Dea Wilson

Founder, Lifograph

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Dea Wilson is the Founder of Lifograph, "The Wiki of People" - a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M connections, matching people and companies based on their needs, skills, interests, and real-life relationships. Ms. Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director at Silicon Valley Incubator. She is also an Angel Investor at the Wharton Alumni Angels and Tech Angels, her investment interest being in consumer, mobile, and SaaS startups. Ms. Wilson is also a big supporter of female founders and investors and currently leads a community of almost 1,000 women leaders and entrepreneurs. A big car racing fan, she is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Ferrari Club of America, Pacific Region.

As an Executive Director at The VC Network and LifographTV, Ms. Wilson interviews many prominent VCs, angels, executives and founders in Silicon Valley and tech. Earlier in her career she worked at two Fortune 100 companies, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Wilson earned a Master's degree from University of Washington on a full scholarship, and an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania), majoring in entrepreneurship.