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Chip Wilson
Canada
Mr. Gerald Schwartz is the Founder and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Onex. Before establishing Onex in 1984, Gerald Schwartz was the Co-founder and President of CanWest Capital. Prior to that, he worked at a major Wall Street investment banking firm where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions. His previous experience also includes the practice of corporate law in Canada. Gerald Schwartz has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada and inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. He serves as a director of Indigo Books & Music. He is also Vice Chairman of Mount Sinai Hospital; an Honorary Director of The Bank of Nova Scotia; Member, Committee on University Resources of Harvard University Board of Overseers; and is a Director, Governor, or Trustee of a number of other organizations, including Junior Achievement of Central Ontario and The Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
Chiratae Ventures
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management.
Venture Capital
Finance
Financial Services
Corporate Venture Capital
Chow Kiat Lim
Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Lim Chow Kiat was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2017. He was previously Group Chief Investment Officer of GIC and Deputy Gr...
Investment Partner
Chris Byatte
United States
Mr. Richard Kinder is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Kinder Morgan. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners. He served as Executive Chairman and Co-founder at Kinder Morgan Management. He is responsible for developing and executing the company's vision and strategy and allocating capital to Kinder Morgan business units in a disciplined manner. Under his leadership, Kinder Morgan has grown from a small company with 175 employees and an enterprise value of $325 million to a corporation with almost 12,000 employees and an enterprise value of approximately $100 billion. He receives a salary of $1 a year and owns approximately 11 percent of Kinder Morgan. Kinder Morgan is one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies in America and was previously recognized as the top company among all industries for "Quality of Management." Mr. Kinder is a past recipient of Morningstar's CEO of the Year award. Mr. Kinder received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri and served in Vietnam as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards and is a life trustee and current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. He also served as an Independent Director at Zenith Energy Management. He is an Angel investor.
Individual/Angel
Chris Manessis
United States
Mr. Ryan Pitylak is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Marketing Officer at ZenBusiness. He was a Co-Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer at Unique Influence. As the CEO of Unique Influence, a leading digital marketing consultancy, he leads his team to excellence by merging creative advertising techniques with a data-driven and iterative approach. By constantly working to surpass established advertising methods and creative best practices, Ryan delivers ROI-focused results for high-velocity companies. Previously to Unique Influence, Ryan managed a team at ProfitFuel (Yodle) who provided SEO and PPC services to over 10,000 businesses. Ryan also founded and served as the President of Excellent Suggestion, a demand generation consulting company, where he provided internet marketing consulting services to some of the most successful consumer-based online businesses in Austin, including HomeAway.com. Ryan received his BA in Philosophy and Economics and MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is no longer an active angel investor.
Individual/Angel
Chris Maxcy
United States
Mr. David Feldman serves as Managing Director at Feldman Advisors. He serves as Board Member at Krome Photos. He has nearly two decades of broad technical, operating, business development and consulting experience. Prior to founding Feldman Advisors, LLC, David had a successful tenure as a turnaround executive at a venture-backed health care software company, Patientkeeper, in the role of VP, Engineering. David spent a number of years as EVP of Business Development and Strategy for Viewpoint Corporation. He oversaw products from conception in the lab to ultimate adoption by strategic partners. Early in his career he was a co-founder of Specular International, makers of a 3D modeling, rendering and animation software system, where he served as Director of Research and Development, Chief Strategist and acting CFO, in which capacity he successfully negotiated the sale of the company. David began his career as a software engineer for the System Software Group at Apple Computer. David received an AB in computer science from Dartmouth College and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He also serves as Advisor & Co-Investor at Lookout
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Chris Ouwinga
United States
