Lee Horton [linkedin@datamonks.com]

Current

Director, IT at Current Energy
Senior Associate at Lee Horton and Associates, Inc.
Owner at DataMonks

Founder at maxpop.com

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Past

Director, IT at Bridgepoint Power & Light
Director of IT at Mac Partners
Director, IT at Haltheon Management Group

Director, IT at Springbok Technologies
IT Manager at Fluor Daniel Telecom

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Education

Richland Community College
Garland High School
No College

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Recommended

2 people have recommended Lee

Connections

233 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Lee Horton [linkedin@datamonks.com]’s Summary

Lee Horton has over 17 years of experience in systems management and technology consulting, specializing in the oversight of mergers and acquisition as well as start-up companies.

Mr. Horton’s experience is comprehensive including senior management positions within publicly-traded and privately-held companies. Currently , he is serving in many capacities as required by an exciting new startup called Current Energy.

Most recently, Mr. Horton served as director of technology for Bridgepoint Power & Light, the largest pre-paid electricity provider in Texas. There he led his team through the successful custom development and implementation of the company’s billing and database management software. Other duties included day-to-day management of the company’s technology assets including security, purchase of new equipment and crisis management.

Prior to joining Bridgepoint, Mr. Horton served as chief technology officer for the Dallas-based venture capital firm, MAC Partners with majority interests in several publicly-traded companies including Ocean Resources Ltd. (a treasure-hunting ship) Blue Wireless and Data (a wireless ISP spanning 8 counties in north texas), and Apollo Resources (an bio-diesel consolidation company).

Mr. Horton has held senior management positions with companies including, Springbok Technologies and Fluor Daniel Corporation. He also continues his role as part-owner and cofounder of MaxPop, Inc. which he helped founded in 1996 to supply a proprietary DSP Media Processor technology used for compression of multimedia for high-capacity, low-bandwith transfer in cellular wireless market.

He currently lives in Dallas with his wife Aaron and two children, Austin (18) and Shane (16).

Partner, Mpact Partners
Founding Associate, Lee Horton & Associates
Director of IT, Bridgepoint Power & Light
Director of IT, Mac Partners
Director of IT, Haltheon Management Group
Founder, maxpop.com
Founder, DataMonks

Lee Horton [linkedin@datamonks.com]’s Specialties:

I specialize in strategic direction of infosec, information technology, telecom, voip, call centers, billing systems, and application development for startups, mergers and acquisition.

Lee Horton [linkedin@datamonks.com]’s Experience

Director, IT

Current Energy

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years )

Current Energy last year opened the world's first energy efficiency store in Dallas, TX (Knox Street). We sell energy efficient goods and services for your home to cut your electricity bill up to 50%. PowerBrokers (a division of Current Energy) is the largest electricity broker in the state of Texas working to lower the electricity costs for business at no cost to the business. Finally, our controls system will allow you as a business owner to closely monitor the use of your utilities within your building. If you would like more info, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Senior Associate

Lee Horton and Associates, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)
Owner

DataMonks

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — Present (8 years )

My consulting company
Founder

maxpop.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

December 1998 — Present (11 years 1 month)
Director, IT

Bridgepoint Power & Light

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)

blinking lights, cables, whirring things, if it clicks or clacks it's all me. mea culpa! mea culpa!
Director of IT

Mac Partners

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Capital Markets industry)

March 2003 — March 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Director, IT

Haltheon Management Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 5 months)
Director, IT

Springbok Technologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )
IT Manager

Fluor Daniel Telecom

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Civil Engineering industry)

January 1996 — December 1997 (2 years )