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 GARY KREMENAdvisory Board Software and Internet Commerce Gary Kremen is currently founder and CEO of Sociogramics, Inc. Sociogramics is creating new innovations in financial services, especially bringing credit to the unbanked and underbanked. Gary has over twenty years experience as a serial entrepreneur and expert in emerging growth companies, developing information technology, and internet domain management. He is an investor in over 40 companies, private equity funds and venture capital funds. Before founding Sociogramics, Gary was Chairman and Founder of Clean Power Finance. Nearly 40% of all US residential solar installations are done using Clean Power Finance's cloud platform. Clean Power Finance is now backed by Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures. Prior to Clean Power Finance, he was the founder and CEO of Grant Media, LLC a highly profitable internet traffic distributor owning numerous websites, including Sex.Com. Gary’s sale of Sex.Com was for the highest amount ever paid for a domain name. Grant Media LLC was sold to its employees in 2006. Prior to Grant Media, Gary co-founded and was President of NetAngels.Com, Inc., a 40 person company focused on Internet profiling and personalization that was merged with Firefly Network, Inc. (Agents, Inc.), the company’s largest competitor, and later sold to Microsoft. From 1993 through 1996, Gary founded and was Chairman of the Board of Electric Classifieds, Inc. / Match.Com, the leading on-line classifieds advertising technology outsourcing company and perhaps one of the most widely accessed ‘communities’ on the Internet. Match.Com was eventually sold to Ticketmaster / Citysearch for $50 million. Prior to Match.com, Gary was a co-founder of Los Altos Technologies, Inc. (LAT) , a leader in UNIX security. At LAT, Gary was responsible for marketing, business development, and finance. The company created the first anti-virus product for UNIX as well as the only government approved data deletion product for classified data. In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, Gary was the successful plaintiff in the pioneering internet intellectual property case Kremen vs. Cohen, Network Solutions, et. el. which created the precedent that domain names are property and subject to conversion. He is the primary inventor of the seminal US patent for creating Internet web pages dynamically, patent #5706434. Gary’s education includes an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. |