Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Mark Lockareff serves as an Advisor at Black River Ventures. Mark Lockareff is the Co-founder and Managing Director at ClearPath Partners. Previously, he served as an Interim Chief Executive Officer of Nexenta Systems, Inc. from February 2013 to August 2013. Mark Lockareff served as the Chief Executive Officer of ParAccel Inc. from 2010 to September 8, 2010. He is a Co-founder of PlanetID. Mark Lockareff is an established senior executive, entrepreneur and investor with a successful 24 year track record of operating, venture capital, investment banking and board of directors experience with leading companies in the technology industry. He was a venture partner in a USD 2.6b venture fund. Mark Lockareff served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Agiliance Inc. until January 2010. With more than 23 years of experience in the enterprise software sector, he is a seasoned Senior Executive with a proven track record helping emerging technology companies achieve market success. Prior to Agiliance, Mark Lockareff served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Apptera Inc. (now Raved, Inc.) and oversaw its day-to-day operations, ensuring that it continued to provide the leading voice & visual mobile ad marketplace for advertisers, agencies, publishers and enterprises. He was a Venture Partner of Meritech Capital Partners. Mark Lockareff co-founded GameChange.com and GameChange Ventures and served as its Managing Director. He worked over 15 years as both an entrepreneur and executive in a variety of private and public technology companies. His career highlights include executive roles at high profile companies like Excite@Home and Echelon Corporation, as well as venture capital investments in and leadership positions with industry innovators like Facebook, Riverbed, Softricity Inc. and Accenture. Mark Lockareff served as Vice President of Corporate Development at Excite@Home, where he was responsible for equity investing, joint venture, spin-out and M&A activities. In 1999, he helped found and manage Excite’s Commerce Division as Vice President of Business Development and Operations. He joined Excite as Vice President of Classified Advertising. As Vice President and General Manager of Classified Advertising, Mark Lockareff helped establish Classified2000 Inc. Before Classifieds2000, he served as Director of Business Development at Echelon Corporation. He was Investment Banker of Technology and Media Corporate Finance Group of Salomon Brothers in both San Francisco and New York. Mark Lockareff began his career in sales and marketing with IBM, Burroughs and Western Digital. He served as an Advisor of Apptera, Inc. He serves as a Board Member of PlanetID. Mark Lockareff has been a Member of Advisory Board of Nexenta Systems, Inc. since August 2013. He served as Member of Advisory Board at Private Flight Global Limited. Mark Lockareff served as a Member of Advisory Board of Agiliance. He has experience as Director with leading companies in the Internet and technology industries. Mark Lockareff served as Member of Advisory Board of ParAccel, Inc, since 2010. He served as a Director of ParAccel Inc until 2010. He served as a Director of Softricity Inc. since June 2005. Mark Lockareff received a B.A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.m