Tom Newbold

Partner at HT Ventures

Prague

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2008 - Current

    Seed and early stage technology venture fund. Active in Europe and the US.

  • Co-Founder

    2016 - 2018

    Okoli is a software platform enabling tour guides to offer high-quality, small group tours directly to consumers, while earning a significantly higher portion of the tour proceeds.

  • Co-Founder

    2014 - 2016

    We developed a secure messaging app called Zendo.

  • Advisor

    2012 - 2014

    Product management and business development for Parakweet, a social media analytics and product recommendations platform.

  • Director of Business Development

    2007 - 2008

    Established, negotiated and managed relationships with the leading online advertising exchanges and ad networks, coordinated targeting technology, and managed the deployment of highly-targeted advertising campaigns.

  • VP Business Development

    2005 - 2007

    Business development and product management for Chintano, a next generation Internet advertising network driven by proprietary contextual and behavioral targeting technologies. Responsible for publisher and advertising partner development for the Chintano ad network. Chintano developed Patent Pending automatic categorization technology which enables contextual & behavioral targeting and revenue maximization based on intelligent analysis of content, user preferences, and ad performance in real time. Chintano has been acquired by Datran Media: http://corporate.datranmedia.com/newsandpress/press/08082007.php

  • European Business Development

    2001 - 2002

    Conducted EU business development for Digital Fountain, a provider of proprietary coding technologies that enhance the reliability of data communications.

  • Co-Founder & CFO

    1999 - 2001

    Co-founded Central European e-commerce company which developed a highly scalable, cross-language transaction enabling platform to facilitate consumer-to-consumer transactions for standardized products.

  • Vice President

    1990 - 1995

    Structured and executed leveraged debt financings for leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and growth financings in Acquisition Finance at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase).

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