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Bruce Albert
Strategic Advisor
Bruce Albert formed Applegate Seven in January 2007 to provide strategic, operational and M&A counsel to marketing communications and media technology companies. He is an advisor to Kaleidocope/Interpublic, RPost, Eleven SA, globefish and Progress Partners. He is also a volunteer advisor leading a team to establish Gilda’s Club Enterprises, a for-profit division charged with generating unrestricted funds for this non-profit organization that provides social and emotional support to people living with cancer and their families. Bruce applies diverse strategic and operating experience gathered at Doyle Dane Bernbach, the Dick Lord Agencies and Kaleidoscope/Interpublic to build brands and businesses. Throughout his career, he has maintained a balance of line and staff management responsibilities, and worked directly with senior level clients to address positioning challenges, create integrated marketing solutions, and develop best practices and accountability metrics. Bruce has played leading roles in business development, M&A, forming and reengineering agencies, and executing market entry strategies, domestically and abroad. His work on multi-national brands in the U.K., Europe and Japan during the 1980’s and 90’s, and recently in Europe and China, has enabled Bruce to provide global clients with country-specific and pan-regional intelligence and perspectives critical to generating attributable, incremental sales and strong returns on marketing investments.
John Brooke
Strategic Advisor
John Brooke is experienced in every aspect of the venture process. He currently manages a family fund of investments called Brooke Private Equity Advisors in Boston. John was the fifth employee at Advent International, a leading global private equity firm with 20 offices worldwide and more than $6B in managed capital. He spent 15 years at AI, where he ran the Far East Group in Singapore, managed the associates/analyst programs in Boston, and led early stage technology investing and later stage buyout investing. His results were consistent with all partners - a net exceeding 40 percent. John's family remains AI's largest single shareholder. Upon his return from Asia, Mr. Brooke joined The Tucker Anthony Private Equity Group (Park Street Capital) and helped establish it as a leading private equity fund-of-funds management company with in excess of $800 million under management. Park Street Capital manages a series of fund of funds for institutions and families. Mr. Brooke was responsible for fund access, fund raising, fund oversight and management. Brooke earned his MBA at Harvard.
Eric
Healy
Strategic Advisor
As Vice President, Managing Director at SapientNitro, Eric leads the Boston-based, Marketing Services practice, which provides a wide range of digital marketing strategy, website development, online advertising creative, mobile, social media and analytics solutions on behalf of Fortune 1000 clients.
Prior to joining Sapient, Eric served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development for advertising and media giant Aegis, plc, where he was responsible for the solicitation, negotiation and oversight of all strategic partnership and investment activity for Aegis Media North America (AMNA) and Aegis’ digital marketing services arm, Isobar. In addition to these responsibilities, Eric served in critical business development and relationship management functions as well as providing cross unit integration across 48 Isobar agencies, 108 offices and 38 countries.
Eric’s extensive career in marketing spans both traditional and interactive agencies. He was Senior Vice President, Director of Interactive at IPG-owned Mullen, where he developed the agency’s digital offering which ultimately grew to a $30 million practice area. Prior to that, Eric was at Arnold Worldwide, where he led the agency’s interactive practice and played a central role in the development and launch of Arnold’s Youth Marketing Practice having deployed integrated marketing solutions on behalf of the American Legacy Foundation (anti-smoking initiative), Gillette (TAG body spray) and McDonald’s (targeting young adult males).
Eric’s prior work experience includes having served as Vice President, Strategy Group at Digitas in addition to client-side roles as Director of Global eCommerce and Direct Marketing at Reebok and Director of Interactive at Reebok subsidiary, The Rockport Company.
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Ham
Lord
Angel/Seed
Round Advisor
Hambleton
(Ham) Lord has over 20 years experience in the software industry,
where he co-founded three software companies. Currently, Ham is
the Managing Director of Launchpad Venture
Group. Launchpad is a Boston-based angel
group that focuses on seed stage technology companies. He manages
the group's deal flow, due diligence and investing activities.
Ham is an active angel investor and advisor to early stage software
companies. He serves on the boards of three startup companies
- Building Engines, JAM Technologies and Mok3. Ham's senior management
experience was in the software industry, most recently as co-founder
and Vice President of Marketing for Advanced Visual Systems (AVS).
AVS develops software for scientists and engineers involved in
applications such as Medical Imaging, Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), Engineering Analysis and Oil & Gas Exploration. AVS
was acquired by Muse Technologies in 2000. Prior to AVS, Ham was
co-founder of two Bio-Informatics companies, MicroChem
Technologies and Polygen. Both of these
companies were pioneers in the development of software for drug
discovery, and were part of an industry wide acquisition roll-up
that resulted in the Accelyrs division
of Pharmacopeia. Ham is a trustee of the Cape Cod Conservatory.
He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in computer science
from Brown
University.
Dan Miller
Strategic Advisor
Mr. Miller currently serves as EVP, Business Strategy, INgage Networks
(formerly, Neighborhood America), and is Managing Director of BizTank LLC.
INgage is the leading provider of Enterprise Social Networking and mobile
marketing solutions to government, media and enterprise customers.
Mr. Miller has helped scores of entrepreneurs’ to start-up, organize,
systemize, grow and exit their businesses. He has become well known as a
speaker and an expert on using technology and people to make companies
more efficient and competitive. With his diverse background as an
entrepreneur, investor and advisor, Mr. Miller is able to leverage
his unique insights to help other entrepreneurs reach their goals.
Prior to starting BizTank, Mr. Miller was founder and President of
PlanetResume.com. Mr. Miller successfully completed the sale of
PlanetResume.com to CareerShop.com in October, 1999, and the sale of
CareerShop.com to Personnel Group of America in June 2000.
Prior to founding PlanetResume.com, Mr. Miller was a Principal and
Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Software House, Inc.,
a leading provider of facility access control security systems sold
worldwide to Fortune 500 and governmental customers. In the summer of 1994,
Software House was acquired Sensormatic Corp. (NYSE:SRM). Following the
sale, Mr. Miller's entrepreneurial drive spurred him towards the founding
of PlanetResume.com.
Mr. Miller graduated with a BA from Brandeis University in the Boston area.
Mr. Miller was an active member of The Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO)
and is the former President of the Boston YEO chapter. In Sarasota, Mr. Miller
facilitates a monthly CEO Peer Group of early-stage entrepreneurs.As an Angel
Investor, Mr. Miller has previously invested in PortableResume, Pongo Software,
AvidXchange, Inc., Flickful.com and Tony Jeary/HPR, Inc.Mr. Miller is the
Chairman of Pongo Software, and also serves on the Boards of INgage Networks,
Real Digital Media, The Sun Coast Tech Forum, The Gulf Coast Venture Forum,
and Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence (SCOPE). Mr. Miller lives in
Sarasota Florida area with his wife, Nelle, and their son Henry. He is an
Instructor of Tae-Kwon-Do Karate and plays competitive club tennis and
loves biking along the Gulf Coast.
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