Mr. Thomas Werner is partner and co-founder of arguably one of the most successful independent studios in television history, Carsey Werner. He serves as Board Member at SpringHill Co.. He is also Chairman of the 2004 & 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox. As Chairman of the Red Sox Werner was instrumental is establishing the Red Sox Foundation, a foundation that gives away millions of dollars each year to local programs and the Home Base Program, which aims at helping military veterans affected by post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The Emmy Winning producer is a 1971 cum laude graduate of Government from Harvard University and was an award-winning documentary producer, noted for his film, "Shirley Chisholm: Pursuing The Dream", about the first female presidential candidate, before embarking on his career in television. With over 2000 episodes of television produced Carsey Werner has been one of the leading suppliers and distributors to the worldwide marketplace for over twenty-five years. As executive producer of a number of landmark programs including, "The Cosby Show"," A Different World", "Roseanne", "3rd Rock From The Sun" and "That 70's Show" Werner and his partner, Marcy Carsey, have obtained a vast library of programs seen in over 175 countries and translated into 50 different languages. In 2000, Carsey Werner joined forces with Oprah Winfrey to form the Oxygen Network, a 24 hour cable channel serving the modern woman. The Network was recently acquired by NBC Universal and is one of the fastest growing cable networks ever, now in almost 65,000,000 homes. Werner started his career at ABC Television and eventually became Senior Vice President of Primetime Series in December 1980. Along the way he helped develop such shows as "Mork & Mindy", "Soap", "Bosom Buddies", "Three's Company" and "The Love Boat". In 1981 he joined Marcy Carsey to form their own production company. He has been inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Broadcasting and Cable Magazine's Hall of Fames. Their shows have garnered 24 Emmy Awards, 11 Golden Globes, 23 People's Choice Awards, 2 George Foster Peabody Awards , 4 Humanitas Prizes and 18 NAACP Image Awards. They have also received the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award from NATPE, the David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award from The Producer's Guild of America and a place in the Museum of the American Dream as one of the 20th Century's most extraordinary achievers. Werner explains their singular record of achievement this way: "I believe our success is due to our profound respect for our audience. Our shows strive to reflect the human condition and enlighten as well as entertain." In addition to his work for the Ron Brown Schoalrs, Werner serves on a number of Boards, including the Crossroads School and the Board for After School All Stars, a program helping at risk youth engage in after school programs. He has also served on the White House Fellows Commission, Dana Farber Institute in Boston and was appointed to the California Film Commission by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Individual/Angel
Chris Schagen
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Chris started his entrepreneurial journey as a founder and CEO of Mundwerk, a voice-activated application startup later acquired by Excelsis...
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Christian Boggiano
United States
Dr. Michael Palmer served as Board Member at HiQ Solar. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Vouchpop. Mike was previously Chief Technical Officer of the Web Search Division of Inktomi Corporation, which was a provider of Internet-scale web search results to partners including Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology and was later a Research Associate in the Biology Department at Stanford University, where he used computer models to study macroevolution, with applications to robotics.
Individual/Angel
Christian Madsbjerg
United States
Mr. Ian Lowles serves as Angel Investor at Ian Lowles. He was appointed as non-executive Director in February 2015, but was an original director of Other Levels Pty Ltd since February 2012. Ian is currently a non-executive Director of The Reading Room Inc. and Messmo Pty Ltd. Previously he served as Vice President Asia Pacific Japan at Aylus Networks.
Individual/Angel
Christian Vandecasserie
United States
Mr. James Pastena served as the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman & Co-Founder at Precision Spine. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Spinal USA. Jim held many senior management positions in the medical device industry prior to joining Precision Spine. He holds several groundbreaking patents, and has established large, lucrative markets for many innovative medical products. Jim is also a Co-founder of, and served as CEO and Board Member of ElectroCore, LLC. In this capacity, he spearheaded this leading edge neuromodulation company and its initial entry into the bronchoconstriction arena with an innovative stimulation product. To date, five patents have been issued that may ultimately enable the treatment of critical airway disorders with several options from implantable devices, to change the course of the disease, all the way to non-invasive systems for patients in crisis. Before joining ElectroCore, Jim was President of EBI, and a Corporate Vice President of Biomet, its parent company. During his tenure with EBI he led the company's growth from $85 million in 1993, to $500 million with a +20% return at his departure. Jim also brought the company's Spine segment to the #4 market share position in the world. He organized the largest company-owned hybrid direct sales force in Orthopedics, and established unilateral external fixation for limb lengthening, trauma and Colles' fracture repair as standards of orthopedic care, resulting in EBI becoming the market leader in those important segments. These accomplishments, along with his important contributions toward positioning EBI as the market leader in the electrical stimulation market for long bone and spinal applications, remain unparalleled. Jim currently sits on the Boards of several medical companies, and has successfully worked in Endoscopy and Diagnostics as well as Consulting in various medical and non-medical markets. Jim has a B.S. in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University.
