Brian Abrams

Independent Director, Investor, Advisor, Entrepreneur, and Former Chief Executive

📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member, Former Interim CEO
Jul 2025
VayKLife is a nationwide guest engagement platform that helps vacation rental companies deliver a more convenient, modern, and memorable guest experience. We integrate directly with leading Property Management Systems to give travelers an easy way to add vacation gear, amenities, and local experiences to their stay. VayKLife manages the delivery, logistics, and support behind every order, ensuring a smooth process for guests and minimal effort for property managers. Today, we support over 150,000 reservations a year and more than a million travelers across the country, helping our partners increase reservations, elevate guest satisfaction, and create exceptional stays.
late stageHospitality
Board Member
Jun 2022
Nova is a career focused platform for teenagers to connect with like minded peers, explore various career interests and build their portfolio through work opportunities.
Board Observer
Oct 2019
The authority on where to eat, drink & play in 200 cities according to our community of locals - online and off. Authentic recs, our shop & more at localeur.com. Partners have included Nike, Lyft, Match.com, Bonobos, HotelTonight and more.
Investor & Board Member
Nov 2018
Aturian is the ERP solution built specifically for the promotional products industry. A complete Cloud-Based Business Management Solution supporting distributors of every size and employees in every role. Handling everything from Proposals to Payment, our system keeps track of everything so you can focus on your business. Built and advised by leaders in the Promotional Products Industry.
Board Member
Mar 2018
REWARDS21 Restaurant Cash Back | Promote Your Business Across The Web
Board Member
Sep 2017
We know what it takes to design, build and execute dynamic experiential marketing campaigns that hit all the marks. We know the ins and outs of planning, implementation and measurement. We recognize the need for an organized process. And we’re passionate about service, value, and quality. For the past 15 years, EventLink has created, implemented, and managed successful programs for automotive and non-automotive clients alike. Along the way, we’ve cultivated a unique array of support services to that enable us to deliver the best experiential programs in the industry. Whether your goal is to inform, enthuse, motivate, or activate, we’re ready to meet the challenge and surpass your expectations at every stage.
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2025
Board Member, Former Interim CEO
Jul 2025
VayKLife is a nationwide guest engagement platform that helps vacation rental companies deliver a more convenient, modern, and memorable guest experience. We integrate directly with leading Property Management Systems to give travelers an easy way to add vacation gear, amenities, and local experiences to their stay. VayKLife manages the delivery, logistics, and support behind every order, ensuring a smooth process for guests and minimal effort for property managers. Today, we support over 150,000 reservations a year and more than a million travelers across the country, helping our partners increase reservations, elevate guest satisfaction, and create exceptional stays.
late stageHospitality
2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
Nova is the leader in Social Display, providing creative automation for agencies, brands, ad tech platforms, CTV providers, and retail media, allowing them to repurpose social creative to run programmatically, at scale, on the open web, in mobile apps, and on CTV. In the past year alone, 250+ of the world’s most successful media publishers and platforms have generated $150 million in direct-sold digital advertising revenue with Nova’s technology, activating over 15,000 campaigns in 30+ countries.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Nova is a career focused platform for teenagers to connect with like minded peers, explore various career interests and build their portfolio through work opportunities.
2021
Board Member
Jul 2021
Strata Information Group (SIG) assists colleges & universities with IT initiatives that enhance services to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the community. SIG is one of the largest privately held providers of technology support and services to higher education . SIG is continuously sourcing talent for potential future need. Highly qualified individuals with expertise in the following are encouraged to visit our careers page and apply: • Banner® Student, Student A/R, Financial Aid, and Finance/HR • Database administration • Business process analysis • Account management • Project management • Onsite IT management • Colleague® Finance/HR Individuals interested in joining the SIG team should have strong technical, functional, or project management skills, strong communication skills, and the ability to quickly establish effective relationships with new clients and rapidly gain the confidence and trust of the staff of the institution in their personal capabilities as well as in SIG. Visit us at sigcorp.com/careers.
2019
Board Observer
Oct 2019
The authority on where to eat, drink & play in 200 cities according to our community of locals - online and off. Authentic recs, our shop & more at localeur.com. Partners have included Nike, Lyft, Match.com, Bonobos, HotelTonight and more.
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