Eventup - Event Venues & Unique Venues in Los Angeles

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Tony Adam

Tony Adam is an Internet entrepreneur and online marketing expert, specifically with 10+ years experience in SEO. He has a large amount of digital media experience working for many of the top Internet brands like PayPal, Yahoo!, and, most recently, Myspace where he led Traffic Acquisition.

He is an advisor to startups, is President/CEO of an SEO consulting firm, Visible Factors, and has built a name for himself as one of the top Traffic Acquisition people around. Tony is a regular speaker at technology and marketing conferences like SMX and SXSW Interactive.

Colby Palmer

Colby is a technologist known for architecting high-traffic application platforms and leading technology teams. Originally brought on at Myspace to build a unique in-stream advertising platform, he went on to create the brand community builder Foundry, and was instrumental in executing audition campaigns for American Idol and other national programs.

As co-founder of design/development agency Skunkworks Digital, he designed and led the execution of platforms and apps used by companies like BeachMint, NowLive and the MAGIC fashion convention, as well as the upcoming social fan club network Lifee.

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Mike Jones

Mike is an Internet executive, investor and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful Internet company in college and since then, has founded, built and sold numerous online and mobile businesses. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency resulting in over $500M in successful investor outcomes.

Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace.

Paul Lee

Paul Lee joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011. At Lightbank, Paul led the firm's investments in BabbaCo, Beachmint, Cleversense (acquired by Google), Contently, ElaCarte, Eventup, Lifecrowd, Udemy, and WhosHere.

Previously, Paul was Managing Director and Group Head for Digital Ventures at Playboy Enterprises where he was responsible for acquiring, investing in, and launching digital businesses on behalf of the enterprise. Prior to Playboy, Paul was a founding member and Senior Vice President at the Peacock Equity Fund, a joint venture between NBC Universal and GE Capital.