In late 1999, Patrick M. Byrne launched Overstock.com. Since then it has grown into a $2 billion fixture of the ecommerce marketplace. In 2011, Ernst & Young gave Byrne its National Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2014, Overstock.com was one of the Most Trustworthy Companies in America as named by Forbes/MSCI ESG Research. In 2010, Forbes magazine named Overstock.com the No. 9 Best Company to Work for in the Country, and Byrne the CEO with the highest employee approval rating (92%).

A "classical liberal," Byrne believes that our nation's success depends on educational choice and healthy capital markets. Since Milton Friedman's passing in 2006, Byrne has served as chairman of EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice), an organization leading the national push for school choice. Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen-journalist campaign focusing on capital market mischief (settlement system failures), systemic risk, regulatory capture, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign elements. His stance caught the attention of Wall Street analysts and reporters, becoming a point of high controversy until the crash of 2008, occasioned by many of the things of which Byrne had warned. Byrne's website [link href='http://www.deepcapture.com/' text='DeepCapture.com'] subsequently received much recognition, such as Weblogs Award "Best Business Blog" (2008), Business Pundit's "Best Business Investigative Journalism" (2009), and Xmark's "Top Site on Corruption in the USA" (2010).

In 2012, Byrne's pro-freedom political orientation led him to challenge Overstock to become the first business with more than $1 million in revenue to accept bitcoin as a payment method. Using the familiarity gained with the blockchain technology from this venture, Byrne created Medici Ventures, a subsidiary within Overstock.com devoted to advancing blockchain-based technology solutions. In 2015, Byrne used a blockchain-based trading platform built by Medici's portfolio company, tZERO.com, to become the first person to purchase a digital bond entirely on the blockchain. Byrne made history again in 2016, when Overstock was the first public company to offer preferred shares of a cryptosecurity on an SEC compliant and FINRA-approved alternative trading system (ATS). Today, Overstock accepts dozens of top cryptocurrencies as payment on its retail website, and through Medici, remains a leading force in advancing blockchain technology in an attempt to democratize capital, eliminate middlemen, and re-humanize commerce.

Byrne received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and Asian studies from Dartmouth College, a master's in philosophy from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University. Having taught at the university level, he is a frequent guest lecturer discussing blockchain, capital markets, Wall Street practices, internet commerce, education, leadership and ethics.

Jonathan Johnson is president of Medici Ventures, Overstock's subsidiary that oversees a portfolio of blockchain technology and fintech businesses, which include tZERO, and investments in Bitt.com, PeerNova, ripio, factom, SettleMint, IdentityMind SpeedRoute, FusionIQ, Blue Ocean, Spera, and Symbiont. In this role, Johnson is responsible for continuing Medici Ventures' efforts to pioneer growth and innovation in applying the blockchain to financial systems and beyond.

Under Johnson's leadership, Medici Ventures has invested in several cutting-edge blockchain technology firms, successfully completed the world's first blockchain-based stock offering on its tZERO platform, and was a featured presenter at the Monetary Authority of Singapore's prestigious Global FinTech Hackcelerator.

Johnson is also a member of Overstock.com's board of directors, and served as the chairman of Overstock's board of directors from 2014 to 2017, transitioning to the position after five years as the company's president, and later, as the acting CEO and executive vice chairman of the board. Johnson joined Overstock in 2002 as the company's general counsel, and has held various business and legal-related positions within the company prior to becoming president. He has been an integral part of Overstock's meteoric growth from a small start-up to a publicly traded company with over $1.8 billion in sales and over 1,700 employees.

Prior to joining Overstock, Johnson was with TenFold Corporation in various positions, including CFO and general counsel. Before that, he practiced corporate law in Los Angeles with two international law firms. He also served as a judicial clerk at the Utah Supreme Court. Johnson received a Bachelor's Degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University, studied at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan as a Ministry of Education Scholar, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

As Overstock.com’s Chief Algorithms Officer, Dr. Kamelia Aryafar leads the company’s machine learning, data science, data engineering and analytics functions across the marketing, customer, sourcing, and website verticals. Since joining Overstock.com in 2017, Dr. Aryafar’s teams have integrated state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms across various product teams, including personalization, pricing, ranking, search, recommender systems, marketing, CRM, advertising technologies, email, sourcing and supply chain.

