Found 357 investors
Krzysztof Nowinski
United Kingdom
Mr. Howard Meitiner serves as Chairman at TestCard. He serves as Board Member at AllWork. Mr. Meitiner also serves as Managing Director at Carl Marks Advisors. Mr. Howard has over 40 years of experience providing strategic planning and interim management services to retail clients throughout the world. He is an experienced President/CEO/COO in retail environments with an impressive global and domestic record of increasing revenues and profits through new business development strategies with the world's largest retailer to the traveling public as well as the world's largest luxury brand company. Mr. Meitiner has provided effective leadership skills and business development prowess in organizational turnarounds, market share analytics and start-ups. He is accomplished in crisis management, driving growth, and strategic planning. He has served in various roles including President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Investor, and Advisor. His experience includes the following: President and CEO of The Museum Company, a national 105 specialty retail store organization which maintained a strategic partnership with the Smithsonian; conducted turnaround management on behalf of the private equity owners, managed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process and emergence, updated the business plan and secured support for it and the DIP financing, and sold the company to Kier Group. President and CEO of Sephora USA, a specialty beauty retail concept; launched and adapted retail concept to US, launched companies website, opened 70 stores in 2.5 years, and drove and revised business strategies. Chief Operating Officer of Fortunoff Group, a third generation department store; responsible for all operational disciplines, Director of the two competing family boards with mandate to consolidate operations, recommended strategic change to ownership, and supported the sale of the company to private equity owners as the lead non-family executive. Held various positions of increasing responsibility at DFS Group, a travel retail specialty group; responsible for the business turnaround and restoring its market position, served as Chairman of the Australian Duty Free Association, and assembled a new management team. Mr. Meitiner is a business mentor to XRC Labs that invests in entrepreneurs in the retail and consumer goods industries leveraging emerging technologies, an Operating Partner of MOKA Consultancy Services which provides advisory services regarding digital technologies on business models and extracting value from "big data", and a Managing Director of Ash Creek Capital Advisors which provides advisory services to small and medium sized enterprises. Mr. Meitiner earned his Certificate, Distribution Management Principles, from the College of Distributive Trades, London, UK and a National Retail Certificate from Eastbourne College.
Individual/Angel
Laurene Jobs
United States
Mr. Greg Gunn is a Co-Founder at Lingo Ventures. He serves as Chairman of the Board and the Governance Committee & Member of the Grants Policy & Program Committee, the Investment Committee, and the Organizational Measurement Committee at Nellie Mae Education Foundation. He is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at City Light Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investments in educational software and service companies. In 2000, he co-founded Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than 3 million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. As President, Mr. Gunn created and led the product development team and revamped the company's sales division, landing key state and district sales and tripling the company's revenue in 18 months. As Chief Scientist, he designed highly effective professional development techniques and created the company's analytics and data mining division, turning raw data into new insights about student learning progressions. The company was sold to News Corporation in December 2010. Mr. Gunn holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago, an MBA and Master's in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves as a trustee of the Center for Excellence in Education and was named one of Fast Company magazine's "100 Most Creative People in Business" in 2012. Additionally, Mr. Gunn serves as an expert-in-residence at Harvard University's Innovation Lab and coaches entrepreneurial students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Individual/Angel
Lightsmith Group
United States
Founded in 2016, Lightsmith Group is an impact investing firm that pursues superior financial returns aligned with social and environmental impacts. The firm seeks to invest in growth-stage companies whose technologies and solutions can address the risks and impacts increased by climate change. The firm specifically focuses on technology-enabled business services and solutions in the areas of energy, water, food and agriculture, transportation, weather forecasting/analytics, geospatial imaging/analytics, risk analytics, and other climate resilience solutions. Lightsmith targets commercial private equity returns and also reports on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and positive impact - including on climate action, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and gender.
Impact-investing Firm
Lord Stanley Fink
United States
Mr. Shmuel Levy serves as Executive, Investor at Sequoia Capital. Mr. Shmuel Levy serves as Board Member at Behalf and BigPanda. He served as Board Member at Kenshoo. He served as Chairman at Olive Software. He serves as Partner at Sequoia Capital. He is a Board Member at Forter. He serves as Chairman at Signals Analytics. He sits on the Boards of portfolio company Behalf. He serves as Board Member at Olive Software. He focuses on semiconductor, software and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2000, he was the President of Lucent Technologies' Internetworking Systems Division. He joined Lucent following Lucent's acquisition of Lannet where he served as the President and CEO. He joined Lannet as Vice President for R&D. He also served as Vice President of Madge Networks. Before joining Lannet, he held senior technical positions at IAI, Boeing and Astronautics in the area of Avionic Systems. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Ben Gorion University.
Individual/Angel
Lucas Venture Group
Menlo Park, California, United States
Lucas Venture Group is a venture capital firm investing in robotics, networking, software analytics/big data and cyber security.
