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New York City Metropolitan Area

Working closely with Michael Loeb, Rich Vogel and the Loeb portfolio of start-up CEOs as we build newcos and invest in extraordinary companies and funds addressing many of the world's most persistent challenges and inequities. Loeb.nyc is the family office investment and venture studio of Michael Loeb and Rich Vogel. The principals of Loeb Enterprises have created five unicorns to date, with a current portfolio of 25+ active companies ranging in value from pre-seed to pre-IPO.

London, England, United Kingdom

Valsys is an AI SaaS platform giving investment professionals the ability to make data-driven decisions in valuation and estimation processes. Valsys provides a robust system of record for valuations, replacing Excel, minimizing human error, bias and providing a long term, trusted environment where accurate models can be built, shared, and back-tested. We augment our users' industry knowledge with the deep insights offered by machine learning and big data to transform one of the foundational elements of the financial services industry.

San Francisco, California, United States

CrowdSmart helps organizations reduce risk and make smarter decisions by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence.CrowdSmart's cloud service enables any manager in an organization to bring their group of people together with AI to co-create solutions to any challenge. Contributors may include members of a team or community, partners, customers and guest experts. CrowdSmart scales easily from tens to hundreds of thousands of contributors.CrowdSmart’s AI surfaces diverse perspectives from contributors, reduces bias, identifies critical insights and risks, and helps any group self-refine their collective perspectives into clear recommendations for strategies, products or plans. CrowdSmart is patented and powerful software that is easy for anyone to set up and use in < 15 minutes without specialized skills or analyst support.With CrowdSmart, any organization can broadly and continually improve their ability to come together and solve challenges, get better together over time and build institutional knowledge for long-term competitive advantage.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Working at the frontier of venture investing, product & services innovation, and new technologies to create improved ROI / EPS.Worked with a large asset manager specialized in using technology and tech enabled services to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns from what has historically been a large but difficult to access 'non-institutional' market sector. Working 'on point' with this talented team of thought leaders to further define and expand the collection and use of data, transition from balance sheet investing to raise and launch a venture fund, and formalize and broaden an innovation ecosystem. Developed a digital transformation strategy for a global consulting firm to improve agility, profitability and increase revenue of a services division. Restructured a significant segment of the business to incorporate leading practices & technologies across the US, Asia and Europe. Provided updates to overall corporate strategy, transformations in team leadership, development of new solutions and services, identification and mapping of technologies to the operating model, new pricing models and new GTM strategies. This specific client focuses on solutions for real estate asset management and owner-operators; working across commercial, residential, and multi-family sectors. Additional recent projects include strategies for corporate venture capital and corporate development M&A, fund exploration and formation, definition and management of an innovation index, development of an Innovation Ecosystem with internal stakeholders, business partners and industry associations, IP definition and protection, technology commercialization, investment operations solutions for a family office, and creation of a corporate digital strategy to update GTM and revenue development post-pandemic.

San Francisco, California, United States

Veritas Investments, Inc. is a real estate management company that specializes in operating mixed-use multifamily and retail properties. Veritas offers investors the advantages of a vertically integrated platform that includes property acquisitions, finance, asset management and reporting, project management, leasing, property management, redevelopment, and sustainability management.

Redwood City, Ca

Greater New York City Area

Recruited as the first leader of GIC’s 'third horizon' innovation team, Kepler Capital Fi Pte Ltd. Kepler was created to develop and deploy innovative solutions that support and transform the business of global asset management at scale. Reported to the CEO & COO of GIC. Commuted from SF Bay Area to NYC and Singapore for the first year to build the organization.Responsibilities included leadership through innovation, ideation and strategy with a focus on research, pilot projects, deep engagement and investment in core technologies. Areas of interest include data discovery, alt data, data aggregation, data management and analytics, natural language processing (NLP), crowd sourcing, forecasting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain, and Institutional Capital Markets FinTech or InvestTech. Our work addressed all relevant asset classes, including public equities, private equity, fixed income, commercial and residential real estate.Supported strategies included the creation of new technology solutions and companies, structuring new investments and partnerships, identifying and investing in start-ups, investments as a GP or LP in new or existing tech-enabled funds, formation of joint ventures, creation of global marketplaces, acquisition of companies and technology assets, and engagement with academia for applied research.GIC is the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Singapore, with 1,400 employees managing well over $100B in assets. Offices in Singapore, New York City, San Francisco, London, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, and São Paulo.