Aryafar transitioned from academia to the industry as a senior machine learning scientist and lead at Etsy in 2013, where she worked with different product teams across several platforms to integrate machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms throughout the organization. This work allowed her to apply the latest technology in the realm of e-commerce.

Dr. Aryafar holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer science and machine learning from Drexel University and has published several papers in scientific journals. As an active member of the machine learning community, she frequently speaks at academic and industry conferences focusing on advancing the field of artificial intelligence.

As Overstock.com’s Chief Technology Officer, Nate Auwerda leads all technology functions across the company while integrating with the customer, marketing, digital experience, and sourcing & operations teams.

In his previous role as Vice President of Technology, Auwerda was responsible for ensuring the speed and security of Overstock’s retail website while providing the best possible customer experience to its over 30 million unique monthly visitors. He also oversaw all the technological and corporate, development infrastructure and environments, the code pipeline to production, and the migration of Overstock’s systems to a cloud-based environment.

Auwerda grew his knowledge of internal and external technological systems in roles within the computer software and health care industries. He was also a major contributor to the technological backbones of a CIA-funded language analytics startup and the first wireless high-speed internet provider in his home state of Utah.

He first joined Overstock.com in 2004 as a member of the website engineering team and has since held several roles during his tenure at the e-commerce leader, including supervising network engineering and website production teams, launching the e-commerce leader’s first internal security team, and helping the website to become PCI compliant.

Under Auwerda’s leadership, Overstock.com has seen consistent uptime percentages of at least 99.995%, and the company’s Openstack self-service hybrid cloud was named runner-up to the CERN Supercollider for the Openstack Super-User award in 2014.

Catherine Borda is Overstock’s Chief Customer Officer, responsible for all customer-facing aspects of the retail experience from inspiration to post-delivery needs. Borda oversees the company’s Customer Care, Consumer Insights, Brand Strategy, Club O Loyalty program, and CRM teams, as well as any other customer-facing technology, strategy, product, or experiences.

Prior to joining Overstock, Borda spent six years at AT&T leading various customer-focused leadership positions from launching AT&T’s loyalty program, leading millennial marketing, proactive retention to culminating with her role as the Assistant Vice President of Audience Strategy and Planning. From 2008 to 2012, Borda held various roles at Georgia-Pacific LLC ultimately leading the company’s flagship $1B+ brand where she led brand strategy, marketing, advertising, promotional development activities, innovation, consumer insights and public relations efforts. Borda began her marketing career at PepsiCo where she led cross-functional and agency teams in portfolio alignment.

Borda received an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Rutgers University and a Master of Business Administration from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Borda is a Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellow.

Sumit Goyal is the Chief Digital Officer at Overstock.com, leading the company’s engineers and product managers in the development of all new website and mobile features.

Since starting at Overstock in 2011 as a senior software developer, Goyal has held many positions in technology and software development, including his previous position as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. In these roles, he gained extensive experience in strategic team leadership, hiring top talent, application development, software platforms, APIs, and system architecture.

Before joining Overstock.com, Goyal held software engineering and programmer positions at eHarmony.com, eBay, Goldman Sachs, and IBM. He has over 13 years of demonstrated success in developing and executing roadmaps for creating innovating mobile and web e-commerce solutions.

Goyal received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra.

Greg Iverson joined Overstock.com as Chief Financial Officer in April 2018. In this role, he oversees all financial-related matters, including accounting, tax, treasury, financial reporting, FP&A, and internal audit, and legal.

Prior to joining Overstock.com, Iverson was CFO of Apollo Education Group, Inc. (AEG), a global private-sector education company. He was instrumental in the acquisition of AEG by Apollo Global Management, LLC and The Vistria Group, LLC in February 2017, in which the company was also taken private in a $1.1B transaction. Following the acquisition, he was responsible for AEG's transition from a public to private company, including achieving post-acquisition cost synergies and rationalizing AEG's business portfolio.

