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David Nicklas
United States
Vish Makhijani was the CEO and President of [Yandex Labs](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yandex), based in Silicon Valley. In May 2009, Vish [announced](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/19/vish-makhijani-leaves-operating-role-at-yandex-moves-to-zynga/) he would be leaving Yandex Labs for a Senior Operating role at [Zynga](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zynga). Prior to joining Yandex in 2008, Vish was SVP and General Manager of the Yahoo Search Group. He is a seasoned Search executive with over eight years in the industry leading both consumer and advertiser search businesses on a global scale. Vish was the Vice President of Yahoo Search Marketing International and International Monetization. Prior to that role, he was Vice President and General Manager of Yahoos consumer International Search business. Before joining Yahoo, Vish served as Vice President and General Manager of Inktomi. Under his leadership, the Inktomi Web Search business experienced continued growth, gained significant traction for its paid inclusion programs and made innovative technology enhancements to its search technology. Mr. Makhijani had been with the company since early 1999, and, prior to his role in Web search, he headed-up Inktomi's investor relations program where he built strong relationships with company stakeholders and financial analysts. Before joining Inktomi, Mr. Makhijani worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in both the company's New York Metro and Silicon Valley practices where he helped Fortune 500 clients and leading technology, media and start up companies with financial reporting, mergers, acquisitions, and public offering issuances. Mr. Makhijani earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Connecticut.
Individual/Angel
David Ross
United Kingdom
Ms. Ritum Jain is an Angel Investor. She serves as Senior Marketing Director at Teradata. Prior to joining Teradata, she led global marketing strategy and sales enablement for multiple industries and solution areas for SAS and Alteryx. She holds an MBA in IT and New Product Development from NC State University, and a Masters in Marketing from Delhi University, India.
Individual/Angel
David Sharrock
United States
Mr. Bob Borchers is an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President at Dolby Laboratories. He also serves as Board Member at Prove. He was a Board Member of Sequent Software. He joined Dolby Laboratories in 2014. He has more than 20 years of experience bringing compelling products and services to consumers in new ways and has worked at such companies as Apple, Nike and Nokia. As part of the original iPhone® team at Apple, Bob was instrumental in the development, launch and global expansion of the iPhone, iOS and App Store™. While at Apple, he also led the Nike® + iPod® partnership, expanded the iPod accessory ecosystem and forged relationships with the major auto companies to provide iPod integration. Most recently, Bob was a general partner at Opus Capital, making early stage investments in mobile software and service platforms. Prior to Apple, he spent six years at Nokia, where he cofounded and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Vertu business unit. Before his career in the mobile industry, Bob worked for Nike in Beaverton, Oregon, where he led efforts in product and service personalization. Bob holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an SM degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has more than 30 patents granted or pending and has won awards from the Industrial Designers Society of America. He serves on the board of directors at Bank of the West and the Hertz Foundation. He also served as Board Member & Senior Vice President at Bank of the West.
Individual/Angel
David Valadez
United States
Mr. Umberto Milleti is the Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at InsideView. He also serves as an Advisor of The College Company. He co-founded DigitalThink and served as its Vice President of Solutions Management since April 1996. Beginning in 1996, he served in key roles with DigitalThink, serving as General Manager of Products, Vice President of Technology and Vice President of Marketing & Product Management. From March 1993 to March 1996, he served as Director of Product Development of Knowledge Revolution. He also served in various management positions with Integrated Systems. He has been a Member of Software Division Board at Software & Information Industry Association since April 2010. He holds a B.S., summa cum laude, in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Individual/Angel
David Vergara
Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
Product Marketing Executive ► GTM "Blackbelt" ● Security Thought Leader ● Animated Presenter + Storyteller ● Tech Investor + Advisor
Individual/Angel
Day One Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Day One Ventures is an early-stage VC firm that invests in technology startups and lead their marketing and communications.
Business Development
Financial Services
Information Technology
Management Consulting
Venture Capital
Private Equity Firm
Venture Capital
DCM Capital Advisor
United States
Ms. Grace Ray serves as Board Member at Icelandic Provisions. She also served as Chief Executive Officer at Milani Cosmetics. She is an Angel Investor. She previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Living she has over 13 years of experience building successful brands, launching profitable product lines and driving all aspects of consumer marketing. Prior to joining Living Proof as CMO, she was the VP of Global Marketing at Smashbox Cosmetics, which was recently acquired by Estee Lauder. At Smashbox, she played an instrumental role in building the brand to become one of the fastest growing prestige cosmetic brands in the world, overseeing all aspects of new product strategy, brand development, marketing, merchandising and public relations. Prior to Smashbox, she gained substantial marketing experience with L'Oreal and Nestle where she led brand management and innovation of several global brands. She holds an MBA from Harvard and an Engineering degree from the University of Michigan.
Individual/Angel
D Cubed Group
United States
Founded in 2010, D Cubed Group is a private equity firm based in New York, New York. The firm seeks to invest in small and mid-scale businesses operating in the consumer and business services industries, with particular emphasis on direct-to-consumer and multi-channel marketing, marketing services, food service, restaurants and hospitality, franchise-modeled businesses, business services targeted healthcare and education providers.
Private Equity Firm
Deborah Liu
San Francisco, California, United States
DEBORAH LIU is manager of product marketing for Facebook Credits and Games at Facebook, where she oversees initiatives related to game appli...
