Ben T Smith - Board Member, Senior Partner, & Practice Leader - Communications, Media, and Technology @ Kearney

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Primary Job Title Board Member, Senior Partner, & Practice Leader - Communications, Media, and Technology
Primary Organization
Kearney

Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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Ben Smith is a Venture Partner at Accelerator Ventures and a Board Member, Senior Partner, and Practice Leader for Communications, Media, and Technology at Kearney. Ben was a Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at MerchantCircle. He attended Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business and the University of California, Davis.

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investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - Nuzzel

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Nuzzel

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Nuzzel	No	Seed Round - Nuzzel	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Tubular Labs	—	Seed Round - Tubular Labs	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Well	—	Venture Round - Well	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Coveroo	—	Series A - Coveroo	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	RateItAll	—	Series A - RateItAll	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	MyTime	Accelerator Ventures	—	Series B - MyTime	obfuscated obfuscation

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Tubular Labs

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exits. Their most notable exits are

Tubular Labs

Nuzzel

, and

Coveroo

Tubular Labs Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
Nuzzel Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance
Coveroo Coveroo is a software, printing and brand licensing platform that enables consumers and partners to create highly customized products.

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Ben T Smith

has

current jobs as

Board Member, Senior Partner, & Practice Leader - Communications, Media, and Technology

Kearney

and

EIR

Rustic Canyon Partners

. Additionally,

Ben T Smith

has had

past jobs including

CEO

Wanderful Media

Kearney Board Member, Senior Partner, & Practice Leader - Communications, Media, and TechnologyOct 2016
Rustic Canyon Partners EIR

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Wanderful Media	CEO	Apr 2012	Jun 2016
BuyerLink	President Reply! Media	Jun 2011	Aug 2011
MerchantCircle	Founder and CEO	Aug 2004	Jun 2011
Codegear	CEO	Nov 2006	Apr 2007
Spoke	Founder & CEO	2002	2005
IBM	Engineer	—	—
Kearney	Team Member	—	—
Accelerator Ventures	Venture Partner	2011	—
Borland	SVP of Corporate Development	—	—
Ernst & Young	Team Member	—	—

Board and Advisor Roles

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Ben T Smith

holds

board and advisor roles including

Board of Directors

Glu Mobile

Member of the Advisory Board

Cendana Capital

, and

Chairman of the Board of Directors

DealSquare

Glu Mobile Board of DirectorsNov 2010
Cendana Capital Member of the Advisory Board2010
DealSquare Chairman of the Board of Directors

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
MerchantCircle	Chairman of the Board of Directors	Aug 2004	Jun 2011
Tapulous	Member of the Board of Directors	Feb 2008	Jul 2010
Mesmo	Member of the Board of Directors	Jul 1, 2007	2010
Codegear	Advisor	Apr 2007	Oct 2007
LikeIt.com	Advisor	—	—

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Service Industry Female Founded Companies	45,883
Service Industry Companies With Fewer Than 1000 Employees (Top 10K)	2,834
Service Industry Companies With Fewer Than 10 Employees (Top 10K)	12,737
Management Consulting Companies With Fewer Than 10 Employees (Top 10K)	5,974
Consulting Companies With Fewer Than 50 Employees (Top 10K)	400
Service Industry Companies With Fewer Than 50 Employees (Top 10K)	5,358
Management Consulting Companies With Fewer Than 1000 Employees (Top 10K)	2,543
Consulting Companies With Less Than $500M in Revenue (Top 10K)	455
United States Consulting Companies (Top 10K)	410
Management Consulting Companies With Less Than $500M in Revenue (Top 10K)	4,441

Education

Ben T Smith

studied at

University of California, Davis

and

Carnegie Mellon University - The Tepper School of Business

University of California, Davis BSMechanical Engineering19861991
Carnegie Mellon University - The Tepper School of Business MasterStrategy, Technology19911993