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Board Member
Dec 2013
Main Street Hub is now a part of GoDaddy. Were the marketing platform for local businesses. Utilizing our proprietary technology, we integrate social media, customer reviews, and email marketing to help local businesses get more customers and keep them coming back, while saving them valuable time.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas and backed by leading investors, Main Street Hub was founded in 2010 and has more than 600 team members. We serve 10,000 local business customers across the country and have published more than 10 million messages on social media and review sites.
Main Street Hub has been named one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, the fastest growing startup and one of the Best Places to Work in Austin by the Austin Business Journal, and a Top Workplace by the Austin American-Statesman.
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Board Member
Aug 2010
K2 Intelligence is an industry-leading investigative, compliance, and cyber defense services firm founded in 2009 by Jeremy M. Kroll and Jules B. Kroll, who is credited with originating the modern corporate investigations industry.
Redefining 21st-century corporate intelligence, we combine subject-matter expertise with cutting-edge technology, bringing to bear the industry’s best multidisciplinary teams to solve our clients’ most difficult problems. With 300+ employees in six offices across the globe, we advise governments, companies, and HNW individuals; clients include public and private companies in the energy, mining, real estate and construction, education, and tech sectors, as well as investment companies, law firms, and financial institutions.
K2 Intelligence not only helps clients address problems and complex situations, but we help clients manage risk—whether that risk be investment, financial, regulatory, acquisition, new market entry, cyber, or reputational in nature—gathering intelligence to enhance critical decisions. Learn more about K2 Intelligence and our six practices—Investigations & Disputes, Regulatory Compliance, Cyber Defense, Construction & Real Estate, Strategic Risk & Security, and Private Client Services—at www.k2intelligence.com.
Board Member
Jun 2010
Betterment is an investing and savings app that serves one purpose—to help you grow your money, so that you can live better. Sign up effortlessly to get goal-setting and planning tools at no extra cost. For one low, transparent fee, you can invest your money with automatic deposit and trading features that put your money to work. Earn with interest and investment growth—plus maximize your savings with rewards on your everyday spending. Learn more at Betterment.com. Investing involves risk and performance not guaranteed.
https://www.betterment.com/social-disclosures/
Board Member
2010
ACTIV is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions. ACTIV offers neutral, managed services for buy and sell-side firms and technology providers seeking a complete market data solution that encompasses both global content management and data delivery across the enterprise. With coverage spanning more than 200 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world, ACTIV is the only truly end-to-end, independent market data utility in the industry. Founded in 2002 by market data specialists, the firm is privately owned and has offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London.
For more information call 212-599-1600, or visit www.activfinancial.com.
Board Member
May 2009
United Capital Financial Advisors, LLC, is a registered investment advisor providing comprehensive planning and investing strategies to make investors more confident about using their money to live the life they want today, while planning for tomorrow.
Board Member
Jan 2009
Knewton puts achievement within reach for all learners with adaptive technologies and products that deliver personalized and lasting learning experiences. Educators, schools and universities, and education companies around the world use Knewton to power and provide digital courses that dynamically adapt to each student's unique needs. More than 14 million students around the world have used Knewton-powered courses to date.
Board Member
Jun 2007
Hunch is a decision-making tool that's customized for you. After asking you 10 questions or less, Hunch will provide a concrete result for decisions of every kind. Because Hunch is powered by user input, it gets smarter each time someone contributes to it.
Board Member
Jan 2006
We’re Zopa, and we want to make money work better for you.
Our diverse team is united in their mission of creating simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer’s needs at their heart. We’re proud that this dedication is reflected in our excellent rating on TrustPilot.
We’ve always been unapologetically honest with our customers, and value the same in return. Their feedback helps us shape what we build, so we can provide a bank fit for today, and for the future.
We’re not the new kids on the block though - we’ve been a pioneering force in finance for 16 years. In 2005, we built the first ever peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company, giving our customers access to loans built for real-life and intelligent investments backed by cutting-edge tech. In 2020, we launched Zopa Bank, meaning we could offer more – like fixed term savings backed by FSCS protection and a credit card to help customers take control of their finances.
We’ve lent out over £6 billion and are proud to have made money work better for over half a million people across the UK, whether they were looking to borrow or save.
