Auren Hoffman is CEO of Rapleaf.  Rapleaf helps companies learn more about their customers.  Rapleaf analyzes data on over 400 million consumers worldwide.  

Auren is also a non-employee cofounder of BrightRoll and serves on boards of AdRocket and Retargeter.com. 

He was formerly Chair of Stonebrick Group and the Connector Group.  Previously, he founded and sold three Internet companies before age 30: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold in 1997), and GetRelevant (sold in 2002).   He is the founder of the Dialog Retreat.  He’s an active angel investor or advisor in: Aardvark, AdCopy, BeatLab, Blip.TV, Chomp, Crave, CrowdFlower, Delicious Brands, Euclid, Factual, Flowtown, GoodRec, Grouply, Huddler, Klout, Kontagent, LabPixies, Lefora, Logik Systems, Meebo, MesmoTV, Offbeat Guides, OtherInbox, Playlist, Play Megaphone, Playtaki, Proclivity Systems, RichRelevance, Sharethrough, Structural Wealth Management, Thread.com, Thumbtack, VoxPop.tv, Zoom Systems, and more.   Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation (http://blog.summation.net).