Individual/Angel
Christian Venture Capital
United States
Founded in 2015. Christian Venture Capital is a global venture capital investment firm and is based in Silicon Valley, California. The firm focuses prefers to invest in the consumer products, consumer services, healthcare, social media, financial services, wearables, rentals and real estate, ministry tech and software, hardware, education, applications and information technology sectors.
Venture Capital
Christopher Demetree
Canada
Mr. Howard Lis serves as Executive Chairman at CommerceBear. He served as Chief Operating Officer at Hubba. Mr. Lis served as an Advisor at Eventi Capital Partners. Howard Lis, P. Eng., joined GMP Capital as one of ten original partners upon the firm's inception in 1995 and his efforts were integral in building a leading presence for the firm in research and investment banking activities related to technology companies. For 13 years, he was an integral partner in building GMP into Canada's pre-eminent independent full service investment bank and was rated as one of Canada's top-ranked software analysts by institutional investors. He leveraged an extensive industry background in his analysis of the Canadian high technology sector. TSX-listed GMP Capital is a leading Canadian investment dealer focused on serving corporate clients and institutional investors. Howard decided to move on from GMP in mid-2008 and has been active in advising and consulting to private and public companies on operational, strategic, financial and consolidation matters through Lis Capital Corporation. He is also the co-owner and President of DC Solar Power, a leading rooftop solar developer in Ontario. Prior to GMP, Howard served in a variety of roles in the technology industry, including director of business development and division general manager at Delrina and as an engineer with Nortel. In addition, he draws on five years of experience at McKinsey & Company, a leading strategic management consulting firm. Howard holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.
Individual/Angel
Christopher Obereder
United States
Mr. Armando Christian Perez was an Angel Investor. He was a Co-Founder of Armalite. He is an internationally successful musician, performer, business entrepreneur, fashion icon, and actor. His career sales have exceeded 5 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide. Pitbull has scored #1 hits in more than 15 countries, his videos have over 7 billion views, and his social media reach matches audiences of some television networks. After hosting the American Music Awards for the second time, Pitbull released his eighth studio album, Globalization on November 24. Pitbull partners with a number of guest artists on Globalization, including Jason Derulo, Juicy J, Heymous Molly and Sean Paul, as well as a new collaboration with Ne-Yo. Pitbull's world tours have sold out concerts in North and South America, Europe, and the Far East. He recently wrapped up the second leg of a co-headlining arena tour of the U.S. and Canada with Enrique Iglesias. 2014 was a banner year for Pitbull, who was chosen to perform at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and closed out the year with his New Year's Eve special. In addition to his success as a recording artist, Pitbull is also a burgeoning business entrepreneur. Along with Voli, his brand of premium vodka, he recently launched "Pitbull," his own line of luxury fragrances for men and women. In addition to inking major sponsorship deals with blue-chip brands like Bud Light, Dr. Pepper, Kodak, and Dodge, he is also developing a strategic partnership with Playboy Enterprises.