Analytics
E-Commerce
Venture Capital
Micro VC
Mac Cowell
United States
Mr. Mikhail Gurevich serves as Managing Partner at RD Advisors. He serves as an Advisor and Board Member at Champion Lender. He serves as Managing Partner at Dominion Capital. He also is an Angel Investor. Before starting the fund he served as President and CTO of ZepInvest, a company he founded in 2007. ZepInvest is a business-to-business distribution platform for financial information providers. In his capacity, he was responsible for technology and business integration. Prior to ZepInvest, he founded ClickFacts, a security and analytics company focused on providing large-scale online advertising solutions. While at ClickFacts he was responsible for business strategy, product development, and system architecture. He holds MBA and BS in Electrical Engineering degrees from Boston University. He is also the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from BU College of Engineering.
Individual/Angel
Marcus Glover
United Kingdom
Mr. Andrew Richardson served as Board Member and Chief Executive Officer at Dynistics. With over 25 years in the IT industry, 20 of which have been building the Influential group of companies, led by Influential Software, an SAP Business Objects Gold PCOE and IBM Cognos Business Analytics partner, providing certified BI consultancy and Software/App development across all sectors and then widespread consultancy to the Publishing/Media sector. Influential People, another part of the group, provides analytics perm, contract staffing primarily focused on SAP, IBM and Microsoft skills. Experience providing services to key clients including Centrica, ISG, Jones Lang LaSalle, Alfred Dunhill, Barclays, Lloyds, John Lewis, Amazon, Prudential, Taylor & Francis (Informa), Interserve, Capita, Addison Lee, Bloomsbury, Hachette, Kwik Fit, Harper Collins, Thyssen Krupp, Cigna, Costcutter, One Savings Bank, Topps Tiles, Selftrade, BLME, NHS trusts, local councils and many more. Over the past 3 years, he has concluded acquisitions from Redstone PLC (SAP Business Objects), Intelligent Solutions Midlands Ltd (IBM Cognos) and provided seed capital for several London-based fashion startups. He served as Partner at Hearn Capital.
Individual/Angel
Marcus Hoye
United Kingdom
Mr. Alexander Hoye is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Faction Skis. He was a Co-Chairman of MyBuilder He serves as the Chairman at Skimbit. He serves as Advisor at Carv. In 1999 he co-founded GoIndustry in Europe, which he and his partners built from the proverbial napkin into a 17-country global leader in online industrial auctions. Alex and the team took it public in London where it was valued at over $100M. Before that, stints at Disney and McKinsey & Company gave him a basis in media, strategy, finance and change management. As CEO of Latitude, one of Europe's largest independent digital marketing agencies, Alex and his team deliver PPC, SEO, social media strategies, affiliate marketing and is on the leading edge of the cross-channel analytics to make a cohesive campaign effective to household brand names and SMEs alike. Since 2006, Alex has been encouraged by and is encouraging the wave of entrepreneurial inspiration capturing Europe. To this end, Alex has acted as an angel investor and mentor in internet-based and consumer projects. These include Seedcamp, home repair marketplace MyBuilder.com, RentMineOnline, Faction Skis, which he co-founded, UserVoice, GoMix, as well as Skimbit. Alex is an advisor to private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, which applies venture methods to the social sector. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Individual/Angel
Margaux Viola
United States
Mr. Larry Freed serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Give and Take. He also serves as Operating Advisor at Updata Partners. He also is an angel investor. He is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at 2nd Stage Partners. Prior to founding 2nd Stage Partners, he was the Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer of the B2B technology firm ForeSee, the world leader in customer experience analytics. Freed is a well-known entrepreneur, business leader, speaker, and author of Managing Forward and the bestseller Innovating Analytics. He's best known for taking Ann Arbor-based customer experience analytics firm ForeSee from its inception in 2001 to a successful exit in 2013 that returned over 22 times the capital originally invested. He led the company from inception in 2001 to a successful exit in 2013 that returned over 22 times the capital originally invested in the business while also growing revenue every quarter since the company was founded. During his tenure at ForeSee, he assembled a world-class executive leadership team, many of whom he has brought on to join him at 2nd Stage Partners. Prior to founding ForeSee, he held several senior executive positions at Compuware Corporation, leading a variety of e-commerce and professional services programs. He served as Vice President of e-Business, where he was responsible for directing the national e-Business practice as well as the design, development, and implementation of e-Business strategies for numerous companies. Before joining Compuware, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Bank One.
Individual/Angel
Mark Maydon
London, England, United Kingdom
Director at Crowd Connected. Providing best-in-class, low-cost indoor & outdoor smartphone positioning. For ‘blue dot’ navigation, mobile tracking, personalised engagement & footfall analytics.
Individual/Angel
Masheen
United States
Masheen is a venture capital firm based in Avon, Connecticut. The firm seeks to invest in the internet of things (IoT), ed-tech, and healthcare analytics sectors.
