Matt Coffin of LowerMyBills
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matt-coffin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Coffin

Sky Dayton of Earthlink, Boingo, etc.
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sky-dayton

Bill Woodward of Anthem VP
http://www.anthemvp.com/?page=team&mod=detail&vid=1

If you know of anyone qualified and interested–from any city–do let me know!

Every week or so we announce a couple of more experts for the TechCrunch50.com conference. Today we’re announcing two amazing technology journalists–heck pundits–and one of the best up and coming startup founders in Web 2.0. Really thrilled that Digg founder Kevin Rose, CNET’s Editor in Chief Dan Farber, and the legendary Om Malik of GigaOm (previously Red Herring, Forbes, and Business 2.0) are joining us as well.

These three are joining the killer expert panel that already includes Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, Ron Conway, Chris DeWolf, Marissa Mayer, Sean Parker, Sheryl Sandberg, Yossi Vardi and Jeff Weiner.

Very exciting. If you haven’t bought a ticket they are available at the TechCrunch50 site. Note: buy your ticket now while it’s early bird $1,995. It jumps up to $2,995 regular price real soon.

Special thanks to our *partners* (they’re not sponsors, they’re really working partners as they are helping make this event happen):

Partners

Service Partners

From the TechCrunch.com announcement.

Kevin Rose is the founder and chief architect of Digg. Kevin started Digg in September 2004 as a personal project. His initial idea was to conduct a social experiment in how masses of users could control and promote news and other content on the Web, without external editorial control. After a very short time, he realized the power of his idea, as Digg was becoming a resource for breaking news stories and developed a strong user following. Kevin is also a co-founder of the Internet Television Network Revision3 where as a member of the board he provides strategic direction to the company. Crunchbase profile.

Dan Farber was named Editor-in-chief of CNET’s News.com in February 2008. Previously he was vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor in chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet’s worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused sites. Prior to joining ZDNet, Dan served as vice president and editor-in-chief at Ziff-Davis’ flagship computing news publications, PC Week and MacWeek. He was also a founding editor at MacWorld and part of the editorial staffs of PC World and PC Magazine. Crunchbase profile.

Om Malik has over 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. Most notably, he was a Writer at Red Herring during its glory days. He then went on to be part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a Senior Editor. Most recently, he was a Senior Writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Malik is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. He is the founder of Giga Omni Media, the company behind popular blogs such as GigaOM, NewTeeVee, WebWorkerDaily, Earth2Tech & OStatic. Crunchbase profile.

Stay up to date on TechCrunch50 at the conference blog.

The TechCrunch50 event is really heating up….

Today we’re thrilled to announce that Chris DeWolfe, Sean Parker and Jeff Weiner are joining our expert lineup. Three brilliant executives who’ve created and manage tens of billions of dollars in internet value are going to take a couple of days out of their lives to celebrate the birth of 50 new startup companies.

That’s what TechCrunch50 is about: entrepreneurs celebrating and supporting new companies, ideas, and executives.

Chris, Sean, and Jeff are all really brilliant, insightful guys who Mike and I have known for some time. They join the other announced TechCrunch50 judges: Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg and Yossi Vardi.

Very important that I also thank our partners for helping us build out the concept of the event, find us startup companies, plan the editorial for the event, and generally make it happen: Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Fenwick & West, Perkins Coie, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft t; visibility: visible; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -1158px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline;” class=”snap_preview_icon” id=”snap_com_shot_link_icon” alt=”" />.

I’m totally on cloud nine that in just our second year we’ve got a group of partners like that. If you want to be a partner in the event please ping me at jason at mahalo.com. We’re doing something really special here in supporting these 50 entrepreneurs… The 40 from last year have raised over 140m, and some of the companies are really killing it in their second year.

Standard Background from TechCrunch follows:

TechCrunch50 is our annual conference where fifty new startups will launch over three days. There will also be a number of topical panels and workshops. The event will be held at the San Francisco Design Center on September 8 – 10. More details on the conference can be found here.

