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Board Member
Jan 2018
Main Street Data (MSD) is a unique ag-focused, data-driven product company headquartered in Kansas City, MO. MSD has six-plus years of extraordinarily high-quality yield data of corn, soybeans, and wheat harvests across 24 states, as well as a partnership with a 1,400 member farmer data cooperative, which offers the product leader access to new data inputs as well as robust access for product market fit purposes. MSD will develop and distribute products to the grain and cotton farmer marketplaces, the specialty crop segment and with large partners to leverage public and proprietary data to create services for the agriculture-based B2B food supply chain.
Board Member
Nov 2014
Commerce Signals connects advertisers and publishers directly with near-real-time insights from financial institutions. Advertisers use these insights to optimize media tactics and measure the incremental cross-channel sales driven by their advertising.
Board Member
Jun 2013
SmartHome Ventures is a home automation service provider focused on making the smart home simple and accessible for the mass market.
With state-of-the-art technology, a growing portfolio of interoperable devices, uncompromising focus on the customer experience and nationwide service coverage, SmartHome Ventures is creating solutions that leapfrog other home automation products currently in the market.
SmartHome Ventures is designing solutions that give consumers a powerful yet simple way to experience home automation. These solutions provide customers with easy, convenient ways to keep an eye on the people and things they care about with pictures and live video, control temperature and lighting via their smart devices, or receive alerts about potential problems like open doors or water leaks.
National, mass market distribution and affordable pricing position SmartHome Ventures to enable broad consumer adoption of connected home technology.
Board Member
2012
Zubie is a connected vehicle services company focused on providing consumers and businesses relevant vehicle health, location, and safety information. With a simple plug-in of the Zubie key, users can easily monitor their vehicle data through our Zubie mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Learn more about our low-cost fleet management solution for businesses at http://zubie.com/fleet or our consumer offering at http://zubie.com.
Board Member
2012
GCI, Kansas City, Missouri, is a gift card industry leader providing engagement and gifting solutions to leading retailers, Gift Card Brands and leading corporations. The company has received 42 industry awards for innovation in the last 7 years and has more than 96 patents issued with another 26+ patents pending in the US and worldwide. The company’s leading-edge research allows the company to understand how to provide revolutionary communication and gifting solutions that enhance engagement and create more meaningful and shareable experiences for consumers and businesses.
Visit GiftCardImpressions.com for more information, Gift-Tokens.com to see the technology in action and Thegiftcardshop.com for other gift card delivery ideas.
Board Member
Jan 2009
As part of Assurant’s Connected Living business, HYLA Mobile provides Trade-in and Upgrade solutions for the mobile device ecosystem of mobile operators, retailers, OEMs, insurers, and online brands. These solutions support lifecycle management for pre-owned mobile and connected devices including new revenue, market insights, environmental sustainability, customer churn reduction, reduce the cost insurance and warranty programs, and promotions that help consumers offset the cost of new handsets. By extending the life of pre-owned devices, HYLA provides consumers in developed and emerging markets with access to affordable, high-quality wireless technology; builds economic opportunity and enables information access to new users; and protects our planet from further e-waste.
HYLA Mobile began in 2009 when a group of people saw an opportunity to “do well by doing good.” Our founders, who are leaders and entrepreneurs in the telecommunications and mass retail industries, noticed a growing issue in the mobile device industry: e-waste.
This waste, however, comes in many forms. Waste in the form of cell phones being thrown into drawers or, worse, in the trash where they ended up in landfills, or in the form of economic assets that were not being utilized; and waste in the form of additional natural resources used to create even more mobile devices. At the same time, consumers were (and still are) clamoring for the latest and greatest mobile devices, creating even more used devices. All of which presented our founders with a huge opportunity: to redirect millions of used mobile devices into the hands of people who could use them to enhance their lives.
Our mission statement says it all: Our work will create economic opportunity for all who participates; help promote digital inclusion by accelerating emerging market access to advanced mobile technology; and protect the environment by reusing mobile devices and responsibly recycling those that cannot be repaired.
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2018
Board Member
Jan 2018
Main Street Data (MSD) is a unique ag-focused, data-driven product company headquartered in Kansas City, MO. MSD has six-plus years of extraordinarily high-quality yield data of corn, soybeans, and wheat harvests across 24 states, as well as a partnership with a 1,400 member farmer data cooperative, which offers the product leader access to new data inputs as well as robust access for product market fit purposes. MSD will develop and distribute products to the grain and cotton farmer marketplaces, the specialty crop segment and with large partners to leverage public and proprietary data to create services for the agriculture-based B2B food supply chain.
2014
Board Member
Nov 2014
Commerce Signals connects advertisers and publishers directly with near-real-time insights from financial institutions. Advertisers use these insights to optimize media tactics and measure the incremental cross-channel sales driven by their advertising.
2013
Board Member
Jun 2013
SmartHome Ventures is a home automation service provider focused on making the smart home simple and accessible for the mass market.
With state-of-the-art technology, a growing portfolio of interoperable devices, uncompromising focus on the customer experience and nationwide service coverage, SmartHome Ventures is creating solutions that leapfrog other home automation products currently in the market.
SmartHome Ventures is designing solutions that give consumers a powerful yet simple way to experience home automation. These solutions provide customers with easy, convenient ways to keep an eye on the people and things they care about with pictures and live video, control temperature and lighting via their smart devices, or receive alerts about potential problems like open doors or water leaks.
National, mass market distribution and affordable pricing position SmartHome Ventures to enable broad consumer adoption of connected home technology.
2012
Board Member
2012
Zubie is a connected vehicle services company focused on providing consumers and businesses relevant vehicle health, location, and safety information. With a simple plug-in of the Zubie key, users can easily monitor their vehicle data through our Zubie mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Learn more about our low-cost fleet management solution for businesses at http://zubie.com/fleet or our consumer offering at http://zubie.com.
Board Member
2012
GCI, Kansas City, Missouri, is a gift card industry leader providing engagement and gifting solutions to leading retailers, Gift Card Brands and leading corporations. The company has received 42 industry awards for innovation in the last 7 years and has more than 96 patents issued with another 26+ patents pending in the US and worldwide. The company’s leading-edge research allows the company to understand how to provide revolutionary communication and gifting solutions that enhance engagement and create more meaningful and shareable experiences for consumers and businesses.
Visit GiftCardImpressions.com for more information, Gift-Tokens.com to see the technology in action and Thegiftcardshop.com for other gift card delivery ideas.
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