Iverson brings more than 20 years of financial, operational, and merger, acquisition and divestiture experience. Iverson held several roles at AEG prior to being named CFO, and was also formerly Director, Financial Reporting at US Airways Group, Inc. (subsequently acquired by American Airlines), and began his career in the audit and advisory practices of Arthur Andersen, LLP and Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Greg graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in business from the University of Idaho and is a Certified Public Accountant.

As Overstock.com’s Chief Marketing Officer, J.P. Knab is responsible for the company's digital and traditional marketing strategies and implementation.

Knab started at Overstock in 2005 in analytics and quickly proceeded to be named the director of analytics, where he built out the pricing, forecasting, and merchandising analytics groups, resulting in his promotion to director of merchandising. After leading his categories to over 100% revenue growth, he joined the marketing team as vice president in 2012. In this role, he led the company's search, email, affiliate, direct mail, content, online promotional, site offer, and page optimization marketing strategies.

During this time, Overstock embarked on one of the most consistent revenue and net income growth periods in its history and created 17 profitable quarters of growth in the last six years. In 2016, Knab was named senior vice president of the marketing department before being appointed Chief Marketing Officer in 2018.

Prior to joining Overstock.com, Knab worked at contacts.com where he led their CRM efforts. He has 17 years of experience in e-commerce and he received both his undergraduate degree and MBA from Brigham Young University.

Carter Lee, Overstock's Chief Administrative Officer, is responsible for the IT administration of corporate systems, the security of Overstock's various systems and websites, and its human resource and facilities functions, including the corporate headquarters, Peace Coliseum.

Lee began his career with Overstock in 2001 as a systems administrator in the IT department and was promoted to director of internal systems before being appointed vice president of technology. During his time in these positions, Lee played a key role in implementing and maintaining solutions for the corporate offices, including its customer care and fulfillment centers. He was named Overstock’s senior vice president of Technology in 2015 and later as senior vice president of Technology & People Care in 2016. He was appointed its Chief Administrative Officer in 2018.

Prior to joining Overstock.com, Lee was a systems engineer for Hospice of the Valley. He was also a founder and vice president of Motherboard Discount Center, a computer hardware supplier in Phoenix, Arizona.

Seth Moore currently serves as Overstock.com's Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing emerging businesses and exploring strategic directions for the company while also directing the efforts of its business technology incubator, OLabs.

Moore first joined Overstock.com in 2006 as a member of the web analytics team. After a few years in that department, he was named director of customer relationship management, and then held a director role on the analytics architecture team before transitioning to the Marketing department. Moore was made director of Overstock’s email, SEO, and marketing analytics groups. After a stint as senior director of website marketing and web analytics, Moore was appointed vice president of website marketing. Capitalizing on his strong analytics background, he was later named vice president of analytics and business intelligence. He was named vice president of OLabs in 2015, and was appointed senior vice president of strategy and Chief of Staff to the CEO in 2017 before assuming his current position in 2018.

Moore received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and previously served as committee staff for the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Dave Nielsen is Overstock’s Chief Sourcing and Operations Officer, responsible for overseeing the sourcing, merchandising, partner care, and supply chain teams for the global online home goods leader. Nielsen previously spent six years with Overstock.com, rising to the position of co-president and leading the company’s marketing, merchandising, and supply chain operations. He left Overstock to assume the role of CEO at Global Access, a leading global provider of logistics technology and cross border expertise for brands looking to provide a consistent and trusted shopping experience to both domestic and international customers.

Nielsen also held several leadership positions with Payless ShoeSource, Inc., eventually rising to the role of vice president of merchandise allocation, where he was responsible for the assortment planning and allocation of merchandise across 4,500 stores in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Additionally, Nielsen served as president and CEO of Old Town Imports, LLC, where he created a product development, sourcing and omni-channel supply chain organization that sourced product to clients such as Costco, Target and regional restaurant and catering companies.

