Xamarin provides software development tools that help users build mobile applications easily.
Xamarin’s mission is to produce the best software development tools in the world, and to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile apps.
Xamarin is the new standard for enterprise mobile development. No other platform enables businesses to reach all major devicesiOS, Android, Mac and Windowswith 100% fully native apps from a single code base. With Xamarin, businesses standardize mobile app development in C#, share on average 75% source code across platforms, and leverage their existing skills, teams, tools and code to rapidly deliver great apps with broad reach. Xamarin is used by over 375,000 developers from more than 100 Fortune 500 companies and over 20,000 paying customers including Microsoft, Kimberly-Clark, Clear Channel, Schindler, McKesson, Halliburton, Cognizant, GitHub, Rdio and WebMD, to accelerate the creation of mission-critical consumer and enterprise apps.
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer.
Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years.
In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.
Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.
Founder of the Gnome and Mono project.
Co-founded the Ximian with Nat Friedman.
Ran the Mono project at Ximian, then Novell, now Xamarin.
Specialties:Giving developers shinny eyes.
John is a Co-founder and CEO of Runscope and API fanatic. As an early employee at Twilio, John lead the developer evangelism program and worked as a Product Manager for Developer Experience. After Twilio, John was Platform Lead at IFTTT working with API providers to create new channels. John is also the creator of RestSharp, API Changelog, API Digest, API Jobs and co-host of Traffic and Weather, an API and cloud podcast.
Ann Miura-Ko is a Co – Founding Partner at FLOODGATE where her investment interests include the innovations in e-commerce, security, big data and radical science. She currently sits on the boards of Modcloth, Refinery29, Chloe and Isabel, Wanelo, Ayasdi, Maker Media, Inscopix, and CSS. She was previously a board member of TaskRabbit and Lyft.
In addition to serving at FLOODGATE, Ann is a lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where she got her PhD focused on mathematical modeling of computer security.
Prior to joining FLOODGATE and her stint at Stanford, Ann worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company.
Ann grew up in Palo Alto, California (her father is a rocket scientist at NASA) and, as a result, was exposed at an early age to the world of startups, technology and venture capital. She developed an early passion for robotics and went on to major in electrical engineering at Yale University where she received her BS degree.
John Connors is a managing partner at Ignition, joining in 2005 after lengthy career as a software-industry executive, principally at Microsoft.
John spent sixteen years at Microsoft in several high-level, strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of finance and administration, as well as the companys chief financial officer.
He also served as vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise Group and vice president and chief information officer (CIO). Before becoming CIO, John held a number of positions within and outside finance, including corporate controller; general manager of worldwide financial operations; director of business operations at Microsofts European headquarters in Paris; and director of business operations for the Worldwide Sales and Support Strategy Group.
John is a member of the board of directors of Nike (NKE), FiREapps, Scout Analytics, Datasphere, Motif Investing, Splunk (SPLK), Opscode, Parse and Tier 3.
Cofounder at Xamarin