Brian Smiga
Founder of TEDxAsburyPark
Brian Smiga
Founder of TEDxAsburyPark
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner/Co-founder
2012 - Current
At Alpha Venture Partners, investor in Careem, Coupang, ShieldAI, Apptronik, 2ndFront, RadAI, Socure, Ro Health, Brave Health, Included Health, ZenBusiness, Apollo.io, LiveIntent, Vroom, Cloud Tech Partners, Lime, BrightInsight. Brian originates and evaluates investment opportunities, manages venture and limited partner relationships, and provides product, marketing, strategic partnership, recruiting, financing, and operating expertise to portfolio companies. Brian is a connector, and a serial founder who began his career at Booz & Co, and started his first company, Portfolio Software, in Brooklyn in 1989, and moved it to Cupertino a year later. Brian founded Actioneer in San Francisco in 1994 and Preclick in 2001. Advisor to Pritzker Group.
Board Member
2017
roothbert.org
Founder
2012
TEDxAsbury events: 2022 Joy, 2019 Chaos, 2018 Passion, 2017 Identity, 2016 Makers, 2015 Accelerators, 2014 Play, 2013 Shore Life. More at www.tedxasbury.com.
Advisor/Investor - Ease Learning, Albert, Vydia, Catalyzr, Vertalo.
2010 - 2016
Recruited to advise on Brand, Marketing, Business Plans, Product, & Marketing.
General Manager
2011 - 2012
Recruited as entrepreneur to manage P&L for Videohub Marketplace, a start-up business at Tremor Video, the largest independent web video ad network. Originated and operated new license deals with domestic and international reseller partners. Shifted strategy from B2SMB to B2B.
Director of New Products
2010 - 2011
Recruited to formulate Knovel’s new product and business development strategy for collaboration, social networking, innovation, math, and foundation services. Knovel.com is the leading reference and tool library for engineering and applied science. Knovel sold to Elsevier December 2012 http://bit.ly/WohUqD.
VP Business Development
2009 - 2010
Developed partner strategy and pipeline in NA & EU. Closed deals that increased partner revenue and installs 125% Y/Y. Successfully transitioned Preclick's client base - Walmart, Sams, Costco, CVS, Walgreens - to Smilebox. Expanded retailer and partner relationships in NA & EU.
CEO & Founder at Preclick
2001 - 2009
Founded, developed, and licensed Digital Media Software and Web Applications in 22 languages, that shipped over 100,000,000 co-branded copies world-wide for Hewlett-Packard, Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, Meijers, 3M, Sandisk, CVS, and others. ShutterBug Magazine Top Photo Software 2003. Acquired by Smilebox 2009. www.preclick.com/company/partners.php
CEO - 3Path, a BRM Company
1999 - 2001
Recruited to lead Israel-incubated company, a Priority Content Delivery Network, (like Dropbox) which securely synchronized files and folders instead of using email attachments. Raised $10.5M from Intel, Goldman Sachs, & BRM. Sold to Cadmus Publishing.
SVP Business Development & Marketing - CMGI
1998 - 2000
Recruited as 7th employee. Within one year, led sale of company to CMGi for 700% return to investors. Led product definition, marketing and business development for 1ClickCharge introduction to market. In first six months, obtained world wide license to MasterCard and signed 30 content deals with NewsCorp, Edgar Online, Hoovers, DowJones, etc.