FWD.us

Founded in 2013, FWD.us is a 501(c)(4) lobbying group based in the United States that aims to lobby and advocate for its version of immigration reform, changes to the US education system to improve science and technology education, and the facilitation of scientifc breakthroughs with broad public benefits. wiki  

Founders

Accessed May 2013:  

• Aditya Agarwal, Vice President of Engineering at Dropbox
• Jim Breyer, Partner at Accel Partners
• Matt Cohler, General Partner at Benchmark
• Ron Conway, Special Advisor to SV Angel
• John Doerr, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Joe Green, Founder and President of FWD.us
• Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
• Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox
• Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and Managing Partner of The Social+Capital Partnership
• Sean Parker, Managing Partner at the Founders Fund
• Ruchi Sanghvi, Vice President of Operations at Dropbox
• Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook

Major Contributors

Accessed May 2013:

• Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
• Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder of Airbnb
• Chris Cox, Vice President of Product at Facebook
• Paul Graham, Co-founder of Y Combinator
• Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO of Netflix
• Chad Hurley, Co-founder and CEO of AVOS
• Josh James, Founder and CEO of Domo
• Max Levchin, Co-founder of PayPal, Chairman of Yelp
• Joe Lonsdale, Partner at Formation 8
• Andrew Mason, Co-founder of Groupon
• Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Yahoo!
• Mary Meeker, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Dave Morin, Co-founder and CEO of Path
• Hadi Partovi, Co-Founder and President of Code.org
• Alison Pincus, One Kings Lane Co-Founder and Chief Partnership Officer
• Mark Pincus, Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Product Officer of Zynga
• Keith Rabois, Partner at Khosla Ventures
• Hosain Rahman, CEO and Founder of Jawbone
• Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google
• Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Legal and Corporate Affairs for Microsoft
• Kevin Systrom, CEO and Co-Founder of Instagram
• Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at Cisco
• Fred Wilson, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures and Founder of Flatiron Partners

 

Contact

  Web: http://www.fwd.us