
Venture Capitalist
San Francisco Bay Area

Venture Capitalist
San Francisco Bay Area
Venture Capitalist with deep industry experience in general managenemt, strategy and corporate/business development in the consumer media, internet and technology areas
Consumer internet
Subscription businesses
Travel (especially online travel)
Media (esp Internet, TV)
Mergers, acquisitions, investments
Strategy
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)
Venture Capitalist, focused on early stage technology companies with an emphasis on software, gaming and internet. Led Lightspeed's investments in Rockyou, Flixster, Mercantila, Serious Business, Streetfire.net and Tippit.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
January 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Overall P&L Responsibility for Netscape. Netscape is the #4 portal and #3 browser.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
October 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Chief of Staff role to CEO. Strategy, business development, Corporate Development
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IAC; Internet industry)
June 1999 — October 2002 (3 years 5 months)
Strategic Planning, Mergers, Acquisitions, Investments. Involved in acquisitions of or investments in Expedia, Interval, TV Travel Shop, and National Leisure Group, plus many others that did not come to fruition,
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
March 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 4 months)
Various roles in startup online city guide business, including sales management, business development, finance raising etc
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
March 1994 — March 1996 (2 years 1 month)
Management consulting in Sydney and Johannesburg
MBA , September 1998 — June 2000
BA/BSC(Hons) , Linguisitics, Mathematics , March 1989 — November 1993