An Experiment Update: We have a winner

Thanks for all the emails in response to my experiment.  We have a winner: Andy Dale of ootao.com.  With a company name like that, he was already on my "interesting people" list but he also got this glorious referral from Eugene Eric Kim:

For the past few years, I've been
working with a group called Identity Commons
(http://www.idcommons.net/), which is driving the development of a
social and technical infrastructure where individuals control their
digital identities -- all of their personal profile information
floating around the Internet.  The tools are built on top of OASIS
standards (XRI and XDI), and there are a bunch of great people
involved, including some important players in the identity space.
It's an interesting mix of grassroots and corporate folks.

Andy has been one of the key technical players for the past year.  His
company, ooTao, has developed the first implementation of the XDI data
sharing infrastructure, which is in and of itself quite interesting.
More importantly, Andy's a good guy and an excellent
conversationalist, so I think you'd enjoy meeting him"

Eric thanks much for the referral (the irony that I am still using a referral to set up this lunch is a separate matter).  Andy thanks for agreeing to have lunch with me.

Next date for lunch with Venky is May 26th 12:00 PM in Palo Alto