Ogilvy & Mather, and held executive positions at Excite@home and Kendara. Jason served in the Marine Corps for four years, and is a graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz.

Marc Hedlund is co-founder and CEO of Wesabe.

When Marc Hedlund caught his bank making sneaky changes to its account terms in order to squeeze more fees from him, he had enough. When searching for a better bank, he was surprised at the number of people who were also dissatisfied. He began to think about how powerful it would be if a community could pool its collective knowledge about businesses so they all could benefit from the best values and experiences. Marc co-founded Wesabe to help people better understand their spending and to foster a community dedicated to helping each other get the most from our money.

Marc was recently an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media. Prior to O’Reilly , he was VP of engineering at Sana Security, an enterprise software startup developing an “immune system” for protecting servers from worms and hackers. Marc co-founded and was CEO of Popular Power, a distributed computing startup. He also founded and led Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd; was director of engineering at Organic Online; and was CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet’s first shopping cart applications in 1994. Marc is a graduate of Reed College.