Individual/Angel
Christopher Tapper
London
Senior Investment Associate at Cambridge Innovation Capital
AI
BioTech
DeepTech
FinTech
Christopher Varelas
United States
Mr. Gary Bjorklund serves as a Board Member at OndaVia. In the early part of his career, Bjorklund worked at two major industrial research laboratories. From 1974-1979, Bjorklund was a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Holmdel, where he performed research in quantum electronics and nonlinear optics. From 1979-94 he worked for IBM Research in San Jose in management positions where he directed technology development efforts on a variety of applications of photonics for information technology. Since 1994, Bjorklund has been involved primarily with small companies. He has served as an executive, consultant, and board member for a number of photonics startups. From 1994-98 he was Director of Advanced Development at Optivision/Optical Networks and from 2000-01 he was Chief Technology Officer at Nanovation Technologies. As a consultant, he has done work for a numerous photonics industry clients, including both companies and investors. From 2006-09, he served as Consulting Director for the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC). Since 2009, he has been active as an angel investor in a number of high technology start-up companies in the areas of photonics and clean technology. He is a limited partner in the CalCEF Clean Energy Fund and a member of the Band of Angels. He is currently active in the Bands Clean Tech/Energy SIG. Bjorklund has also been active in the leadership of several non-profit organizations. He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society from 1982-87 and was President of that organization in 1986. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America (OSA) from 1989-99 and was President of that society in 1998. More recently, Bjorklund has been involved as a founder of the OSA Foundation, an organization created to bring a focus to and raise funding for the OSAs charitable activities. The OSA Foundation supports programs that advance youth science education, provide optics education and resources to underserved populations, and furnish resources for career and professional development. He served as the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the OSA Foundation from 2002-08. In 2010, Bjorklund was elected to the Board of Directors of the Monterey Symphony and he is currently serving as a member of the Finance, Governance, and Strategy Committees of that organization. Bjorklund is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the OSA. In 2010 he was the recipient of OSAs Distinguished Service Award. Gary C. Bjorklund did his undergraduate work at M.I.T., where he majored in Physics, and his Ph.D. research at Stanford University in the Department of Applied Physics.
Individual/Angel
Christophe Vandaele
United States
Ms. Sharmila Mulligan served as Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Alteryx. Sharmila joined Alteryx in the company's acquisition of ClearStory Data, a modern data analytics company where she served as chief executive officer (CEO). Since joining Alteryx, Sharmila has accelerated the company's strategy to meet the global demand for advanced analytics, making data science, machine learning and AI accessible to everyone. In addition, Sharmila supports customers and global partners in their digital transformation initiatives. Her deep knowledge of the data market, market convergence and the ecosystem led to the creation of the analytic process automation category. Prior to ClearStory Data, Sharmila was the chief marketing officer at Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata Corporation) and early on at Cloudera. She was also CMO and EVP at Opsware (founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and acquired by HP), Vice President at Netscape, Vice President at AOL and previously held roles at Microsoft, HP Software, and General Magic. She has driven the creation of several multi-billion-dollar market categories, including Application Servers, Data Center automation and Big Data analytics. Sharmila sits on the board of directors for ConocoPhillips and is an active investor and advisor to numerous technology companies. She also serves on the advisory board for several universities that are advancing their data and analytics programs. She is passionate about supporting women in business and leadership roles and co-leads the Alteryx People + Analytics initiative as well as a variety of STEM programs. Sharmila earned two bachelor's degrees in computer science and economics and received her master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Individual/Angel
Christoph Linkwitz
United States
Mr. Robert Shapiro serves as a Board Member at Elevance Renewable Sciences. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Sandbox Industries. He was formerly Chairman and CEO of Monsanto Company. Upon the merger of Monsanto with Pharmacia & Upjohn, he served as Chairman of the newly-formed Pharmacia Corporation. Previously, Bob was President of Monsanto's Agriculture Group, Chairman and CEO of The NutraSweet Company (a subsidiary of Monsanto) and President of the NutraSweet Group of G.D.Searle & Co., where he previously served as Vice President and General Counsel. Before joining Searle, Bob was Vice President and General Counsel of General Instrument Corporation. Prior to this, he practised law in New York City; served in government as Special Assistant to the General Counsel and later to the Undersecretary of the U.S Department of Transportation; and as a professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Bob has served on the boards of the New York Stock Exchange (later NYSE Euronext), Citigroup, Inc., Rockwell International, Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Sequus Pharmaceuticals and also as a trustee of Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) and Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago). He currently serves as a director of Theranos, Inc., Sapphire Energy, Inc., Intrexon, Agraquest. He has also served on the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and on the White House Domestic Policy Review of Industrial Innovation. Bob represents Cultivian on the board of directors of Advanced Animal Diagnostics. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bob is a 1959 graduate of Harvard College and holds a JD from Columbia University School of Law. He serves as Co-Chairman at Advanced Animal Diagnostics.
