Lorenz Sell

Past

• Founder at Beer and Business
• Founder and CEO at Blue Lava Technologies
• CTO at Refine+Focus

• Vice President, Solutions Delivery at New Direct

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Education

• Tufts University

Recommended

6 people have recommended Lorenz

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog

Lorenz Sell’s Summary

I’m the co-founder of iLovePhotos, the first desktop application to use facial detection to help you organize and share your photos to any device.

Extensive experience:
- Launching new companies
- Writing business plans
- Recruiting and building start up teams
- Facilitating communication and motivation
- Developing and executing business strategies
- Developing and executing business partnerships
- Angel and VC fund raising

My true passion is fitness. I would like to bring the joy that fitness has brought to my life to all those around me. I see the Internet and continuous advent of social technology as a perfect platform to motivate and commit people to a high energy and healthy lifestyle.

I’ve recently moved on from iLovePhotos to pursue my dream of making the world a fitter place.

Lorenz Sell’s Specialties:

Identifying viable opportunities, new venture creation, recruiting, fund raising, getting you in the best shape of your life.

Lorenz Sell’s Experience

• Founder

  Beer and Business

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2009 (2 years )

  Beer and Business is a first-of-its-kind casual networking event in Hawaii that connects experienced local entrepreneurs, executives, and investors over drinks and good conversation. The event happens quarterly and draws over 150 people.
  
  I organized the event to fill a hole in the Hawaii venture capital scene, setting the vision, building partnerships, selecting the venue, and securing all sponsorships to make sure people have free drinks all around.
  
  Beer and Business is an invite only event designed to facilitate idea exchange, deal flow, and fund raising. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been discreetly raised from investors that Hawaii based entrepreneurs met at the event.

• Founder and CEO

  Blue Lava Technologies

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2009 (4 years )

  I co-founded Blue Lava Technologies with Henk Rogers (who introduced the world to Tetris and continues to manage the game rights). Our flagship product, iLovePhotos, is an entirely new and FUN way of organizing and sharing photos to any networked device with a screen (mobile, digital picture frame, online, TV, etc).
  
  iLovePhotos introduced the concept of automatic slideshows and was the first desktop software application to use facial detection and visual tagging.
  
  As CEO of Blue Lava Technologies, I wrote the business plan, raised over $5m, recruited / managed a team of 15 people, set the product vision and strategy, worked with the team to design and file four patents, and launched the iLovePhotos product at the DEMO Conference. iLovePhotos was selected as one of twelve “FiReStarters” for the 2009 Future in Review (FiRe) conference.
  
  Recognized by the Hawaii Venture Capital Association as Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year (http://bit.ly/ILPAward) in 2008. Also awarded Venture Capital Deal of the Year.
  
  WEB:
  www.bluelavatech.com, www.ilovephotos.com
  
  PRESS:
  Starbulletin: http://bit.ly/starbulletin
  Tech Buzz: http://bit.ly/TechBuzz
  Hawaii Business Magazine: http://bit.ly/HawaiiBusiness
  DEMO Launch: http://bit.ly/ILPDemo
  TV Show: http://bit.ly/LocalVentures

• CTO

  Refine+Focus

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Refine + Focus is a creative and strategic consulting firm that works with businesses on ways to improve marketing, enhance advertising, and increase sales using new and emerging media strategies.
  
  As CTO, I was responsible for researching and implementing emerging media technology that aligned with each client’s goals and directly maximized their marketing ROI and bottom line.

• Vice President, Solutions Delivery

  New Direct

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  New Direct is an online direct marketing company focused on delivering highly optimized marketing "ideas that work" geared towards generating maximal response/conversion. Previous campaigns include highly successful referral/rewards programs generating 400%+ ROI.

Lorenz Sell’s Education

• Tufts University

  BS , Computer Engineering

Additional Information

Lorenz Sell’s Websites:

• My Blog

Lorenz Sell’s Groups:

Beer and Business

•    Earlystage.com Entrepreneurs

Lorenz Sell’s Honors:

Hawaii Venture Capital Association Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, Venture Capital Deal of the Year

Lorenz Sell’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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