Kelly Rodriques

Current

• CEO at Blowtorch Entertainment
• operating partner at Ignition Entertainment Group

Past

• CEO at Totality
• CEO at Novo/Semaphore Partners
• Co-Founder at Books That Work

• Managing Director at Ogilvy Interactive

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Education

• California State University-Fresno

Connections

33 connections

Industry

Entertainment

Kelly Rodriques’s Summary

I’m an executive with domestic and international experience founding and successfully operating growth companies. Currently I’m an Operating Partner with Ignition Partners and CEO of Blowtorch Entertainment.

I’ve also successfully co-invested with accomplished venture capitalists and serve as a board member and advisor to several growth companies in the technology-enabled media and marketing sectors.

Kelly Rodriques’s Experience

• CEO

  Blowtorch Entertainment

  (Entertainment industry)

  Currently holds this position

• operating partner

  Ignition Entertainment Group

  (Entertainment industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  IEG invests in an array of entertainment based assets including P&A lending, distressed assets and equity investments in entertainment companies.

• CEO

  Totality

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

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

  CEO of Totality, a $300MM advanced managed services business which I helped sell to Verizon Business in 2005.

• CEO

  Novo/Semaphore Partners

  (Internet industry)

  1994 — 2003 (9 years)

  Founded and ran for several years Novo, an Internet marketing and development company which I sold to Publicis in 2001, now called Arc Worldwide with global revenues of $200MM.

• Co-Founder

  Books That Work

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1994 (2 years)

• Managing Director

  Ogilvy Interactive

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1988 — 1991 (3 years)

  The work I'd done on the west coast in emerging digital media led me to help found the Interactive Marketing Group at Ogilvy & Mather
  
  There I helped develop some of the first digital media advertising and the work of my group pioneered the emergence of technology based advertising models. We developed the ad models for the Prodigy On-Line Service, some of Time Warner’s early forays into Interactive broadband television and computer-based advertising for Forbes magazines and American Express.

Kelly Rodriques’s Education

• California State University-Fresno

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Additional Information

Kelly Rodriques’s Groups:

A select list of boards I currently serve on:
Offermatica (acquired by Omniture)
mFoundry (investors include Motorola, Ignition Partners, Patricof & Co.)
Stylehive (investor: Lightspeed Venture Partners)
New Vine Logistics (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altos Ventures)