![]() ![]() Prior to Catapult, Rick served as the Head of Digital Innovation at Hearst Corporation. In 2018, Rick was named one of the Top 50 Angel Investors by Forbes. Rick is an active angel investor in 50 early stage start-ups including 6 unicorns (Snapchat, Reddit, Opendoor, Poshmark, PAX, and OutReach) and many more. He founded and successfully sold 3 companies (Tickle, BranchOut and ). Rick is a serial entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience in the consumer technology space. ![]() Gary holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he graduated with honors. Gary also spent over 6 years at Conexant Systems and Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for managing large, cross-functional teams focused on manufacturing and operations. ![]() While at Goldman Sachs, Gary worked on some of the largest and most notable transactions in the technology industry, including the $65B+ break up of eBay and PayPal, the Skype divestiture from eBay to an investor consortium for $2.75B and the subsequent sale of Skype to Microsoft for $8.5B, and the Tesla Motors $226M Initial Public Offering. Gary was a Vice President in the Technology Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he advised on almost $90B in M&A and financing transactions including negotiating and structuring mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, initial public offerings, convertible bonds, and other corporate debt. Prior to joining Yahoo, Gary spent several years launching and advising start-ups in various industries ranging from mobile payments to consumer-focused businesses. Gary was the Vice President and Global Head of Search Partnerships at Yahoo, where he negotiated and structured Yahoo’s largest search deals and managed a high performing business development team that sourced, managed, and executed Yahoo’s search distribution and content partnerships. Gary has two decades of experience in a variety of business development, operations, and corporate finance roles. He has over 400 skydives and is a partner of The Racers Group, one of North America’s most winning motorsports teams. He is on the board of directors for the national charity, Playworks. He was recognized by Fortune Magazine in their 40 Under 40 issue. Jeff has a BA with Honors and magna cum laude from UCLA. He was the executive in charge of three Yahoo campuses, including its HQ in Sunnyvale. While at Yahoo, Jeff also served as the executive sponsor for a number of employee resource groups, such as Women in Tech and Neurodiversity. In these leadership roles, he had responsibility for product, engineering, and design teams. While running Yahoo Mail, Jeff led a dramatic reversal of Yahoo Mail’s growth and revenue decline, eventually growing revenue by over $300M (70%) and turning a 20% YoY user decline to 5% user growth. While running Yahoo Messenger, Jeff increased revenue from $8M to $108M and took over market leadership in the U.S. In addition to his startup work, Jeff was on the executive team at Yahoo, where he was the executive responsible for Yahoo Mail, Search, Ad Platforms, Research, Data, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, and Groups. He has raised over $50M in venture capital with over $100M in exits. He is an active angel investor with over 60 investments. He has founded and run five startups (one sold to Google, another to Yahoo). ![]() Jeff is a recognized product leader in the Silicon Valley, with over twenty years of experience. ![]()
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