Lylan Masterman is a General Partner at White Star Capital, leading the US office. He has led technology teams as a software engineer and product manager since 2001. He led big data, rich media advertising platform, targeting product, and user experience and internationalization at the Atlas division of aQuantive, which was acquired by Microsoft for $6.2 billion. He has also led product organizations for four early-stage companies, worked as an engineer on WebTV at Microsoft, a technology evangelist at Microsoft Research, and a member of the product team for the first version of VisualStudio .NET.