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Jeffrey Morris
United States
Dr. Ali Vojdani is the Founder and serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at GridBright. Dr. Ali Vojdani has 40 years of experience related to electric grid R&D, consulting, and computer applications. He has served over 100 electric utilities around the world. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Vojdani has founded and successfully grew several technology startups including GridBright, Inc., Utility Integration Solutions, Inc., and UISOL Software, LLC. Earlier he worked for McGill University, Pacific Gas and Electric, EPRI, Perot Systems, and Vitria Technology. His work on demand response management systems resulted in the market-leading software DRBizNet that was acquired by ALSTOM (Now GE) in 2011. Implementation of DRBizNet at PJM Interconnection received Project of the Year award at DistribuTech 2008. His work on Hydro-Thermal Resource Scheduling at PG&E received the prestigious Franz Edelman Finalist Award for innovative use of operations research and the management sciences in practice in 1997. Dr. Vojdani has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from McGill University in Canada. He has authored over 60 technical publications related to electric grid security, reliability, and efficiency. He has conducted numerous technical seminars and workshops on topics related to utility business transformation, systems integration, and demand response. He has played leadership roles in several industry conferences, including the Utility Integration Conference (UIC) that he instigated and chaired for over a decade.
Individual/Angel
Jeffrey R Carney
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jeffrey R. Carney, CFA, was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Investors Group, and President and Chief Executive Officer of...
Investment Partner
Jeffrey Ryan
United States
Mr. Gerry Murfitt is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at InstaRent Global. He is an angel investor. He serves as an Executive at Venture Counsel Partners. Gerry is a passionate vacation home owner and frequent renter, he founded InstaRent Global due to his immense frustration with the time-consuming and inefficient vacation rental process for homeowners and renters alike. Gerry started his career at the height of the original Internet boom in the Sand Hill Road office of Venture Law Group (VLG) in the heart of Silicon Valley. Prior to its acquisition, VLG was the original firm which incorporated and represented such well known internet pioneers including Yahoo, Hotmail, and PayPal to name a few. In 2005, along with approximately half of the original VLG partners, Gerry assisted in creating a new "Emerging Companies Group" at global firm, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP, which then represented companies such as Facebook during its infancy. Later Gerry founded Venture Counsel Partners, in order to better assist entrepreneurs with their startup technology companies. Prior to InstaRent Global, Gerry's focus and passion over the course of his career has been advising entrepreneurs with respect to all aspects of structuring, growing and selling start-up technology companies. He has directly assisted entrepreneurs raise over half a billion dollars of venture-capital financing from a variety of top-tier investors and has also directly led the sale of several companies to major acquirers such as Facebook and eBay. Based on over a decade of Silicon Valley experience, Gerry has acquired a deep understanding of how complex concepts are transformed into extremely-valuable companies in a relatively short amount of time. Gerry received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree and Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the University of California where received a merit-based scholarship and graduated top of his class. During his studies he received significant academic recognition including awards for being the top student in several classes important to start-up companies including business strategy, corporations, finance and contracts. As an undergraduate, he graduated summa cum laude at the University of Auckland, New Zealand's highest-ranked university, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) degree with majors in Economics and International Business. Gerry has always had an extremely strong interest in the interplay between technology, economics and applied mathematics.
Individual/Angel
Jenelle Syverson
United States
Mr. Maury Blackman serves as Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member at Premise. He also serves as a Board Member at Esper. He serves as an Advisor at UrbanLeap. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Accela. He has been with Accela for over a decade and became CEO in 2007. Since his appointment, he has set the foundation for the company to be a leading cloud player in the $92B government IT sector. To support Accela's growth and strategic initiatives, he raised more than $75MM from private investors, Wells Fargo Capital Finance and most recently closed a $40MM round of financing from Bregal-Sagemount. Always pushing the bounds to bring technology to the public sector, Mr. Maury inspired the Accela team to move first into the Cloud, lead with mobile solutions and transition from a product company to a platform company. He evangelizes game-changing applications that build trust and serve as a springboard for getting people deeply engaged within their communities. He maintains an active lifestyle, training for ultra distance endurance races year-round. He is a nine-time Ironman finisher, including the 2008 and 2013 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He will compete in his 10th Ironman in 2014. He is an active donor and fundraiser for the Challenged Athletes Foundation with a particular focus on Operation Rebound. Prior to joining Accela, Mr. Maury was a sales and marketing professional at Investools, formerly Telescan, Inc. and served as a Field Artillery Officer in the United States Army. He is a graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.
Individual/Angel
Jennifer Bailey
San Francisco, California, United States
Jennifer Bailey serves as vice president of Internet Services at Apple. Jennifer oversees all efforts for Apple Pay, Apple’s new, transform...