Venture Capital
MassAffect Venture Advisors
Hong Kong
Mass Affect Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The firm seeks to make investments in companies operating in the e-commerce, digital entertainment, supply chain, mobile, fintech, real estate, business products, internet of things, consumer products, gaming, marketing, media, retail, and data-driven and analytics sectors.
Venture Capital
Matt Razore
United States
Mr. Hewson Baltzell is a Co-Founder and serves as President, Chief Operating Officer & Board Member at Helios Exchange. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Sorenson Impact Center. Mr. Baltzell is an Angel Investor. Hewson Baltzell has a wide variety of experience in real estate finance and development as a commercial and investment banker, covering most property types - office, retail, industrial, residential multi-family, single-family, hotels and resorts. In the Principle Transactions Group (the merchant bank) of Lehman Brothers, he was involved with risk analysis, underwriting, financing and securitization of real estate debt and equity. At Chase Manhattan, his responsibilities included restructuring and securitizing the bank's multi-billion dollar real estate portfolio, foreclosing on properties, then managing, improving and selling those properties. Previously, Baltzell managed debt and equity portfolios for a private, foreign-owned investment company and worked in Mellon Bank's international division. Mr. Baltzell was President and co-founder Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, an internationally recognized investment research firm that originated the rating of Environmental, Social and Governance performance. He and his partners sold the company to RiskMetrics in 2009, with the plan consolidate the field by acquiring other competitors. Six months later, they bought KLD Research & Analytics. He served as Head of Product Development at KLD Research & Analytics working to integrate all legacy companies with a new research platform, client platform, and unified research. MSCI, Inc. acquired RiskMetrics in 2010, and Baltzell stayed on as Executive Director. MSCI's ESG Research Business, with over 500 clients and 150 staff, is now the leader in providing ESG research and ratings of equities, bonds and other financial instruments to institutional investors. The business evaluates 6,000 publicly-held companies and over 200,000 private, public and sovereign bonds from an ESG perspective. Mr. Baltzell is co-chair of the Energy Efficiency Financing Group of the Alliance to Save Energy. He is on the board of the Global Impact Investing Network, a not-for-profit supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Omidyar Network, and is on the Standards Advisory Committee of the related Global Impact Investing Rating System. He is also on the board of Local Food Systems, a supply chain management company promoting the growth of the local and sustainable food market. Mr. Baltzell holds an MBA in Finance from Wharton and a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a frequent conference speaker and lecturer at institutions such as Wharton and Columbia.
Individual/Angel
Maxwell Hayman
United States
Andrew Wang is an angel investor. He seeks to invest in Internet, Financial Services, Media, Mobile, Big Data Analytics, E-Commerce and Social Commerce sectors located in New York, San Francisco, Texas and Boston.
Individual/Angel
Medstrada Venture Capital
Israel
Medstrada Venture Capital is a venture capital investment fund focusing on food and nutrition technologies. The firm prefers investment opportunities in novel food, personalized nutrition, food data and analytics and healthy planet. It is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Venture Capital
Mentor Ventures (fund)
United Kingdom
Mentor Ventures is a venture capital firm based in the United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest in artificial intelligence and analytics-first healthcare startups.
Venture Capital
Mikhail Naumov
United States
Dr. Brian Lent is an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Technology Officer at HERE Global. He founded and served as Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Medio Systems. Brian Lent drives innovation and technological vision across HERE Technologies. Lent came to HERE in 2014 through the acquisition of Medio, a pioneer in the emerging field of real-time predictive analytics that he co-founded. Prior to the creation of Medio, Lent was the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a leading business analytics enterprise software company later acquired by First Data Corporation. He also held the position of Director of Information Technology at Amazon.com. Before joining Amazon, he served as Principal and Director of Applications at Junglee Corporation, the first company to launch a shopping comparison search and recommendations engine, which was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Lent studied in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University, where he co-founded MIDAS (Mining Data at Stanford), the same lab that incubated the Google crawler and search engine. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nevada, Reno and a Masters and Ph.D. Candidacy in Computer Science from Stanford University. Lent also serves as a member of the Founding Board of the University of Washington's Information School, bringing an emphasis on Big Data and analytics.
Individual/Angel
Mjolnir Ventures
London, England, United Kingdom
Venture Capital in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, IoT
Artificial Intelligence
Venture Capital
Micro VC
Venture Capital
Moty Fania
Be'er Sheva, HaDarom, Israel
Moty is a principle engineer for big data analytics at Intel IT. He serves as the CTO of the advanced analytics group which delivers Big dat...
Investment Partner
Myron Greenberg
United States
Mr. Myron Greenberg serves as Advisor at Intensity Analytics. He was the District Court Judge of Hennepin Country District Court for 18 years.
Individual/Angel
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