These tech mavens just missed making our list this year, but we thought their accomplishments deserved an honorable mention. Look for these names to crack the top 100 in 2009…
Andrew Baron, Creator and Founder, Rocketboom
Jonathan Butler, Creator, Brownstoner
Charles Crockett, Founding Partner Ascend Ventures Group
Jeff Dachis, CEO-in-Residence, Austin Ventures, and former Razorfish CEO
Shana Fisher, Senior VP of M&A, IAC
Diane Galligan, Executive Producer, Yahoo! TechTicker
Jason Goldberg, Co-founder, socialmedian
Howard Greenstein, Former CEO and Exec. Director, Social Media Club and President, The Harbrooke Group, Inc.
Brooke Hammerling, Founder, Brew Media Relations
Amish Jani, Founder and Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
Mo Koyfman, Principal, Spark Capital, and Former COO, Connected Ventures
Steven Krein, Unity Stoakes, Co-Founders, and Dan Feldman, VP, Organized Wisdom
Mike Lazerow, CEO, Buddy Media
Sam Lessin, Co-founder, Drop.io
Brian O'Kelley, CEO, AppNexus, and ex-CTO, Right Wing Media
Doug Perlson, CEO, TargetSpot
Bre Pettis, New Media Producer
Melek Pulatkonak, COO, Hakia
Ian Schafer, Founder and CEO, Deep Focus
Brian Stelter, Media Reporter, New York Times and Former blogger for TVNewser.com
Rachel Sterne, CEO, GroundReport
Aaron Task, Host, Yahoo! TechTicker
