Jan Horsfall Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, CO, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

Sparq is tomorrow’s version of a game publisher, leveraging an ultra-aggressive approach towards dozens of artificial intelligence outputs to leverage the IP of key sports-related entities, including the NCAA college sports IP which it currently holds. Sparq is one of only two game companies - the other being EA - having rights to the NCAA sports.

Red Surfboard assists stage two companies in order to maintain or create high growth outcomes. With a focus on the Sports Tech, Energy Tech, Ag Tech and CPG sectors, Red Surfboard applies intense competitive and positioning analysis to identify prioritized market segments for brands, while also identifying structural company issues which might need.

Jan has served on the Board of Directors for this NASDAQ energy company since 2015. This $4 billion market cap company represents one of the cleanest, best-managed and most innovative utility companies in the country and serves South Dakota, Nebraska, and all of Montana - as well as Yellow Stone National Park and Big Sky. NorthWestern's utility operations.

VoterVac takes a consumer-packaged goods (CPG), direct-response approach to politics and that translates into fact-based wins for the candidate or cause because we focus strictly on only one result: voter turnout. And in the last three election cycles, the political campaigns that have used VoterVac's game-changing tech tools have won over 84% of their.

Maxletics helped Olympians fund their sports careers. Over 500 Olympians used their influence - tracked by Maxletics - to help brands.

Wichita, KS, US

Universal was a private-equity environmental energy company - a roll up of five companies - supported by Pegasus Capital and Ares Capital out of NYC and consisting of 400+ employees and 10,000 commercial customers. While at Universal, Jan led the senior team in rebuilding the company in preparation for a sale. Universal quadrupled EBITDA during his tenure.

Startup Colorado is a regional initiative to increase the breadth and depth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem across Colorado’s Front Range. From Fort Collins to Boulder, from Denver to Colorado Springs, our mission is to multiply connections among entrepreneurs and mentors, improve access to entrepreneurial education, and build a more vibrant.

Needham, Massachusetts, US

Jan was brought in by Bob Davis, primary VC investor and former colleague (CEO at Lycos, Inc.), to assist in the reformation and sale of this connected, online game company. We succeeded by selling Turbine to Warner Bros. in April 2010 for $160 million of consideration. Essentially Jan joined with two other key executives to assist in reformatting the.

Founded in late 2004, Gelazzi, Inc. was an investor-backed restaurant experience aiming to upgrade the national retail ice-cream industry. Gelazzi was sold to Big Freeze, LLC in March of 2013.

In 2001, Jan started White Summit Strategies, Inc., an investment firm that focused on emerging technology growth segments. Investments were as varied as those in the VoIP (80211b) industry and those in the Wireless and WiFi segments. The firm also invested in several consumer brands as part of this activity.

Jan helped found this Blackstone-backed broadband VoIP experimental telco that earned more than 5.5 million users within a year of inception. GVS utilized a $52 million private raise, lead by eVentures and Blackstone. GVS was one of the very first existing VoIP companies and is credited with dissecting the new industry business models leading the initial.

Haarlem, ., NL

After leading significant interactive television and Web-based experiments at The Valvoline Company, Jan left to join Bob Davis (Wang), Ted Philip (Disney) and Sangam Pant (AT&T) to fuel the astronomical growth of Lycos, Inc. Lycos debuted publicly with the fastest IPO in the history of NASDAQ from inception to offering and went on to increase in value.

• Jan held a variety of sales, sports marketing and brand management positions, culminating with role as VP of Consumer Brand Strategy in which he was responsible for a $130 million annual marketing spend. Published.
• Retail Category Management
• Hispanic Marketing
• The Role of Private Label Products
• Integrated Sports Marketing Approaches
• Web-Based Marketing

Bs, Business Administration

Management Certificate, Business Administration And Management

Liberal Arts

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