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
Keith is founder/CEO of JobCoin, a plug-and-play job board that can be added to blogs and trade association sites to capture new revenue. He is also co-editor of Freshwater Venture with Eric Antonow. Previously, he co-founded Inventables and Lever Works with Zach Kaplan. He went to U of I.
> JobCoin
> Freshwater Venture
> Inventables
> Lever Works
> U of I
Zach is CEO of Inventables which provides physical Innovation Centers to the the big R&D, Marketing and Product Development departments around the world. He co-founded the firm with Keith Schacht -- the two previously co-founded and sold Lever Works while at U of I. In few short years they have been features in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Business 2.0, Fortune, ESPN, Wired...and they presented at TED, twice.
> Inventables
> Lever Works
> U of I
Craig is CTO of ShopperTrak, the leading provider of human traffic information for malls, amusement parks, casinos, et al. Before that he did two tours of Accenture (one where he knew Dave Sidwell), was CTO of BlueMeteor with David Weinstein, and worked as a technical architect with Whittman-Hart. He's a U of I grad.
> ShopperTrak
> Accenture
> BlueMeteor
> Whittman-Hart
> Andersen Consulting
> U of I
Mike is currently buying, selling and merging telecom assets for Odyssey. Previously he co-founded AIS (American Information Systems) with Josh Metnick, built it as CEO, and then sold it to Exodus in '99. He worked at Exodus for a few years doing deals in Corporate Development. He's lent a hand in some of Josh's more recent ventures such as Chicago.com. He has also worked with Zach Kaplan via Inventables.
> Odyssey Telecorp
> Chicago.com
> Inventables
> Exodus
> AIS
> U of I
