Mitch Grasso

Founder & CEO

Mr. Grasso was co-founder of AdSpace Networks, which raised nearly $60MM in venture funding and operates a nationwide network of digital signs for advertising in shopping malls. Mr. Grasso became the VP of Product Development and was responsible for the planning and creation of the underlying CoolSign digital signage software, which was sold to Clarity Visual Systems in 2005, and subsequently to Planar (NasdaqGM: PLNR) in 2006, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost digital signage platforms available today. Prior to AdSpace, Mr. Grasso was part of the startup team at Silicon Gaming. There he spearheaded the design of the platform and games of the Odyssey, a revolutionary slot machine that brought multimedia to the casino gaming experience.

Mike Lingle

Founder & VP Sales

Mr. Lingle was the founder of Tonic Studios and pioneered the synchronized presentation space with an advertising sales tool for Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet in 1996. He later directed the redevelopment and rebranding of the software as TalkShow™ and led Tonic over the past decade as it acquired customers—through a combination of direct and channel sales—including sales forces at CNN, HBO, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox News, the NFL, Oxygen, Cox Media, Cartoon Network, ESPN, ABC Family, CNBC, TBS, TNT, DirecTV, Buena Vista Television, Kids' WB, Bravo, NBC Cable Networks, Hallmark Channel, Paramount Advertiser Services, USA Network, and Redken. Mr. Lingle's work with TalkShow led directly to the creation of SlideRocket.

Nat Robinson

VP of Global Marketing & Business Development

Nat Robinson is the VP of Marketing & Business Development for SlideRocket, a founding partner of SkyFarm Communications and co-founder and executive producer at Front Ave. Productions. Robinson has over 15 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the Vice President of Corporate Marketing where he lead all the content development for the company's global marketing programs. Robinson started with Oracle as a Sales Consultant in New Zealand where he was born. Nat is also a private pilot, an ASA bareboat captain, SSI certified diver and has a love for all things film and new media.

Mitchell Kertzman

Board Member

Mr. Kertzman is a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He has over 30 years of experience as a CEO of public and private software companies. Most recently, Mitchell was Chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, a provider of platform software for the delivery of digital services by cable television companies. Before joining Liberate, he was chairman of the board and CEO of Sybase, Inc. Mitchell was founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995.

A former programmer, Mitchell founded Powersoft in 1974 as Computer Solutions. He renamed the company and became a member of the Hummer Winblad family in 1991 when Hummer Winblad invested in the company, which became the leading provider of client-server development tools with its flagship product, PowerBuilder. The merger with Sybase in 1995 was, at the time, the most valuable in the history of the software industry.

Mitchell served as President of the Massachusetts Software Council from 1994 to 1996 and was 1990 chairman of the American Electronics Association. He is founder and former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a think tank focused on issues related to the standard of living and quality of life of America’s middle class. He served on the New York State Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and chaired its task force on industrial policy.

Mitchell was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He currently sits on the Boards of Five9, nGenera, Palamida, SlideRocket, VKernel, WaveMaker, Widgetbox and YieldBuild.