Stan Holt
COO/President
Stanley Holt has been building online marketplaces for 14 years. As the VP of Publishing at his last two companies, Internet Brands and eHarmony, he managed more than 50 automotive, home, wedding and parenting sites. Those sites utilize content, tools and community to connect users and businesses.
Stan helped IB expand from a single ecommerce site, CarsDirect.com, into the world's largest network of automotive shopping and enthusiast sites, bringing together more than 12M monthly unique visitors and advertisers ranging from small vendors to the leading car and accessory manufacturers. At eHarmony, two of company's sites, ProjectWedding.com and Weddingbee.com, became the third-largest wedding network on the strength of organic traffic growth, matching more than a million users with 11,000 vendors.
Prior to that, Stan was the general manager of the Los Angeles Times' calendarlive.com. Stan has an M.B.A. from UCLA and holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He also has a B.A. in urban affairs from Haverford College.
Nikhil R. Jain
Founder/CEO/Chairman
A serial entrepreneur with the mindset of a management consultant, Nikhil has helped his clients succeed through careful planning, analysis and execution. Nikhil has held the position of COO in a business advisory and management consulting firm where he advised clients in various industries such as hospitality, renewable energy, real estate, healthcare, financial services, nutrition and social networking and helped with funding requirements, private placements, business process redesign, business planning, devising marketing, business development and go-to-market strategies, mentoring entrepreneurs, structuring MBO's and LBO's and consulting to executive management. Nikhil has consulted to various Fortune 500 clients in industries such as retail, utilities, manufacturing, healthcare and helped with implementing multi-million dollar projects and advising on mergers and acquisitions. Nikhil is a member of the California Green Workforce Coalition, a SouthBay Workforce Investment Board initiative. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Artilient Labs.
This summer, Nikhil will be initiating his Idea-2-Implementation log to give entrepreneurs an insight into Artilient Labs and how ideas are grown into companies which achieve the triple bottom line using the philosohpy of smart execution, frugality and community-driven synergies.
Nikhil currently sits on the Mentoring Committee of the Los Angeles Business Technology Center, the Board of Advisors of the California Lutheran University's Entrepreneur Roundtable and the Executive Committee of the Caltech MIT Enterprise Forum. Nikhil has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance from USC's Marshall School of Business.
Patrick McKenna
VP Business Development
Patrick is currently VP of Marketing and Business Development for Clean Green Guy.
Patrick has been the President and CEO of Vdrive since 2001 after establishing a strategic alliance with Microsoft. Patrick worked has worked with MSFT for over 12 years in several capacities. He is an intuitive leader with the ability to capitalize on an organization’s existing strengths while facilitating change to take it to the next level. He also has a keen sense for identifying and seizing new opportunities to create explosive demand and willingly shares his expertise to develop the talents of future leaders.
From 1994 to 1997, Patrick was the co-founder of WCI Telecom / Pangea-comm.com, where he built two successful telephone companies and was one of the fastest growing 100 companies in Seattle as noted by Pacific Business Journal. The Company was also described as one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine. Both WCI and Pangea continue to thrive.
Patrick is a graduate of Washington State University, Pullman with a BA. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corp Reserves.
Jor Law
Vice President
Jor has served as a trusted business advisor to many startups as well as established companies, assisting them in business strategy, business development and significant company events, such as mergers & acquisitions and capital raising. He has also been a principal investor in a number of companies in different industries. Jor has an innate ability to dissect a business’s strengths and provide strategic advice which has helped lead to several successful exits. Additionally, he is a founding shareholder of the Los Angeles based firm, Homeier & Law, P.C., a boutique and successful law firm devoted exclusively to business law. As an attorney, Jor previously worked at some of the world’s largest and most prestigious firms and received industry acclaim.
