Founder & CEO, CollectiveX
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Founder & CEO, CollectiveX
Washington D.C. Metro Area
New Venture Creation, Business Development, Strategic Exit Planning, Product Development, Branding and Identity, Internet Applications, Marketing and PR, Deal Structuring, Process Development, Team Building, Social Networking, Collaboration
(Internet industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Groupsite.com - How Groups Make Things Happen
Groupsite.com (formerly CollectiveX) is a multi-purpose social collaboration platform, uncluttered with needless distractions, focused specifically on empowering groups of all types and sizes to make things happen. Groupsites bring together only the most useful features of listservs, collaboration software and social networks into a system (i.e., collaboration community) that empower groups to easily communicate, share and network.
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2001 — Present (8 years 2 months)
Private holding company/venture catalyst focused on providing seed capital and entrepreneurial guidance for entrepreneurs with innovative business concepts. Wooten Ventures is currently focused on growing and realizing its existing investments and is not making any new investments at this time.
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
September 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Venturepreneur Partners (http://www.vpfund.com) is an early-stage private-equity fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build high-growth, capital-efficient companies that leverage innovative business processes or applications of the Internet, enterprise software or communications technology to gain a competitive advantage within their industry.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Computer & Network Security industry)
November 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 8 months)
After selling ImageCafe.com to Network Solutions in 1999, I remained on as vice president of Network Solutions and GM of the ImageCafé business unit, responsible for managing the P&L and an $8 million budget. Scaled the operation to 35 employees. Negotiated partnership deals with major companies, including AOL. Grew the unit to $12 million in revenues in 2000.
Network Solutions was acquired by Verisign in 2000.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 10 months)
Launched in April 1999, ImageCafe.com was an Internet Superstore of customizable websites for small businesses.
B.S. , Business and Management
entrepreneurship, new technology, branding, marketing, basketball, architecture, real estate development, venture capital, private equity