Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com

Current

• Author at Rules for Renegades
• CEO at Mighty Ventures

Past

• Venture Capitalist at Novus Ventures (post Artemis Ventures merger)
• President and CTO at Planet U
• Founder/Co-Founder & Entrepreneur at planet U, LBMS, Corporate Computing, Kuvera Associates, First Professional Bank and more

• Technology Columnist at PC Week/Ziff-Davis
• Software Engineer at Microsoft, Lotus, Adobe

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Education

• University of California, San Diego

Recommended

10 people have recommended Christine Comaford

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• Mighty Ventures
• Read 1st chapter of my book!
• My Blog

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Summary

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Has helped make over 150 entrepreneurs into millionaires, invested in 200 startups, built and sold (for over 700% ROI) 5 of her own companies. Assisted over 700 of the Fortune 1000 in implementing new technology. Founder or Co-Founder First Professional Bank, Kuvera Associates, Corporate Computing, planetU and Artemis Ventures.

Over 20 years in operational high tech positions at Microsoft, Lotus, Adobe and Apple; strategy advisor to Oracle and Symantec.

Former Board of Director/Observer roles: ViewCentral, Motiva (NASDAQ: SEBL), Taviz, Toolwire, DataMirror (NASDAQ: DMCX), PlanetU (NYSE: NWS), Corporate Computing (NYSE: CA) and more.

Current Board roles: Board Director for Adgregate, Advisor and Investment Committees for Novus Ventures, Advisor to SeeSmartLED, Advisor to Volunteer Match, and more.

• Led her startup Corporate Computing (acquired by LBMS, then acquired by Computer Associates, NYSE: CA) in building a customer base of 700 of the Fortune 1000 in three years

• Led her startup planet U (her shares acquired by News Corp, NYSE: NWS), to an increase in value seven-fold in the first 16 months

• Participated in two IPOs: DataMirror (NASDAQ: DMCX, as a Board Director for 4 years) and LBMS (formerly NASDAQ: LBMS, acquired by Computer Associates)as an SVP

• Received numerous additional entrepreneurial awards and recognition from press and business schools including Fortune, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Stanford, Harvard, Haas and Northwestern Universities.

• Published over 400 articles to date on entrepreneurship, software development, I.T. management for publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes, ACM, Harvard Business Review

• Delivered over 400 speeches to date. Keynote speaker for Intel, Microsoft, Palm, Department of Defense, Ariba, GlaxoSmithKline, National City Bank, and many more. Has spoken in 14 countries on four continents.

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Specialties:

entrepreneurship in general, sales, marketing, fundraising, public speaking, business building, dealmaking

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Experience

• Author

  Rules for Renegades

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Rules for Renegades will help you to rock your career, make more money, and revel in your individuality. Rated one of the "Top 10 Biz Books To Read This Summer" by Entrepreneur Magazine!

• CEO

  Mighty Ventures

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  CEO sounding board, startup strategist, columnist and writer in general on entrepreneurial issues. Catalyst for launching companies, products, services. Helping some non-profits to do the same.

• Venture Capitalist

  Novus Ventures (post Artemis Ventures merger)

  (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  1998 — 2006 (8 years )

  Seed-stage investing in infrastructure, software, web services

• President and CTO

  Planet U

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

• Founder/Co-Founder & Entrepreneur

  planet U, LBMS, Corporate Computing, Kuvera Associates, First Professional Bank and more

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1998 (16 years )

  Founded or on the founding team of a series of startups in software, services, and finance. All companies sold or taken public.

• Technology Columnist

  PC Week/Ziff-Davis

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  1992 — 1997 (5 years )

  Wrote the highly acclaimed column "Mission Critical" for Ziff-Davis' publication PC Week. Top columnist for demystifiing complex technology for corporate computing. Wrote weekly column for 5 years.

• Software Engineer

  Microsoft, Lotus, Adobe

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  1986 — 1991 (5 years )

  Developer on Adobe Illustrator, Lotus Baseline. Tested Microsoft's OS/2 graphics engine, software developer for Microsoft's Windows 3.0.

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  Activities and Societies:

  UCSD, UCLA

Additional Information

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Websites:

• Mighty Ventures
• Read 1st chapter of my book!
• My Blog

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Interests:

Non-Profit Interests • 2006 – Committee for Litquake, San Francisco’s premier literary festival. • 2003 – 2004, Volunteer for Lifeworks (www.lifeworksinc.org), an organization that provides after school programs for at-risk children. • 1997 - present, Volunteer for CAH (www.healingcenter.org), an organization providing support for children, adults, families suffering from life threatening illnesses. Chaired fundraising Gala 2000- 2003. Exceeded fundraising goals every year. • 1998 - present, Advisory Board member for Impact Online/VolunteerMatch (www.volunteermatch.org) a web site that helps individuals learn about and find volunteering opportunities for assorted non-profit organizations. The company is nearing self-sustained (profitable) status.

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Groups:

Left Coast Writers, Women's National Book Association, California Writer's Club

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
•    DFW Entrepreneur Network
•    Women 2.0
•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
•    OpenNetworkers.info < 50.000+ Open Networkers across 60 social networks >
•    Forté Foundation
•    Global Web Forum of Leader (GWL)
•    Consultants Network
•    Toronto Entrepreneur Alliance
•    International Entrepreneur Club
•    The 4-Hour Academy
•    Ladies Who Launch
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Angel Investor Group
•    Small Business Online Community
•    Startup Specialists
•    New York Venture Community
•    STARTUP ENTREPRENEURS NETWORK
•    Wealth Management Group
•    GoBigNetwork Startup Community
•    Startup Specialists Forum
•    Southern California Venture Capital Community
•    The Indus Entrepreneur
•    SalesBlogcast.com
•    The Life Science Executive Exchange
•    Millionaire Business Club
•    Women For Hire
•    Silicon Valley Venture Community
•    BD Networking
•    Global Executive Exchange
•    Startup Mastermind
•    Executive Roundtable
•    Linked Business
•    Sales Connections
•    Customer Satisfaction KUDOS and KATASTROPHES
•    Entrepreneur 2.0 (maxiwill.com)
•    Recession Survivors Group
•    Encore Entrepreneurs
•    ForbesWoman

Christine Comaford rulesforrenegades@gmail.com’s Honors:

• 2005 - Provided on-air insights/commentary for the CNN/FORTUNE magazine TV special "The Top 25 Business Leaders"

• 2005 – First prize, nonfiction, Jessamyn West Writing Contest for “Try Outs”

• 2004 – Honorable mention, nonfiction, Jessamyn West Writing Contest for “Daddio’s Last Night”

• 2003 – Consultanted to BBC TV for “World’s Most Powerful” TV special

• 2002 – Leader/Innovator/Visionary Award for Top Woman in Banking/Finance by North Bay Business Journal

• 2001 – Named one of the Six Bold New VCs by Upside Magazine

• 2000 - Named one of the Top New VCs by Red Herring Magazine

• 1999 - Named one of the Top 25 Women on the Web by SFWoW

• 1996 - Named one of the Top Five "Renegade" entrepreneurs by Success magazine

• 1996 - Named one of the Top Women in Computing by Business Week

• 1996, 1998 - Featured in PBS specials: Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1

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