Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas Named Vice-Chairman of Mindshare
Washington, D.C. – March 15, 2011 - MindShare, an exclusive CEO group for emerging and high growth technology companies in the Washington, D.C. region announced the Class of 2011 as well as the newly elected Chairs for the MindShare Alumni Network.
Now entering its fifteenth (15th) year, MindShare was originally founded in 1997 to establish a peer group and sense of community for entrepreneurs. Since its formation, MindShare has become well known both in and out of the region. The peer-to-peer connections for CEOs and the knowledge gained from numerous entrepreneur speakers, who are highly successful area business founders, provides the members of MindShare significant value.
MindShare companies have created more than 20,000 jobs and over $5 billion in revenue. Many MindShare companies have gone public via IPO and the group has raised over $1.2 billion in venture funding.
Each year the MindShare Board, who founded the organization and is comprised of prominent business leaders passionate about entrepreneurship, selects 40 to 60 of the region’s most promising emerging growth companies to become MindShare members. The “Class” meets once a month to discuss critical topics to building a successful company.
The 2011 Class kicked off on March 2 and featured speaker Ted Leonsis, an early executive and Vice Chairman of AOL, and owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals sports franchises, who hosted the MindShare members at the Verizon Center for the Washington Wizards versus Golden State Warriors basketball game.
The MindShare Alumni Network now includes over 550 CEOs who continue to stay involved in building entrepreneurship, exchanging ideas, and starting new businesses together. Each year the Alumni Network elects a new Chair and Co-Chair to lead the group in programming, collaboration, visibility, and more.
MindShare is excited to announce Edwin Miller as the incoming Chair and Charlie Thomas as the Vice-Chair. They have come together to energize the MindShare Alumni Network and leverage the power of the group within the Washington D.C. region and beyond. “Charlie and I are looking forward to the coming year with MindShare. So many great things have been accomplished by this organization. It is an honor to be associated with the Organizing Board and the hundreds of CEOs that are a part of MindShare,” said Edwin Miller.
Miller, an accomplished technology CEO, is most recently known for his leadership, growth, and exit of Everest Software, an international E-commerce, POS, and ERP software business. He is currently developing his newest venture, 9Lenses. Thomas is another well-known entrepreneur who has built numerous successful technology companies in the region and is currently CEO of Razorsight, a provider of Cloud-based business intelligence and profit analytics solutions for Communication Service Providers.
MindShare CEOs, Class of 2011
- Imran Aftab, Ten Pearls
- Sam Aparicio, Ringio
- Jay Atkinson, AIS Network
- Zach Axelrod, Skyline Innovations
- Michael Barnett, InGo
- Vinay Bhargava, LivesLikeMine
- Sumit Bhatnagar, GreenBrilliance, USA
- Jake Bittner, Qlarion
- Matt Callaway, AppTap
- Stephen Candelmo, Klaggle
- Matt Carlson, Sunnovations, Inc.
- Simantini Chakraborty, LiveComplete, Inc.
- Dean Chen, Event Turbo
- Shub Debgupta, WiserTogether, Inc.
- Richard Fawal, WatchParty, Inc.
- Dan Frank, Three Wire Systems
- Hemang Gahia, Condaptive
- Anton Gelman, Cont3nt.com
- Michael Gold, Zlago
- Doug Goldstein, iConecto
- Shane Green, Personal
- Joe Greiner, Spotlight Ticket Management
- Zach Hajjaj, Headlinr
- Ghattas Hajjo, MCW Solutions
- Anil Hemrajani, Big Universe Learning, Inc.
- Kyle Henderson, YouEye, Inc.
- Gio Hunt, Koofers, Inc.
- Vernon Irvin, v&e digital
- Glen Kazerman, Telarix
- Prashanth Kothari, String Real Estate Information Services
- Eric Malawar, Deep Mile
- Syeed (Sid) Mansur, Sentrana
- Mike McKean, The Knowland Group
- Harrison Miller, Deals for Deeds
- Sunjay Pandey, ALTERthought
- Morris Panner, GroupFlier
- Carol Politi, TRX Systems, Inc.
- James Quigley, Canvas
- Andrea Rice, CareerCore
- Mike Riordan, Lifepages
- Scott Royster, Latimer Education
- Chris Schroeder, FōKL, Inc.
- Curt Schwab, Blue Water Media, Inc
- Pat Sheridan, Modus
- John Shomaker, AdJuggler, Inc.
- Chris Spanos, SeniorChecked
- Kashi Tahir, Envictus
- Charlie Terry, Green 20 Now
- Mark Tobias, Pantheon
- Sezen Uysal, Simena
- Chris Walker, The Walker Group
- Nathan Watson, BioRAFT
- William Weil, Tales2Go
- Trenor Williams, Clinovations
- Zach Wilson, uuorld
- Clarence Wooten, Groupsite.com, Inc.
- Benjamin Young, Nexercise
MindShare Organizing Board Members
- Harry Glazer (Co-Chair), World Trade Centre Capital Partners
- Gene Riechers (Co-Chair), Valhalla Partners
- April Young (Co-Chair), MMV Financial
- Steve Balistreri, Argy, Wiltse & Robinson, PC
- Keri Day, Ernst & Young
- Michael Dering, former CEO, ServiceBench
- Mark Esposito, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Kristi Hedges, The Hedges Company
- Elizabeth Lewis, Cooley LLP
- Mike Lincoln, Cooley LLP
- Mary MacPherson, M2Works LLC
- Todd McDonald, Comerica Bank
- John May, New Vantage Group
- Ed Meehan, Arcady Bay Partners
- Kathy Penny, KAT Consultants Inc.
- Don Rainey, Grotech Capital Group
About MindShare
Founded in 1997, MindShare is an exclusive, invitation-only organization for CEOs of the most promising, high tech, emerging growth companies in the Washington D.C. region. Now entering its fifteenth year, MindShare’s mission is to help CEOs build long-term, sustainable companies by creating opportunities and a sense of community as well as fostering teamwork in a collegial environment. To date, more than 550 CEOs have graduated from MindShare, creating a deep and valuable alumni network.
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