Julie Hanna

I'm an technology entrepreneur, former CEO, board director, startup/venture advisor and angel investor who enjoys helping fellow entrepreneurs/CEO's build their companies & change the world. Driven by my belief intechnology as a democratizing force for social, political and business disruption.I serve as chair of the board at Kiva, advisor at Idealab & several tech and social biz starrtups. Before that I was founder & CEO of Scalix, a pioneer and global leader in open source email software and a founding VP Products & Marketing at onebox.com (acquired by OpenWave OPWV) and Portola (acquired by Netscape).

I am an Egyptian immigrant, having arrived in California by way of Amman, Beirut, NY and Alabama. When not living at the top of a hill in San Francisco, I can be found in Berlin or sailing the Scandinavian coast. I'm a yogini, a student of the Zen tradition, fledgling poet and hack winemaker.