Wider Wake Networks, Inc.

Wider Wake Networks, Inc. is an angel investor network where its members exchange information about pre-screened, early stage, and potentially high yielding investment opportunities. In connection with Wider Wake's investments, the members are actively involved with entrepreneurs and their companies throughout their lifecycles. Wider Wake is different than the majority of angel syndicates and investment clubs in that it has a high degree of industry niche focus in digital media.

Paul Olliver, founding member and CEO: Paul has been in online media for more than a dozen years and in that time has held senior roles with Klipmart, Yahoo! and DoubleClick.

 

Chris Young, founding member: Chris is chairman and CEO of Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG) (http://www.dbgroup.tv/), a video distribution network and digital production house, and former founder and CEO of Klipmart and executive vice president of Worldwide Rich Media and Emerging at DoubleClick.

 

Joe Apprendi, founding member: Joe is CEO of Collective (http://www.collective.com/), an online advertising and technology solutions company for display media, and former CEO of Falk North America and executive vice president Global Sales and Marketing at Eyeblaster.

 

Thomas Falk, founding member: Thomas is CEO of Smart Clip (http://www.smartclip.com)/, Europe's largest online video advertising network and CEO of eValue (http://www.evalue-group.com/), a venture capital company focused on digital media.

 

James Aitken, founding member: James was founder of MediaBrokers and TechnologyBrokers in the U.K., which were acquired by aQuantive, now owned by Microsoft, and currently is founder and chairman of Digital Tribe, a full service digital agency.

 

Jeanne Gammon, member: Jeanne, most recently was head of Media Platforms at Google in the U.K. Previously, she was managing director of DoubleClick and sales director at Ask Jeeves, both in the U.K.

 

 

Wider Wake has made investments in four companies, including Collective and DBG, led by Founding Members Apprendi and Young, and appssavvy (http://www.appssavvy.com/) and Good Health Advertising (http://www.goodhealthadvertising.com/). As an angel investment network, Wider Wake expects to make four-to-six investments each year, up to $1 million per investment.