Mike Trigg

Coach, Author, and Angel Investor

Selfemployed

Apr 2021 - Current (5 years 3 months)

Author of two contemporary fiction novels. Limited Partner investments in multiple venture capital funds, including 8-Bit Capital, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Purple Arch Ventures, and Vensana Capital. Direct investments in a half-dozen tech and health tech start-ups.

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Coach, Author, and Angel Investor

Apr 2021 - Current (5 years 3 months)

Author of two contemporary fiction novels. Limited Partner investments in multiple venture capital funds, including 8-Bit Capital, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Purple Arch Ventures, and Vensana Capital. Direct investments in a half-dozen tech and health tech start-ups.

EIR and CEO of Incubated Portfolio Company

AI Fund

Nov 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 5 months)

Incubated Rustle, a new portfolio company doing AI for customer service, as part of AI Fund's startup studio. Led prototype design, engineering development, business strategy, and market validation.

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Advisor

Shasta Ventures

Aug 2019 - Mar 2020 (8 months)

Advisor at Shasta Ventures, via their investment in Entelo. Worked with various portfolio companies, and aided with diligence. Served as interim CMO at Brandcast, a SaaS-based web design platform and portfolio company.

EIR and CEO of Incubated Portfolio Company

SymphonyAI

Nov 2018 - May 2019 (7 months)

Strategic advisor and EIR/CEO of ExactoAI, an incubated portfolio company doing AI recruiting automation. Evaluated multiple M&A opportunities as part of roll-up strategy.

CMO & GM Entelo Envoy

Entelo

Oct 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 2 months)

Led all marketing, including product, content, demand gen, design and PR across company. Owned revenue for new AI-based product, driving quarterly growth over 70%. Created Recruiting Automation category, achieving top SEO search result, and launched inaugural user event, the Recruiting Automation Summit.

Chief Operating Officer

Hightail

Sep 2014 - Apr 2017 (2 years 8 months)

Managed all go-to-market and customer-facing functions at Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), a leading SaaS-based file sharing and storage provider. Responsible for Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, and Business Development functions. P&L ownership of over $50M across all three revenue-generating lines of business: online individual subscribers, corporate accounts, and partnerships.

Chief Marketing Officer & General Manager of Prosumer Business Unit

Hightail

Sep 2012 - Sep 2014 (2 years 1 month)

Ran all marketing at Hightail, including online acquisition (SEM, display, affiliates, SEO, viral, social), user engagement (pricing, packaging, paywalls), product marketing (positioning, messaging, branding), and demand generation (B2B campaigns, prospecting, lead qualification).

CEO & Founder

Spitball Entertainment

Jan 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 9 months)

Founded social entertainment company that developed character-based brands launched through online and mobile communities. Grew company to 6 employees + over 10 off-shore animators, designers, and developers. Raised over $500K in seed funding. Launched first title and grew to over 100K players with recurring subscription model. Sold IP to larger game developer.

Vice President, Marketing

HI

Jan 2008 - Jan 2011 (3 years 1 month)

Joined hi5 to lead all marketing activities, including product marketing, public relations, branding, user acquisition, and advertising. hi5 grew to be one of the largest social networking sites in the world, with over 60 million unique visitors per month at its peak, primarily in Latin America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. hi5 is now part of Tagged.

Co-Founder & EVP Marketing

Cisco

Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 (2 years 1 month)

Part of three-member founding team that commercialized an open source technology out of UC-Berkeley that performed real-time analytics on high-volume data streams. Developed go-to-market plan. Raised $3 million institutional venture round. Built sales, marketing and business development functions. Identified first customers in the financial services, network security and logistics verticals. Truviso was later sold to Cisco.

Vice President, Marketing and Interim CEO

Spoke Software

Apr 2004 - Dec 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Joined to lead all all aspects of marketing at social selling and lead generation platform. As interim CEO, transitioned business to SaaS recurring subscription model and entirely new product offering.

Vice President, Product Marketing, Product Management, & Corporate Marketing

Epiphany

Apr 1999 - Apr 2004 (5 years 1 month)

Held various product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing roles at $100M+ revenue CRM software company. Initially served as Director of Product Management at Octane Software, acquired by Epiphany.

Product Manager

Com

Jun 1997 - Mar 1999 (1 year 10 months)

Product Manager for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networking card.

Marcom and Public Relations Manager

MCI Communications

Jan 1995 - Dec 1996 (2 years)

Marcom and PR Manager at $18 billion revenue telecommunications company.

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