Most folks here it seems don't realize how diversified Gary is. He is way more than just sex.com.
Gary Kremen has over fifteen years experience with emerging growth companies and developing information technology. He is currently the President and CEO of Grant Media Management Inc., the managing member of Grant Media LLC. Grant Media, LLC is a highly profitable internet traffic distributor. It owns numerous websites, including Galaxysearch.com and Sex.com. He is also currently a board member of Anonymizer.com and Pinpoint Golf Marketing, Inc.
Gary's past consulting projects in the satellite area include: i) business planning and business development for Hughes Communications' New Venture Organization, focusing on satellite delivery of IP transit services, ii) a rollout of a near earth orbit fleet of unmanned planes using LMDS technology, iii) business planning for NeTune, a venture backed satellite media transmission network, and iv) fundraising for DBS Industries, a publicly traded LEO based AMR automatic meter reading company.
Other past internet consulting projects at Kremen, Father & Partners, LLC include i) retainer due diligence for Charter Venture Capital, ii) general finance and operations for Photoloft.Com / BrightCube, iii) business plan and investor presentation for Signafy, Inc. (an NEC backed spin-off in the digital watermarking area), and iv) brokering the domain names Computer.com and Altavista.com.
Previously, Gary was President of NetAngels.Com, Inc., a 40 person company (with 20 contractors in Krakow, Poland) solely focused on Internet profiling and personalization. It has backers including Esther Dyson, Nick Nicholas, Ron Posner and Martin Schoffstal. As co-founder of NetAngels.Com, he hired the management team, focused the product vision, and created the distribution strategy. The company merged with Firefly Network, Inc. (Agents, Inc.) in late 1996, the company's largest competitor, which was later merged with Microsoft.
From 1993 through March 1996 Gary founded and was Chairman of the Board of Electric Classifieds, Inc. / Match.Com, the leading on-line classifieds advertising technology outsourcing company and perhaps one of the most widely accessed 'community' on the Internet. Gary founded the firm after identifying opportunities for on-line personals service, now branded Match.Com. He wrote the company business plan, then raised $1.3 million from venture capitalists and private investors, and later assisted in raising $7.5 million from leading corporate partners, such as Softbank, The Well and Intel, and venture capitalists, such as Canaan Venture Partners, Weiss Peck & Greer and Charter Venture Capital. Match.Com was eventually sold to Ticketmaster / Citysearch for $50 million.
Gary was principal founder of Los Altos Technologies, Inc. (LAT), a leader in UNIX security. At LAT, Gary was responsible for marketing, business development, and finance. The company created the first anti-virus product for UNIX as well as a only government approved data deletion product for classified data.
Earlier in Gary's career, he was a member of the technical staff at The Aerospace Corporation, where he worked as a software engineer in the areas of computer security and software metrics.
Gary's education includes an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.
Gary is a frequent speaker on on-line marketing, business development, and capital raising for emerging growth companies. He is the primary inventor of the seminal US patent for creating Internet web pages dynamically, patent #5706434, and is ranked in the Top 100 Internet Entrepreneurs according to MicroTimes Magazine.
Gary has invested in over 50 private companies of which several have either gone public or have had liquidity events.
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