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<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none; border: none; color: #555555; font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background: none;">Previously, Ryan was a consultant at Flo Thinkery, a strategy consulting firm that works directly with early-stage startups on product, brand, design, and go-to market strategy. While at Flo, Ryan worked closely with Made in Network (MCN) and Blue Chair Bay. Prior to Flo, Ryan ran Business Development for a business unit at Ingram Industries.
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none; border: none; color: #555555; font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background: none;">Andrew began his career at Booz & Co consulting on strategy and operations for Fortune 100 clients. After a brief stint at Kaplan helping transition their traditional classroom test prep services into online products, he then joined Bunk1.com as COO/Head of Product where he spent eight years building it from scratch to the leading provider of web services to the summer camp industry. After being bought out of Bunk1 in 2008, Andrew managed a family office where he was responsible for both incubating new ventures and for managing over $50M of alternative assets including hedge, private equity, and venture capital funds as well as a number of direct investments in private companies. Andrew was also the founding CEO of Layercake.com and has a keen appreciation for how hard it is to build a successful startup, even under the best of circumstances.
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<P STYLE="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none; border: none; color: #555555; font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background: none;">David is an entrepreneur and Angel investor. David is currently co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for ProSeeder Technologies, an enterprise funding platform enabling financial firms to collaborate, syndicate and execute private equity and debt transactions. Born in Ireland, David started his career in 1985 as a headhunter in London and after joining IMI Computing was transferred to the USA in 1990.
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