Luke Beatty

Board Member

2024 - Current

Partner

2020 - 2024

Board of Directors: Surfline, The Pro's Closet, Epic Gardening

Executive Chairman / Co-founder / CEO (acquired by Smartsheet)

2012 - 2020

President, Media Brands @ Verizon / AOL

2013 - 2017

President of Consumer Media Brands division

Managing Director of Boulder 2012 cohort

2012 - 2013

Vice President; General Manager

2010 - 2012

Business lead and general manger responsible for the vision of all of Yahoo’s crowd-driven consumer properties, including Flickr, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers and Yahoo! Contributor Network in the US. Additionally, VP and GM for Yahoo! Local in the US, including listings, content, maps and the deal space. Responsible for the post–acquisition integration of Associated Content (founder) into Yahoo! Enormous P&L responsibility for several of media's top properties. Central leader responsible for many complex business teams. Managed uncommonly large consumer scale and adoption at the highest levels on mobile, desktop and tablet. Considered an expert in crowd sourcing, digital media trends and consumer facing media collection platforms. Frequent speaker at digital media and technology conferences throughout the world.

Founder & CEO

2004 - 2010

Conceived and managed every operational and strategic element of the Company, including technology, product development, editorial and sales, from founding the company in 2004, to its very successful acquisition by Yahoo in 2010. Known as the first and perhaps the largest crowd sourcing content collection platform in the world, Associated Content enabled hundreds of thousands of individuals to publish and generate revenue from the millions of articles, videos and images they contributed. Associated Content built the web’s largest freelancer community and distributed that community’s content itself and through media partners, including Reuters, Yahoo and Turner. As founder and CEO, defined the initial and moving-forward vision, raised 17M venture capital from top VCs in New York and Silicon Valley and assembled a Board of Directors that included some of digital Media’s most noteworthy thought leaders, including Tim Armstrong (CEO, AOL), Mike Perlis (CEO, Forbes) and Ron Conway (SV Angel).

Director, Business Development

2002 - 2004

WAND is one of the world’s leading developers of search engine taxonomies and online directory classification systems. Developed and managed the Company’s business development initiatives by building strategic partnerships and customer relationships with major online search engines and directories, including Google, Verizon and Bell Canada.