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Matti Leshem
Los Angeles, California, United States
Matti Leshem is founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based brand strategy company Protagonist. As a television and digital content veteran, Le...
Individual/Angel
Matt Rutledge
United States
Mr. Christopher Risley serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Bastille Networks. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Defense.net. He is the Chief Executive Officer at Metalogix Software. He also served as an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and was based at the firm's Massachusetts office. He brings to the firm more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, following a 13 career with European industrial companies. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer at StreamBase. Previously, Mr. Risley was attached to the California office and was the Chief Executive Officer at Nominum. He joined the firm after serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at NewChannel, which Mr. Risley managed to sell to LivePerson. Before that, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at BVP, having founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at ON Technology Corp. Before his career in the software industry, Mr. Risley held a variety of sales, marketing, and executive positions within industry. Most notably, he spent many years at BTR Corporation, now Invensys, in charge of mergers and acquisitions activity and institutional investor relations. Mr. Risley also spent two years as an Advisor to the Chairman at British Aerospace during its turnaround. He served as the chairman of StreamBase and also serves on the board of Nominum. He has done a P.M.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Business and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University. He has over 25 years of software business experience during which he has led eight venture-backed start-ups resulting in one IPO and four sales to public companies. For the past 10 years, Risley has focused on highly-scalable Secure Data Management (SDM) software companies, shaping and growing 3 of the industry's rising stars in enterprise & carrier scale SDM solutions. Most recently Risley was Chairman of StreamBase Systems (complex real-time event processing) which sold to Tibco (NASDAQ:TIBX) in June 2013. Risley was also CEO of big data e-discovery leader Digital Reef until it was acquired by TransPerfect in late 2012. Digital Reef processed billions of highly sensitive legal documents for major financial institutions in its secure data centers. Previously, he was CEO of Secure Enterprise Content Management innovator Metalogix, and prior to that served as CEO of StreamBase Systems. StreamBase served the real-time big data needs of major financial institutions and the U.S intelligence community. Before that Risley was CEO of Nominum, Inc., the provider of carrier-scale software to operate the Internet's massive database of names and IP addresses. Risley continues as a member of Nominum's board of directors. Risley's background also includes service as CEO of NewChannel, an e-business service provider sold to LivePerson (NASDAQ:LVPN) and as Chairman and CEO of ON Technology Corp., a network security software provider acquired by Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC). Risley led ON Technology's IPO and the company was listed as the 36th Fastest Growing Public Companies by INC 100. Risley's investors have included Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Deutsche Telekom, Highland Capital, In-Q-Tel, Juniper Networks, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sumitomo, Verisign and others. Risley has also served as an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to his achievements in the software industry, Risley spent 10 years with European industrial companies including BTR plc (now Invensys) and Advisor to the Chairman of British Aerospace during the company's turnaround.
Individual/Angel
McCall Springer
United States
McCall Springer is an investment entity based in Pacific Palisades, California. The firm self-originates all of its investment initiatives; which are primarily in certain information content services sub-sectors. Prior investment initiatives have also encompassed originations of major solutions and growth opportunities in certain telecom services, branded personal care, fashion, confectionery, and beverage sub-sectors. Among other criteria or features, all of McCall Springer's investment themes and initiatives target acquisitions of one or more platform companies and tangential sub-sector roll-ups to accelerate the fulfillment of and capitalization on the significant under-recognized market solutions and capability needs/wants. This approach also enables more securely capturing the organic growth and market dominance opportunities. McCall Springer invites like-minded entrepreneurial/private investors and certain institutional investors to collaboratively co-sponsor their initiatives, realize the always out-sized investment opportunities, and support the collateral 9eco)systemic advances.
Growth Capital
Media Capital Technologies
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Media Capital Technologies is a specialty finance company focused on strategic investments in premium content.
Media and Entertainment
Private Equity Firm
Media Invest Flanders
Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Media Invest focuses on SMEs with an (operating) seat in Flanders or Brussels that are active in media content (audio and audiovisual).
