Austin, Texas - United States
IndustryEd Tech
Bio
In 1990 I took my first entrepreneurial plunge by co-founding a marketing design firm, 7 Seventeen Group, with business partner Amy Looper. In 1996, we helped found a private Internet professional services firm – the fastest growing private company in Houston from 1996-1999 (8,164%) – and the first to seamlessly combine creative and technology. In 1999, we IPO'd with a $158M valuation and more than 1200 employees. Wanting to be a social venture entrepreneur, Amy and I teamed up once again in 2000 as co-founders of a company that produced online interactive tools to help almost 500 schools and over 400,000 kids stay in school and develop their character skills. My fourth and latest venture with co-founder Looper, OneSeventeen Media, helps kids self-discover to make sense of their world with social media. Our latest tipping point product is MyMobileMentor, a kid’s personal need-it-now mobile mentor.
Skills and Expertise
marketing social entrepreneurship ed tech startups b corp consulting