San Mateo, California

· $500MM+ AUM. Responsible for sourcing and managing new technology investments at all stages of the investment cycle. Lead or co-lead investor. Established the Fund’s first office in Silicon Valley. Top tier investment return track record. · Built a portfolio of diverse investments including pioneering companies in data analytics, machine learning, SaaS, cloud computing, networking, financial services (FinTech), e-commerce, telecommunications, VoIP & unified communications, internet of things (IoT), digital life, and smart home technologies. Represented the fund on Board of Directors, Chairmanship of BOD sub-committees, in-depth support work with company founders, and leadership in follow-on investments. · Supported and advised Palomar's portfolio company CEOs. Skilled in building management teams, sales, marketing, and product strategies, recruiting and retaining talent, and M&A corporate development strategies. Broad network of industry executive and investment contacts. · Monitored the fund’s resources for optimal financial performance, cash and reserve planning, audit and compliance duties, management of LP relationships. Provided mentoring and coaching for junior Partners and Associates.

Santa Clara, California

Sector: Network Function Virtualization, Unified Communications. Sourced the deal and co-led the initial round of venture capital investment and all future rounds. Board lead on key recruiting initiatives and Compensation Committee.Edgewater Networks Intelligent Edge™ hybrid cloud solutions ensure the secure and reliable delivery of IP based voice, video and data for service providers and enterprises. Edgewater was acquired by Ribbon Communications (NASDAQ: RBBN) in August, 2018. At the time of the acquisition, Edgewater Networks had 635,000+ actively deployed edge devices and 20 million+ connected endpoints. Venture Co-investors: El Dorado Ventures (Tom Peterson), Freescale (now NXP).

San Francisco, California

Sector: Internet of Things (IoT), E-commerce & "Ultra Small Box" Retail. Sourced and co-led initial venture investment. Served on Compensation & Audit Committees. Utique was an early revolutionary player in the convergence of IoT and Retail. Utique's pioneering team designed a series of elegant 'smart vending' machines (built by Flextronics). They designed the software that managed the transaction process in the machine, including wireless inventory updates, and an e-commerce / POS fulfillment "back-end" system. Smart vending devices were placed in prime consumer locations, including the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, and the busiest airports in the United States (ATL & JFK). Utique offered a curated assortment of iconic ‘must haves’ from luxury, design, travel, fashion and beauty today, both as branded stores and as white-label services for other brands. Co-investors: First Round Capital, Jesselson Capital, MHS Capital

Lisle, Il

Sector: Cellular Network Design & Operation. Joined the board at the growth stage through PE acquisition. Extenet meets the growing consumer demand for high volume / high resolution wireless delivery of content in stadiums, office buildings, campuses, and dense urban environments. Extenet designs, builds, owns, monitors and maintains "small cell" distributed networks for use by wireless carriers. On November 13, 2015, Extenet was acquired by PE firms Digital Bridge and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in a deal valued at up to $1.4 Billion. Venture Co-investors: Columbia Capital (Jim Fleming), Centennial Capital (David Hull), Sevin Rosen Funds (Jon Bayless), Quantum Strategic Partners (Waldemar Szlezak / Soros Fund Management). Additional Directors: Justin Jaschke (founder, Verio).

