17 Facts About Julie Hanna

Julie Hanna was born on August 5,1965 and is an Egyptian-born technologist, entrepreneur, investor and board director.

Julie Hanna serves as Executive Chair of the Board of Kiva.

Julie Hanna is Special Advisor to X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory and Venture Partner at Obvious Ventures.

Julie Hanna is a former board member of the Esalen Institute and Mozilla Corporation and a founding executive of five Silicon Valley technology companies.

Julie Hanna immigrated to the United States with her family in 1972, originally to New York, eventually settling in Springville, Alabama.

Julie Hanna played Little League baseball in the wake of the passage of Title IX, becoming one of the first girls to break the gender barrier in sports.

In 1992 Julie Hanna worked at Lotus Development in Mountain View, Calif.

Julie Hanna joined Silicon Graphics to develop the first web-oriented product line for businesses in 1995 and then was recruited the following year with a group of SGI employees to help James Clark build Healtheon, setting out to build an internet company that would revolutionize healthcare.

Julie Hanna became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Mayfield Fund venture firm in 2001 and then founded Scalix, an early commercial open source electronic mail and calendaring software company where she served as chief executive until 2004.

Julie Hanna has served on the board of directors of Esalen, Mozilla Corporation and Socialtext.

Julie Hanna serves as special advisor to X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory and is Venture Partner at Obvious Ventures.

Julie Hanna has been an early investor in several high growth technology companies, including Lyft, Lending Club, Bonobos, and Return Path.

In recognition of her vision and global impact on economic and social progress, Julie Hanna was named the United States Woman Icon of APEC and is a recipient of the 2016 Global Empowerment Award.

Julie Hanna served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Response.

Julie Hanna is a frequent speaker and advocate for global entrepreneurship on purpose-driven profit and the democratizing potential of technology to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

Julie Hanna is co-author, with Reid Hoffman, of "The World's Bank: How Crowdfunding is Disrupting Old Banking", an essay proposing that citizen lending and crowdfunding are transforming traditional banking.

Julie Hanna has been a speaker at TEDx where she spoke candidly about her experience as a war survivor, refugee and immigrant and how this has shaped her life's work and mission to harness the democratizing power of technology in enabling a more just, free and abundant world.