Experience

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  Equitylancer

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • CEO and Founder

    • Jul 2012 - Present
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    EquityLancer, Inc. (“EL”) is building a global entrepreneurial community and marketplace focused on the use of equity as a currency. Initially, EL facilitates employment by startups offering an equity component in their compensation packages to employees, founders, consultants, advisors and Board members ("equitylancers"), but soon will expand its mission to create the world’s first equity marketplace and exchange. The site will cater to those willing to trade in equity to grow a business or career, including investors, innovators and companies willing to exchange products and services for equity. + Version 1 of www.equitylancer.com currently presents world’s only marketplace for the exchange of employment opportunities between startups, recruiters, and equitylancers. + Version 2 will be expanded to include investors, innovators and those willing to exchange products and services for equity. EL will offer a unique, one-stop resource for equity-based human and financial capital solutions, products and services. Utilizing robust business networking features, EL will unite, engage and entertain diverse entrepreneurial audiences while becoming the “LinkedIn of the entrepreneurial/startup world. Members are empowered to establish expertise and to contribute their shared intelligence and experiences regarding equity compensation and real world entrepreneurial and startup issues in our Equicenter.SpecialtiesThe utilization of equity as a currency, Matching equitylancers with startups, Matching startups with equitylancers, Official resource for equity-related information

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  Sweat Equity Connection, Inc.

  • Founder, CEO

    • Jul 2010 - Jul 2012

    Founded Sweat Equity Connection, an early stage company, which created an innovative, on line marketplace for the exchange of sweat equity compensation opportunities and services. This subscription-based business offered the world’s first search engine dedicated to matching sweat equity compensation opportunities with talented executives, employees and professional service providers, who are willing to lend their sweat equity for ownership in these new ventures. The powerful search engine along with proprietary software and protected businesses processes also generates highly targeted profile searches for new businesses, investors and recruiters. The business focused on sweat equity compensation opportunities rather than traditional employment jobs and on the quality of the matches, rather than their quantity, thus differentiating it materially from existing employment sites.The time is right for Sweat Equity. The combination of i) extremely high unemployment of talented, experienced managers; ii) a shortage of financial funding for early stage and expanding businesses; and, iii) permanent changes in the structure of the executive employment market, has created a huge market for the exchange of sweat equity opportunities and services. Human capital is vastly underutilized in capital formation, due to the lack of a market for the matching of supply and demand-a much needed market that the Company is developing.Expanded scope of site and transferred to EquityLancer in July 2012.

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  WineSource.com

  • president

    • Sep 2004 - Oct 2010

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  furniturefind.com

  • President

    • 2004 - 2007

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  Expressions, Inc.

  • President and CEO

    • 1992 - 1998

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  Sonoma Vineyards

  • President and CEO

    • 1975 - 1988

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  Norton, Simon, Inc.

  • VP Corporate Affairs, Acquisitions and Legal

    • Mar 1972 - Feb 1976

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  Roth Carlson Kwit & Spengler

  • Founding and Managing Partner

    • 1963 - 1972