San Mateo, Ca

Sectors: Big Data, SaaS, Advertising, Analytics. Led the second round of venture financing, member of Compensation Committee, board overseer for M&A activities including an acquisition and final merger. MyBuys' ads, email, and site personalization solutions leveraged the combined power of long-standing personal profiles and immediate commercial intent to find, keep and bring back customers to the online retailer. Co-investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Rho Capital Partners. MyBuys merged with Magnetic in May, 2015.

Singapore

Sector: Mobile Social Networking. Led the second round of venture financing, member of Compensation Committee, co-managed the acquisition process. Bubble Motion, aka Bubbly™, is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like ‘Twitter with a voice’ and brings social networking to mobile phones. Bubbly's innovative operator partner network includes telecom leaders in ‘mobile-first’ countries including India, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and new growth in countries in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia. Partners include Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tata (Docomo and Indicom), XL Axiata, Globe, Telkomsel, Indosat, DiGi, Vodafone, and more. Acquired by Altruist Technologies, Pvt. Ltd. Co-investors included: Sequoia Capital (Gaurav Garg, now @ Wing), Comcast Ventures (David Zilberman), SingTel Innov8 (Jeff Karras), JAFCO Asia (Supriya Singh), Infocomm Investments (Lim Kuo-Yi). Acquired by Altruist Group, provider of telecom services in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Greenwood Village, Colorado

Sector: Cloud Computing, Network Infrastructure. At the time of the acquisition, Virtela was the world's largest independent managed network, security, and cloud services company providing award-winning services, including managed networks, security, IT infrastructure management, and application acceleration, to customers globally. Through partnerships with 750+ carriers, Virtela offers unparalleled geographic reach in 190+ countries. Headquartered in the Denver, Colorado area. Engineering and systems teams at the NOC in Mumbai, India and the Philippines. Virtela is the single point of contact for expert IT infrastructure design, implementation, and 24x7 proactive monitoring and management worldwide. Virtela was acquired by NTT America for $527M on January 2, 2014. Venture Co-investors: Norwest Venture Partners (Promod Haque), NEA (Peter Behrendt), North Coast Venture Partners (Lindsay Aspegren).

Campbell, California

Sector: SaaS based Voice Applications. Co-led the first venture investment and structured the board of directors. Voxify built and managed a SaaS based adaptive response "automated agent" voice application for call centers including Continental Airlines, Hotels.com and other large companies. [24]7 Acquired Voxify in December, 2011. Co-investors: El Dorado Ventures, Sigma Partners, Intel Capital.

San Mateo, Ca

Sector: Financial Technologies (FinTech). Provided initial Series A fundraising terms, and worked closely with the founder and executive team on a new consumer online options trading platform. Innovations included leading edge data visualization tools, interactive educational demos, community engagement, and the execution of complex trades with a single click. Founder, previously CMO and Strategy Officer at Zecco and eTrade, became President/Board Member at LendingTree.

Westminster, Colorado

Sector: Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Master Data Management, Data Virtualization. Led the first venture investment and advised CEO through acquisition process. Silver Creek's software uses machine learning / artificial intelligence to provide automated ETL-like normalization for diverse and large-scale product data sets, providing critical cleansing & organizing steps in data virtualization. Oracle acquired Silver Creek Systems, Inc. in December, 2009. The combination of Silver Creek and Oracle provide new levels of product data quality across enterprise applications including Oracle's Product Information Management Data Hub, Agile Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Resource Planning offerings.

Palo Alto, California

Sector: Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Data Analysis. Attensity uses patented semantic-based analytics to extract intelligible information from very large sets of unstructured data. Attensity's high-speed, mass-data analytical capabilities were initially widely adopted in the United States Government Intelligence community and later expanded to corporate clients. Using Attensity’s integrated suite of customer analytics and response applications, organizations tap the wealth of data stored in both internal and online sources such as call center notes, emails, customer surveys, blogs, review sites and social media, and use that information to improve the customer experience with their brands. Attensity was acquired by private equity firm Aeris Capital AG.From its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Attensity powers the customer experience strategies of companies such as Charles Schwab, Citigroup, JetBlue Airways, Lloyd’s Banking Group, Royal Bank of Canada, Symantec, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Travelocity and Whirlpool.

