Chris Lunt's Candidacy for one of the open Steering seats

[Chris Lunt]

As per J. Trent's suggestion, here's a little about me and my
candidacy:

I met Chris Saad when he pitched Venrock in 2008 for Faraday Media (I
was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venrock at the time). I was very
interested in his perspective, particularly because my prior company
was in the life-capture business and I was sensitized to data
ownership issues. He and I stayed in touch, and earlier this year I
decided that I needed to help the DP effort. I volunteered to help
Chris put together some DP marketing material when he got back to the
U.S., and around that time, the seat opened up on the Steering
committee. I asked him if I should pursue the open seat and he
encouraged me. I've been auditing the Steering committee call for a
couple of weeks and I feel I have something to offer, in part from the
perspective I've gained from working inside a Venture Capital office
(where the next generation of companies are getting incubated), in
part from my own experience (6 startups, 3 times as co-founder).

I am the currently the CEO of Nombray.com, a startup seed-funded by
Venrock. Nombray is a company dedicated to the long term control and
presentation of personal data on the web, and thus has a vested
interest in the success of the Data Portability movement. In the past
I was the VP Engineering at OurStory, a website built to collect and
preserve personal and family history; the Director of Engineering at
Friendster; the COO of Zengine, a software-as-a-service ecommerce
provider (IPO in 2000); an Engineering Lead at Excite, where I built
the ontology and content management systems; and an engineer at
Oracle. I am co-inventor on three social networking patents (this is
in no way an endorsement of the Patent system, which I feel is deeply
flawed).

Thank you for your consideration. Questions are welcome.

More information here: http://chrislunt.com