JW

Jake Weinstock

Investor at FloWater

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder, General Partner

    2017 - Current

    The Decentral Park family of funds offer a diversified approach to digital asset and blockchain investing. Great teams, products and market opportunities are researched, identified, evaluated, resourced and supported. Decentral Park’s founder-led team brings multi-dimensional experience, expertise, capital and relationships to blockchain technology projects. We believe blockchain technology and cryptoassets have the potential to make a hugely positive impact in many areas of the global economy. Decentral Park Capital’s Principals have a long track record of founding, funding, developing, managing, advising, scaling and exiting successful businesses in blockchain, consumer technology, consumer brands, real estate, brick and mortar operations, venture capital, investment banking and private equity - with a specialty in emerging markets and industries.

  • Co Founder, Chairman

    2014

    At Brodo, we craft our broths with classic, time-honored techniques. Launched by Chef Marco Canora (James Beard Award for Best Chef in NYC, 2017) out of the kitchen window of his landmark East Village restaurant Hearth, Brodo started serving hot cups of broth in the fall of 2014. Traditionally prepared broths have been a cornerstone of nutrition - and deliciousness - across cultures for centuries. We remain dedicated to the ethos of Marco’s cooking—using craft and care to deliver all the flavor and goodness of simple, real food, prepared well. Visit us at one of our growing network of NYC broth shops, find us at www.brodo.com or follow us @brodo. https://vimeo.com/392762478

  • Advisor & Investor

    2018

    FloWater is The World's Best-Tasting Water, eliminating 1 Billion single-use plastic bottles, by 2022. Flowater is revolutionizing the way people drink water with a mission to put an end to single use plastic water bottles. Our premium performance water is dispensed through innovative Refill Stations using state-of-the-art 7x purification that takes municipal tap water and: removes contaminants like lead, fluoride, chlorine, pharmaceuticals, herbicides, and pesticides while enhancing it with oxygenation, electrolytes, and alkalinity and making it taste amazing with a coconut carbon filter. The result is the best tasting water in the world, in your own refillable container. We’re thrilled to be working with some of the best companies, hotels, schools, gyms, and events across the United States. We are a rapidly growing company with a small and passionate team that’s on a mission to inspire the world with water. To learn more check out this video (https://vimeo.com/336831058).

  • Co-Founder, Chairman

    1996

    Founder, Board Member and New Business Director for the group of companies that own, operate and franchise Gold's Gym and related sports and fitness businesses in various countries including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Latvia. With Gold's Gym International, was founding Chairman of the International Franchise Council - representing all non-domestic US locations with Gold's Gym International.

  • Vice President

    2013 - 2020

    A fully integrated real estate company, Property Group Partners’ objective has remained the same for 40 years – continued property appreciation through high quality, in-house asset management. With an international reputation as a developer, owner and manager of premier office space, Property Group Partners is a leader in developing green standards. Current and recent developments include Capitol Crossing in Washington, DC (a 2.2 million square foot multi-use development infilling air rights above the Center Leg Freeway); 860 Washington Street on the High Line Park in the Meatpacking District of New York City (a ten-story glass building replacing a former meatpacking plant with about 120,000 square feet of office, retail and showroom space) and The Scalpel (52 Lime Street) in London, a thirty-five-story glass skyscraper with office and retail space sitting directly across from the iconic Lloyd's of London Building.

  • Board Director

    2007 - 2013

    Safe Harbor is the world's most comprehensive seafood safety initiative, testing for mercury, E. Coli, Salmonella, gamma radiation and histamines. By matching the appropriate tests to specific species of seafood, Safe Harbor certification is one's assurance that products that bear our trademark exceed FDA standards, resulting in the healthiest, cleanest, safest seafood attainable. Using an inexpensive and reliable testing process, Safe Harbor ensures the seafood bearing our lighthouse seal has been tested for the most pressing food-borne impurities found in seafood. The result is the most comprehensive 3rd party seafood safety verification program ever created. By removing uncertainty, Safe Harbor Certification restores consumer confidence in seafood–Safe Harbor is Seafood with Confidence.

  • Co-Founder, Partner

    2002 - 2013

  • Director of New Business Development

    2002 - 2004

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