Working in conjunction with business unit leaders around the world, Bird is responsible for coordinating and overseeing growth opportunities for Disney outside of the United States, and for targeting new businesses, growing and increasing penetration of existing businesses and leading the development of business and operations in emerging markets.

Prior to joining Disney, Bird, a senior entertainment industry executive with extensive experience in development and operation of television and radio businesses internationally, was president of Time Warner's TBS International. Bird was with Time Warner for nearly a decade, joining in 1994 as senior vice president and general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks Limited, the TBS Europe arm that produced Cartoon Network. He rose to president of TBS International in 2000, and became responsible for all TBS broadcasting outside of the continental U.S.

Between 1989 and 1994 Bird held a number of positions in radio and television in Europe, during which he helped start a music channel, produced and directed a popular London-based morning TV program, and produced a Saturday morning children's TV show. In 1992, Bird was tapped by Unique Broadcasting, the largest independent radio production company in the United Kingdom, to start up and operate Unique Television.
 

Promod has 17 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years. In 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 Venture Capitalist over the last decade. In 2006, Promod received a Global Leadership Award from NASSCOM.

Promod focuses on investments in semiconductors and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks.

His current investments include Adventity, AmberPoint, Cast Iron Systems, FireEye, Open-Silicon, Persistent Systems, Sonoa Systems, Sulekha, Veraz Networks (Nasdaq: VRAZ), Veveo, Virtela Communications and Yatra Online.

Other notable investments and previous board seats include Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Information Advantage (acquired by Sterling Software), Arbortext (acquired by PTC), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices), Showcase (acquired by SPSS) and ZettaCom (acquired by IDT).

Prior to Norwest Venture Partners, Promod spent 18 years in various operational roles ranging from product development, marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer at various public and private companies such as Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine, Inc.

Dr. Haque received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delhi, India and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. He received MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and serves on its advisory board.
 

Businessman and entrepreneur Sean Parker gained early notoriety as a co-founder of Napster Inc. in 1999. An IRC friend of Shawn Fanning, Parker helped convince Fanning to incorporate Napster as a business. He joined Fanning in California and developed the early business strategy of the firm. In 2000, Parker left Napster.

Parker is co-founder of online contact service Plaxo, where he was President until 2004. Parker was also the founding president of Internet startup social network Facebook.

In 2001, Parker was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology.

Currently, Sean is a managing partner of the Founders Fund, a venture capital fund started by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal.