Ron Conway Biography

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Conway developed a reputation for throwing lavish cocktail parties and raising cash from a diverse group of celebrities sportspeople and political figures such as Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, and Shaquille O'Neal which he then ploughed into start-ups. Conway is active in community and philanthropic activities serving as Vice Chairman of UCSF Medical Foundation in San Francisco and also as co-chair of the Fight for Mike Homer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). He is on the development committees of UCLA St. Francis High School Sacred Heart Schools The UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco Packard Children's Hospital Legacy Ventures and Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.He is also on the Benefit Committee of the Tiger Woods Foundation. In January 2012 Conway helped establish a new tech organization initiative with Mayor Ed Lee and the City of San Francisco called sf citi to promote tech jobs in the community.

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