Our speaker for July will be Geoff Ralston, CEO of Lala Media, and formerly Chief Product Officer at Yahoo. Geoff will be speaking about “Selling in the Age of Free”.
Geoff Ralston is the CEO of Lala, a music startup in Palo Alto. He is also an investor, board member, and advisor to several companies. Geoff worked at Yahoo from 1997-2006 after the 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp where he was VP Engineering and led the creation of RocketMail (which became Yahoo Mail after the acquisition). At Yahoo Geoff was SVP and General Manager of the Communications Business Unit, and then served as Chief Product Officer from 2003-2005. Prior to Four11, Geoff was the creator of the popular LookUP! Internet white pages and do-it-yourself home page service.
Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from INSEAD. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife and three children.