Individual/Angel
Chris Traylor
China
Mr. Chiping Lau served as Director at JD.com. Mr. Chiping Lau serves as Board Member & Member of Nomination Committee at Kingsoft Corporation. He served as President & Executive Director at Tencent Holdings. He is an Angel Investor. He also served as Board Member of Sogou and Director at JD.com. In 2007, Martin was appointed as the Executive Director of the Company. Prior to Tencent, Martin was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs (Asia) investment banking division and the Chief Operating Officer of its Telecom, Media and Technology Group. Prior to that, Martin worked at Mckinsey & Company, as a management consultant. Martin received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA Degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He also serves as President at Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund. He also serves as a Board Member at Didi Chuxing.
Individual/Angel
Chuck Vallurupalli
United States
Mr. Michael Riccio is the Founder and served as Managing Partner at Falcon Partners. He also is an Angel Investor. Prior to founding the Firm, Mr. Riccio served as Chief Operating Officer of Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET) until its acquisition by Infospace, Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP) in a $1.7 billion stock transaction in October 2000. As COO and a member of Go2Net's Board of Directors, Mr. Riccio had overall responsibility for Go2Net's strategic initiatives, including business development, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and international business strategy. Mr. Riccio also led Go2Net's corporate venture group which co-invested with Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures in several Internet and e-commerce companies, including AskMe, Inc., Commtouch Software, Lts. (Nasdaq: CTCH), Click2Learn, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLKS), FindWhat, Inc. (Nasdaq: FWHT) and National Discount Brokers, Inc. (acquired by Deutsche Bank). After Go2Net's sale to Infospace, Mr. Riccio became Executive Vice President of Infospace, Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP), where he had overall responsibility for Infospace's Broadband Division focused on developing broadband services and applications for PC, TV and 2.5/3G wireless platforms. Mr. Riccio was instrumental in the development and launch of the first interactive TV service offered by Bloomberg Television in 2001 and the execution of a number of strategic alliances with such companies as Microsoft, Verizon, Liberate and OpenTV. Prior to joining Go2Net in 1998, Mr. Riccio was a corporate partner at Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, a Boston based law firm where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. Mr. Riccio served as principal outside counsel to Lycos, Inc. from the time of the company's founding in 1995. In this capacity, he worked closely with Lycos' senior management on its initial public offering and on many subsequent strategic transactions, including the formation of the joint venture with Bertelsmann AG and the acquisitions of Angelfire, Tripod, WhoWhere? and Wired Digital. Mr. Riccio also served as counsel to a number of private equity firms including CMG@Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Summit Partners and Thomas H. Lee Equity Partners. As counsel, he participated in transactions with a number of Internet companies, including Blaxxun Interactive, eToys, Mapquest (acquired by AOL), NextCard, PlanetAll (acquired by Amazon.com), Quote.com (acquired by Lycos), RoweCom, Silknet Software (acquired by Kana Software) and Ticketslive (acquired by Tickets.com). Mr. Riccio served as a founding partner of Xanthus Capital, L.P., a Seattle based investment firm focused on investments in emerging growth businessess, and managing partner of Vencor & Co., a Boston based investment firm focused on investing in Internet and e-commerce enterprises. He also served as interim Chief Executive Officer of Hamlet, Inc., a developer of predictive pricing solutions for the travel industry funded by Madrona Investment Group and WRF Capital. Mr. Riccio began his career as an associate in the corporate department of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher in New York. Mr. Riccio currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Verdiem Corp., a developer of PC power management software, and Local Lead, LLC, a provider of online lead generation services for local merchants, and as a member of the Advisory Boards of Linqware, Inc., a developer of real time collaboration software, and Integra Ventures, L.P., a venture capital partnership focused on investing in biotechnology and life sciences enterprises.
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