Matthew Nordby
Managing Partner at Flume Ventures
Incline Village, Nevada
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, Managing Partner
2023 - Current
Empowering visionary founders with real-world experience, mentorship, and a curated community to build impactful and disruptive technology companies.
Flume Ventures connects passionate founders with its community of operators to drive innovation and disruption.
Advisor
2017
All Saints (London), Gordon Ramsay (N.America), John Varvatos (NYC), Paige (LA), Picard (Paris),True Food Kitchen (Scottsdale), Verishop (Dallas) and more consumer brands.
President | Global Licensing
2013 - 2016
Company: Playboy Enterprises is a publicly held global media (Nasdaq: PLBY) and lifestyle company in Beverly Hills. ~ Recruited following the Rizvi & Hefner-led privatization as an equity partner ~ More than doubled the royalty revenues generated from licensing ~ Established Playboy as a top 3 licensor in China with over 4000 stores ~ Playboy licensing generates $1.5B+ in 180 countries with 25K points of sale ~ Ranked in 2015 licensing magazine as a "Top 50" licensor in world. ~ Managed Playboy Clubs, Media & Entertainment teams during tenure
Executive Vice President | Chief Revenue Officer
2011 - 2013
PLBY Group is a global media and lifestyle company that manages the Playboy magazine and related assets.
Raised $112,350,000.00 from Byborg Enterprises and Michael Serruya.
Head of U.S. Commercial Sales, DCD [acquired Greenplum]
2010 - 2011
Company: EMC (Now Dell Technologies) is a Fortune 120 technology enterprise that owns the worlds largest market share as a provider of data storage systems. ~ Recruited by EMC execs to run DCD commercial sales team during the integration
Dell transforms computing and provides high-quality solutions for people and businesses to be ready to move forward.
Executive Director
2008 - 2011
Greenplum was a Silicon Valley software start-up company focused on big data analytics. We were acquired by EMC in 2010 and Greenplum was a publicly traded global enterprise (NYSE: PVTL) prior to its sale to VMware (NYSE: VMW) ~ Sale to EMC remains one of the largest software exits of the "Big Data" era ~ Recruited by ex-Sun Micro Executive & CEO of Greenplum to the business ~ Acquired by EMC (now Dell Technologies) in an all cash transaction in 2010 VC Funded : SAP, Sun Microsystems, Meritech Capital, Sierra Ventures, BOLDstart ventures
Regional Executive, Director of Illinois Region
2001 - 2008
Sun Microsystems Inc. was a Fortune 200 manufacturer of enterprise servers, workstations and software. Sun now operates as a division of Fortune 100 Oracle. ~ Responsible for Sun’s P&L across the Illinois region:$200M+ ~ Youngest Sales Executive to be named Director / VP 2002-2004: Sun Microsystems Channel Executive : Forsythe Solutions Group 2002-2002: Sun Microsystems Channel Executive : CDW 2001-2002: Sun Microsystems Executive Development : "Best of the Best"
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.