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Dr. Adrian Vanzyl has spent his career in Silicon Valley and Australia, working as a technology executive with software, security, advertising driven and social networking internet companies. His experience includes working as VP of Business Development for Eurekster, the leading provider of vertical, community and social network based search. Prior to this he was Entrepreneur in Residence at Blumberg Capital in San Francisco. Whilst at Blumberg he ran two of their portfolio companies, and as the CEO of Seclarity, a security hardware and software firm, successfully raised funding from Intel Capital, Valley Ventures and Blumberg Capital. Adrian was Group Business Development Manager for Microsoft’s bCentral small business portal. His group managed business development and partnerships for the portal, both domestically and internationally (where he helped launch in 22 countries in two years). He joined Microsoft as a result of his role as VP International at LinkExchange, which Microsoft acquired and subsequently grew into bCentral. Adrian worked for two years as CTO of LookSmart, where he was responsible for managing the core search engine technology as well as building the company’s US-based team of engineers. Before moving to the US, he worked as CTO at Sausage Software, Australia's first listed Internet software company. He was a member of the three person board of directors that successfully took the company public on the Australian Stock Exchange. Adrian has an MD degree (MB BS degrees with Honors) from Monash University Australia, and spent the first three years of his career post his medical internship as a researcher and lecturer in Medical Informatics at the University. | 