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Zürich, ZH, CH

Zurich, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

Ran the investment team and overall investment process. Changed strategy from a generalist fund to be sector and thesis focus. Created Lakestar’s approach for earlier stage investing (seed and pre-seed). Launched a scout / angel program called Halo.

Zurich, Switzerland

Lakestar is a European based venture capital firm with offices in London, Berlin and Zürich. It invests in all stages from Seed to Growth. It is thesis focused and looks for outstanding technology entrepreneurs worldwide but with a focus on europe and a desire to help bolster Europe’s tech sovereignty. Lakestar’s investments include 1047 Games, Aglet.

Europe And North America

Megatomic LLC is my angel investment vehicle. Portfolio track record as of September 2024 is 15.4x MOIC and 39% IRR. Most recent investments (2024) are Praktika (https://praktika.ai), VidLab7 (https://www.vidlab7.com/) and Levellr (https://www.levellr.com/).To avoid conflict with Lakestar, I did not do any angel investments from 2019 to 2023.From 2011 to.

Hagerty is for people who love cars. Hagerty (NYSE: HGTY) is the world's leading paid automotive community with over 1.5 million members. Insurance for classic and enthusiast cars is their main product with a growing business in online auctions and live in person auctions via their subsidiary Broad Arrow Group. Among auto enthusiasts, Hagerty is an iconic.

France/Singapore/UAE/San Francisco

France/Singapore/UAE/San Francisco

San Francisco

France, Singapore, Abu Dhabi

The Business School for the World with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. #1 ranked global MBA program in 2016, 2017 and 2021 Financial Times rankings.I was the Chairman of the Remuneration (Compensation) Committee and have been a driver of INSEAD's efforts to be a leader in digital education. I was also on the Board of INSEAD Singapore.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I am a full voting member for the Emmy awards.

San Francisco

Feed.fm is a turn-key music streaming solution for fitness companies, game publishers, online retailers, and app developers to enhance their products with popular music to drive consumer engagement, retention, and revenues.

San Francisco Bay Area

Angel investor working with Accel.

San Francisco

Raine is a global investment and advisory firm focused on digital media, technology and sports industries with offices in New York, London, Shanghai, Mumbai, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Raine are investors in Soundcloud, Vice Media, Imagine Entertainment, Important Studios, DraftKings, Wanderlust, Tastemade, Cheddar, Huuuge and many more category.

San Francisco Bay Area

Angel investor working with Sequoia Capital.

San Francisco

CreativeLive is forging its own path in online education by connecting students everywhere with the world’s top experts in a live, dynamic online classroom. CreativeLive is transforming the $100 billion continuing education market by offering frictionless, freemium access to the best teachers in the world through its social video platform. The company was.

San Francisco

Joined the company as CEO at a nascent stage and grew it from 6 to 120 employees, drove an innovative product strategy, increased revenues over 600%, expanded content library by 10x, and raised over $40m from Greylock Partners, Social+Capital Partnership, Richard Branson, Comcast Ventures, CAA, WME and other top investors.

Helsinki

Elisa is the leader in telecom in Finland. In 2013 it had €1.55bn in revenue and employs over 3,500 people. Elisa is publicly traded (stock symbol: EIA.F) and is one of most widely held shares in Finland.

Seattle

Pressplane was the parent company of Zapd and Inkd. Zapd was a mobile app that lets you create social websites in less than 60 seconds from your iPhone. Zapd was Apple's App of the Week.Pressplane and Zapd were acquired by RealSelf in September 2013.

Helsinki

In 2001 Sulake created one of the first virtual worlds - Habbo Hotel. Habbo pioneered the use of virtual item sales with over €60m in revenue in 2010.Company was acquired by Elisa telecom in September 2012.

San Francisco / New York / Barcelona

Mad Races was a mobile app that created social competitions for sports and other activities. It used location/GPS, the accelerometer and proximity of participants in a unique and innovative way. It preceded Strava which is similar. Company was acquired by Betaworks (NYC) in October 2010.

London

The UK's leading company providing premium TV and Film via internet and mobile. Company was acquired by Tesco (world's 4th largest retailer) in April 2011.

Los Angeles

Innovative facial animation technology for games, film and tv applications. Company went public in the summer of 2010.

New York

(now called Paramount Global)Managed worldwide operations, strategy, and deals with over 1,800 employees for 30+ brands (including MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon), 400 websites, and 80 mobile channels. Grew digital revenues 4x from $250m to over $1bn. We were very active in M&A with Viacom purchasing numerous companies including Harmonix (Rock Band).

Tokyo

Leading Japanese games website and mobile content business.Majority ownership of the company was acquired by Transcosmos KK.

San Francisco

Keith Thomson and I created a series of animations that were mashups of a current political topic with a popular movie or tv show. They were funny then, painful to watch now.http://acidtestfilms.com

Seattle

Retail biodiesel and other renewable fuels company. Declined opportunity to become CEO so left the Board.

San Francisco

Atom had three brands - AtomFilms, Shockwave and AddictingGames which together had over 40m monthly active users. AtomFilms was one of the first and largest online video companies and was the YouTube of its day. Shockwave was the largest game brand on the internet and was complemented by AddictingGames which was the fastest growing casual games.

Seattle

Worked for CEO and Chairman and launched a new business for the small/home office market.

Seattle

RealNetworks' technology brought audio and video to the internet. I led all the entertainment industry (music, film and tv) relationships and business deals.

New York

Handled all marketing and promotion of US-based music artists to 51 international territories and regions. Artists included Eazy E, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis, Toto, Wynton Marsalis, and many more. Also discovered and signed artists including Grammy nominated Presidents of the USA.

Paris

Ran overall business strategy and planning for EMI in France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Budapest

Advised company on market entry strategy into Hungary, Poland, and Czech Republic after the fall of Communism in those countries

Seattle

Worked at three jobs but selling commercial real estate paid the bills:* Marcus & Millichap commercial real estate sales -I sold over $22m in apartment buildings and commercial properties and was honored as one of the top sales people in the country in 1990* Music promoter/DJ - co-founded the very first "rave" music events in Seattle and spun some tracks*.

New York

Discovered and signed platinum-selling, Grammy winning, and Oscar winning artist, Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor). The company was small (18 employees) so I also ran the company's databases, managed the IT and sold TVT’s catalog of artists to Tower Records.

New York

Ran and programmed database software for the trading floor that assessed the performance of over 1,500 traders worldwide.

Mba, International Business

Bs, International Business And Finance

Graduated with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma. Co-Captain, Coach and Manager of Men's and Women's ski racing teams with.

Computer Science