SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark relies on hand-picked judges and emcees, qualified to determine the viability of a startup based on their demonstrated business and investment experience. The judging process will determine which of the finalists has the most innovative product or service. The following individuals have agreed to contribute their expertise toward the success of the SXSW Accelerator event.

Interactive Emcees

Brad Burnham
Partner
Union Square Ventures

Timothy Draper
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurveston

MC Hammer
Artist
Wiredoo

Christine Herron
Director
Intel Capital

Brad King
Assistant Professor
Ball State University

Frank Moss
Co-Founder and Director
Bluefin Labs

Jim Schachter
Associate Managing Editor
New York Times

Scott Weiss
General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz

Interactive Judges

David Aronoff
General Partner
Flybridge Capital Partners

John Balen
General Partner
Canaan Partners

Tom Ball
Partner
Austin Ventures

Rich Barton
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Zillow

Wesley Chan
Partner
Google Ventures

Isaac Ciechanover
Investment Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Tom Conrad
Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President
Pandora

Tony Conrad
Co Founder
about.me
Partner
True Ventures

Paige Craig
CEO
BetterWorks

Jeff Dachis
CEO, Chairman and Founder
Dachis Group

Stephen Downs
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Blair Garrou
Managing Director
DFJ Mercury

Mark Hindsbo
Vice President
Developer & Platform Evangelism
Microsoft

Ben Huh
CEO
Cheezburger Network

Laura Kilcrease
Managing Director
Triton Ventures

Adam Koopersmith
Partner
New World Ventures

Amit Kulkarni
VP of Product Management
salesforce.com
do.com

Richard MacManus
Founder and Editor in Chief
ReadWriteWeb

John Malloy
General Partner
BlueRun Ventures

Matt Marshall
Founder and CEO
VentureBeat

Andrew McCollum
EIR
New Enterprise Associates
Co-Founder
Facebook

Bob Metcalfe
Professor of Innovation
University of Texas at Austin

Oren Michels
Founder and CEO
Mashery

Ellen Miller
Executive Director
Sunlight Foundation

Geeta Nayyar, M.D.
Chief Medical Information Officer
AT&T for Health

Charlie O’Donnell
Partner
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

Tim O’Reilly
Founder and CEO
O’Reilly Media

Adam Ostrow
SVP Content & Executive Editor
Mashable

Arun Rajan

William Rice, MD
Senior Vice President for Clinical Innovation
St. David’s HealthCare / HCA Central West Texas Division

David Rose
CEO
Gust

Erick Schonfeld
Former Editor and Chief
TechCrunch

Chris Shipley
CEO
Guidewire Group

Maria Thomas
Founder
Axios Ventures
Former CEO
Etsy

Doug Ulman
President and CEO
LIVESTRONG

Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet
VP, Strategy and New Ventures, EMEA
Turner Broadcasting