Investor, Board Member
2006
Yodle is a leader in local online marketing and has been ranked on Forbes’ list of America's Most Promising Companies for the last four years. Yodle helps local businesses find and keep their customers in the simplest, most profitable ways imaginable.
Yodle was founded in 2005 and has 50,000+ customers across 250+ industries. Yodle helps local businesses build a strong online presence. Its combination of automated technology and the support of a full service marketing team makes Yodle easy to use and saves considerable time for local business owners.
Yodle’s product offerings designed specifically for local businesses include:
• Marketing Essentials™, a comprehensive suite of solutions that includes mobile, desktop and social web presence, the ability to collect and manage reviews and photos, social media management, SEO automation, listings syndication across multiple online channels, offer management, and email marketing
• Yodle Ads, a proprietary and optimized paid search advertising offering that is available as a complement to Marketing Essentials
• Lighthouse 360™, a business practice automation product which automates many of our customers’ daily consumer interactions or office routines such as appointment reminders and is built to improve operational efficiencies
Yodle also delivers Centermark™, a distributed marketing automation platform, to networked businesses, i.e., franchises, manufacturers/dealers, and multi-location companies.
Yodle has more than 1,200 employees across five offices and has been recognized as a best place to work by numerous organizations. The company is headquartered in New York City and is also based in Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Scottsdale, AZ and Atlanta, GA.
For more information, visit www.yodle.com, www.yodleinsights.com, or see Yodle reviews from customers at www.yodle.com/success-stories/video-testimonials. You can also find out about careers at Yodle at www.yodlecareers.com and www.yodle.us.
Board Member/Venture Investor
2003
The next generation of Skype from Microsoft gives you better ways to chat, call, and plan fun things to do with the people in your life every day.
Microsoft acquired Skype in May 2011 to be included in their broader portfolio. The acquisition increased the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination extended Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.
For more information about the Skype acquisition visit: https://news.microsoft.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-to-acquire-skype/#2FLqrbtyDvWpVXco.97
Board Member
2003
GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise, connecting decision makers to the precise intelligence they need to gain a strategic edge. Leveraging decades of experience and proprietary data, GLG’s global teams recruit and engage hard-to-access experts across every industry – delivering fresh, authoritative insights, events, advisors, and board placements to the world’s most recognized and influential companies.
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OMsignal
Board Member
Jun 2014
2013
Board Member
Dec 2013
Main Street Hub is now a part of GoDaddy. Were the marketing platform for local businesses. Utilizing our proprietary technology, we integrate social media, customer reviews, and email marketing to help local businesses get more customers and keep them coming back, while saving them valuable time.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas and backed by leading investors, Main Street Hub was founded in 2010 and has more than 600 team members. We serve 10,000 local business customers across the country and have published more than 10 million messages on social media and review sites.
Main Street Hub has been named one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, the fastest growing startup and one of the Best Places to Work in Austin by the Austin Business Journal, and a Top Workplace by the Austin American-Statesman.
Director
2013
NewSchools is a venture philanthropy that builds a better education system by connecting people, resources, and ideas. We bridge the gap between those with capital and those with the courage to put that capital to work on the frontlines of education. We believe that philanthropy can advance education in a more equitable, collaborative, and courageous way—and we’re proving it every day.
Learn more at www.newschools.org.
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Board Member
Aug 2010
K2 Intelligence is an industry-leading investigative, compliance, and cyber defense services firm founded in 2009 by Jeremy M. Kroll and Jules B. Kroll, who is credited with originating the modern corporate investigations industry.
Redefining 21st-century corporate intelligence, we combine subject-matter expertise with cutting-edge technology, bringing to bear the industry’s best multidisciplinary teams to solve our clients’ most difficult problems. With 300+ employees in six offices across the globe, we advise governments, companies, and HNW individuals; clients include public and private companies in the energy, mining, real estate and construction, education, and tech sectors, as well as investment companies, law firms, and financial institutions.
K2 Intelligence not only helps clients address problems and complex situations, but we help clients manage risk—whether that risk be investment, financial, regulatory, acquisition, new market entry, cyber, or reputational in nature—gathering intelligence to enhance critical decisions. Learn more about K2 Intelligence and our six practices—Investigations & Disputes, Regulatory Compliance, Cyber Defense, Construction & Real Estate, Strategic Risk & Security, and Private Client Services—at www.k2intelligence.com.
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