Winston Lord Email & Phone Number

Winston is a trusted advisor to C-suite executives, former Cabinet Secretaries and elected officials, Hall-of-Fame athletes, and entrepreneurs. A native Washingtonian, he has deep roots in the DMV area. His extensive network and experience make him the ideal guide to help you navigate the region’s complex world or business, politics, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and media.Winston currently serves as a Founding Board Member of Baltimore-based Novella Center for Entrepreneurship and has served on the Board of various non-profit organizations in the area, including D.C. Central Kitchen, The Washington Ballet, Urban Alliance, and E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. He also mentors emerging leaders through the Aspen Institute Food Leaders Fellowship and Conscious Venture Lab.Career highlights:Venga - Founded Saas CRM platform acquired by Fortune 500 company Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) for 6x investor return.OpenTable - Became inaugural Chief Evangelist and spearheaded special projects to help establish OpenTable as the global leader in hospitality.Washington Nationals - Directed a coalition of business and philanthropic leaders, including President Biden’s Chief of Staff, General Colin Powell, and Atlantic Media’s Chairman Emeritus David Bradley, to return Major League Baseball to Washington, D.C. after a 34-year absence.Portfolio Logic - Identified and co-led due diligence on portfolio companies, primarily in business and healthcare services at Jeff Zients’ private equity firm.Stevens Reed Curcio & Company - Led the strategic development, execution, and production of television and radio ads for over 50 Presidential, Gubernatorial, and Senatorial campaigns. Won 19 national advertising awards.Lord Household - Husband to Stephanie, an international development and affairs leaders. Father of Levi, Winston, Xavion, Tyson, and Alvin (my latest startups) and two rescue dogs Mei Li and Kimchi. Herder of six sheep and two horses.

Washington, Dc, Us

APCO’s International Advisory Council (IAC) and its four subgroups comprise more than 100 recognized global leaders, including: former elected politicians; leaders of business and industry; academics at leading universities; world-class journalists and editors; NGO and nonprofit pioneers; diplomats; and policy experts.Each member offers clients invaluable real-world knowledge; they are individuals who understand the complex issues clients face because they have encountered similar opportunities and challenges — and successfully conquered them — in their own careers. Clients can get counsel from individual members, or a select group of members with varying perspectives, to obtain robust counsel that can help clients make the right decisions.

Washington, Dc, Us

Food & Society at the Aspen Institute's Food Leaders Fellowship unites the country’s most promising emerging food leaders to ignite personal transformation, promote cross-sector collaboration, and create scalable change. Drawing on the Aspen Institute’s standard-setting leadership programs, the Food Leaders Fellowship will become the foremost community of values-based leaders working to create a fair, sustainable, and healthy food system.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Conscious Venture Lab® (CVL) is an early stage business accelerator with the goal of developing companies and leaders who embrace capitalism as a force for good in society. We work to help extraordinary entrepreneurs in their goal to build companies with societal purpose at their core; to give them all the tools and support they need to create engaged happy employees, loyal and joyful customers, deeply authentic partnerships, caring and safe communities and all manner of wealth for all their stakeholders.Our program is an intensive 4-month study in Consciousness, Customers and Capital, that is: building a foundation of purpose for your business, helping you develop no-nonsense customer acquisition capabilities and aligning you with like-minded sources of capital.

Singapore, Sg

Chinaccelerator, the first startup accelerator to launch in China, is a mentorship-driven program helping internet startups from around the world cross borders - from the world into China and from China to the world. Chinaccelerator is run by venture fund SOSV with $855M+ AUM operating seven global accelerators. Chinaccelerator offers three months of rigorous guidance, training and resources from mentors, partners and investors. The robust and supportive alumni network continues into the startups'​ post-Chinaccelerator lifespan.

Singapore, Sg

MOX is a global accelerator for cross-border mobile internet, operated by the US$900M venture capital firm SOSV.

