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Harvest Team:
Each company participating in First Growth Venture Network will be assigned a Harvest Team (angels, VCs, seasoned execs and repeat players in Tech/Venture). The Harvest Teams will consist of the following advisors and Executive Committee Members:
- Joshua Abram, Coriolis Ventures
- Brandon Berger, Vice President, Digital Innovation, MDC Partners
- Greg Blonder, inventor, scientist, entrepreneur and author
- Stacey Burr, CEO, Textronics, acquired by Adidas
- Wesley Chan, Investment Partner, Google
- Joe Doran, CEO, Media6°
- Rick Eaton, former CFO, Quigo Technologies and Juno Online Services
- Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner, IA Ventures
- John Eley, CEO, Pivot Inc.
- Mike Flannery, Founder & Managing Partner, Redwood Partners
- Brad Gillespie, IA Ventures
- Jonathan Glick, CEO and Founder of Tgroups
- Paul Greenberg, Executive Vice President and General Manager of TV Guide Online
- Fabrice Grinda, Co-Founder/Co-CEO OLX, Inc. and former Founder/CEO of Zingy Inc.
- Josh Guttman, CEO, Surphace
- Darren Herman, Head of Digital Media, The Media Kitchen
- Ari Jacoby, Co-Founder, VoiceStar (MCHX)
- Ed Jordan, CFO, Jagtag; former CFO, Flarion, ITXC and Dialogic
- Ben Kartzman, CEO and Co-Founder, Spongecell
- Matt Keiser, CEO, Live Intent; former President & Co-Founder, Datran Media
- Karin Klein, Vice President, SoftBank Capital
- Mo Koyfman, Principal, Spark
- Rick Kushel, CEO, iLevel Solutions; former CEO, Archive Systems
- Larry Kutscher, CEO, Register.com
- Howard Lerman, CEO, Yext; former COO, Datran Media
- Harold O. Levy, Managing Director - Special Counsel, Plainfield Asset Management
- Stephen Marcus, Entrepreneur In Residence, New Atlantic Ventures
- Alexis Maybank, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Gilt Groupe
- Chris Moore, Partner, Redpoint
- Alan Murray, Coriolis Ventures
- Jerry Neumann, early stage investor and advisor
- Andrew Parker, Senior Associate, Spartk
- Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPOP, a social, multiplayer games site, backed by Spark and Bessemer
- Alan Portnoi, Frommer Group; formerly, senior management at Carlin Financial
- David Rosenblatt
- Micah Rosenbloom, Founder Partner, Founder Collective
- Todd Sandler, ING Direct
- Ben Siscovick, IA Ventures
- Charles Smith, COO, ExtensionFM
- Ajay Sravanapudi, Founder, President & CEO, LucidMedia
- Wendy Stahl, runs International Operations and Corporate Development for CreditCards.com/CompareandSave.com
- Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder and CEO, Practically Green
- Sarah Tavel, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Are Traasdahl, CEO, Thumbplay
- Tomasz Tunguz, Associate, Redpoint
- Mark Wachen, Managing Director, Autonomy Optimost
Our Founding Executive Committee:
- Ed Zimmerman, Executive Committee Chair, founder/Chair Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler and www.GrapeArborVC.com, Adjunct Professor of Venture Capital at Columbia Business School
- Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners (Boston, MA)
- Saj Cherian, Principal, Valhalla Partners (Virginia)
- Chris Fralic, Partner, First Round Capital (PA)
- Bob Geiman, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners (Boston, MA)
- Jeffrey Glass, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures (Boston, MA)
- John Goldsmith -- retired partner AEA Investors (PE fund); angel investor; board member of Gerson Lehrman Group (NY), Intego (Paris), Lux Research (Boston) and Salesconx (NY); member www.GrapeArborVC.com (NY)
- Dayna Grayson, Principal, North Bridge Venture Partners (Boston, MA)
- Saar Gur, Partner, Charles River Ventures (Menlo Park, CA)
- Kiran Hebbar, Partner, Valhalla Partners (Virginia)
- John Lambros, Managing Director, Digital Media Banking, GCA Savvian (NYC)
- Adam Marcus, Principal, Openview Venture Partners (Boston, MA)
- Howard Morgan, Partner, First Round Capital (PA)
- Matt Nichols, Principal, Highland Capital Partners (Boston, MA)
- Brian O'Kelley -- CEO/Founder Appnexus, Co-Lead at www.GrapeArborVC.com (New York City);former CTO of Right Media (acquired by Yahoo! for $850M)
- David Pakman, Partner, Venrock (NYC)
- Satya Patel, Principal, Battery Ventures (Menlo Park, CA)
- Kathi A. Rawnsley, Founding Partner, Lowenstein Sandler Silicon Valley; former Regional Counsel for the US/Canada for Intel Capital
- Sarah Reed, Charles River Ventures (Waltham, MA)
- Dan Rosen, Principal, Highland Capital Partners (Boston, MA)
- Deepak Sindwani, Principal, Bain Capital Ventures (Boston, MA)
- Ray Thek, Vice Chair, Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler and member, www.GrapeArborVC.com
- Matt Witheiler, Senior Associate, Flybridge Capital Partners (Boston, MA)
- Joshua Wepman, Vice President, GCA Savvian (NYC)
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