Bio
Ben focuses on investments in the mobile and Web enabled consumer services sectors. Ben joined Maveron from Storm Ventures where his board involvement included Ad Infuse, Adgregate Markets, Boorah, DeviceVM, Marketo, Mobio, and YieldBuild. Ben began his career in venture capital at RRE Ventures, where he invested in Massive, an in-game ad network purchased by Microsoft in 2006 for over $200 million. He later joined the strategic venture capital arm of the CIA, In-Q-Tel, where he led their investment in Rhevision, maker of tiny cell phone zoom lenses. Ben came to venture as an operator in several technology startups. Most recently, Ben served as vice president strategy at Greystripe (acquired by ValueClick), a mobile rich media ad platform. At Yahoo, he directed the Southeast Asia mobile strategy. Ben was also an engagement manager at ZEFER, an Internet consulting firm (acquired by NEC), which raised over $150 million in venture capital financing and grew to over $100 million in annual revenue. Ben currently serves on the board for KidZui and TheWrap, and is a board observer for Course Hero, Decide.com, Mozes and SAY Media (fka VideoEgg). Ben received his BA in Computer Science with honors from Harvard University, and his MBA from Columbia Business School, with Dean's List and Beta Gamma Sigma distinctions. Ben is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program, an exclusive professional organization for the venture capital industry.
Career
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Storm Ventures LLCVenture capital firm focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments.Email: [email protected] |