Michael Frankel VCard
I'm passionate about Finance & Innovation
Michael has advised on or led over 60 M&A deals representing more than $15 billion in transaction value and more than 50 equity/debt deals representing more than $10 billion in transaction value. Since May 2015, he has been a Senior Vice President, Managing Director and Head of Deloitte New-venture Accelerator, where he leads the Portfolio Operations and Growth Strategy for a portfolio of growth technology businesses at Deloitte. Prior to Deloitte, He served as the CFO of 50onRED, an advertising technology company, and was the CFO of comiXology, a high-growth digital comics platform. At comiXology, Mr. Frankel built out the finance and product strategy teams, helped execute and close financings and helped structure comiXology’s sales process and terms of sale to Amazon in 2014. Michael was previously the Senior VP, Global Head of Business Development and M&A at LexisNexis. During his time at LexisNexis, Mr. Frankel completed 18 deals. Prior to LexisNexis, He was the Senior VP of Corporate Development & Strategy at Information Resources / Symphony Technology Group, LLC, completing three deals. Prior to Information Resources / Symphony Technology Group, LLC, He was VP of Business Development at G.E. Capital, where he was responsible for M&A, divestitures, equity investments, joint ventures and partnerships, helping execute four deals. Prior to G.E. Capital, He was VP and General Manager of Directory Services and VP of Corporate Development of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), where he led 20 deals. He was previously a VP in the Global Industries Group at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and an M&A lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. During his time with both firms he completed over 40 deals, including advising multiple Fortune 100 clients on acquisition and equity/debt offerings. Michael served on the board of directors of Onvia, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONVI) as well as the boards of directors and advisory boards of several private growth technology companies.
Paul Sethi VCard
I'm a passionate Entrepreneur & Operator
Managing Partner & Co-founder of 2048 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on technology-differentiated Companies, backed by 50+ notable technology company founders,senior executives and venture capitalists. Prior to founding 2048, Paul was the CEO of Redbooks, a leading sales intelligence platform focused on the marketing and advertising industry. He acquired Redbooks from LexisNexis in 2010 and, during his 7-year tenure as the CEO, scaled the team, technology and product offering and, in 2018, successfully sold the company to List Partners, LLC, a Northlane Capital Partners platform. He also co-founded Robuzz, a machine learning and natural language processing platform providing real-time news alerts, and deployed the technology via APIs into publishing, marketing and information services enterprises. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sethi was a Partner / Analyst at Iroquois Capital Management, a public equities fund focused on small and micro-cap investments in diversified technology companies. As an investor, Paul has served as an early backer of multiple high-profile technology companies, including Flexport, Transfix, SeatGeek, LearnVest, Enigma and Zinier, and in companies acquired by Airbnb, Amazon, Blackstone, Chegg, Discovery, Facebook, Marketo, Motorola, Pinterest, Randstad, Twitter, Uber and Wish. He is also a limited partner of numerous high-profile funds, including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, Lowercase Capital, Boldstart Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Inspired Capital, MetaProp and Casa Verde.
Peter Bordes
