Kevin Hartz is co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite.com, the leading online event registration service. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, a money transfer company providing service throughout Latin America and the world, whose investors include Sequoia Capital, NEA and Stanford University. Prior to Xoom he co-founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry, which was acquired by Lodgenet in 1998.

Hartz, an alumnus of Stanford and Oxford Universities, has been an early-stage investor and advisor to startups such as PayPal, Geni.com, Friendster, Flixster.com and Trulia.