Michael is the CEO of Marketing & Media Consultancy, LLC, and has had an advertising and media career that spans more than 40 years, including his renowned work as Executive Director in charge of Media and Marketing Operations for General Motors Corporation (GM). Currently, Michael serves as a consultant to Polaris Ventures, LLC, where he reviews investment opportunities involving media and advertising. He also consults for Experience, Inc. and AWS Weatherbug, both Polaris portfolio companies. Prior to GM, Michael spent more than 20 years in various media and marketing positions with leading consumer packaged goods organizations, including Lever Brothers, Dow Consumer Products, and the N.W. Ayer advertising agency.
Balihoo Board of Directors
Michael Browner
Mark Solon
Mark is the cofounder and Managing Partner of Highway 12 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the most promising high-growth, entrepreneurial companies in the Intermountain West. Prior to Highway 12 Ventures, Mark was a General Partner at Atlantic Capital Group, a private equity firm in Boston. Mark is a director of multiple Highway 12 portfolio companies as well as the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association. He is also on the advisory board of the College of Engineering at Boise State University and currently serves on The Idaho Business Coalition for Education Excellence.
Sanford (Sandy) Keziah
Sandy is a founding partner of Lacuna, LLC, a Gap Capital investment firm. Prior to founding Lacuna, Sandy was president and CEO of Kindred Keziah, Inc., a leading brand strategy firm cofounded by Sandy in 1995 to revolutionize the way companies create and manage their brands. Kindred Keziah grew to house three divisions: Brand Strategy, Brand and Product Innovation, and Consumer and Cultural Insights in its New York City and Boulder, Colorado offices. Clients included leading consumer product brands including Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, Bacardi, MGM/Mirage, Land Rover, Delta Airlines, Bank of America, IBM, Chili's Restaurants, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Sandy sold the firm to its senior management in March 2005.
Pete Gombert
Pete’s software leadership experience spans multiple industries to include energy, finance, and media. Before founding Balihoo, Pete founded Enerx, a software company focused on the energy trading space. Upon selling the company to KW International, a London-based company that builds trading and risk management software for energy markets, he became Executive Vice President of International Operations. Previously, Pete was on the founding team of a financial services software and services firm.
Scott Maxwell
Scott is the founder and Senior Managing Director of OpenView Venture Partners. Before founding OpenView, Scott was a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners. At Insight, Scott led the effort to institutionalize the investment process, outbound program, value add program, and finance, legal, and administration departments. Scott was previously a Partner at Putnam Investments, where he was Managing Director, Corporate Development. Before joining Putnam, Scott was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, where he was the Chief Financial Officer of the Global Equity Division and a member of the Global Equities Executive Committee. Between his undergraduate and graduate programs, Scott worked as a Research & Development Engineer at two startup companies developing robotic systems and lectured at California State University, Sacramento.
George Roberts
George is a Venture Partner at OpenView and a former member of the executive management team at Oracle and has more than 25 years of deep management experience in the software industry. Since 2003, George has been making private investments and serving as a board member of several fast growing venture capital-funded software companies including ScriptLogin Corporation, Fieldglass, Inc., and Informance International. From 1990 to 2003, George spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, most recently having served as EVP of North American Sales. Prior to Oracle, George served in various executive positions at System 5, a technology startup, and at Applied Data Research, a large software vendor, where he drove significant sales growth and exceeded revenue objectives for six years.
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