Ari Newman

Current

Founder and President at Filtrbox, Inc.
Founder and Principal at Newman Venture Advisors

Past

VP of Product Management at CreekPath Systems (sold to Opsware)
Director of Client Services at CreekPath Systems
Director of Operations at Volera

Founder and Network Operations at JustOn (sold to Novell)
Product Manager at Worldtalk (sold to Tumbleweed)
Intern at Inroads Interactive

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Ari Newman’s Summary

Innovative leader with over 13 years of broad experience in IT operations, application and infrastructure service delivery, product management, customer service, and professional services. A serial entrepreneur with a love of starting new ventures and creating value in ideas and technology.
Expertise in consumer internet, application software, enterprise IT infrastructure and enterprise storage.

Ari Newman’s Specialties:

business strategy, venture/angel fundraising, client services, education, consulting, product management and strategy, product marketing, operational efficiency, others

Ari Newman’s Experience

Founder and President

Filtrbox, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Filtrbox is a topic-driven content monitoring service. We are angel-backed, and still in development mode but plan on having the service launched by the end of the year. Responsible for all business operations and strategic planning.
Founder and Principal

Newman Venture Advisors

(Partnership; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

Newman Venture Advisors provides the following services:
• Advisory and strategic consulting to early and mid stage start-ups in the technology, telecommunications, media and entertainment industries.
• Development of business modeling and refinement of investor presentations
• Identification of and introductions to targeted private equity and venture capital investors.

Unique Value Proposition
• Combination of extensive technology operating expertise leveraged by strong and extensive private equity and venture capital relationships
• Providing the tightest presentation at the right time to the most ideal investors
• Full spectrum analysis – sales, marketing, operations, development, client services across multiple industry categories.
VP of Product Management

CreekPath Systems (sold to Opsware)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — November 2005 (11 months)

responsible for all aspects of inbound and outbound product management, product strategy and requirements definition for CreekPath's flagship product line which provided discovery, analysis, reporting and decision support for enterprise networked storage infrastructure.
Director of Client Services

CreekPath Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 5 months)

responsible for bootstrapping and scaling the support and education departments at CreekPath as the company grew from launch to over $5m/year in revenues from enterprise accounts.
Director of Operations

Volera

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Volera was a Novell, Nortel and Accenture spin out providing enterprise content networking solutions and caching appliances
Held various positions at Novell and Volera:
Director of Operations
Director of Sales Engineering
Director of Professional Services
Founder and Network Operations

JustOn (sold to Novell)

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

We launched JustOn with the vision of being a multi-application ASP. Our first application was web based file-storage and sharing. I was responsible for all aspects of the production infrastructure (servers, storage, network), colocation, network architecture and network operations. JustOn grew very rapidly from launch in the summer of 1999 to over 1M unique monthly page views by October of '99. The company was sold to Novell in December of 1999.
Product Manager

Worldtalk (sold to Tumbleweed)

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TMWD; Computer Software industry)

January 1997 — March 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Held various positions over the course of 3 years:
Sales AE
Technical Marketing
Product Manager
Intern

Inroads Interactive

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Additional Information

Ari Newman’s Groups:

Novell Alumni, Boulder Software Club, Denver Software Club, CTEK, Front Range Bloggers, GS Boulder Cycling Team, Zeta Beta Tau, Techstars 2007, Boulder NewTech Meetup, Boulder Open Coffee Club