There will be 24 experts in all, more will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for the event can be purchased here (early bird pricing is available until July 15). The submission process to launch your startup is here.

Where you be September 8th-10th!!!?!?!

	Chris DeWolfe Chris DeWolfe is the co-founder and chief executive officer of MySpace.com, the leading online lifestyle portal. DeWolfe, alongside co-founder and president, Tom Anderson, created a new platform for a generation to communicate and discover culture based around the self expression and connectivity of the site’s 110 million active users. As MySpace’s CEO, DeWolfe is responsible for all aspects of the site’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Along the way, DeWolfe has led strategic initiatives that have extended the site’s reach into a number of vertical categories – such as online video (MySpaceTV), politics (MySpace Impact), news, music and film – and at present a total of 29 international markets. Under DeWolfe’s leadership, MySpace has grown exponentially since its launch in 2004, with an average of 300,000 new users signing up daily. More than 70 million people in the U.S. visit the site each month, creating a user composition that includes politicians, bands, filmmakers, comedians, photographers, and people wanting to communicate with friends and plan their social lives. Crunchbase profile.
	Sean Parker Sean Parker is the co-founder and Chairman of Causes on Facebook and MySpace, a new network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on the Internet. Sean is also a Managing Partner at The Founders Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco . Previously, Sean was the co-founder of the category defining Web ventures Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. At Napster, Sean helped to design the Napster client software and led the company’s initial financing and strategy. Under Sean’s leadership, Napster became the fastest adopted client software application in history. Following Napster, Sean co-founded and served as President of Plaxo, where he pioneered the viral engineering techniques used to deploy Plaxo’s flagship smart address book product, ultimately acquiring more than 15 million users. In 2004, Sean left Plaxo to become the founding President of Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing sites on the Internet today. Sean sits on the boards of several private companies. Crunchbase profile.
	Jeff Weiner Jeff Weiner is the Executive Vice President of Yahoo!’s Network Division. Yahoo!’s global reach of over half a billion users worldwide serves as the foundation for the division’s objective to be the leading starting point on the Web for the most consumers. In his current role, Weiner oversees the company’s category leading consumer web products, including Yahoo.com and My Yahoo!; Communications and Community products including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, and Flickr; Search products including Yahoo! Web Search, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Local; and Media, including Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Entertainment properties. From 2002 to 2006, Weiner served as Senior Vice President overseeing the Yahoo! Search and Marketplaces division. Beginning in November 2005, Weiner added responsibilities for Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Small Business. Prior to Yahoo!, Weiner was the co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1994 to 2000, he worked at Warner Bros., where he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Bros. Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division. Crunchbase profile.

We’re really excited to have three of our most popular judges back at TechCrunch50 this year: Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, and Marissa Mayer. Last year folks raved about their insightful, honest, and constructive feedback. This year we’ve grown from 40 companies to 50, and we’ve grown from two days to three.

The plan is to have six sessions with four judges on each, for a total of 24 judges over the three days. Mike, Heather and I are struggling over each decision. We’re looking to rotate in some new judges, while bringing back some crowd favorites. It’s really a hard process, but not as hard as selecting the 50.

If you have ideas for judges or if you know companies that are launching a new product in the fall please do let me know!

More on our judges:

	Marc Andreessen Marc Andreessen is the co-founder of Ning, the create-your-own social network platform company that has raised over $100 million in funding. He also serves on the board of Open Media Network. Marc is best known as a co-founder and chief technical mind behind Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely- used web browser. Crunchbase profile.
	Roelof Botha Roelof Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital focused on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY) and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
	Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer is VP, Search Products & User Experience at Google. She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to 100+ languages and launching numerous features and products. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. Before Google, she worked at UBS research lab (Ubilab) and SRI International. Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek (“10 Tech Leaders of the Future”), Red Herring (“15 Women to Watch”), Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Fortune and Fast Company. Special thanks to our amazing sponsors!!