Individual/Angel
Jennifer Johnson
New York, New York, United States
Founder/CEO of StockTouch and Visible Market. StockTouch is an intuitive and powerful iOS and Mac app for dynamically visualizing the stock...
Individual/Angel
Jérçme Nycz
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jérçme Nycz was appointed Executive Vice President, BDC Capital in 2013. In this role, he leads the activities of BDC Capital, a subsidia...
Investment Partner
Jeremy Kandah
United States
Dr. Parvez Anandam Founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Eterniam. Prior to this, he co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer at TappIn Dr. Anandam served as Board Member at CipherGraph Networks. He served as Steering Committee Member at TiE Angels Group Seattle. He has more than 12 years of networking and security product development experience in a wide range of venture-backed technology companies. He has multiple patents (End Point Control for SSL-VPNs), technical contributions in the IETF and scientific articles. Anandam holds Ph.D. (Oregon), M.S. (Washington) degrees.
Individual/Angel
Jeremy Schiff
United States
Mr. Sean Plaice is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer & Board Member at Postmates. Prior to that, Mr. Plaice previously served as a co-founder and engineer at Hug Energy Inc. from October 2009 to February 2011. He was the Contract Software Engineer at EggCartel. He brings more than 10 years of operations and entrepreneurial experience to the team. He was most recently Director of Systems Operations at Ruba, a company started by Mike Cassidy and funded by Benchmark and DFJ. Prior to that he managed operations at Yelp, co-founded and bootstrapped Host Collective to 40000 paying customers and ran the west coast systems operations team for Affinity Internet - one of the top 10 largest hosting services companies in the United States.
Individual/Angel
Jérôme Caille
United States
Applyifi is a private platform for startups to create a comprehensive pitchbook and thereafter apply to multiple investors or accelerators/incubators.For investors, accelerators and incubators, Applyifi is a deal-discovery platform where they can find startups that have been reviewed and rated on their investment worthiness by us, after a thorough assessment using Their 36-point scorecard.Their mission is to help tens of thousands of startups get the seed capital they need to convert their ideas into businesses. They also believe that 1000s of startups that require smaller amounts (typically less than USD 100,000) and who are unable to get that capital from angel investor groups or VCs, will benefit from this platform.
Angel Group
Jeromy Wells
United States
Mr. Karl Weaver served as Chief Executive Officer at Data2Decisions. He is an Angel Investor. Karl has global experience working in marketing effectiveness across sectors including automotive, retail, finance, media & entertainment, drinks, and cruise ships. Before joining Data2Decisions as director in 2003, Karl was MD of Mindshare's Advanced Techniques Group, where he ran a global network developing approaches to analysing communications and helping clients maximise their media budgets.
Individual/Angel
Jesper Brok-Jørgensen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Co Founder & CMO @ Happy Helper | ex Rocket Internet
Consumer Health
Digital Health
Education
Health & Hospital Services
Health IT
Human Capital/HRTech
Jesper Linde
Sweden
Mr. Marcus Fransson serves as Chief Marketing Officer & Board Member at Battleriff. Mr Marcus has completed his MS in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the Chalmers University of Technology in 2002. Marcus Fransson is a dedicated entrepreneur with many successful projects in his CV. Among others, he was co-founder and CEO of the listed company Parans Solar Energy. Marcus was also co-founder and CMO for the success Tech app Fishbrain which is the world's largest social network for sports fishers. Marcus is an expert in growth- and market analysis which talents are most valuable when it comes to the efforts of optimizing the company's various KPI s and create growth.
Individual/Angel
Jesse Biter
United States
Dr. Paul Walker serves as Chairman at Lmrkts. He serves as Industry Partner and Global Advisory Council Member at Motive Partners. He also serves as Board Member at OpenFin and Quill.org. He is an Angel Investor. He formerly served as Co-Head of Technology at The Goldman Sachs Group. He served as Board Member of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.He is a member of the Partnership Committee and the Firmwide Technology Risk Committee. Previously, Paul served as the Global Head of Risk and Strategy for Prime Services in the Securities Division and before that he was Global Head of the Core Strats team. Paul joined Goldman Sachs as a Vice President on the FICC Strats team in 2001 and was named Managing Director in 2004 and partner in 2008. Prior to joining the firm, Paul worked as a physics researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He also worked in the Technology and eBusiness units of J.P. Morgan. Paul is also a member the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a Member of Global Advisory Council at Motive Partners.
Individual/Angel
Jesse May
Austria
Mr. Bernhard Lehner Co-Founded & served as Partner at Agentur MINT. Mr. Bernhard Lehner serves as Co-Founder at Adverity. He also served as Startup Ecosystem Partner at i5invest. He is a communication professional through and through. During his communication studies in Vienna he gathered work experiences as a journalist for print and online media. By the End of the 90ies he had changed the site and worked successfully as a PR advisor for agencies but also for in house relations. His references from the last few years include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Ikea and Cisco. i5invest appreciates Mr. Bernhard's expertise for strategic communication development measurements and their realisation for old and new media with a focus on Europe. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Agentur MINT.
