William C. Weiss named to Board of Advisors of McCafferty and Company
William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC, has been named to the Board of Advisors of McCafferty and Company, Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Weiss will provide insight and assistance in the strategic evolution of McCafferty & Company.
The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Their work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.
McCafferty & Company is a boutique media and entertainment investment bank, based in Century City. The firm was founded in 2006. McCafferty & Company works across the media sector in film, television, music, digital media, out of home media, publishing and other related entertainment and communications verticals.
First on Mars
First on Mars has retained The Promar Group LLC as Advisor to the CEO and Board of Directors, through William C. Weiss, its Chairman and CEO. Mr. Weiss will be working with First on Mars to provide strategic guidance and execution assistance for growth and to explore adjacent opportunities utilizing advanced analytics.
First on Mars, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is a platform that enables advanced social and video discovery guides for any connected Consumer Electronics Devices (example: TV, game consoles, set top box). The technology is architected to be easily deployable and high scalable across multiple environments – Web, Mobile, TV.
The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Their work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.
FutureWeb 2010
William C. Weiss, Chairman and CEO of The Promar Group LLC, will be joining an executive panel on The Future of Entrepreneurship and the Web, at the Future Web 2010 ( http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com ) conference. FutureWeb 2010 is a co-conference with the 19th International WWW Conference (http://www2010.org), which will be held April 26-30 in Raleigh, NC.
The panel will discuss The Web, within its relatively short lifetime, and how it has provided a foundation for some of the greatest entrepreneurial successes of all time. Also being discussed will be: what the future may look like for Web entrepreneurs; whether there will continue to be great companies born of disruptive innovation including where those opportunities may be; and what the competitive landscape will look like in the years to come.
Joining Mr. Weiss on the panel will be:
Chair: Tom Miller, Entrepreneurship Initiative, and vice provost for DELTA, NC State University
Scot Wingo, serial entrepreneur, co-founder, president and CEO of ChannelAdvisor Corporation, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions.
Chris Evans, entrepreneur and philanthropist, formerly founder and CEO of Accipiter Solutions, a leading provider of online advertising technology used by MSN, CNET, Lycos, ZDNet, Broadcast.com, Ask Jeeves and many others.
David Gardner, serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of VenueGen, a new-media company that is merging 3D virtual-world technology with social networking and learning applications. He has been the founder or co-founder of ProviderLink, Peopleclick, Report2Web, DBBasics, BuildLinks and OnSphere Corporation, raising more than $60 million in venture capital.
Aaron Houghton, co-founder and Board Chairman of iContact Corporation (http://www.icontact.com) and CEO of Preation (http://www.preation.com/). Aaron also co-founded StartupWithMe.com, a free service that matches entrepreneurs with potential co-founders based on compatibility to ensure the highest chance of success.
The Promar Group LLC (www.promar.com), located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by Mr. Weiss, who currently serves as Chairman & CEO. Bill has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. His work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.
The Duke Eye Center names William C. Weiss to its Board of Advisors
William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC, has been named to The Duke Eye Center Advisory Board. He will be involved in understanding additional strategic opportunities and facilitating discussions among other leaders who share an interest in bringing these opportunities forward.
The Advisory Board includes individuals who:
