Founding General Partner for The Fund Midwest, the sixth fund and fifth market for The Fund.

We are first-check investors backing 100+ founders building businesses globally with a market cap > $3 billion.We are venture investors with a ♡ We strive to make a difference in the lives of the founders we back. Our approach operates at the intersection of engineering, design, strategy, and empathy. We help founders unlock opportunities in proprietary networks across industries, regions, and affiliations.

VillagePlan’s 30+ years of experience in technology-enabled expert caregiver solutions is now available as an employee benefit under the new Family First brand.

Strategic advisor to non-profit research firm supporting entrepreneurial activity across Detroit and Ann Arbor.

Empowering corporations and educational institutions to unlock dormant entrepreneurial energy through venture creation.

► Founding Managing Director of the first accelerator program in North America focused on the future of mobility, automotive, and transportation. ► I invested in 54 mobility startups from 11 different countries. Details: https://tedserbinski.com/mobility-startups/► I contracted with 15 corporate innovation partners including: Ford, Verizon, Magna, Dana, Honda, Munich Re, Michelin, Next47 / Siemens, Bosch, McDonald’s, InMotion / Jaguar, AAA, Volvo, USAA, Nationwide

Restarting the Motor City is a feature-length documentary, that will tell the story of how innovation and entrepreneurship is remaking Detroit. The film will let viewers envision the Detroit of the future, and experience the challenges and opportunities encountered by the people who are working to bring it to fruition.Check out the details here: http://www.restartingthemotorcity.com/

The Michigan Film and Digital Media (MFDM) Office Advisory Council advises the governor, the film office and the legislature on how to promote and market, and develop strategies and methods to attract film, digital media, television and related business to the state of Michigan.I serve on the Digital Media subcommittee that advises the office (and the State of Michigan) on how to make Michigan the midwest hub for digital media.

Invest Michigan is the fund manager for the $6.8 million Michigan Pre-Seed Fund 2.0 which includes a $1 million University Commercialization Fund. Invest Michigan partners with co-investors making debt and equity investments in early stage tech based companies.

Advisor to the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund, a student run investment fund and course about commercializing technology. The Zell Lurie Fund consists of four student managed seed stage venture capital funds: CleanTech Fund, Technology Fund, Health Care Fund, and Consumer Fund.

• One of the founding VCs, investing in early stage software startups, with a regional focus.• Hands on, operational partner and mentor for portfolio of companies, working on technical, user acquisition, marketing, fundraising, and general business issues• Full portfolio of companies: http://www.detroitventurepartners.com/portfolio.html

• Continued in my role as Director of Technology as I was under Lifetime Entertainment (see below for more details)• Developed new architecture that consolidated parenting websites under the Lifetime Moms brand, generating over $1.5MM in yearly revenue and representing 2MM monthly uniques amongst the network of sites

• Continued to oversee architecture & development of all parenting websites from ParentsClick Network, tripling size of development team and bringing in outsourced design & QA teams geographically dispersed• Ported our custom Drupal community framework to a generic framework that powered 8 websites serving a majority of Lifetime's total traffic of 3.5MM monthly uniques and 90MM monthly pageviews ( http://ow.ly/3Wp9m ). Websites included myLifetime (editorial site & community site), Project Runway, All the Looks, Total Beauty Makeover, MothersClick, Mom Blog Network and Lifetime Moms• Pioneered moving over all of parenting websites into the cloud, using Amazon EC2 and RightScale to build an auto-scaling deployment that could handle millions of uniques a month to support on-air TV ads for massive hourly spikes. Since then all major Lifetime sites are looking to move based off of this success.• A&E Television acquires Lifetime Entertainment: http://ow.ly/2KMcX

• Drupal profile: http://drupal.org/user/12932• Biggest contributions: SimpleFeed (RSS), TinyMCE, core theme development, core CSS/JS aggregation, performance, and misc patches Drupal 4.6, 4.7, 5.0, and 6.0• Co-founder of Washington, DC Drupalers user group, 2nd meetup March 2006: https://drupal.org/node/54986 , today over 1000+ members

• Joined team as founding CTO, where I architected and led development of a custom Drupal-based community platform to support a network of 50+ parenting websites, with millions of yearly pageviews• Led a development team of 5 that contributed back over 2000 commits & 9 new modules to the Drupal project, personally contributing over 1000 commits & 4 modules: http://ow.ly/3bzI7 & http://ow.ly/3bzK8• Directed production direction and SEO optimization techniques that grew MothersClick to a top 5 parenting website online• Lifetime Entertainment Services acquired us in August 2008. Press release: http://ow.ly/1xf1h

• Co-founded a high-end web consulting company for Fortune 500 companies, that included clients Sony BMG & Lifetime Television• Architected the original community platform built on Drupal for the international Nabuur Foundation

• 1st employee, lead web architect, and key contributor to the founding team that started the most well known and largest Drupal consulting firm in the world• Architected & scaled the largest sites built on Drupal to date for Fortune 500 clients including MTV UK, Sony BMG, and Lifetime TV, leading to some of the first documentation on how to efficiently scale & deploy massive Drupal sites• Portfolio sites included twit.tv (architected & built entire site), mtv.co.uk, musicbox.sonybmg.com (architected & built entire site), Sony BMG artist web platform which now boasts 100s of artist websites and millions of pageviews• Top Drupal contributor for 4.7 and 5 releases, with over 100 patches to core and 1000+ commits to contributed modules• Founded the DC Drupal User's Group in April 2006 which as of today boasts of 1000 members and one of the largest US Drupal groups

• Part of the second class of mentors for Google Summer of Code and the Drupal project• Mentor for 2 summers: 2006, 2007

• Designed & developed the 1st internal, web-based intranet for over 25 employees that included various productivity tools• Designed & developed the 1st internal, web-based timesheet application that managed all employee weekly timecards, managing over 1200 billable hours per week for dozens of government contracts• Transformed and upgraded NOAA's Ocean.gov website to a fully managed content management system (Drupal), saving NOAA $10,000s of dollars a month in website maintenance costs

• Developed the 1st internal, web-based application to capture & assign errors from automated nightly builds of an enterprise, 16-core processor being designed• Introduced new web based application concepts & workflows for this tool that was used by over 30 developers• Greatly increased efficiency for parsing errors and assigning to developers to fix for next nightly build