Boise, Idaho Area

Sector: SmartHome, Media. Led initial institutional investment. Dedicated Devices was a consumer electronics company manufacturing whole home media systems. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Micron Electronics, Inc. Co-investors: Utah Ventures (now Pelion - Carl Ledbetter), Highway 12 Ventures (Mark Solon, now Managing Partner @ TechStars).

San Mateo, Ca

Senior Vice President Strategy, Marketing & Business Development (Founding Team)An early player in the cloud computing market offering an integrated Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).· Introduced by KPCB concurrent with the first investment. Developed and led business strategy and productized services offerings. Built the three core ‘outbound’ departments (Sales, Marketing, and Business Development) from zero to full employment (50+) in the first year of operations. · Developed GTM/sales model. Identified and developed earliest customers, enabling follow on funding. Led negotiation on $20MM corporate sponsorship of XIX Olympic Winter Games. Defined products, led corporate communications, lead generation, public relations, branding, events. Designed partner strategy; managed teams for OEM, go-to-market, and systems integration partnerships. · Product Marketing & Product Management - Led a cross-functional engineering & marketing ideation team to transform the range of capabilities into defined services products. Developed effective pricing strategies, guidelines for services delivery, and financial models.Investors included: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) (Kevin Compton), Accel Partners (Bud Colligan), Technology Crossover Ventures (Jake Reynolds).

Mountain View, California

A spin-out of Apple and a pioneer in e-commerce technologies, one of the first e-commerce platform servers, web applications offered as a service, and e-commerce companies to go public, NASDAQ, CNKT 1996.Vice President, Corporate Development & MarketingFacilitated the company pivot from private online network to Internet-based e-commerce platform provider. Designed and managed the corporate development process resulting in the merger of Connect, Inc. with Calico Commerce (NASDAQ: CLIC). Connect is now part of Oracle. Prior to merger, responsible for marketing and business development, including corporate communications, sales support, lead generation, public relations, and investor relations. Identified and closed first major customer, Time Warner, creating the first web-based multi-vendor shopping experience; a pillar of Connect’s IPO roadshow.Venture investors included Bank of America Ventures (now Scale Venture Partners - Rory O'Driscoll) & Norwest Venture Partners (Promod Haque).

Boise, Idaho Area & Toulouse Area, France

A leader in experimental aviation manufacturing and the aviation “maker movement”. Kitfox aircraft designs are consistently among the top selling sport aircraft kits in the world; sales to 42 countries.Director, Marketing / Director, EMEA· Re-imagined the branding for changing buyer demographic. Transformed marketing materials, trade appearances, and product design, resulting in increased press coverage and sales lead generation.· Co-led the company’s sales, marketing, and operations expansion into EMEA market. Relocated to France, launched the company’s European headquarters location near Toulouse. Managed research and development of new product enhancements for international markets. Managed transactions, payments, pricing, and localization issues in 12 countries. Created new partnerships, developed sponsorships, managed compliance issues with regulatory agencies and industry associations.

San Francisco, California

Joined the company at the earliest stages of the first and largest ($1.2B) nationwide corporate sales channel for desktop computing, software, and network technologies. IPO NYSE: BLI 1989.Field Sales, Major Accounts & New Products Development Team LeadLeader of major account “strike force”, selling hardware, software, training, and support services, and teaching customer technology classes. Led customer planning and RFP response teams, crafted innovative new training, consulting & outsourcing products. ‘100% Club’ every year for five years. Early venture investors included: KPCB III, Oak Investment Partners II, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund IV, Venrock, and NEA. IPO Underwriters: Rothschild Unterberg Towbin, Lehman Brothers.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A), Economics

Activities and Societies: Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club, Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, Winter Carnival Council, Student Social Council, Trip.

High School

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Activities and Societies: Drama, Gymkhana

Economics

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