Venture Capital
Michal Skrzynski
United States
Mr. Donald Gleklen served as Board Member at Sightlogix. Mr. Donald Gleklen also served as Board Member at Jenrin Discovery. He serves as Board Member at InfoMC. He also served as an advisor and a member of the investment committee at Emerald Stage2 Ventures. He is a strategic business advisor and private investor and has extensive experience as a senior corporate executive, banker and lawyer. Mr. Gleklen is also an Advisor at TechTransCo, and a retired chairman and chief executive officer of InteliHealth, a leading healthcare content Internet company that was a joint venture of Johns Hopkins Health System and Aetna USHealthcare. He has also served on the board of directors of several public and privately owned companies. He is on the Investment Committee of Murex Investments I and is active in the venture capital community, having invested in several early stage companies in various industries. He is a director and member of the executive committee, as well as chairman of the Audit Committee of Firstrust Bank, Philadelphia. He is the past chairman of the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, and also served on the board of regents of the Washington, DC based Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is a fellow and serves on the board of trustees of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, one of the few non physicians to be elected to the oldest honorary medical society in the country. He is a former Trustee and Finance Committee Chairman of Northwestern Human Services. Prior to creating his own investment and consulting business in 1994, he spent ten years at MEDIQ, as head of corporate development and group executive and spent 16 years at Industrial Valley Bank, serving as executive vice president and senior lending officer. He has a law degree from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.
Individual/Angel
Mikhail Govshteyn
India
Mr. Michael Krug is Founder and serves as Principal & Platinum Quality Management Consultant at Quality Management Solutions. He also is an Angel Investor. He has over 19 year of experience in the QA Module of SAP. He also serves as Board Member at Content Launch.
Individual/Angel
Misha Chellam
United States
Mr. Jonathan Seelig is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chairman at Ridge. He served as Chairman at pq. He is a Board member at Zagster. Seelig is a Co-Founder at Akamai Technologies. He sources new investment opportunities, evaluates and negotiates investments, and serves on the boards of portfolio companies. He also serves as a Board Member at Pursway. He focuses on investments in Communications and Internet/Infrastructure companies. Jonathan, a successful entrepreneur himself, shares his company creation and operating experience, technical expertise, and broad international perspective to help the firm's portfolio companies succeed. Jonathan co-founded Akamai Technologies, the leading global Internet content and application delivery services company. At Akamai, he managed global infrastructure development and deployment, international expansion, and business development in a fast-growth environment. He knows first-hand the challenges of managing a high-growth startup. "I love being with entrepreneurs who are building fast-paced, innovative, and highly responsive companies." At Globespan, the companies he works with "know that they can ask me for advice on absolutely any issue. I've seen many of them before." As an entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist, Jonathan got his introduction to venture capital trying to raise money for his company. "We had a very supportive and productive relationship with many of our early investors, so I learned just how much value a good angel investor or VC can add to a company." He believes that working as a team is essential, which means "asking for help when I need it, giving help when I am asked, and accepting help when it is offered." At Globespan, Jonathan enjoys "meeting and getting to know passionate entrepreneurs who love what they do every day." Before he co-founded Akamai, Jonathan worked at ECI Telecom in Israel where he held roles in product marketing and new product development, working with customers in nearly 40 countries around the world. Jonathan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, with honors, from Stanford University. He also serves as Board Member at Nominum. He served as Board Member at Zagster.
Individual/Angel
Movida Group
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Movida Group offers a range of broadband contents to the broadband and mobile industries.
Micro VC
MSN
United States
MSN is a provider of news and information serving through a variety of web and mobile applications. The company provides online content with Microsoft services and helps to stay informed serving clients web services and online advertising opportunities. It was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Redmond, United States.
Angel Group
MTGx
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
MTGx is the digital accelerator of Modern Times Group, and is focused on leveraging its digital assets and content portfolio.
Digital Entertainment
Finance
Venture Capital
Accelerator
MTI Ltd.
Shinjuku, Yamanashi, Japan
MTI is a mobile content provider offering fun and convenient services throuth its mobile websites.
Mobile
Venture Capital
Musinsa Partners
South Korea
Founded in 2018, Musinsa Partners is a coporrate venture capital arm of Musinsa based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm seeks to invest in fashion, lifestyle, content, and media companies based in Korea.
