Anoop Tiwari

Steve Markowitz is a Honolulu-based investor and entrepreneur, whose experience includes leading the successful IPO of MyPoints.com, Inc. As co-founder, chairman and CEO, Steve charted MyPoints.com's course of early hypergrowth: zero to $64 million in revenue and zero to 16 million members. AngelList has recognized Steve as a "notable founder" and "notable operator." Steve is chairman of BeeStripe LLC and LifeDNA, Inc. He is vice chairman of iFirst Medical Technologies, Inc. Steve serves as a lead mentor at Honolulu's Blue Startups and is a limited partner in its series of funds. Previously, Steve was co-founder, chairman and CEO of pioneering loyalty marketer MyPoints.com. He led the company from inception as Intellipost Corp. in Nov. 1996 through its successful $46 million IPO (Aug. 1999), $211 million secondary offering (Feb. 2000) and beyond. Under Steve's stewardship, MyPoints.com grew to a peak market value of $2.8 billion. Steve's early career includes experience as a securities analyst for Fidelity Investments and as a financial journalist for Dow Jones & Co., both in Tokyo. He is fluent in Japanese. Steve holds two degrees from UC Berkeley, an MBA and a B.A. in East Asian Languages (high honors, Japanese). He has been honored by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business with the coveted Richard H. Holton Teaching Fellowship (2009), recognizing his well-received lectures in the Entrepreneurship and New Venture Finance courses.

I have a passion for technology & working on projects that add value to our world. Self-employed most of my career which enabled me to work with many CEO's & tech teams helping to find product market fit & grow a company from scratch both in the U.S. and internationally. Started in tech in 2005 working on local search & marketing. Worked on numerous local projects & founded a print publication (Webirectory) to promote local websites. Eventually, I moved to Silicon Valley working for Zvents (acquired by StubHub) as the Director of Local Sales & Advertising. Companies I’ve worked with have been venture backed by: Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures, SoftTech VC, AT&T, NAVTEQ, Nokia Growth Partners, Red Rock Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, The Entrepreneurs’ Fund III, Innogest Capital, TLcom... Three years ago I shifted my focus to mobile technology working with: Appbackr (Winner PayPal X) we created the worlds' first wholesale marketplace for mobile developers & Xchange for Android distribution. Worked w/ thousands of publishers helping to crowdfund millions of dollars & w/ Paramount Pictures to get mobile IP for: Naked Gun, Old School & The Untouchables. Most recently worked with Beintoo (Winner LeWeb 11') creating a true loyalty program for app users. Helped team scale to over 150 million reachable users and raised $7 million in series A capital. I'm Co-Host at SF New Tech - San Francisco's Largest, Longest Running and Most Loved Tech Event. Featured in NYT, WSJ, Forbes.... 10,000+ members and some of the best networking on the planet. 400+ companies have demo'd and still growing strong.

Multi-disciplinary marketer (insights, brand, demand, product, channels) with diverse work experience (Fortune 500, mid-market, start-ups). CMO with experience building Challenger brands. Hands-on experience setting up best practices Marketing organizations (people, process, technology) in Tech, Banking, and multiple industries. Strategic adviser to agencies who want to shift from being a production shop to advising the CMO and delivering lifecycle marketing value. Previously built a $20MM global marketing firm in just 3 years. Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship program at Trinity University (Forbes Top 10 in USA).