The Marketbright Team
Dom Lindars
Erik Bower
Ronald Weissman
Howard Lindzon
Ian Sigalow
RONALD WEISSMAN
Director and Chairman
Ronald Weissman is a Venture Partner with Apax Partners and joined the firm in 2000. Weissman has more than twenty-five years of experience in high technology operations and marketing. Prior to joining Apax Partners, he was Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Marketing for Verity, a global leader in corporate information retrieval software. During his tenure, Verity's executive team was awarded the large company turnaround of the year (1999) by the Turnaround Management Association and the company saw its market capitalization grow from under $50 million to more than $1.5 billion, and was listed two years running among the top ten technology stocks by the New York Times.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Fulbright Scholar, he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
HOWARD LINDZON
Director
Howard Lindzon is a Partner and Principal at Knight's Bridge Capital Partners. For the last 10 years Mr. Lindzon has managed his hedge fund Lindzon Capital Partners and recently he sold his startup videoblog Wallstrip to CBS Corp. and continues to spearhead the show and web video as a consultant for CBS.
Mr. Lindzon has tremendous insight into new media industry and is a very active angel investor in the financial and internet business sectors. Mr. Lindzon also writes one of the most popular financial blogs at howardlindzon.com with over 50,000 unique visitors/month. Mr. Lindzon (through his hedge fund) has made many successful minority angel investments including Rent.com (sold to Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) and Internet Brands (NASDAQ). Through his hedge fund Mr. Lindzon is currently invested in a number of new media and internet businesses including, MyTrade.com, Limos.com, Covestor.com and Blogtalkradio.com.
Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.
IAN SIGALOW
Board Observer
Ian Sigalow is a Principal with Greycroft Partners LLC.
Prior to Greycroft, Ian founded and served as CEO of StrongData Corporation, a pioneer in thin-film, digital encryption.
Prior to StrongData, Ian spent several years as a venture capitalist with Boston Millennia Partners, where he focused on early stage investments in the software and telecommunications industries. His past investments include Airpath Wireless and SensorLogic.
Ian's past experience also includes investment banking in the technology group at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette and strategy consulting with the Arnold Business Strategy Group.
Ian holds a BS in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.





