Found 1,052 investors
John Moore
United States
Mr. Chris Conley is a Co-Founder and served as Board Member at Gravity Tank. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Skill Scout. He is a founding partner of gravitytank and former tenured professor at IIT Institute of Design (ID). He works with gravitytank and leading firms like Samsung, Autodesk, Coinstar/RedBox, Plantronics and Unilever, to cultivate an innovative culture within their organizations. He guided a number of seminal programs between Unilever and their retail partners that culminated in the creation of their Customer Collaboration Centers in six global cities. He is working with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation to bring design & innovation to philanthropy and create sustainable growth for some of their most effective programs. Conley was the 2006 chair of the IDEA/Business Week Awards and is a regular speaker at business conferences and leadership summits that focus on innovation and organizational culture. Chris holds a Master of Science degree in innovation and an engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at dscout.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Trainline, Meadow Foods, Group GTI, Bullitt Group
Jon Kamaluddin
London, England, United Kingdom
Jon Kamaluddin was international director at online retailer ASOS from 2009 to 2013 after having spent five years as CFO. In his role as int...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Peoplevox
Judith Williams
United States
Mr. Julien Faye is an angel investor. Julien Faye is a partner and director in Bain & Company's Middle East region. He leads Bain's Financial Services practice in the Middle East. Julien has advised global financial services firms for more than 20 years in the Middle East, Europe and North America across multiple sectors, including corporate and investment banks, asset management, capital markets, exchanges, retail and private banking, financial regulators and professional associations. Julien was selected by the prestigious World Economic Forum as a "Young Global Leader," a community of 100-200 extraordinary individuals, drawn from every region of the world. Together, they form a powerful international community that share a commitment to shaping the global future. He is also a regular contributor to leading business and trade financial publications. His insights have been published and quoted in Mist News, The National, Daily News Egypt and ArabianBusiness.com. Julien holds an MBA from INSEAD and graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Shavent, Bedrop
Kai Gradert
United States
Ms. Karen Francis served as Executive Advisory Board Member at Kennet Partners. Ms. Francis was an Executive Chairman of AcademixDirect. She is a Board Member of Telenav. She is a Board Member of Metawave. She also served as Board Member at Quanergy. She has served as a director of AutoNation, Inc., the largest automotive retailer in the U.S., since February 2016. She served as Advisor at Lead Edge Capital. She previously served as a director of The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. from May 2014 to May 2017. She also serves as an Independent Director and Strategic Advisor to privately held technology companies. She served as CEO of AcademixDirect, Inc., an education technology company, from 2009 to 2014 and as Executive Chairman from 2009 to 2017. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Francis was Chairman and CEO of Publicis & Hal Riney, based in San Francisco and part of the Publicis global advertising and marketing network. From 2001 to 2002, she served as Vice President of Ford Motor Company, where she was responsible for strategic technology investments including in-vehicle telematics, customer relationship management across all divisions, global vehicle export operations, and Ford Direct, the company's online sales initiative structured as a joint venture with Ford dealers. From 1996 to 2000, she held several positions with General Motors, including serving as General Manager of the Oldsmobile division overseeing sales, marketing, strategy and product development, as well as Regional Manager of Chevrolet's Rocky Mountain Region responsible for all dealer operations in eleven states. Ms. Francis holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College. She serves as Executive Advisory Board Member at Kennet Partners. She serves as Board Member at Quanergy Systems
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Fieldbook
Katherine Bradley
United States
Mr. Craig Ceranna serves as Interim Chief Financial Officer at OPER (Financial Software). He also serves as a Chief Financial Officer & Board Member at LĒVO. Craig Ceranna began his career in variety of operational and finance roles. Over his career he has developed into a very strategic leader and has led the commercialization teams of numerous multimillion-dollar product lines including Zhu Zhu Pets and Yurbuds. Overseeing all aspect of commercialization from manufacturing site selection and production planning, to marketing plans and retail rollouts. Craig has worked with major licenses from Disney, Cartoon Network, Coca Cola, and World Triathlon Corporation just to name a few. He was a key member of the management team that led two of St. Louis fastest growing companies. Having spent many years working in start-up environments he is well versed in all of the challenges represented in bringing ideation and conceptualization to commercialization. Cepia (founder) 2002-Present Oct 2014-Oct 2015 (CFO Yurbuds) Harman Kardon Oct 2010-Oct 2014 (CFO & Partner) Yurbuds
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Axios Media
Keith Fix
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Looking for amazing people to join the Retail Aware team!
