CEO of Wink
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO at Wink
- General Partner at Endeavor Group
- Board Member at Cloudmark
- Founder, Board Member at Full Circle Fund
- Past
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- 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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CEO
Wink
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Founder and CEO of Wink, a provider of free people search across over 400 Million profiles from across the Internet - including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and all the other big social networks. Search for people by name, location, work, school or interests.
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General Partner
Endeavor Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2003 — Present (5 years 8 months)
Creating and investing in Internet and software start-ups, including Wikia, Revison3, SimplyHired, RealTravel, Wink, Flock, Dogster, Socializr, DanceJam, and FamilyLink.
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Board Member
Cloudmark
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2002 — Present (6 years 3 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 (7 years 11 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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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
Michael Tanne’s Groups:
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Members of Full Circle Fund
