Carl Wescott

Current

• Registered Representative at Welton Street Investments
• CEO at Surprise Development, Inc.
• Co-founder and Director at Noesis Partners

3 more...

Past

• Co-founder and CTO & VP of Engineering at GoingOn Networks, Inc.
• CTO & VP of Engineering at PeopleBridge Consulting
• VP of Investor Relations at Capital Ideas

5 more...

Education

• UCSC
• UCSC
• Stanford University

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Recommended

10 people have recommended Carl

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Real Estate

Websites

• My Company
• My Website
• My Website

Carl Wescott’s Summary

Real Estate Developer in seven countries, currently. Residential, hotels, fractionals, and a little commercial overseas. In the US, office, industrial, R&D, high-density residential (apartments), and retail including big-box retail.

Licensed California real estate salesperson and broker. Licensed securities salesperson able to sell institutional grade TICs for individual investors to 1031 in to. (Real estate) brokerage owner. (1031 Exchange) brokerage owner. Real Former money-raiser. Investment-banker-to-be.

Successful real estate investor. Experienced venture investor, including technology & hospitality ventures.

Business expertise in finance, real estate, technology, hospitality.

Former winery owner.

Former experienced technology executive with a track record of increasing responsibility. Fifteen+ years as President, CTO or VP of Engineering.

Stanford BS; UC Santa Cruz MS; and Ph.D. work, all in Computer Science and related fields.

Expertise in the creation and support of scalable, secure, highly available mission-critical enterprise software, as well as DLAs, social networks, media and device management, open source, the blogosphere, and personal & mobile publishing & communications.

Series 22 and 63 and 24 licensed, with more securities registrations (7 next) to follow.

Carl Wescott’s Specialties:

Real estate: development, brokerage, TIC brokerage, investment, management. Mortgage brokering. Hospitality. Wine. Angel Investing. Private equity & debt. Financials. Supply chain. Advertising. Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, & South America. Specifically, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, & Argentina.

Carl Wescott’s Education

• UCSC

  Ph.D., Computer Science, September 1994 — June 1997

  Completed classwork, passed oral examination, advanced to candidacy, completed thesis code and dissertation draft. Dropped out prior to defending dissertation to become an entrepreneur in high-tech and start my first company.

  Activities and Societies:

  Research Associate
  Teaching Assistant

• UCSC

  MS, Computer Science, September 1990 — June 1994

  Master's Thesis: PALette, a Platform-Independent Animation Language.

  Activities and Societies:

  Research Associate
  Teaching Assistant

• Stanford University

  BS, Symbolic Systems, September 1984 — January 1990

  Double self-designed concentration within major.

  Activities and Societies:

  Alpha Delta Phi
  Stanford Concert Network
  Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics
  Chaparral
  LS(D)JUMB associate

Additional Information

Carl Wescott’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website
• My Website

Carl Wescott’s Interests:

low risk, high return investments; travel; rural properties; wine

Carl Wescott’s Groups:

* Zoom Systems, Advisory Board
* LiquidTalk, Advisory Board
* Craigslist Foundation, Advisory Board
* Founding member, Technical Leadership Forum (formerly Bay Area CTO Forum)
* Keiretsu Forum, member
* North Bay Angels, member
* Golden Gate Angels, member
* Pass The Hat, member
* IIFF (International Institute for Film Financing), Board Member
* EarthTrain, advisor and supporter
* Bitzi, Board of Advisors
* Media Machines, Advisory Board
* Catamount Ventures, Technical Advisory Board
* ChainCast Networks, Technical Advisory Board
* TICA (Tenant in Common Association), member
* CREA, supporter

• Forbes.com San Francisco Group member

Carl Wescott’s Honors:

Recipient: multiple awards for work at Charles Schwab (several Excellence in Service awards and the Presidential Award, given to 4 teams out of 15,000 employees)

Comdex Gold Medal Award (1994)

various scholarships