Founder of Virgance which finds and develops small, positive activism campaigns and scales them into global movements
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board at Virgance
- Chairman of the Board at Serious Business
- Founder at SF Green
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Steve Newcomb’s Summary
Founder of Virgance which finds and develops small, positive activism campaigns (environment, solar, education, poverty) and scales them into global movements
Beyond being the founder of Virgance, I am currently the Chairman of the Board of one of the largest Facebook social gaming application companies, Chairman of the Board of Green Options Media, the founder of SF Green, the Bay Area “unconference” focused on green issues and technology, and a member of the policy committee at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, working on green issues.
I am also well-known as a founder of Powerset, Promptu Mobile (now Promptu) and Loudfire (sold to Nokia undisclosed) and played an important role as an early employee in Proxicom (sold to DiData ~$440 million) and Eastern Energy Corporation (sold to Statoil for ~$2.4 billion).
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Steve Newcomb’s Specialties:
Going from looking at a blank page to creating a work of some length and density
Steve Newcomb’s Experience
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Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board
Virgance
(Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Virgance uses the power of social networks to create positive change through positive activism. The company is a ground breaking approach to building a B Corporation (a new type of company that has doing good as part of its charter) that launches various campaigns on Facebook and other social networks that drive change that has a positive effect on the environment and other social issues.
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Chairman of the Board
Serious Business
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Top social game on Facebook.
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Founder
SF Green
(Events Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
SF Green, aspires to become the Bay Area's Green version of TED. The next event, which is scheduled this Fall, is currently in the process of expanding to become the nation's most influential green event with franchised events running throughout the world.
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Founder & COO
Powerset
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2005 — October 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Sold to Microsoft for ~$100 million.
All divisions of the company reported up to Mr. Newcomb in his role as COO including engineering, network operations, data center operations, product development, marketing, finance, human resources and administration.
Mr. Newcomb was in charge of building the team (70 people) at Powerset from the ground up, executing the development of the product and raising capital for the company. -
Board of Directors
jaxtr
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — September 2007 (10 months)
Jaxtr is a social communications company based in Palo Alto, CA. Jaxtr was founded in October 2005 by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang with the mission to bring voice to social networks and blogs. With the free jaxtr service, users link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private.
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Founder & General Manager Mobile Division
Promptu
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
2004 — January 2006 (2 years)
General manager and founder of Promptu mobile division with responsibilities for P/L, marketing, business development, corporate development and product development direct reports.
After serving CEO as an advisor for Promptu TV (a private company backed by Motorola, Scansoft and leading Venture Capital firms), Mr. Newcomb was asked to head up the efforts to create a new mobile division. Created the initial vision, completed funding, hired team and managed the operational execution of building Promptu's voice enabled mobile search product lines.
Manages operational budget for 40+ people, builds and engages in executive level relationships with carrier and strategic partners and negotiates definitive agreements with customers. -
Founder & Managing Partner
Nekei
(Telecommunications industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
Mr. Newcomb was General Manager and founder of Nekei, where he built a product marketing consulting company comprised of leading visionaries from Microsoft, Moxi, WebTV, Sun, Verisign and Intel. At Nekei, Mr. Newcomb advised CEOs at a wide variety of public and private companies on the roll out of new Internet, Voice, Video and Mobile product lines.
France Telecom (Orange Wireless, Wanadoo, MaLigneTV)
Building business models to support integrated mobile and television products that integrate voice, video, data and mobile services.
Promptu TV (Voice Controlled TV)
Advised Board of Directors and CEO on funding completing 22M funding round.
Entone (IP Video on Demand)
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Founder & VP Product Marketing
Loudfire
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Events Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Sold to Intellisync (Nokia)
Founded a company to connect the mobile, television and home networking devices under an integrated middleware platform resulting in a single user interface across all platforms. Completed product and went to market in 1 year, solidified relationships with core telecommunication operators, mobile OEMs, set top manufacturers. Acquired in 2002 by Intellisync then Nokia. -
Senior Director (Telecommunications)
Proxicom
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Public in 1999 and sold to DiData for ~$400 million
Responsible for the creation of telecommunications division with Proxicom, grew division to $40 million per year in revenue, managed a team of 40 strategy and engineering resources. Acquired by Dimention Data in 2000 for $400M
SBC
Worked with senior management team of SBC to create and execute a plan to build a 400 person division focused on completing the DSL rollout and building a team to focus on laying media and Internet products on top of the DSL service -
Director Software Development
Statoil
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; STL; Oil & Energy industry)
March 1993 — May 1998 (5 years 3 months)
Eastern Energy sold to Statoil for a little more than $2 billion.
Responsible for product management and development of internal applications for North American operations including real time trading systems, credit management systems and futures trading systems. Managed an internal team of 25 with 3 direct reports.
Served under executives in Stavanger Norway, London, Washington DC and Houston, Texas.
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