Business Development professional
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Director of Business Development at Myxer
- Co-Founder at Tavalon Tea
- Past
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- Business Advisor at Mobiata
- Offline Business Development at Going.com
- Corporate Lawyer at Chadbourne & Parke LLP
- Education
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- Georgetown University Law Center
- Duke University
- University of Oxford
- Connections
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500+
connections
- Industry
- Internet
- Websites
Sonny Caberwal’s Summary
I've been fortunate to experience a wide variety of personal and professional pursuits.
Professionally, I've experienced both the traditional corporate world as a lawyer in Manhattan, and the thrilling, exhaustive entrepreneurial journey of turning an idea into a reality. I continue to be involved as an entrepreneur doing business development with Myxer, a company deeply involved in the exciting evolution of the personal mobile experience.
Throughout it all, I've tried to continue my lifelong personal interest in music as a percussionist with a variety of traditional and electronic groups, including Thievery Corporation. I've also recently been involved in representing the Sikh community as a model and activist through Kenneth Cole's advertising campaign and corporate initiative around how individuals in the United States and beyond can make a difference.
Sonny Caberwal’s Experience
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Director of Business Development
Myxer
(Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Myxer is a sophisticated platform that easily enables multimedia content to be delivered from the web to mobile devices. Currently, the company is the leader in ad-supported mobile entertainment, with over 23 million users. The company's platform delivers over 55M+ downloads to mobile phones each month, and owns 8.3% of total US mobile web traffic, according to a recent report by Comscore.
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Co-Founder
Tavalon Tea
(Retail industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
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Business Advisor
Mobiata
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — September 2009 (7 months)
Mobiata creates best-selling applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, with an emphasis on elegant user interface design. The company has two of the most successful iPhone travel applications, FlightTrack (#1) and FlightTrack Pro (#6).
Since its founding in December 2008, Mobiata applications have been featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Washington Post (TechCrunch), USA Today, Macworld, PC Magazine and others. Apple features FlightTrack in full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and in iPhone television commercials. Mobiata also offers iPhone application design and development services, enabling third parties to drive their iPhone projects to success. -
Offline Business Development
Going.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
November 2007 — September 2008 (11 months)
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Corporate Lawyer
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
(Partnership; Law Practice industry)
September 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Sonny Caberwal’s Education
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Georgetown University Law Center
J.D. , Corporate Law , 2001 — 2004
Independent Study on the impact of Digital Music and the Internet on the Music Industry
- Activities and Societies:
- Ad. Editor, Law & Policy in International Business
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Duke University
B.A. , International Business & Globalization , 1997 — 2001
Granted permission by the Duke administration to design a unique course of study for my undergraduate degree entitled "International Business & Globalization," which examined the impact an increasingly global community had on various international and domestic business and social practices and norms in the late 1990's.
As part of this curriculum, I studied how various global music trends helped to create diverse social environments, and received a grant for over $5k to travel Europe and do field research. Upon returning, I applied these findings to events aimed at creating more diverse social environments on Duke's campus through Students to Unite Duke, raising over $30k to create successful social programs, with some events drawing as high as 25% of the school's registered undergraduate population of over 6k.- Activities and Societies:
- Founder- Students to Unite Duke, member- Beta Theta Pi
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University of Oxford
Lord Rothermere Scholar , Comparative Tort Law , 2000 — 2000
Additional Information
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Sonny Caberwal’s Interests:
MUSIC: 22+ years of experience playing percussion; recorded and performed with a variety of musicians across a number of genres, including Thievery Corporation on "Richest Man in Babylon"; additionally, experience with artist management, music licensing and distribution, and event production.
Sonny Caberwal’s Groups:
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On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
Mobile Advertising & Marketing -
MEF - Mobile Entertainment Forum -
The Indus Entrepreneur -
DukeGEN - The Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network - Main Group -
Duke University Alumni Network -
Mobile industry investors group -
MEF-Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas -
San Francisco Mobile
Sonny Caberwal’s Honors:
Guest Lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University Law Center, 2007.
Featured in 90+ media outlets around the world for his ground-breaking role as the first Sikh model, in both Kenneth Cole's award-winning 25th anniversary advertising campaign, (Spring 2008), and an 8 page feature in GQ Style Magazine for Sping/Summer 2009 (Germany).
Contributing author to "AWEARNESS- Inspiring Stories About How to Make A Difference", a book published by Kenneth Cole, and featuring essays by Bill Clinton, Robert Redford, Michael Bloomberg, Lance Armstrong, and other well known activists. (see http://awearnessblog.com/2008/11/awearness-inspiring-stories-ab-3.php for more)
Has received over 40 pieces of national and international press for Tavalon's unique brand strategy in the tea industry.
Sonny Caberwal’s Contact Settings
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