San Francisco, California, Us

Primary responsibility includes establishing OpenTable as the global leader in hospitality by forging strong relationships with restaurant owners and operators through impassioned storytelling and thought leadership. Leverage technology and data analytics to creatively connect and further engage restaurant contacts in the sharing of best practices, fostering a learning community, and building trust in each other and in the OpenTable brand and organization. Act as a liaison between hospitality industry contacts and OpenTable employees, featured speaker and source leads at industry events, and leverage extensive personal networks to make significant introductions. Collaborate internally with the Open Table marketing and sales team, spearheading special projects including authoring Road to Extraordinary: Lessons from Hospitality Titans blog series, and creating In it Together, a global community of over 500 restaurant operators.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Envisioned and co-founded Venga, a data-analytics-generating customer management solution designed to enhance customer experiences via a suite of technology-based tools. Venga provided the online systems to capture user visits, purchases, preferences and social data to automatically build detailed customer profiles which powered marketing automation, actionable feedback, personalized service and business intelligence. Venga collected data on more than 100 million customers and $6 billion in consumer purchases. Achieved sustained profitability and market growth as Chief Evangelist and brand ambassador for Venga’s products, services and vision. Through personal marketing, storytelling, relationship-building, and sales team leadership positioned Venga as a leader in the hospitality analytics space, and ultimately sold the company to Booking Holdings (Kayak, Open Table, Priceline), the world’s leader in online travel.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

DC Central Kitchen uses food as a tool to strengthen communities. Through job training, meal distribution, and local farm partnerships, we're building long-term solutions to the interconnected problems of poverty, hunger, and homelessness. www.dccentralkitchen.org

Washington, D.C, Us

Employing Youth. Inspiring Excellence.Urban Alliance empowers under-resourced youth to aspire, work, and succeed through paid internships, formal training, and mentoring.

Washington, Dc, Us

Throughout its 67-year history, The Washington Ballet has steadily progressed as a major force in the dance world and in its community.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

I participated in the EIR program for The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality. I gave lectures each semester and had 'office' hours for students looking for advice hoping to share my insight of the Hospitality industry based on my experiences. http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/industry/centers/pihe/spotlights/eir.html

Washington, Dc, Us

Founded in 2004, the award-winning E.L. Haynes Public Charter School currently serves 950 students from grades Pre-K through ten and will continue to grow to serve more than 1,100 students through grade 12. E.L. Haynes is named for Dr. Euphemia Lofton Haynes - the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics and a DC public school teacher for 47 years.www.elhaynes.org

Washington, Dc, Us

3 time World Team Tennis (WTT) champions and back-to-back undefeated seasons. Roster includes Serena & Venus Williams.

New Preston, Connecticut, Us

Boutique marketing and public relations firm focused on the Capital region. Key strategist to some of the nation’s most respected and influential leaders and organizations.Select clients:Sports: Hall-of-Famer Darrell Green (NFL), Ryan Zimmerman (MLB), Roger Mason (NBA), and six-time WTT champions Washington Kastles.Philanthropy: General Colin Powell’s America’s Promise, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.Business: Priceline, National Geographic, Audi, and Microsoft.

Us

Private equity firm founded and led by Jeff Zients, President Biden’s Chief of Staff. Identified and co-led due diligence on portfolio companies, primarily in business and health care services.

Directed a coalition of DC-based business and philanthropic leaders that helped return Major League Baseball (MLB) to Washington, D.C. after a 34 year absence. Served as top strategist, chief spokesperson, and a principal liaison to MLB, national and local elected officials, business and civic leaders, and regional communities.Amassed a database of over 20,000 interested season ticket holders which formed the core of the season ticket sales in the franchise’s first year. Oversaw design and development of all marketing assets as well as demographic, financial and site selection studies demonstrating that the District could support a MLB franchise. Represented WBC at key meetings with MLB, Mayor’s office, DC City Council and community town halls.Investors included General Colin Powell, President Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, America Online Founding CEO James Kimsey, and NFL Hall-of-Famer Darrell Green.

I built a PR/advertising firm that delivered media consulting services to select national organizations. My clients included Powell’s America’s Promise, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, National Geographic Channel Asia, and Priceline's Perfect YardSale.

Rose from intern to First Vice-President at this full service political media firm. Led the strategic development, execution and production of television and radio ads for over 50 Presidential, Gubernatorial and Senatorial campaigns. Won 19 national advertising awards.

Bachelor’S Degree, History

High School