Glen Anderson - Chief Operating Officer

Glen was most recently in investment banking with Oppenheimer & Co. in New York and prior with Jefferies & Co. in San Francisco, focused on telecom, networking and media. Prior to his career in investment banking, Glen worked in the commodity trading business in New York, the venture capital industry in Europe and the hedge fund industry in Chicago.

Glen has been close to technology his entire career beginning as an engineer in Motorola's mobile devices business, supporting the design of revolutionary products such as the Motorola StarTAC and the Multiple Application Phone - the world's first "smart-phone". He has been a technology consultant to Lehman Brothers, the New York Stock Exchange and Midway Games, and consultant to Sprint Wireless and Comcast, among others in technology and organizational strategy.

Glen holds a B.S. Magna Cum Laude in Engineering, and an MBA with Honors from The University of Chicago. Glen holds series 7, 24, 63, 79, 86 and 87 FINRA securities licenses.

Robert Yamashita - Managing Director - Innovation Services

Mr. Yamashita is a Co-Founder of Cogentic Advisors. He drives Cogentic's engagements in M&A analyses, mobile ecosystem development, and digital media technology strategy and has led such initiatives for several major Hollywood studios, large CE companies and various technology startups.

Prior to co-founding Cogentic, Mr. Yamashita was most recently V.P. of Strategy and Business Development for THX Ltd., a technology licensing and professional services company spun off from Lucasfilm. During his time at Sony, Robert was one of the original founders of the Pro-MPEG Forum, an industry consortium of over 90 broadcasters and equipment OEMs working to advance interoperability in the professional broadcast industry. Specializing in monetizing technology IP since 1995, representative examples of his work include leading the team that drove DivX into CE (helping to power their IPO in 2006 for over $600M); establishing alliances that created the world’s first networked DVD player in 2002, and launching a new global video format while at C-Cube (1998).

Mr. Yamashita has over 21 years in strategy, business development, alliance management and management consulting with Sony, PricewaterhouseCoopers, DivX, and several semiconductor companies. He also has extensive experience with international standards organizations, including MPEG, IEEE, SMPTE, and others – along with a lengthy publication and speaking history in areas including new media business models, video compression, digital rights management, media processing and management technologies, DSP, and advanced IC architectures.

Mr. Yamashita holds a B.S. with Honors from the California Institute of Technology.

Kelli Richards - Managing Director - Incubation Services

Ms. Richards specializes in strategic partnerships & alliances, content acquisition, brand strategy and campaign development, event production, new business model deployment for A-List musicians, disruptive innovative technology companies, and established CE and media companies.

Most recently, Ms. Richards spent 10 years at Apple, spearheading and driving their music and entertainment initiatives. She also worked with Silicon Graphics (SGI) in their Entertainment Marketing group; with EMI Music (A&R executive), and at Guitar Player Publications earlier in her career. During her consulting career, her clients have included Apple, Motorola, Sony, Philips, Virgin Mobile, PassAlong Networks, Orb Networks, Todd Rundgren, and Triumph.

Ms. Richards is acknowledged as an early pioneer in digital music. For the past two decades, she has also been an acclaimed producer of projects and events including: MB-5, Tribute to Paul McCartney CD, California Music Awards (formerly the BAMMIES), Webby Awards, the Pollstar Awards, and many others. She has co-authored two books – "The Art of Digital Music: 56 Artists, Visionaries & Insiders Reveal Their Creative Secrets” (2005), and "Creating Business Breakthroughs You Want: Secrets and Strategies of the World's Greatest Mentors" (2004). A frequent panel moderator and speaker at digital media conferences, Ms. Richards is an expert advisor to the media on digital music and entertainment, artist-related issues, and integrated brand entertainment.

Ms. Richards holds an MBA with an emphasis in marketing, and a BA in marketing/filmmaking from San Jose State University, and she is also a Certified Life Coach.

Robert Dolan - Managing Director - Investment Services

Mr. Dolan has over 35 years of experience in the capital markets with emphasis on derivatives products. He currently raises capital for hedge fund managers and arranges equity and debt financing for ventures and commercial real estate projects, as well as being an intermediary for international commodity trading.

Mr. Dolan joined Lehman Brothers in 1973 and was relocated to Chicago in 1975 where he was the senior broker and the head of Lehman Brothers CBOE operations. In 1979, his responsibilities were increased to include all commodity floor operations outside of New York. Mr. Dolan was Executive Vice President and Director of Chicago Markets and Operations. In 1989 he was relocated to Tokyo where he was the Managing Director and was responsible for stock index arbitrage, creating and selling commodity funds and equity hedge funds. In 1992 Mr. Dolan returned to Chicago where he was the head of proprietary trading. For the next several years, he was third party marketing US based alternative investment products in to Switzerland, London and Tokyo.

