Art Roldan's latest start-up, SecurePipe, was just acquired by AmbironTrustWave in January 2007. SecurePipe was Art's sixth start-up. Prior to this was Novarra where Art was CEO; Kettle Partners and JK&B Capital were both investors and Mark Achler, David Kronfeld, and Tasha Seitz were all on the board. Prior to Novarra, Art was CEO of Premsis Corp leading up to its aquisition by J.D. Edwards.
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> SecurePipe
> Novarra
> The Premisys Corp
Lee Rosenberg is currently President and CEO of LRSmedia. LRSmedia creates music-focused entertainment programming (Legends of Jazz, SOUNDSTAGE). Lee has a long history of investment and entrepreneurship in Chicago. In 1996 he founded Kettle Partners Venture Capital along with Mark Achler and David Semmel. Lee currently serves on the board of SurePayRoll (founded by Troy Henikoff and Scott Wald), Active Network, and Sportsvision. He has also served on several other portfolio companies including E-Greetings Network and Chris Gladwin's MusicNow. Prior to Kettle Lee was a director of GRP Records, an early pioneer of the compact disc and eventually the largest contemporary jazz record company before selling to MCA in 1990.
> LRSmedia
> SurePayRoll
> Active Networks
> Sportsvision
> MusicNow
> E-Greetings Network
> GRP Records
Chris is the founder and CEO of Cleversafe, a unique data storage company, and the latest in a series of ventures Chris founded. Most recent was MusicNow, sold to Circuit City in 2004. Prior to that was Cruise Technologies, a dominant supplier of wireless thin client technology. Chris is an inventor on over 30 patents (issued & pending), has testified before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on music copyright, and is an avid poker player.
> Cleversafe
> MusicNow
> Cruise Technologies
Dan first founded Snapdragon Technologies, a Boston-based IT consulting firm, and merged it with Wired Business. He became their CTO and in '98 morphed the company into a nationwide DSL provider. He had a brief stint with a new start-up and then joined Driveitaway (started in Boston, but the venture brought him to Chicago). Today he is VP of Technology for Sittercity and Chairman of the Nanotechnology Alliance. Dan went to Brown University.
> Sittercity
> Nanotechnology Alliance
> Driveitaway
> Snapdragon Technologies
> Brown University
Jamie is best known as the founder and CEO of Performics - an online marketing firm that was an early advocate of text ads and helped spur the adoption of Overture and Google AdWords. He built the firm with Stuart Frankel and Chris Heneger, and sold in 2004 to DoubleClick for $60MM+. Since then he has served as a Director at PRIMIS Marketing Group until it was acquired in 2006. There he worked with Dan DiCaro who, like Stu and Chris, worked with Howard Tullman in a past venture. Prior to Performics he was was COO of FastParts - one of the early business-to-business Internet auctioning models. He graduated from Kellogg as well as Northwestern's engineering school.
> PRIMIS Marketing
> Performics
> FastParts
> Kellogg
> Northwestern
Bob is currently CEO of Goliath Solutions - a provide tracking for in-store displays and promotions - where he works with Gary Overhultz (an IRI vet). Bob was previously President of FastWEB, provider of financial aid information to students until it was sold to Monster in 2002. Before that, he was Chairman of FunBrain which was sold to Pearson in 2001. He also did time at iXL, IBM, and graduated from Indiana University.
> Goliath Solutions
> FastWEB
> FunBrain
> iXL
> IBM
> Indiana University
Eric co-founded and edits Freshwater Venture with Keith Schacht, and he chairs the Chicago board of the Taproot Foundation with Adam Hecktman, Chris Morgan, Charles Coustan. He's worked with Zach Kaplan and Josh Metnick as an advisor to their respective companies. He was CEO of Katabat Corporation, acquired in 2005 by Trader Publishing/Dominion. He built the company with Dave Sidwell, Ara Bayindiryan, and many others (with a financial assist from Bob Geras). Prior to Katabat, Eric was at Giant Step with Kate Edwards, Eric Heneghan, Mike Ruffalo, Rishad Tobaccowala, Mike Leff, Sean Chou and Mike Sands before the company was acquired by Leo Burnett. Eric graduated from the University of Michigan and Kellogg. In January, he's headed to Google.
> Google
> Taproot Foundation
> Inventables
> Chicago.com
> Katabat
> Giant Step
> Kellogg
> U of M
Matt is currently CEO of CareerBuilder, where he works with Kevin Knapp (formerly of Cars.com), Farhan Yasin & Richard Castellini (both formerly of DigitalWork) as well as Eric Presley and others from his previous life at Headhunter.net. Tim Landon is a board member. He was VP of Business Development at Headhunter.net until the CareerBuilder acquisition. Prior to that, he was at DigitalWork and a few other entrepreneurial ventures he founded. He began as a a lawyer with Baker & McKenzie. His law degree is from Northwestern and an MBA from University of Chicago.
> CareerBuilder
> Headhunter.net
> DigitalWork
> U of C
> Northwestern
Peter is COO and works with Kate Edwards at CenterPost. He was previously VP of Fixed Operations for AutoNation. Before that, he and Kate worked together at CCC, where he was President & COO at their DriveLogic venture and CMO. He was held leadership positions at ChoiceParts, ADP Hollander, and was founder of Sales Master Systems. He got his BA at University of Minnesota, magna cum laude.
> CenterPost
> AutoNation
> CCC
> DriveLogic
> ChoiceParts
> ADP Hollander
> Sales Master Systems
> U of Minn
Steve and his partner Bruce Barron run Origin Ventures, an early stage VC firm. He's invested in VHT (where he works with Brian Balduf and sits on the board with Bob Geras, Howard Katz and David Robbin) , iNest (Andy Wolf), and ClaimForce (Stephen Applebaum, Howard Tullman).
> Origin Ventures
> VHT
> iNest
> ClaimForce
> Quill
> U of I
