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Bonney grew up in Massachusetts and attended Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in the History of Science. After graduating, she headed west to San Francisco to begin her professional career in investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist (later acquired by JP Morgan Chase). There she held positions in both corporate finance and equity research, working with such Internet innovators as Broadcast.com, MP3.com, Inktomi, Travelocity, LinkExchange, and Phone.com. In 1999, she left to co-found Echo Networks, an Internet music service provider. Thanks to her contributions, the firm attracted over 500,000 customers, formed a strategic music-licensing partnership with Warner Music Group and garnered PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" award for best online music product. Echo Networks was acquired in early 2003 by a consortium of major brick and mortar music retailers including the Virgin Entertainment Group, Tower Records, Wherehouse , Best Buy, Transworld Entertainment and Hastings Entertainment. In April 2002, she relocated to Portland, OR and brought her years of Internet-related management, development and marketing skills to CharterX. | 