Melanie Swan
Futurist, Hedge Fund Manager

Palo Alto, CA
melanie@melanieswan.com
(415) 505-4426
YahooIM, GoogleTalk, Skype, Twitter, etc.: lablogga

Biography:

Melanie is a serial entrepreneur currently managing an innovative hedge fund business and formerly founded a technology startup company, GroupPurchase, which aggregated small business buying groups. She previously held positions at RHK Telecoms Research, iPass, JP Morgan, Fidelity and Arthur Andersen. Melanie has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in French and International Economics from Georgetown University. Melanie is an Advisory Board member of the Accelerating Studies Foundation and co-moderates of the Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boulder Future Salons.

Talks:

Elon University/Pew Internet Project "Imagining the Internet"

Get Deeply Geeky, BlogHer, July 2006, San Jose CA

NIH Biomedical Computing Special Interest Group, Feb-July, 2006, Bethesda, MD

"The Singularity is Near" - Ray Kurzweil Presentation, Audio

Accelerating Change 2005, Stanford CA