In 1997, Mr. Dolan became COO of International Equity Trading where he ultimately raised $500 million for Hedge Funds in the arena of global macro strategy. Following 2001 he became the President of Dolan Capital Advisors where he created and modeled a quantitative trading program. In 2005 he abandoned the trading program to focus on life settlements, third party marketing , commercial real estate and international commodities. Over the course of his career, Mr. Dolan has raised over $1.5 billion dollars for various new ventures and hedge funds. Mr. Dolan is Series 3,7, 63 and 79 licensed.

Johney Kim - Director – Asian Region

Mr. Kim has been working in the consumer electronics and technology licensing business for over 20 years. From 1989 to 2005, Mr. Kim held various management roles at Samsung Electronics. His responsibilities included market research, product development, technology outsourcing, sales channel development, business management, and marketing for CE products..

Johney has been engaged in consulting in invention monetization and patent strategies since 2007, and helped many Asian companies to successfully monetize their intellectual property. He has also been quite successful in identifying M&A exits and IP-acquisition opportunities for IP-based start-up ventures and has helped many of these companies source investment capital from global major financial and strategic investors. Mr. Kim also has deep experience in business relations and markets in both Asia and North America.

Mr. Kim earned postgraduate qualifications in Marketing and Business from Samsung Institute Management & Technology.

Jeff Marshall - Director - Technology Vertical

Mr. Marshall specializes in strategic customer acquisition, global alliance development, sales and operational guidance. He has worked 20+ years in a leadership capacity for technology companies that enable organizations across their entire enterprise on a SaaS and wireless platform. Mr. Marshall's primary focus has been to help CFO’s design strategies to improve their working capital and lower their risk profile both internally and across their supply chain.

Over Mr. Marshall's career he has worked in leadership roles for companies such Oracle, Deloitte Consulting, AlterEgo Networks, Manugistics, Parson Consulting, FieldCentrix. He helped clients deploy technologies and strategies for Business Intelligence, CRM and ERP services and applications. As a result Jeff has developed strong relationships within the banking sector that help start ups, secondary growth as well as disposition and acquisition scenarios.

Mr. Marshall's clients are in sectors such as industrial, consumer, financial services, banking. Examples are Rockwell, S.C. Johnson, Bank One, Allstate, Winnebago, Valspar, First Bank of Delaware.

Mr. Marshall is very civic-minded and is active with the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and coaches youth hockey teams. He has a BBA from Iowa State University.  

David Goldsmith - Director - Media Vertical

Mr. Goldsmith is an experienced broadcast, film and TV executive with over 25 years in the Hollywood Entertainment community. He supervised or produced hundreds of hours of programming including “Shogun,” “Max Headroom,” “Perfect Strangers,” and “She’s The Sheriff,” and as senior manager/creative affairs specialist, headed up programming operations for Grant-Tribune Productions, Lorimar Television, Gaylord Productions, Chuck Fries Productions, Paramount Television and MGM Television.

Most recently, Mr. Goldsmith was GM of the IPTV initiatives for DAVE Networks, leading content licensing and aggregation initiatives with Hewlett-Packard, as well as developing business in Social Networking. Mr. Goldsmith works with traditional entertainment and media companies to re-purpose content for new digital distribution platforms, as well as advises clients on content deployment and monetization strategies. Examples of his work include content distribution and monetization programs across a vast array of digital media platforms including VOD, IPTV, Mobile and IP Broadband, P2P, and interactive TV, as well as Digital Signage networks that address the Digital Out-Of-Home market.

Mr. Goldsmith earned his Juris Doctor (JD) law degree from Southwestern University School of Law and his BS degree from USC’s Marshall School of Business. He is a Founding Member on the Board of Directors for two national non-profits, the Entertainment Industries Council and The End Hunger Network. His active professional memberships include WGA, PGA, NATPE, ATAS, Digital Hollywood, iTV Alliance, and DCIA.

Adam Boris - Director - Telecom Vertical

Mr. Boris has held executive roles in several venture-funded startups, bringing award-winning, innovative technology to the marketplace in consumer electronics and wireless services and leading operations growth for customer service, sales operations, IT infrastructure, and national market rollout. Mr. Boris has extensive experience with intellectually property, market analysis, and contract negotiation.

Among Mr. Boris experiences are that of SVP of operations at DBS Communications a $60M MVNO which Adam personally helped secure funding for from Sierra Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and local VC firms. Mr. Boris has also served in interim executive roles at high-growth companies, including interim VP of Operations for Polaris Wireless, a $30M provider of LBS technologies for wireless operators and COO at TLeMaz, an early stage Hispanic MVNO. Formerly, Adam led the technology development, digital network deployment, and capital investment strategy for Ameritech Cellular (now Verizon), and held senior roles at Motorola and Northrop.

Mr. Boris received a Masters in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Kellogg GSB at Northwestern University..