Venture Capital
Nathan Haralson
United States
Ms. Jennifer Baumann served as Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel at FTD Companies. Ms. Jennifer Baumann served as Senior Associate at DLA Piper. Ms. Jennifer Baumann concentrates her practice in the areas of licensing, information technology, intellectual property, e-commerce and outsourcing. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating a range of agreements including licenses, master services agreement for research and development, distribution, software, trademark, copyright, patent, digital content, media, co-promotion, co-branding and merchandising. Ms. Baumann also focuses her practice on intellectual property and technology issues related to mergers and acquisitions and has additional experience in intellectual property litigation, domestic and international trademark prosecution, copyrights, domain name disputes, on-line gaming issues, sweepstakes and advertising. She has additional experience counseling clients on Internet and e-commerce issues including terms of use, privacy policies and the E-SIGN statute. She has worked with companies in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer products, financial, retail, real estate, entertainment, food and agriculture, telecommunications, software development as well as several non-profit organizations.
Individual/Angel
National Geographic Ventures
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
National Geographic Ventures creates and distributes scientific- and expedition-based content across multiple platforms and media.
Venture Capital
Neha Sampat
San Francisco, California, United States
Neha Sampat (@nehasf) is Founder and CEO at Contentstack™ – a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP),...
Individual/Angel
Neill Groom
United States
Mr. Michael Klein serves as Board Member at Michael Klein. Mr. Klein joined Canaan Partners' Menlo Park office in 2010 as an Investment Analyst on the technology team. He focuses on the firm's digital media, mobile and cloud investments. Prior to joining Canaan, Michael served as an Associate in technology investment banking at ThinkEquity. While at ThinkEquity, Michael advised on and executed over 20 strategic and financing transactions for leaders in the technology sector including OpenTable, SuccessFactors, Xoom, On2 Technologies, SigmaTel and DG FastChannel. Michael received a BS in Business Administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University where he specialized in finance and accounting. Michael also studied international finance at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Mr. Klein is an accomplished executive, entrepreneur, and financier with substantial experience in media and entertainment, investment banking, professional sports, venture capital funding, and real estate. Prior to starting Camden Capital Management, LLC (CCM), Mr. Klein, since 1996, has led Klein Investment Group after assuming 100% ownership of (and renaming) Iacocca Capital Partners, L.P., where he was Managing Partner from 1994 to 1996. From 1984 to 1993, Mr. Klein was a managing director at Bear Stearns & Company, where he founded and co-directed the Media-Entertainment Group, and Gruntal & Company, where he was Senior Managing Director and a member of the Executive Committee. From 1974 to 1982, Mr. Klein supplied prime time and mini-series content to the major television networks through his company, Michael Klein Productions. Also, during that time, he was an owner and a senior executive officer of the San Diego Chargers, an NFL Football franchise. Mr. Klein has significant experience in the area of corporate financings. He has executed and participated in financing deals, both public and private, ranging from $5 million to over $2 billion. His real estate ventures in Southern California include a 600 acre development in North San Diego, which he sold in various stages. He also has led several real estate ventures in Southern California including the Water Gardens phase two in Santa Monica. Outside of his day-to-day professional duties, Mr. Klein serves on the Board of Governors of Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is Chairman of the Board of St. John's Hospital/Friends of Malibu Urgent Care Clinic along with charitable relationships. Mr. Klein earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1969 after which he immediately began his career on Wall Street with a medium size Investment Banking/ Broker-Dealer, Wygod, Weiss & Florin.
Individual/Angel
New Media Venture Partners
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
New Media Venture Partners is a holding company that finances companies enabling the creation and distribution of digital content.
Finance
Financial Services
Media and Entertainment
Venture Capital
Nicolò Augusto Manica
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Asia
International Speaker, Digital Start-up Investor and Digital Content Marketing Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management. Read all the artic...
Individual/Angel
NOMO Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
NOMO Ventures invests in companies seeking direct monetization models, as opposed to companies built on content or advertising.
Advertising
Business Development
Content
Venture Capital
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