Ike is CEO of Lee Technology Consulting, which specializes in providing strategic management consulting, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to industry leaders as well as startup companies. In the past 25 years, Ike has spearheaded efforts advising joint venture and alliance partnerships worth several billion dollars between North America and Asia, as well as driving over $1B in M&A activities in the US and abroad.
Ike is also an ignition Venture Partner. Ike works on Ignition's investments in developing their Asia-Pacific businesses.
Since coming to the U.S. in 1980 (after completing his education and working for the LG group in Korea for 3 years), Ike has built a formidable record of success as an angel investor, venture capitalist and mentor to startup management teams.
Ike was oversees a business incubation center located at the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, California. Under Ike's tutelage, innovative ideas are shepherded from incubation to functioning businesses. One project, NetScreen (NSCN), went public in December 2001 and was named IPO of the Year by Goldman Sachs. Subsequently, the company was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion.
Since the early 1980's Ike has been instrumental in bridging the capital divide between high-tech businesses in the Asia Pacific region with those in North America. He has advised key industry and government leaders in Asia on emerging global technology trends, strategic business developments and the Venture Capital industry. Ike has earned numerous awards; in 1998 he was named Businessman of the Year by the Korean American Chamber of Commerce in Silicon Valley, and more recently he was nominated to be a Business Ambassador for the State of Washington.
Tim Hanlon is Executive Vice President/Managing Director of VivaKi Ventures, the strategic partnership and investment arm of VivaKi – the digital services hub of marketing services agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A. – comprising Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia Group, Digitas, and Denuo. He is chiefly responsible for the solicitation, negotiation and oversight of the unit's strategic partnership and investment activity – focused exclusively on paradigm-changing “new media” platforms and technologies. His current role is an outgrowth of his previous work as head of ventures activity for both Denuo and Publicis Groupe Media, and includes formal advisory and directorial positions with over three dozen early-stage companies.
Prior to founding the Denuo Ventures and PGM Ventures practices, Hanlon was Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group. He was chiefly responsible for all US client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm's ground-breaking TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting.
Hanlon has over 20 years of traditional and interactive agency media experience including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy & Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville, KY. He also served as the Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, DE, USA.
Hanlon also has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated and the Voice of America.
Among numerous advertising and television industry activities, Hanlon was Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) Advanced Television Committee from 2001-05, a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Innovation in Digital Advertising (IDiA) Consortium, and a founding member of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences (NAMAS). In 2004, he was an inaugural recipient of Interactive Television Today's Leadership in Interactive Television Award, and has been named as one of MEDIA Magazine’s “100 People to Know.” His insights into the future of media and advertising are regularly seen in major electronic, print and trade press outlets.
Hanlon holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a BA from Georgetown University.
Chris Hoerenz is a leading direct marketer and new media executive with 20 years of consumer marketing experience. As COO of Crispy Gamer Inc., Hoerenz is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the newly funded venture, a news and community site targeting serious video game enthusiasts. Prior to founding Crispy Gamer Inc., Hoerenz was the Chief Marketing Officer for eMusic, the number two digital music retailer behind iTunes. At eMusic Hoerenz was responsible for driving eMusic's revenue and subscriber growth, as well as overseeing traditional marketing functions, label relations and strategic alliances. Under his guidance as CMO, eMusic more than tripled its subscriber base and revenues since re-launching its service in late 2004 grabbing over 11 % of the digital download market share.
Before joining eMusic, Hoerenz was CEO and Founder of Targeted Media Solutions (TMS), where he created and patented a unique targeting technology designed to improve the acquisition efforts of many of the largest direct marketing companies, including Bertelsmann, Conde Nast, Bookspan, Disney, Time Inc., and Readers Digest.
Hoerenz has also served in an executive role at various entertainment-focused companies including President and COO of PCH.com, the online service launched by Publishers Clearing House; Vice President of Marketing for CDNOW; and Director of Marketing Planning and Analysis at Columbia House.
Hoerenz graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business with a Masters degree in Business Administration in 1992.
Greg Stuart is the former CEO & President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for the interactive advertising & marketing industry. He led the industry from $6 billion to $20 billion annually and grew the IAB's business itself +500% in four years. The IAB serves Internet Media giants such as AOL, CNET, Google, MSN, NBC, Disney, and Yahoo!, among others.
His recent book, What Sticks outlines a new approach to advertising based on research against $1 billion in advertising spending over a five-year period. Ad Age identified What Sticks as “One of 10 books you should have read in 2006,” and was in the top 15 of all books sold on Amazon.com just after launch.
Greg is a thought leader in the digital media and advertising arenas: Internet (search, display, video, lead gen, etc.), Mobile, IPTV & beyond. He was selected by Ad Age as one of “10 Who Made Their Mark” in 2006 (along with Jay-Z and others).
Greg has more than two decades of experience in Internet start-ups, digital media and traditional advertising. Before the IAB, he was CEO of DeltaClick, Inc.; a venture backed advertising technology company in San Francisco, and served as a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures. Prior, he was a senior executive at Flycast Network (IPO'd ’99 and sold to CMGI), Cars.com (No 1 in category), & Sony Online Ventures. Greg also from '93 to '96 built the Interactive division at the world's leading direct marketing agency, Young & Rubicam's Wunderman subsidiary.
Greg recently served on the Board of Directors for Rapt, Inc. in San Francisco (sold to Microsoft in 2008), Allyes in China (sold to Focus Media-FMCN in 2007). He is on the Advisory Boards of other venture-backed businesses Adify [Internet Networks], Anchor Intelligence [Search], Veoh [Online Video], Tremor Media [Online Video], Vizu [Internet Polling Network], HitViews [Internet Talent Agency], Komli [Ad Networks], Zumobi [Mobile], AdInfuse [Mobile], CampusU [Social Networking] and myYearbook [Social Networking] -- plus non-profits SEMPO, IAB Mexico and recently the Advertising Research Foundation. He is also member of the National Speakers Association and speaks around the world on issues in Advertising and Internet Marketing.
Greg has a BA in Economics from the University of Washington. He lives in Bridgehampton, NY with his wife Pamela, twin daughters, and son.