Tom Newbold
Partner at HT Ventures
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).
Education
BA
1986 - 1990