Alan Warms,
Principal
Mr. Warms founded Participate Capital in 2005 (originally named Participate Media) and has played key roles in acquiring, investing in, and founding more than 10 small businesses over the last 20 years. Recent investments include Alliance Advisors and Hydro Flask (exited; sold to Helen of Troy). Alan has been an advisor to Tensility Venture Partners, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise AI/ML startups, since 2017.
Alan also founded BuzzTracker.com and associated technologies and sold to Yahoo! in September 2007 where he subsequently ran Yahoo! News, Technology and Education; was investor in and publisher of RealClearPolitics from 2005-2007; founded Participate Systems, the premier provider of online community (called social media today) technology and services to the Global 2000, in 1997, and sold to Outstart (now part of IBM) in 2004. Alan worked as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group from 1992 to1996. Alan has an MBA from the J.L.Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two children.
Darryl Anderson,
Advisor
Darryl Anderson has over 20 years of experience in building large scale enterprise and cloud applications. In his most recent role as Chief Architect of project44, Darryl led the development of an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) cloud platform for the logistics industry. Processing millions of transactions a day, the microservices-based architecture enabled the rapid scaling of both the engineering teams as well as feature delivery velocity.
Prior to joining project44, Darryl was lead architect of Oracle's Healthcare Global Business Unit where he was responsible for the architecture and development of Oracle's Translational Research, Precision Medicine, and Healthcare Analytics products. These products combine genomic and clinical data into a single unified analytics suite. Darryl came to Oracle through the acquisition of ClearTrial, where he was the founding architect. Darryl has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo in Canada.
Ian Lurie,
Advisor
Ian Lurie is a digital marketer with a twenty-five-year intolerance of trendy concepts and nonsense. He uses both sides of his brain as a content creator, digital strategist, and search engine optimization nerd.
During his career, Ian has worked with startups and major brands in all industries, including Patagonia, Microsoft, Amazon, Kate Spade, Les Schwab, and Spotify.
Ian founded Portent, a digital marketing agency, in 1995 and sold it to Clearlink in 2017. He’s now on his own, consulting for brands he loves and speaking at conferences around the world.