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Retail Aware
Ken Pilot
New York, New York, United States
Ken Pilot is a managing partner at Crosswork, Backbone PLM, and PredictSpring Inc. He has over 30 years of retail, C-level operating experie...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Burrow, Backbone PLM
Kim Kamdar
United States
Dr. Tracy Marshbanks serves as Managing Director at First Analysis. He serves as Chairman at Vida. He coordinates investment and research in the chemistry-enabled sector. Prior to joining First Analysis in 1999, he performed economic and strategic analysis of retail facility placement, acquisition, and divestment for Amoco. Earlier, he worked in refining capital planning and as a research engineer at Amoco. He earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Colorado State University.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Sonexa Therapeutics, Obalon Therapeutics, Rox Medical, Fractyl Laboratories, Tragara Pharmaceuticals, Lithera, Tandem Diagnostics, Syndax Pharmaceuticals
Klaus Hrazdira
Bangladesh
Ms. Sayma Rahman is an angel investor based in Bangladesh. She started her career at Robi Axiata and moved on to Grameenphone in different roles in product, digital, and marketing. She's currently heading the retail partnership at the organization and graduates from INSEAD and North South University.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
DIZZBO
Koleman Karleski
United States
Mr. James Scharpf serves as Vice President of Finance at Wolf & Shepherd. He serves as a Partner at LDR Ventures. Jim is an experienced finance leader specializing in consumer brands, E-commerce, retail, fashion & lifestyle businesses. His specialty is aligning the financial activities of a Company to the goals set by entrepreneurs & management; and assessing the feasibility, risks, and opportunities of these goals as actual results materialize. Jim has worked at a multi-billion dollar, global brands as well as startups with Angel Investor funding. He understands the key initiatives and goals that need to be put in place to scale a Company at each stage of its life cycle and has worked firsthand in executive leadership to achieve them.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
CompleteSet
Laura McCann
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Laura has been an entrepreneur and senior executive in the Fashion and Retail industry for over 20+ years. With a degree in Fashion from Par...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Adoratherapy
Laurie Ann Goldman
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Laurie Ann Goldman is a retailing executive with over 25 years of experience in building global consumer product businesses and brands best ...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
ThirdLove
Marcello Leone
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marcello Leone is highly regarded as a visionary in the fashion industry. Recognized as one of North AmericaвАЩs leading retailers operating o...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
RYU Apparel
Mark Vadon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Mr. Vadon is one of the countryвАЩs leading internet retailing entrepreneurs, having co-founded two highly successful online specialty retail ...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Rad Power Bikes, Flyhomes, Allbirds, The Pill Club, Crowd Cow, New Engen
Mattias Miksche
United States
Mr. Charles Stack serves as Innovation Consultant at FlashStarts. He serves as an Advisor at Remesh. He served as Board Member at Lufthouse. After graduation from Case Western Reserve University Law School, he formed Parallax, Inc., which developed and marketed a PC-based networking case management software system for asbestos litigation to national law firms and corporate law departments. In 1992, Charles started Books.com, the first online bookstore. Charles pioneered many of the features we now take for granted in today's internet retailers. Books.com offered millions of books, comprehensive searching, collaborative recommendations (patented), shopping carts, price comparisons (patented), real-time credit card processing, affiliate programs, and introduced many other now standard Internet retailing concepts. Books.com was acquired by CUC, Inc. in early 1996 and subsequently by Barnes and Noble. At CUC, Charles designed and launched groundbreaking sites for online music sales, movies, gifts, computer software, and games. In 1998, he founded Flashline to address the new opportunity in software components and web services. After navigating Flashline through the technology meltdown of 2001-2003, Charles focused Flashline on the expanding web services management market and created the leading web services repository solution with multiple patents. BEA Systems, Inc. acquired Flashline in 2006. BEA was acquired by Oracle in 2008 and the Flashline product remains the core offering in Oracle's web services suite. Charles has mentored, advised, and/or invested the first money in several notable startups including OnShift, DecisionDesk, eFuneral, Skritter, and iGuiders. In 2000, Charles won the Infoworld E-Business Innovator Award for his contributions to Internet Retail along with Tim-Berners-Lee (WWW), Dr. James Gosling (Java), Jeff Hawkins (Palm Pilot), Richard Stallman (GNU), Times Howes (LDAP), and Phil Zimmerman (PGP). Charles won the Ohio Venture Association (OVA) Venture of the Year award in 2007 and served on the OVA board until 2010. He has mentored and/or be a judge at numerous business plan and startup competitions including the recent Startup Weekend Cleveland and the 11 regional University iDeaLabs competition.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Estrid, VALIDIO, Bokio, Karma, Sana Labs, Typelane, Fishbrain, Anotherblock
Matt Truman
London, England, United Kingdom
Matt Truman has spent 15 years working in the retail and consumer sector. He began his career at Deloitte within the retail and consumer pr...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Unmind
Michael Greeley
United States
Mr. Vijay Nagappan serves as a Partner at MHS Capital. He served as Board Observer at Humanity. He also serves as Board Member at Garmentory, Plotly, Zenput, and Sympto Health. He serves as Advisor at Elevation Ventures. He is a Board Member of Qualio and an Observer at Outreach. He joined MHS Capital in 2010. Prior to joining MHS Capital, he was with Evercore Partners where he worked side by side with founders and operators of VC-backed and public technology companies, advising them on corporate strategy, fundraising, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. In 2002, he joined his first startup, Wired Gamez, where he was responsible for customer sourcing, business development, and new market expansion. After Wired Gamez, he developed a web-based CRM and job management system for a recruiting services company, built a data-driven forecasting model as part of AND1's retail strategy, and developed data scraping/cleaning algorithms to track what TV broadcast content was being illegally downloaded across the web.
Individual/Angel
Series A
Past Investments
Springleaf Therapeutics, Magen BioSciences, Oshi Health, Aspen RxHealth, Circulation, HealthReveal, Cohere Health, Aetion, Suki, LuminDx, Rock Health, Cayaba Care, Lighter Living, EarlyBird, Somatus, Bright Health, Predilytics, TARIS Biomedical, Predictive Biosciences, HealthVerity, Iora Health, Valence Health, Eden Health, VisitPay, Curisium, Protein Forest, PolyRemedy, ClearDATA, Higi, Oui Health, UnifiHealth, Tausight, Welltok
Michael Rothman
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Michael Rothman has over 25 years of experience in the industrial service sector and 10 years in the retail services industry. Mr. Rothman s...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Technori
Mikhail Gutseriev
Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
Mikhail Gutseriev is a founder and the main shareholder of Safmar Group, a conglomerate with interests in oil, coal, real estate and retail....
Individual/Angel
Seed
Early Stage Venture
Grant
Past Investments
UralChem
Navjit Bhasin
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Omni Channel Retail Solutions Entrepreneur, Advisor, Investor.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Dropel Fabrics
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