Meet the Investors Behind Hard Candy
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Mark Albert |
| Mark Albert has been a transactional attorney for more than 19 years with a primary focus on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, and initial public offerings. He is currently a partner in Private Equities and Emerging Companies Practice at Perkins Coie, where he has helped clients successfully complete more than 100 acquisition/sale transactions ranging in size from over $1 million to over $1 billion. Mark has also represented more than 150 emerging growth companies, assisting them raise in excess of $1 billion in capital, and in which a number of those companies successfully complete initial public offerings. Areas of particular expertise include: Internet, software, entertainment, semiconductors, hardware and energy. |
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Buddy Arnheim |
| Buddy Arnheim is a partner in the Business Practice at Perkins Coie, where he focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies, venture capital funds and investment banks. Buddy is widely acknowledged as a leading practitioner in the areas of corporate and securities law and corporate governance matters. His clientele includes startup and established emerging growth companies, primarily in the web services, information technology, networking, fixed and mobile communications technology, cleantech and life sciences sectors. |
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Michelle Beauchamp |
| Michelle Beauchamp is a performing artist. She is a dancer by training but also has performed in theatre, television and film. She started her career with Between Lines and has danced with Joffrey Ballet as well as David Bowie in the rock video "Strangers When We Met", and Jefferson Starship in "We Built This City." She has appeared in television episodes of "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Felicity," "Millenium," and "Pacific Blue." Her filmography includes Deadlock, Disney's Hercules, and Tombstone. She is an investor in Hard Candy Cases because she LOVES the products! |
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Jon Callaghan |
| Jon Callaghan's venture capital career spans 18 years and includes consistent early stage success. He is currently Founder and Managing Partner at True Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in very early stage growth companies in the technology sector. Previously, Jon was a Managing Director at Globespan, where he served on the boards of Copan Systems, FilmLoop, Glu Mobile (fka Sorrent), Ingrian Networks, Next Medium Networks, Nominum Corp., Plaxo, Sigma Dynamics, and Vazu. He has also founded several companies, including Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., Chemdex Corporation and Greenwich LLC, a streaming music company acquired by iCast. |
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Scott Epstein |
| Scott Epstein has 20+ years of achievement in marketing, brand management, strategy, angel investing and business development, as well as day-to-day leadership and operations as CEO. He has held key positions in internet, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, media, and entertainment companies. Since 1999, he has been an investor, consultant and advisor to more than a dozen Internet startups. He previously served as the first VP of Marketing for Google and has worked with Plaxo, Meebo, Grouper (now Crackle) and was a co-founder of Spinner. He currently serves on the board of trustees for Denver Academy in Colorado. |
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Josh Felser |
| Josh Felser is a seasoned media and communications executive who has built and managed online and traditional consumer businesses. Currently he is Co-President of Crackle Inc., a leading Internet video community in which he co-founded, and was recently acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment for $65 million. He was also co-founder and President of Spinner.com, a leading Internet music destination until its purchase by America Online for $320 million in 1999. He served as General Manager for AOL's music brands' Spinner, Winamp and Shoutcast until 2001. |
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Karl Jacob |
| Karl Jacob is an entrepreneur who has been building and advising companies for the last 14 years. Jacob is currently the CEO and Founder of Coveroo, enabling comsumers to personalize their electronics with their favorite artwork and designs. Previously, he worked at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, and has raised over $200 million from prestigious investors like Amerindo, Microsoft, eBay, Integral Partners, Norwest Ventures, Bay Partners, Benchmark Capital, Deutsche Bank, Ignition Partners, Vulcan Ventures and others. He was also president of Keen, one of the fastest growing ecommerce companies in history. Jacob has been honored with numerous awards, including one of BusinessWeek's top ten up-and-comers. |
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Benjamin Ling |
| Benjamin Ling currently leads the monetization efforts of YouTube at Google. Previously, Benjamin worked at Facebook, where he oversaw product marketing, developer operations and partner solutions for the Facebook Platform. He has also served as the Product Management Director of Checkout, where he founded and led Google Checkout and oversaw Google Product Search. |
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Eckart Walther |
| Eckhart Walther is currently SVP Marketplace at LiveOps, an innovative call center outsourcer. Prior to LiveOps, Eckart was the vice president of product management for Yahoo! Search, where he was responsible for setting overall strategy and prioritization for all Yahoo! Search products including Yahoo! Answers and Del.icio.us. Eckart also served as a key member of the Tellme and Netscape teams, and started his career with GE Corporate Research specializing in Artificial Intelligence, and worked on one of the first mult-processor versions of the UNIX operating system. |
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