About our Strategic Operating Committee

Members of our Strategic Operating Committee work closely with portfolio companies in various roles, both advising and sourcing our investments.

GOVC has previously worked with each of the Committee members in their capacity as a founder, co-investor or advisor to a GOVC portfolio investment company.

Each Strategic Operating Committee member is actively involved in Internet-related and digital technology businesses and possesses significant technological and operational expertise.



Jeff Fluhr

Jeff Fluhr, Founder, Spreecast; Co-founder & CEO, StubHub

Jeff is Founder and CEO of Spreecast, a social online video-sharing platform. Jeff also co-founded StubHub, where he served as CEO from inception until its acquisition by eBay in 2007.  Jeff sits on the board of or is an advisor to several consumer-oriented internet and mobile companies.  He has been the recipient of several awards [...]

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Ken Landis

Ken Landis, Owner, Landis Capital LLC; Co-founder, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics

Ken Landis has been an entrepreneur, private investor and executive in the cosmetics, accessory and fashion industries for over twenty years.  He currently has investments in and serves on the board of directors of a variety of early stage consumer product and internet companies.  Previously, Mr. Landis was an investor and served as COO of [...]

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Nat Turner

Nat Turner, Co-founder & CEO, Invite Media

Nat is the Co-founder and CEO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company headquartered in New York City.  Invite Media operates Bid Manager©, the first universal buying platform for display media.  Bid Manager© is a fully self-service and automated buying software platform used by over 100 agencies and advertisers to execute and optimize online advertising campaigns [...]

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Sam Yagan

Sam Yagan, Co-founder & CEO of OkCupid

Sam is the co-founder & CEO of the online dating site OkCupid.com, which was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in February 2011 for $90 million. Sam has spent six years as an entrepreneur, first as Co-Founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, Inc., maker of SparkNotes, the world’s leading brand of educational study aids. More recently, he has served [...]

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Zachary Weinberg, Co-Founder, President & COO of Invite Media

Zach Weinberg is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company that operates Bid Manager, the first universal buying platform for display media. Integrated across every ad exchange, the Bid Manager platform is used by more than 100 agencies and advertisers to help them execute and optimize online display campaigns in [...]

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Dan Reich

Dan Reich, Co-Founder & COO of Spinback

Dan is the Co-Founder of Spinback, a company that is focused on helping online retailers quickly launch social features while measuring its effectiveness and ROI. In May of 2011, Spinback was acquired by Buddy Media, the Facebook management system of choice for eight out of the ten top global advertisers. Prior to Spinback, Dan was an [...]

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Eric Wheeler, CEO & Co-Founder, 33Across

Eric is the CEO and co-founder of 33Across, bringing 20 years of experience leading successful Internet businesses to 33Across. Prior to 33Across, he was the CEO of Neo@Ogilvy and Executive Director of Ogilvy Interactive North America. Under his leadership, Ogilvy Interactive’s revenue grew five-fold from 2003-2007 working with leading brands including IBM, American Express, TD Ameritrade, [...]

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Tony Mamone

Tony Mamone, CEO & Co-founder, Zimbio

Tony Mamone serves as Chief Executive Officer for Zimbio which he co-founded with Danny Khatib in the spring of 2005. Prior to starting Zimbio, he was Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales and Operations for LookSmart, a public company focused on Internet search and advertising, where he managed a team of over 100 employees responsible [...]

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MikeFolgner

Mike Folgner, Founder & CEO, SnappyTV

Mike is the Founder and CEO of SnappyTV, a platform for sharing clips from live television with friends on facebook and twitter. Mike’s career has been at the intersection of technology and media. He was the General Manager of Video at Yahoo! after his first company Jumpcut was acquired by Yahoo! in 2006. Jumpcut, an [...]

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RonGutman

Ron Gutman, CEO & Co-founder, HealthTap

Ron is Founder and CEO of HealthTap and is responsible for the company’s innovation, vision and product. Ron is also an avid public speaker and writer, frequently presenting at health and technology conferences (such as TED, SXSW and Health 2.0) and contributing pieces about technology, health and smiling in leading publications (such as Forbes, the [...]

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Eric Koger, Co-Founder & CEO, ModCloth

Eric is the co-founder and CEO of ModCloth, an innovative online retailer of vintage inspired fashion and décor, known for collaborating with its global community of female customers on the development of inspiring merchandise. Eric is the operational counterpart to his creative partner and wife Susan. Together they started ModCloth right out of high school [...]

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