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Board of Directors Matt Levine - Board of Directors Mr. Levine brings 33 years of relevant sports and entertainment experience to SeaBridge, Inc. Levine is an innovative and energetic Senior Level Marketing Executive and leader whose strong branding, product development and team building capabilities, have earned him prominence in the sports, gaming, live entertainment and consumer goods/services industries. Levine is currently President/CEO of SourceUSA, a marketing and business development firm, and his career has included operating roles at Pacific Select Corp, Sports Team Analysis & Tracking Systems (STATS, Inc.), Harcourt?s Classroom Connect, and the San Jose Sharks, where he was named the number two employee in the company. He has also been a keynote speaker at national meetings of Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Hockey League (NHL), National Football League (NFL) and many other sports conferences. Levine has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated and on major television and cable networks for breakthrough innovations in branding, licensing, introduction of consumer marketing practices, event staging and technology in sports and entertainment industries. Levine earned his BA in English Literature from Trinity College and holds a MBA in Finance from the Columbia Graduate School of Business. Currently the CEO of 3points, LLC, an investment holding company based in Los Gatos, CA. Krach co-founded Ariba in 1996, serving as CEO for the first 5 years of Ariba*s history and Chairman of the Board for 7 years. Under his leadership as CEO, Ariba not only pioneered B2B, but also grew rapidly to become the dominant global player in the ever-evolving business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce industry. During his tenure as CEO, Krach took Ariba public, ultimately achieving a market capitalization of $34 billion and becoming one of the fastest growing software companies in history. In honor of his accomplishments in e-business, Ernst & Young named Krach the 2000 National Entrepreneur of the Year, the same year in which he was honored at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the Technology Pioneer Award. Prior to Ariba Krach joined the founding team of Rasna Corporation as the Chief Operating Officer. Krach helped lead Rasna to be recognized as #3 on the Inc. 100 list of Fastest-Growing Companies. Rasna was sold in 1995 to Parametric Technologies (PMTC on NASDAQ) for $500 million. Krach then became the first entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital where he assembled the team to form Ariba in 1996. Krach also spent 10 years at GM where he was GM?s youngest-ever vice president, going on to spearhead GMs first-ever Japanese joint venture, GMF Robotics. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of XoJet, Collabnet, Microposite, Tropos, Ooma and serves on the Board of Trustees at Purdue University. Krach earned his B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard University. Justin co-founded CampVentures in 1997. During his tenure with the firm, he led investments in BlueSteel Networks (acquired by Broadcom, NASDAQ: BRCM), AirPrime (acquired by Sierra Wireless, NASDAQ: SWIR), Mirra (acquired by Seagate, NYSE: STX), Quorum Systems (acquired by Spreadtrum Communications, NASDAQ: SPRD), Zing Systems (acquired by Dell, NASDAQ: DELL), HandsOn Network (acquired by HandsOn Mobile); Gravitate (acquired by deCarta), Picaboo, Toucan Global, and SeaBridge. Justin joined CampVentures from the Wall Street law firm of Cravath Swaine & Moore, where he worked as a corporate attorney, focusing primarily on securities offerings and mergers & acquisitions transactions. His clients included Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers, Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, and Bayer. Justin also authored Venture Capital Due Diligence (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), a book which was included in the prestigious Wiley Finance Series. Venture Capital Due Diligence is used by many of the top graduate business programs, including the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame, the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, and the School of Business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Jason Cavnar is an active entrepreneur, consultant and investor in digital media. Through his company Cavnar Capital, Jason has worked with Mantucket Capital, the family office of Kenneth Tuchman on the strategy, formation and Series A of a digital content studio based in Hollywood and in parallel advised Excel Sports Officiating and the NCAA on the formation of a strategic partnership and new business initiative. He is a Board Member and Investor in SeaBridge, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based Fan Relationship Management company, and the founder of BlueChip Preps, a high school sports media and marketing company. Prior to Cavnar Capital, Jason co-founded Sports Business Ventures in 2005, forming the initial partnership team, overseeing the company*s operations, deal flow and strategic development work including an emphasis on digital properties and high school sports media. He has worked closely with Nickent Golf, MaxPreps, Student Sports and RISE and advised several other companies on their strategy and capital raises. Before entering the sports industry, Jason spent three years as an Associate and Assistant to the President for Moore, Clayton & Company, a London-based private equity services firm where he was a member of the team that formed, grew and subsequently listed Healthcare Enterprise Group PLC, Tersus Energy Group PLC and formed MCCA, the registered adviser to Equus Total Return, Inc (EQS), a NYSE-listed business development company. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University where he was also a member of the Baseball Team.
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