Aram Melkoumov Startup entrepreneur (3rd biz). Raised over $1M.

My job is to help you make your products, services, and ideas more intuitive. My speciality is to turn complex value propositions into messages that your clients, colleagues, and stakeholders will listen to.

Consulting and mentoring for the effective executive, sales executive, entrepreneur, business owner, and professional. 40+ years as a business owner, management consultant, sales executive, investment adviser, Certified Financial Planner, Certified Professional Consultant.

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.