Individual/Angel
Jessica Powell
United States
Ms. Pamela Bell served as the Chief Executive Officer & President at Vatterott Educational Centers. Most recently, she served as a Senior Vice President and Provost of Strayer University in Newington, Va. She served as Vice President of Online Operations of Strayer Education Inc. since April 23, 2004 and also served as its Provost. She was responsible for implementing most daily academic administrative duties including the supervision of our Regional Academic Deans and the Director of Online Operations as well as the Director of Records. Prior to that, she was Vice President - Online Operations where she supervised all functions for Strayer University Online including academics, admissions, student services, international outreach and business operations. Prior to that, she served for almost three years as Assistant Vice President and Division Manager at SAIC managing various online related programs and applications. Prior to that, she served with Strayer University Online in various assignments including Director, Academic Dean, Distance Learning Coordinator and Admissions Counselor. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Tennessee, a master's degree in management from Webster University and a master's degree in communication technology from Capella University.
Individual/Angel
Jess Lee
Mountain View, California, United States
Jess is a partner at Sequoia Capital. Prior to that, she was co-founder & CEO of fashion app Polyvore (acquired by Yahoo in 2015) and a prod...
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Jes Wolfe
United States
Mr. Rich Miller serves as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Telematica. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Hub Token. He co-founded Univa and served as Advisor at Cloudsoft. He serves as Board Member and Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary at Cloudsoft. He is an advisor and a strategist for both established technology vendors and emerging ventures, he leads the practice areas focused on cloud computing (hybrid/multi-cloud environments), big data & machine learning (data science & data engineering), and distributed computing (edge computing and distributed ledger technology). In 2019, Rich co-founded Provenant Data, a software company providing data management and integration software as a service to the biomedical and healthcare industries. Provenant technology addresses the need for compliance with data privacy regulations and automated data quality. The technology is the result of a side project initiated in early 2018. His career has ranged from the early days of the ARPAnet as a systems architect and implementor of electronic mail, to that of consultant in technology and product strategy for Fortune100 firms. He is a frequent speaker on cloud computing and participates in a number of industry initiatives dedicated to cloud system interoperability. Since early 2011, he co-founded and served as Advisor and Chief Executive Officer at StreetLight Data (formerly Virtual Vehicle Co.), an emerging data-as-a-service company focusing on the ground transportation ecosystem. From 2007 through 2009, he served as CEO of Replicate Technologies, a provider of network configuration management software that supports virtual machine environments (VMEs). Prior to Replicate, he co-founded and served as COO of Univa Corporation, which provides high performance ('grid') computing and datacenter management systems. As a venture consultant and product strategist at Telematica, Rapport Communication and Breo Consulting, he has overseen the formation and funding of technology companies that provide security applications, wireless network infrastructure technologies, and service infrastructures for networked services. He served as the executive vice president of General Magic's communication technology business unit and its vice president of business development. A Silicon Valley veteran, he designed and implemented some of the first computer messaging and computer conferencing systems for the ARPAnet and was an active member of the international standards community which established the basis of the modern electronic mail industry. He has founded or been in the initial team of executives of several technology startups, including InfoMedia Corporation, Rapport Communication, General Magic, Telematica Inc., Breo Consulting, and Univa Corporation. Miller has been a lead consultant for both technology and commercial projects that develop new lines of business for AT&T, IBM, Palm Computing, and NeuStar. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in information science and communication research from Stanford University, where he also undertook doctoral studies in information science. He is also a board member at Cloudsoft Corporation.
Individual/Angel
Jie Yin
United States
Dr. Barry Volpert is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Partner and Chairman of Investment Committee at Crestview Partners. Mr. Volpert specializes in complex and contrarian investment themes arising out of major dislocations or restructurings. Mr. Volpert retired as a Partner of Goldman Sachs in 2003, where he spent 18 years as a Co-Founder and ultimately Co-Chief Operating Officer of the global private equity business. Among his responsibilities at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Volpert led the international private equity business while based in London for six years and founded the mezzanine fund business. Mr. Volpert is currently a Director of Key Safety Systems and Oxbow Carbon. He also serves as a member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Harvard Law School and an elected Council Member of the Sagaponack Village Erosion Control District. Mr. Volpert received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He received an M.B.A., with high distinction, from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Mr. Volpert received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Amherst College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from Amherst, he was a Luce Scholar in Singapore working for the Straits Times. He is also a Board Member at Oxbow Carbon.
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