Darren Herman Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Managing Director at Bain Capital, one of the world’s leading private investment firms with over $160 billion under management.

Boston, MA, US

Focused on driving growth across Bain Capital's global investment portfolio.

Brooklyn, NY, US

Daily | Weekly | Season-long | Pick-'em sports games.

New York, US

Intelligent Alternative Asset Investing.

Los Angeles, US

The first live stream + commerce platform built for sports cards and collectibles.

I founded Silicon Alley Sports brings together digital media executives, founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and ecosystem supporters to play sports and raise money for various charities including Robin Hood, Venture for America, and Charity Water. For the last 10 years, we've hosted more than 500 senior level tech executives for.

San Mateo, California, US

Msg.ai provides artificial intelligence capabilities for brands to participate in truly real-time conversations with consumers.

Cloud based live production platform that allows anyone to have full suite video production tools at their fingertips - for digital distribution. Built for media companies (i.e. Hearst) and also serving the eSports marketplace.

El Segundo, California, US

Dibbs Trust - Tokenization as a Service (TaaS) for collectibles and beyond.

White Plains, New York, US

Acquired by Beckett. Sept 2022The most advanced and comprehensive asset management and community platform for the sports collectibles industry.

Stony Brook, NY, US

First computational grading technology for assessing value of sports cards and collectibles. Acquired by PSA, a subsidiary of Collectors Universe in April 2021.

New York City, New York, US

I'm proud to be a mentor with Techstars, a global ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses. Techstars mentors accelerate business growth and help entrepreneurs do more faster. The Fall 2015 Techstars class includes: Flip, Gorgia, GreatHorn, Haubby, Homemade, Impact Health, Jewelbots, LiveLike, Max, Mona, Morsel, Sailo, Slash and SPIDR.

Irving, Texas, US

Leading all things marketing, advertising, CRM, loyalty, and creative services for Michaels, an omnichannel retailer of arts & crafts supplies. Transforming the organization and driving a customer-led and Math & Magic mentality. Michaels is a Bain Capital portfolio company.

San Francisco, CA, US

Nuzzel is the super-easy way to see news from your friends. We created Nuzzel to solve the problems of social overload. You can use Nuzzel to discover the best news stories shared by your friends on Facebook and Twitter without being overwhelmed or missing anything.

Founded by two MIT graduate students, Seed CX is an institutional trading platform awaiting regulatory approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Seed CX’s goal is to use the tools of financial engineering to cultivate financial security in underserved markets, where there exists unique idiosyncratic risk. Seed’s focus is on providing.

San Francisco, CA, US

As a member of the executive team, I was responsible for the p&l of the entire content services group and building user driven content and advertising experiences and platforms across Firefox. This involved setting the vision for and leading a global multi-functional team comprised of engineers, product, marketing, account management, sales, and business.

Under the MDC umbrella, I created kbs+ Ventures, the first advertising technology investment arm focused purely on early stage marketing and advertising technology companies. I led the firms investments in Adaptly (acquired by Accenture, 2018), Crowdtwist (acquired by Oracle, 2019), Awe.sm (acquired by Unified, 2014), PlaceIQ, Yieldbot, amongst.

Brooklyn, New York, US

See below for details on evolving roles with this diversified marketing services holding company that acquires companies in advertising and marketing communications, to supporting business transformation initiatives through digital advertising, attribution, web analytics, ad operations and strategic investment in media and advertising technology companies.

New York, NY, US

I led the creation of media strategies and planning solutions for this cutting edge integrated media planning and buying agency, including development of the agency’s first digital analytics warehouse (The Blender) to evaluate campaign performance and attribution across digital channels. Negotiated agreements with ad serving firms, web analytics companies.

New York, NY, US

Owned team and p&l to establish a cutting edge market-maker trading agency that brought buyers and sellers of digital advertising space and media technologies together using programmatic buying principles. Select technology partnerships including MediaMath, Invite Media/Google, Turn, The Trade Desk, BlueKai, Bizo, eXelate, Adaptly, AppNexus, Rubicon.

US

Member of the founding team for IGA Partners/IGA Worldwide Inc., developing the business plan and relationships that secured the initial angel funding for world’s first dynamic in-game advertising network. I led business development relationships with leading agencies, such as Avenue A/Razorfish, Ogilvy, Carat and MediaEdge, and handled in-game media.