Auren is CEO of LiveRamp. LiveRamp connects marketing data to new places. LiveRamp was acquired by Acxiom in 2014 for $310 million. Auren was the first investor and served on the board of BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo for $640 million). He is the curator and co-founder (with Peter Thiel) of the Dialog Retreat. Previously, Auren was CEO of Rapleaf, former Chairman of Stonebrick Group, and CEO of BridgePath (sold in 2002). Auren also founded Kyber Systems (sold in 1997). Auren is an angel investor in over 70 technology companies. He holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. See his answers on: http://www.quora.com/Auren-Hoffman investor in: Aardvark (sold to Google), Any.do, Backtype (sold to Twitter), Beeswax, Betable, Boostable, Boost Media, Brightroll, Broadly, cClearly, Chomp (sold to Apple), Commerce Sciences, Connect.com, CrowdFlower, Dataminr, DoubleDutch, Dynamic Yield, Emailage, Engagio, Euclid Analytics, Expedite Labs, Factual, Flowtown (sold to Demandforce which was sold to Intuit), Founders Fund, Hackpad (sold to Dropbox), HealthSherpa, Influitive, Jobstart, Kaggle, Klout (sold to Lithium), LabPixies (sold to Google), Logik Systems, Meebo (sold to Google), MesmoTV (sold to GSN), Metamarkets, MerchantCircle (sold to Reply.com), MesmoTV (sold to GSN), mob.ly/GoodRec (sold to GroupOn), MomentFeed, OtherInbox (sold to ReturnPath), Peerwell, Pingboard, Point, Practice Fusion, RainforestQA, Rentlytics, Retargeter.com, RichRelevance, Rubicon Global, SAY Media, Scopely, Scripted, Sendbloom, Sense Inc., Sharethrough, Second Measure, Shelf.com, Shopstick, Solve Media, Superhuman, Talkable, Tai Diagnostics, Thumbtack, TXN, Unbounce, Upsight, Viglink, Zerply, Zozi, and more.

CEO and Founder @ From April 2006 to September 2015 (9 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBoard Member @ From May 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 8 months) Chairman @ From July 2003 to April 2006 (2 years 10 months) CEO @ From June 1998 to October 2002 (4 years 5 months) Co-Founder (Non-Employee) @ From February 1999 to September 2002 (3 years 8 months) VP Engineering @ From June 1997 to June 1998 (1 year 1 month) CTO and co-founder @ From July 1995 to June 1997 (2 years) owner @ From October 1989 to June 1992 (2 years 9 months)

BSE, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research @ University of California, Berkeley From 1992 to 1996 Mamaroneck High School From 1988 to 1992