Nielsen received his bachelor’s Degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing from Brigham Young University.

Allison Abraham was appointed chair of Overstock's board of directors in 2017, and has served as a director on the board since 2002. She is a member of the compensation committee and nominating & corporate governance committee, and is the chairwoman of the audit committee.

Abraham is currently the president and founder of The Newton School, a private, non-profit school serving grades K-8, located in Sterling, Virginia. Prior to this role, Abraham managed her own consulting business, served as a director of privately held Precision Imaging, Inc., and was president and director of LifeMinders, Inc., an online direct marketing company, until its acquisition by Cross Media Marketing Corp. in October 2001. Before joining LifeMinders, she served as chief operating officer of iVillage Inc., an online media company, and as president, COO and director of Shoppers Express, an online grocery service.

Abraham holds a MBA degree from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tufts University.

In late 1999, Patrick M. Byrne launched Overstock.com. Since then it has grown into a $2 billion fixture of the ecommerce marketplace. In 2011, Ernst & Young gave Byrne its National Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2014, Overstock.com was one of the Most Trustworthy Companies in America as named by Forbes/MSCI ESG Research. In 2010, Forbes magazine named Overstock.com the No. 9 Best Company to Work for in the Country, and Byrne the CEO with the highest employee approval rating (92%).

A "classical liberal," Byrne believes that our nation's success depends on educational choice and healthy capital markets. Since Milton Friedman's passing in 2006, Byrne has served as chairman of EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice), an organization leading the national push for school choice. Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen-journalist campaign focusing on capital market mischief (settlement system failures), systemic risk, regulatory capture, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign elements. His stance caught the attention of Wall Street analysts and reporters, becoming a point of high controversy until the crash of 2008, occasioned by many of the things of which Byrne had warned. Byrne's website [link href='http://www.deepcapture.com/' text='DeepCapture.com']subsequently received much recognition, such as Weblogs Award "Best Business Blog" (2008), Business Pundit's "Best Business Investigative Journalism" (2009), and Xmark's "Top Site on Corruption in the USA" (2010).

In 2012, Byrne's pro-freedom political orientation led him to challenge Overstock to become the first business with more than $1 million in revenue to accept bitcoin as a payment method. Using the familiarity gained with the blockchain technology from this venture, Byrne created Medici Ventures, a subsidiary within Overstock.com devoted to advancing blockchain-based technology solutions. In 2015, Byrne used a blockchain-based trading platform built by Medici's portfolio company, tZERO.com, to become the first person to purchase a digital bond entirely on the blockchain. Byrne made history again in 2016, when Overstock was the first public company to offer preferred shares of a cryptosecurity on an SEC compliant and FINRA-approved alternative trading system (ATS). Today, Overstock accepts dozens of top cryptocurrencies as payment on its retail website, and through Medici, remains a leading force in advancing blockchain technology in an attempt to democratize capital, eliminate middlemen, and re-humanize commerce.

Byrne received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and Asian studies from Dartmouth College, a master's in philosophy from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University. Having taught at the university level, he is a frequent guest lecturer discussing blockchain, capital markets, Wall Street practices, internet commerce, education, leadership and ethics.

Mr. Barclay F. Corbus has served as a Director of Overstock since March 2007. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee, and is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Corbus has served as Senior Vice President of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a provider of vehicular natural gas, with responsibility for strategic development, since September 2007. He served as Co-CEO of WR Hambrecht + Co., an investment banking firm, from July 2004 to September 2007, and prior to that date served in other executive positions with WR Hambrecht + Co. Prior to joining WR Hambrecht + Co in March 1999, Mr. Corbus was in the investment banking group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Mr. Corbus graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government and has a Master's Degree of Business Administration in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Jonathan Johnson is president of Medici Ventures, Overstock's subsidiary that oversees a portfolio of blockchain technology and fintech businesses, which include tZERO, and investments in Bitt.com, PeerNova, ripio, factom, SettleMint, IdentityMind SpeedRoute, FusionIQ, Blue Ocean, Spera, and Symbiont. In this role, Johnson is responsible for continuing Medici Ventures' efforts to pioneer growth and innovation in applying the blockchain to financial systems and beyond.

