Meet The Team
Rick Bentley
Founder
Founded Televoke Inc, bought by Uber. Raised eight figures of Venture Capital from VC’s including Softbank. Full-time Advisor to Google X. Direct report to Andy Grove. Contractor in Baghdad 2004/2005. Founder/CEO Hydro Hash.
James McCormick
CEO
Over 30 years of experience including CEO, CFO and COO positions at public and private companies such as LTA Research, GES (acquired by Kimball Electronics NASDAQ: KE), Crossing Automation (acquired by Azenta NASDAQ: AZTN) and General Magic. Business Advisor to emerging companies and instrumental in raising over $1B in funds via IPO’s, sales to strategic investors, VC’s and securities sales through capital markets.
Gregory Rayzman
CTO
CTO TheFind, acquired by Facebook in 2015. Founding engineer and Chief architect for ITM Software, acquired by BMC. Founding engineer and Director of Software Engineering for Annuncio Inc., acquired by PeopleSoft (now Oracle).
Lauren O’Brien
CRO
Experienced executive in various CXO roles specializing in scaling startup tech companies and driving growth. Most recent roles include: COO VentureBeat, CEO SeaWave Battery and CEO Shift Communications.
Greg Smitherman
CFO
Seasoned financial executive that has returned over $1.3B in profit to investors and had multiple CXO roles. Acquired Telecom New Zealand, Investor and Board Member at Broadvision (NASDAQ:BVSN), Partner at Advent International, CEO FreeConference.com, CFO Accelergy Corporation.