Entrepreneur No Longer in Hiding
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Zoo Director at Aardvark
- Past
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- Senior Associate at Google Inc.
- VP, Business Development at Trader Classified Media
- Associate Fund Manager at MM&M LLP
- Founder at Krypteian Systems Ltd.
- Project Assistant - President's Office at The World Bank
- Education
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- Yale University - Yale School of Management
- Yale University
- Phillips Academy, Andover
- Buckley
- Connections
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325
connections
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Max Ventilla’s Summary
Have worked designing databases for the World Bank before founding an enterprise software firm. Majored in physics and mathematics at Yale before going directly into the Yale MBA program. Spent two and a half years working with the CEO of a $2 billion classified media business, raising financing and negotiating international M&A transactions before transitioning to online business development. Returning at long last to my entrepreneurial roots after spending some time in Mountain View at the all mighty Goog. Once considered working in defense, but Bush has turned me off to the whole bomb-making concept.
Max Ventilla’s Specialties:
Mathematics, Algorithm Design, Negotiation, and Finance.
Max Ventilla’s Experience
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Zoo Director
Aardvark
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
• New startup in the old Bebo space looking for superstar engineers (email me at max@aardvarkteam.com)
• Working to revolutionize what your network can tell you. Check out extensive press at www.vark.com/press
• Raised $7.5m, including a Series A round led by August Capital
• Recruited a team of more than 25 engineers, research scientists, designers, and technical operations professionals.
• Chosen as one of the BusinessWeek's top young tech
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Senior Associate
Google Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 2 months)
* Part of 15 person internal strategic consulting team
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VP, Business Development
Trader Classified Media
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; trdr.pa; Online Media industry)
May 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 5 months)
• Reported directly to CEO on a four person team responsible for all mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financings undertaken by $2 billion market cap global classified advertising company.
• Principally involved in negotiating $250 million share purchase, while helping complete separate $180 million share purchase, to increase founding CEO’s ownership to 72%. Shares tripled since May 2003.
• Worked extensively to coordinate regional centers for Internet development, standardize search engine optimization, roll-out pay for performance functionality, and focus web-only real estate offers.
• Sourced and led partnerships, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions ranging from $2-60 million in Croatia, Canada, Hungary, Spain, Poland, Italy, Holland, France, Russia, China, and India.
• Supported $450 million sale of Australian businesses
• Managed lawyers and advisers on six separate financings, raising over $700 million in total capital. -
Associate Fund Manager
MM&M LLP
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry)
June 2002 — April 2003 (11 months)
• Principal investor for $1 million long-only fund (30%+ returns) focused on Biotech and Internet stocks.
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Founder
Krypteian Systems Ltd.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 8 months)
• Conceived of email data-mining approach to map informal networks and automatically catalogue intra-corporate contacts and expertise.
• Founded Krypteian Systems to commercialize resulting software application and served as initial CEO.
• Established a partnership with Monitor Group and secured over $700,000 in seed financing.
• Selected and hired 10 full-time employees and oversaw ongoing algorithm design.
• Helped negotiate 2001 sale of Krypteian and assisted in knowledge transfer. -
Project Assistant - President's Office
The World Bank
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 1999 — December 1999 (7 months)
• Created the World Bank’s Notable Facts Database and consulted for EXC, IT, and Data Divisions.
Max Ventilla’s Education
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Yale University - Yale School of Management
MBA , Finance and Strategy , 2003 — 2006
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Yale University
BS , Physics and Mathematics , May 2002
• Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics with Distinction – Cum Laude – 3.8 GPA – 2002
• DeForest Prize co-recipient for best graduating senior in Mathematics
• Anthony D. Stanley Memorial Prize recipient for excellence in pure and applied Mathematics -
Phillips Academy, Andover
Physics and Mathematics May 1998
• Top 5% of school – Honor Roll – Class Representative for Summa Cum Laude Society – Varsity Wrestling – 1998.
• Writing/Math/Physics SAT II scores of 800/800/800 – Verbal/Math SAT I scores of 780/800. -
Buckley
Additional Information
Max Ventilla’s Websites:
Max Ventilla’s Groups:
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On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
Googlers & Xooglers -
CM Summit NY 2009 - Attendees Only
Max Ventilla’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
