Co-Founder & CEO: Path 101, Founder: nextNY, Blogger, Educator, Social Media and Web 2.0 Voice of Reason
Greater New York City Area
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- FastTrac Instructor at ITAC
- CEO/co-founder at Path 101
- Founder at nextNY
- Adjunct Professor at Fordham University
- Past
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- Director of Consumer Products at Oddcast
- Analyst at Union Square Ventures
- Investment Analyst, Private Markets at General Motors Asset Management
- Education
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- Fordham University
- Regis High School
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Charlie O'Donnell’s Summary
Charlie is a connector--introducing like minded friends, helping entrepreneurs find supporters, or just trying to make sense of disruptive ideas and the appropriate opportunities to create change.
His interest in technologies that improve connection and empower individuals has led him to the creation of Path 101 (www.path101.com), a career discovery destination. He is the company's co-founder & CEO and passionately leads the business strategy, marketing, and business development. Charlie works on the company's product vision with co-founder and CTO, Alex Lines.
In early 2006, Charlie founded nextNY (www.nextNY.org), a grassroots a participant-driven organization of almost 1,000 up and coming digital media and technology professionals in NYC--the largest in the area. Events have included discussions on the NYC startup environment, an open house at Google NYC, and an discussion on the future of online advertising.
He also kayaks and plays softball.
Most recently, as the Director of Consumer Products for Oddcast, he helped launch the company's first direct to consumer avatar platform, Voki. (www.voki.com) He was responsible Voki's product vision, functional specifications, and initial business and marketing strategy. He coordinated the company's technical and creative resources to help get the product from idea to launch.
Previously an analyst for Union Square Ventures, the New York City based early stage venture capital fund. Charlie focused on early stage investments in technology enabled service businesses such as del.icio.us, Indeed.com, Feedburner, BugLabs, Etsy, and Oddcast.
Prior to joining Union Square Ventures, he spent four years at the General Motors pension fund’s $6 billion private markets group, where he worked extensively on venture capital partnerships focusing on emerging technology as well as private equity investments in the consumer sector.
Charlie can also be found blogging at www.thisisgoingtobebig.com.
Charlie O'Donnell’s Specialties:
Early stage venture capital, media, marketing, consumer businesses, financial services, general private equity, social networking, MySpace, Facebook, blogging, interactive advertising, careers, recruiting, career education
Charlie O'Donnell’s Experience
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FastTrac Instructor
ITAC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — Present (7 months)
I help teach ITAC's 12-week entrepreneurship course for small businesses. The course covers business plans, fundraising, marketing, management, etc.
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CEO/co-founder
Path 101
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Path101 aims to be the go to place for career discovery, goal setting, and success for college students. It will provide a paced, easy to use, and fun experience that helps students learn about their opportunity set, as well as build and leverage their network.
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Founder
nextNY
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Founded nextNY, a fun way to connect both socially and professionally with young people who have a stake in future of tech and new media in New York City. Participants generally have less than ten years experience and we especially welcome recent graduates who are just starting their careers.
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Adjunct Professor
Fordham University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)
I have designed and taught several graduate and undergraduate level courses including: Introduction to Business Blogging, Management for the MySpace Generation, and Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset.
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Director of Consumer Products
Oddcast
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year)
- Responsible for Voki consumer avatar platform. (www.voki.com). Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking Flash-based character.
- Created product vision, functional specifications, and initial business and marketing strategy.
- Coordinated the company's technical and creative resources to help get the product from idea to launch. -
Analyst
Union Square Ventures
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 6 months)
-Help screen new business opportunities in the IT-enabled services space
-Research active deals by performing competition analysis
-Maintain financial models
-Track industry trends and help proactively seek out new opportunities
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Investment Analyst, Private Markets
General Motors Asset Management
(Public Company; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2001 — February 2005 (4 years 1 month)
-First undergraduate analyst hired by private markets business unit.
-Responsible for portfolio analytics and research for $5.5 billion private equity portfolio of venture capital, global buyouts, distressed and mezzanine debt.
-Led efforts to apply more quantitative approaches to private market portfolio analytics and reporting.
-Co-led secondary investment team that sourced, valued, and executed $500 million in secondary purchases of venture, buyout and mezzanine limited partnership interests.
-Provided analytical support to multiple investment deal teams responsible for due diligence of both partnership and direct investments.
Charlie O'Donnell’s Education
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Fordham University
BS, Finance, 1997 — 2001
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Regis High School
September 1993 — June 1997
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Charlie O'Donnell’s Interests:
Kayaking, Zog Sports Dodgeball, Zog Sports Kickball, Softball, Mentoring
Charlie O'Donnell’s Groups:
NVCA, NYSSA, Downtown Boathouse, Fordham Young Alumni President's Club, nextNY
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