About Us

The Advisory Board

Christopher Lochhead – Strategic Advisor

After being the chief marketing officer at three public companies, Christopher Lochhead retired at 38.

Today he is a part-time strategy advisor. Christopher started his first company at age eighteen. Since then he has been an executive in four start-ups and has been an officer of three publicly traded technology companies: Mercury, Scient and Vantive.

Mercury Interactive Corporation, a $1B enterprise software company, was acquired by Hewlett Packard in November 2006 for $4.5B. The company was the leader in Business Technology Optimization software - now HP is. He helped grow the company from approximately $400m to over $1B from 2002 to 2006. In 1998 Lochhead helped start the Internet consulting firm Scient. They achieved $21M in first year sales, and $156M in its second year. Scient built a dominant brand, had a successful IPO, and became an early Internet leader. Lochhead joined Vantive, a customer relationship management (CRM) software company, in 1996 and helped the company grow from $25M in sales to $117M in two years. Prior to Vantive, Lochhead was the president of CRM consultant Always an Adventure International.

Dave Mandelbrot – Strategic Advisor

David Mandelbrot spent nearly 7 years at Yahoo where he started as corporate counsel in charge of mergers and acquisitions and ultimately became the VP & GM of Yahoo's Media and Entertainment business. In that role, Dave led the company's business development, product, sales programs and marketing efforts for all of the following Yahoo properties: Finance, News, Movies, Games, TV, Sports, Yahooligans (Kids) and Health.

Dave was a key force in growing the company's media and entertainment business to well over $100 million in annual revenue and also for making many of those properties #1 in their respective areas.

Before joining Yahoo, Dave was Director of Business Development and Associate General Counsel at Electronics for Imaging and Corporate Counsel at Netscape Communications.

Dave has a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law. Dave is currently the CEO of a stealth-mode startup that we aren't allowed to tell you about.