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James Joaquin is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building and growing consumer technology companies. He currently serves as a Venture Partner in the Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Bridgescale Partners. Prior to Bridgescale, Mr. Joaquin served as President and CEO of Xoom Corporation, a global money transfer service providing consumers an easy and convenient way to transfer money across countries and currencies. Prior to Xoom, Mr. Joaquin served as President and CEO of Ofoto, the leading online photo sharing and printing service, leading the Ofoto team to become the world's most popular photo sharing and printing service, with more than 20 million members and more than 1 billion images stored. Having successfully completed a sale of the company to Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), he then ran Ofoto as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding the service beyond the United States into Europe, China, and Japan. Prior to that, Mr. Joaquin co-founded and headed business development for When.com, an Internet calendar and events service that was acquired by America Online (NYSE: TWX). As a Macintosh programmer in the 1980’s, Mr. Joaquin began his career in technology by co-founding Clearview Software while still a computer science student at Brown University. The applications company was acquired by Apple’s Claris division, after which Mr. Joaquin spent six years with Apple in engineering, product marketing, and business development management roles. | 