Mena Trott is co-founder and president of Six Apart, the company behind the Movable Type publishing platform, TypePad weblogging service and, after an acquisition in January 2005, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals. Named one of Fast Company’s “Fast 50 for 2004″ and PC Magazine¹s “People of the Year” for 2004, Mena has been involved in the weblogging space since she began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences — having appeared at Supernova, AdTech, DEMO, Web 2.0 and The Wall Street Journal¹s “D: All Things Digital.” Mena can be found writing about weblogging and Six Apart at Mena¹s Corner.She lives in San Francisco with her husband and co-founder of Six Apart, Ben Trott.

Andrew is a Silicon Valley veteran with experience in two prior startups, including Wired Digital, a pioneering Internet news and media organization. Andrew was the co-founder and CEO of Wired Digital and built into it one of the 20 largest networks of Web sites with such properties as HotBot, Wired News, and HotWired. Prior to joining Six Apart, Andrew was a general partner with August Capital where he invested in such consumer internet companies as Tickle (recently purchased by Monster) and Listen.com (creators of Rhapsody, now owned by Real Networks). Andrew spent his early career as an investment banker focusing on the media, technology, and communications industries.