Johann Schleier-Smith co-founded Tagged in October 2004. He has been leading the company’s engineering team and technical operations since inception.
Greg Tseng co-founded Tagged in October 2004 and has served as its CEO since inception. He leads the company's product team and business operations.
- Managing Director, Mayfield
Allen Morgan has spent nearly 25 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup company process, first as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and, since 1999, as a partner at Mayfield. Having closed more than 650 venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings in his career, Allen brings a broad base of startup experience to bear on behalf of entrepreneurs. At Mayfield, Allen’s principal focus is on two major investment areas: enterprise software applications and infrastructure, particularly innovative solutions that enhance knowledge-worker productivity, as well as on startups in the area of consumer internet, interactive entertainment and new media. More specifically, Allen focuses on social networking, wikis, blogs, and RSS businesses. He was a panelist on social networking at the Red Herring December 2003 conference and was a panelist at Chris Shipley’s Blog On event in July 2004.
Allen currently sits on the Board of Directors of Beatnik, Electric Cloud, Jobster, JotSpot, PlanetOut Partners (LGBT), Pluck, Scalix, Serious Magic, Snap, Tribe.net, and Varsity Group (VSTY). Prior to joining Mayfield, Allen was a partner with renowned Silicon Valley law firms, Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Allen earned an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College, a second bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
- Managing Director, Mayfield
Raj Kapoor, an Internet industry pioneer, joined Mayfield in 2005. Raj brings leadership and expertise in online applications, e-commerce, software, digital imaging and telecommunications. Most recently, Raj was co-founder and CEO of Snapfish, a leading global online photo service. Raj orchestrated the successful sale of Snapfish to Hewlett Packard in March 2005.
Prior to Snapfish, Raj was an executive at Excite@Home, where he led Excite@Home’s e-commerce services and broadband applications, pioneering new broadband applications in music, entertainment and e-commerce. Raj has also held positions in strategic planning, business development and product management in consumer interactive television services at Bell Atlantic Corporation (now Verizon). Raj received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS with Honors in Mechanical/Robotics Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, he serves on the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Advisory Council. Raj won the SASA 2005 Award for Excellence In Business and was recently named a Top 15 Up and Coming Indian Executive by India Today. He enjoys free time with his family, surfing, and competing in triathlons.
Reid Hoffman is Founder & Executive Chairman of LinkedIn, an online professional networking service. Previously, Reid was EVP at PayPal, where he was in charge of all external relationships and payments infrastructure. In addition to Tagged, Reid serves on the Boards of Grassroots.com, Six Apart, and Vendio. Reid is an angel investor in Ironport Systems, Friendster, and Nanosolar.
Earlier in his career, Reid worked at Apple Computer, Fujitsu Software Corporation, and SocialNet.com. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and from Oxford University with a master’s degree in philosophy. Reid won the Dinkelspiel Award and a Marshall Scholarship while at Stanford.
