Investor & Advisor at ICON Aircraft
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Investor & Advisor at ICON Aircraft
- General Partner at Endeavor Group
- Board Member at Cloudmark
- Founder, Board Member at Full Circle Fund
- Past
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- Founder and CEO at Wink
- CEO at XDegrees, Inc.
- Founder, VP Bus Dev at AdForce, Inc.
- Senior Product Line Manager at Verity, Inc.
- Education
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- Stanford GSB
- University of Alberta
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Michael Tanne’s Summary
start-up technology companies.
Michael Tanne’s Specialties:
Finding great opportunities and creating, advising or investing in companies to pursue those opportunities.
Michael Tanne’s Experience
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Investor & Advisor
ICON Aircraft
(Privately Held; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
March 2008 — Present (2 years )
ICON Aircraft has been created to bring the freedom, fun, and adventure of flying to all who have dreamed of flight. Dramatic FAA regulation changes in 2004 created the new Light Sport Aircraft category and Sport Pilot License. ICON Aircraft was founded in 2005 by Kirk Hawkins a graduate from the Stanford Business School, an accomplished engineer, U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, and long-time motorsport enthusiast. After years of development by the world's best aerospace engineers and industrial designers, ICON has released the first of its line of sport planes, the ICON A5, an award-winning phenomenon that delivers an amazing and safe flying experience, as well inspiring us the way great sports cars do. ICON has received over 375 advanced orders for the ICON A5, which will start at about $139K and begin shipping in late 2011.
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General Partner
Endeavor Group
(Privately Held; Philanthropy industry)
March 2003 — Present (7 years )
Investing in and advising innovative technology ventures, including: Wikia, Revison3, LinkedIn, ICON Aircraft, FamilyLink, RealTravel, SimplyHired, Axcient, Wink, Flock, Dogster, Socializr, DanceJam, Owner's Pass and GoalSpring.
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Board Member
Cloudmark
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Leading anti-spam solution, providing SpamNet, a Peer-to-peer network of over 1 million spam fighters and Authority, a high performance, highly accurate enterprise solution to spam.
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Founder, Board Member
Full Circle Fund
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
December 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)
Founder and Board Member of Full Circle Fund, a Bay Area non profit that leverages its members' time, experience and capital to increase the social impact of innovative non-profit organizations in the areas of education, affordable housing, and technology workforce development.
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Founder and CEO
Wink
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2004 — January 2010 (5 years 6 months)
Founder and CEO of Wink, a provider of free people search across over one Billion profiles from across the Internet - including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and all the other social applications. Wink lets everyone search for people by name, location, work, school or interests.
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CEO
XDegrees, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — July 2002 (2 years )
Led provider of solution for accessing and exchanging files from storage systems distributed throughout organization. Acquired by Microsoft.
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Founder, VP Bus Dev
AdForce, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
August 1996 — March 2000 (3 years 8 months)
Major provider of Internet ad serving, IPO in 1999, later acquired by CMGi. Was founder, held positions of VP Marketing/Product Mgmt (responsible for product direction and development) and VP Business Development (strategic alliances, M&A, International)
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Senior Product Line Manager
Verity, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VRTY; Computer Software industry)
September 1994 — August 1996 (2 years )
Directed product management for line of products at leader in enterprise search solutions. Responsible for OEM strategy, product positioning, schedule, beta programs, launch, and strategic partnerships/design partners.
Michael Tanne’s Education
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Stanford GSB
MBA , September 1990 — June 1992
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University of Alberta
EE , September 1983 — December 1988
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Michael Tanne’s Interests:
Skiing, SCUBA diving, hockey, electric guitar, music
Michael Tanne’s Groups:
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Stanford Business School Alumni Association
