Melanie Swan, MBA
Melanie Swan, MBA is
the principal of
MS Futures Group, and is a futurist and hedge fund
manager
based in Silicon Valley.
Her educational background includes an MBA in Finance and
Accounting from the
Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, a BA in
French and Economics from
Georgetown University
and recent coursework in physics and computer science.
Melanie’s career has focused on finance, research,
and entrepreneurship, including founding a technology startup company,
GroupPurchase, which aggregated small business buying groups.
She was Director of Research at Telecoms Consultancy
RHK/Ovum and previously held
management and finance positions at
iPass in Silicon Valley,
J.P. Morgan in New York,
Fidelity in Boston and
Arthur
Andersen in Los Angeles.
She has served as an advisor and consultant to several technology
companies and is active in
the community promoting science, technology and opportunities for
women.
She delivers the Traders Pit simulation to groups including the
Expanding Your Horizons
math and science conference,
is the former Treasurer of San Francisco-based non-profit
Equal Rights Advocates, an
Advisory Board member of the
Accelerating Studies
Foundation and co-moderator of the
Philadelphia
and
Boulder
Future Salons,
free monthly events discussing science and technology innovations and
their implications.
Melanie authored
Markets 2.0: Social Finance. Affinity Capital,
AIs let humans live over math problem,
Improving science innovation,
Alt approaches to AGI,
End of religion,
Cryonics and the art of the long view,
Radical Life Extension and Population Growth,
Wikinomics Ideagoras,
This is a Transparent Society,
Do bits want to be free?,
Pace of Encephalization,
Optimum size for intelligence,
Historical Simulation Ethical Issues,
Sims Sponsor Technological Advancement, and
Postmodern Physics and Manifold Destiny.
She is cofounder of
Sand Hill Angels. Read her
blog!
Watch her interview with
Imagining the Internet: Elon University/Pew Internet Project.