Individual/Angel
Deborah Peacock
United Kingdom
Mr. Volodymyr Levykin is a Founder & serves as Managing Director at Skyrora Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Orbital Impulse. Mr. Levykin is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Skyrora. He serves as board member at Orbitalytics. He previously served in different C-level positions at IT companies focused on social media and digital marketing. He actively invests in space-focused projects. Other projects include HTP Chemical Ltd, which specializes in the development and production of high-test peroxide, and Enatech Ltd, which develops, manufactures and tests high-grade composite parts. Mr. Volodymyr Levykin serves as Board Member at Ecosene.
Individual/Angel
Deena Kalai
United States
Mr. Jeffrey Garanich is an Angel Investor. He served as Director, Business Development at Actuated Medical. In his role as Actuated Medical's Director Business Development, Jeff leads investor and strategic engagements to accelerate device time to market and expand sales of existing products. He also identifies, assesses, and develops new opportunities in the commercial space and works closely with the company's product teams to develop and implement marketing best practices. Prior to joining Actuated Medical, Jeff worked with The Sapphire Group LLC where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions and company formation projects in the healthcare and media sectors and new client development in the medical device sector. He also worked with Boston Scientific Corporation where he managed the daily operation of a corporate cell biology research facility staffed with ten scientists. Jeff holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, both from Penn State University.
Individual/Angel
Denis Igin
United States
Mr. Blake Miller is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Homebase. He serves as Partner at Think Big Partners. He also co-founded Bodeefit. He serves as Board Member at SquareOffs. He co-founded Kahootz. He is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in the Internet of Things and growth marketing. Blake joined Think Big in 2009 as the Director of the Accelerator, managing the accelerator program portfolio and internal technology operations for Think Big. At Think Big, Blake has championed several new initiatives that grew out of Think Big including; the Kansas City Smart Initiative which won a 2017 Edison Innovation Award, and Homebase.AI that originally started as an innovation partnership between Think Big and Sunflower Development group. Blake has been recognized as a NextGen Leader by the Kansas City Business Journal, top 20 in their 20's by Ingram Magazine, and a top young entrepreneur to watch by under30ceo. Blake speaks nationally and serves as a board member, advisor, and mentor to a number of startups.
Individual/Angel
Denis O'Dwyer
United States
Mr. Frank Rimalovski serves as Executive Director at NYU Innovation Venture Fund. He serves as a Board Observer at Kinvolved. He leads a pan-University initiative to spur and support entrepreneurship and technology commercialization across NYU. Frank is also the managing director of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, a seed-stage venture fund formed to invest exclusively in startups founded NYU students, faculty and researchers. He is co-author, with Giff Constable, of the book Talking to Humans, which guides entrepreneurs through the customer discovery process. Frank has more than 20 years of experience in early-stage venture capital, spinouts, and technology commercialization. He was a founding partner of corporate spinout VC specialist New Venture Partners, and before that a director and entrepreneur-in-residence in Lucent's New Ventures Group. Previously, he held positions in marketing and product management at Sun Microsystems, Apple, and NeXT. Earlier in his career, he was an M&A banker at Bear Stearns and Rodman & Renshaw. Frank currently serves as an Instructor for the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) program and is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He sits on the advisory boards for Harlem Biospace and Tufts University's Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. Frank holds a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Individual/Angel
Dennis Dayman
United States
Mr. Doug Groh serves as Managing Director at CincyTech. He also serves as Board Member at Beanstalk Payment Technologies. He served as an Advisor at VRpatients. He serves as Board Member at ReadySet Surgical. He was a Board Member of Kapture and Batterii. He works with startup companies focused on information technology, especially business enterprise software, and also coordinates investor relations with CincyTech's network of high-net-worth individual investors. He has served as Director of Sales and Marketing at Verifi LLC, a division of WR Grace and an Investor and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at RS Solutions LLC. He has also been an Investor and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ohmart/VEGA Corp. (from 1993 until its sale in 2008). All are Cincinnati-based companies. He was honored as Investor of the Year in 2012 by the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association. He is a graduate of Notre Dame with a Bachelor's in philosophy and a Graduate of Moeller High School.
Individual/Angel
Dentsu Innovation Partners
Japan
Dentsu Digital Holdings is a corporate venture arm of Dentsu based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 2000, the firm provides digital communications solutions and services. Additionally, it offers strategy solutions and data analysis to identify strategic scenarios. The company also provides internet advertising, advertising networks and services for agencies. In addition, it engages in the digital marketing platforms, digital media, digital technology and social marketing.
Venture Capital
Dentsu Ventures
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dentsu Ventures specializes in seed, early, mid and later-stage investments in the marketing and communication business.
Angel Investment
Business Development
Corporate Training
Impact Investing
Venture Capital
Corporate Venture Capital
Derek Callow
Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
Derek Callow is the chief marketing officer at Fair.
Individual/Angel
DevX
India
DevX is a venture capital and accelerator firm based in Ahmedabad, India. The firm seeks to invest in early stage tech-enabled B2B companies operating in the automotive tech, fintech, artifical intelligence, helthtech, edtech, SaaS, marketing, data analytics, transportation, mobility sectors.
Venture Capital
Digital Fuel Capital
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Digital Fuel Capital is a Boston-based investment firm focused on investments in e-commerce and digital marketing.
E-Commerce
Fashion
Furniture
Retail
Sporting Goods
Private Equity Firm
DI Group
Russian Federation
DI Group is a venture capital firm based in Tomsk, Russia. The firm builds high-tech hardware startups using their in-house funding, engineering, manufacturing and marketing capabilities.
Venture Capital
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