Under Johnson's leadership, Medici Ventures has invested in several cutting-edge blockchain technology firms, successfully completed the world's first blockchain-based stock offering on its tZERO platform, and was a featured presenter at the Monetary Authority of Singapore's prestigious Global FinTech Hackcelerator.

Johnson is also a member of Overstock.com's board of directors, and served as the chairman of Overstock's board of directors from 2014 to 2017, transitioning to the position after five years as the company's president, and later, as the acting CEO and executive vice chairman of the board. Johnson joined Overstock in 2002 as the company's general counsel, and has held various business and legal-related positions within the company prior to becoming president. He has been an integral part of Overstock's meteoric growth from a small start-up to a publicly traded company with over $1.8 billion in sales and over 1,700 employees.

Prior to joining Overstock, Johnson was with TenFold Corporation in various positions, including CFO and general counsel. Before that, he practiced corporate law in Los Angeles with two international law firms. He also served as a judicial clerk at the Utah Supreme Court. Johnson received a Bachelor's Degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University, studied at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan as a Ministry of Education Scholar, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

Dr. Kirthi Kalyanam was named to the Overstock.com Board of Directors in February of 2015. Currently the J.C. Penney research professor and director of the Retail Management Institute at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, Dr. Kalyanam has previously served as faculty director of the Executive MBA program, a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, guest faculty in the Stanford Executive MMP program, and senior vice president and chief marketing officer of SpinCircuit Inc. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. Dr. Kalyanam's areas of expertise include Internet Marketing, Customer Centric Retailing, Multi-Channel Marketing and Database Marketing.

Saum Noursalehi is the CEO of tZERO, a global leader in the development and commercialization of blockchain-based financial technology. As CEO, Noursalehi's focus is on accelerating the implementation of tZERO's fintech products, including its Security Token Trading and Digital Locate Receipt platforms, as well as the creation of the industry's first regulated Security Token exchange.

Prior to this role, Noursalehi served as president of Overstock's retail business, where he leveraged data and technology to provide customers the best price, assortment, and convenience in the rapidly expanding home goods category. Noursalehi is also a member of Overstock's Board of Directors, to which he was elected in 2017.

During his tenure as Overstock's president, Noursalehi led the introduction of machine learning and artificial intelligence to create market-leading efficiencies while also providing customers with a personalized shopping experience.

Noursalehi has also been responsible for the creation of several other core technologies for Overstock since joining the company in 2005. These advancements include in-house search and recommendation engines, product sort algorithms, and a vendor application designed to optimize product content. He also spearheaded the implementation of automated email campaigns based on customer behavior. Additionally, he led a full redesign of both the desktop and mobile websites, and oversaw the development of Overstock's mobile apps, which have won six consecutive Mobile Web Awards from the Web Marketing Association, as well as the 2018 Appy for Best Retail App.

Before joining Overstock, Noursalehi worked as a software engineer at the Utah Administrative Office of the Courts, Brooks Automation, and technology startup Infopia. Noursalehi received a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah, has been profiled in publications such as Wired, and was a recipient of the 2015 Utah Business Forty Under 40 award honoring Utah's top up-and-coming professionals.

Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. has served as a Director of Overstock since June 2007. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee, and is the Chairman of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. Tabacco is the founding partner of the San Francisco office of Berman DeValerio, a law firm that prosecutes class actions nationwide on behalf of institutions and individuals, mostly victims of antitrust and securities law violations.

A 1974 honors graduate of the George Washington University School of Law, Tabacco has actively litigated antitrust, securities fraud, commercial high tech, and intellectual property matters since the 1970s. Since entering private practice in the 1980s, after a six year stint as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Tabacco has served as trial or lead counsel in numerous antitrust and securities cases nationally. Tabacco and his firm represent numerous public pension fund and private institutional clients nationally and have successfully prosecuted cases resulting in the recovery of billions of dollars for defrauded investors and businesses.