North Coast Ventures includes seven contributed capital funds comprised of 470+ leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business people who are dedicated to accelerating early-stage ventures. The Funds focus on early-stage technology investments, primarily in B2B, SaaS opportunities, and have invested in 80+ companies. Notable investments include Assurex Health, OnShift, Vytalize Health, Ahalogy, AmpliFund, zNode, GenomOncology, Remesh, Navistone, Axuall, Society Brands, and ScriptDrop.

YPO is the global leadership community of more than 30,000 members in 142 countries who are driven by the belief that the world needs better leaders.

AmpliFund is the leading purpose-built grant management platform designed for state, local, and tribal governments to manage every phase of the grant management process.

Society Brands is a tech-enabled consumer products company building a global growth platform, and acquiring and scaling e-commerce brands.

Remesh uses AI to deliver a unique quantitative approach to qualitative research. As a result, the most natural form of communication -- live conversation -- can be utilized to gain insights from large, statistically-significant groups.

All natural Dead Sea bodycare brand available in 4,000 retail locations including Whole Foods, Kroger, Safeway, Vitamin Shoppe, World Market, Giant Eagle, Meijer, Sprouts, etc.www.onewithnature.com

Vlipsy makes video clips conversational, enabling consumers to quickly find and share quotes and scenes from your favorite internet videos.

DecisionDesk is a cloud-based application and recruitment manager for Higher Education. The company disrupts legacy enterprise systems with a web-based end-to-end application management platform. Over 100 universities have joined the DecisionDesk network and processed over 200,000 applications.

Petbrosia is a specialty e-commerce company dedicated to providing high-quality, all natural pet food formulated for (and to grow with) your pet based on their breed, age and weight.

SoMoLend is a peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform that connects small-business borrowers with individual and organizational investors. The company’s unique model allows investors to lend money directly to borrowers through its web-based platform, bypassing banks and credit-card issuers.

Y.O.U. is a nonprofit that teaches students employment, business and life skills that help youth stay in school and prepare for the world of work through after school programs, job placement and mentoring. Based in Cleveland, Y.O.U. focuses on empowering teens through entrepreneurship, education and employment. For more information visit www.youthopportunities.org

Intelligent Mobile Support designs and markets technology solutions that enable field employees to deliver better customer service, improve profitability and win more business. The company's award-winning, patent-pending platform has been recognized as an industry "Best Practice" in the HVAC business and serves customers from coast-to-coast in the med tech vertical.

Independent consultant to the SVP of Brand Strategy at a global web services company, focusing on developing the company's word-of-mouth marketing strategy, messaging around a parent-focused web community, development of a product naming strategy, and an experiential marketing initiative.

Worked on and led a wide variety of management consulting projects across multiple industries in business analytics, project management, product development and business strategy.For a global media, entertainment and ISP conglomerate: – Led effort to develop company-wide licensing strategy; inventoried and quantified revenue and brand extension impacts of prospective licensing models and specific opportunities – Served as Global Project Manager to develop a premium firewall product, acting as central point for the management and coordination of more than ten internal and external teams – Managed several test and control markets for a multi-city market study utilizing unprecedented levels of coordination between two recently merged companies For a regional Blue Cross Blue Shield provider: – Led effort to design and launch a continuous improvement group spanning multiple regional organizations acquired through recent mergers – Conducted organizational planning and developed a strategy development process used to develop the organization’s Claims business strategy for 2004 For a leading national health insurance firm: – Served on a twenty-person SWAT team to define and an enterprise architecture strategy – Developed robust cost model to track the resource requirements and benefits of over 40 claims related projects central to the firm’s new technology strategyFor a leading consumer products manufacturer: – Served on an 8 person PMO team overseeing the implementation of a $100M+ restructure – Led the strategic and financial analysis of four portfolio businesses