ABOUT GARY KREMEN
Entrepreneur
Clean Power Finance
Most recently, Gary founded Clean Power Finance a specialty consumer finance company that is making the purchase of residential solar power simple and affordable.
For more information about Clean Power Finance, visit www.CleanPowerFinance.com
Grant Media Management
Kremen was President and CEO of Grant Media Mangement, the managing member of Grant Media, LLC. Grant Media, LLC was a highly profitable internet traffic distributor owning numerous websites, including GalaxySearch.Com. Grant Media LLC was sold to its employees in 2006.
Sex.com
Gary first registered the domain name sex.com in 1994. In 1996 Stephen M. Cohen, contacted Network Solutions and fraudulently had the domain transferred to his name. Gary was a successful plaintiff in Kremen vs. Cohen, Network Solutions, et. el. In the lawsuit, he was awarded a $65 million verdict that was appealed by Cohen all the way to the US Supreme Court. With respect to Network Solutions, Kremen's successful appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal created the precedent that domain names are property and subject to conversion, as well as other property related torts. Gary's sale of Sex.Com was for the highest amount ever paid for a domain name. The case was the first ever of its kind, never before had there been a ruling in this area of the law; the case made the casebooks.
NetAngels.Com
Gary was President of NetAngels.Com, Inc., a 40 person company (with 20 contractors in Krakow, Poland) solely focused on Internet profiling and personalization. It has backers including Esther Dyson, Nick Nicholas, Ron Posner and Martin Schoffstal. As co-founder of NetAngels.Com, he hired the management team, focused the product vision, and created the distribution strategy. The company merged with Firefly Network, Inc. (Agents, Inc.) in late 1996, the company's largest competitor, which was later merged with Microsoft.
Match.com
From 1993 through March 1996, Gary founded and was Chairman of the Board of Electric Classifieds, Inc. / Match.Com, the leading on-line classifieds advertising technology outsourcing company and perhaps one of the most widely accessed 'communities' on the Internet. Gary founded the firm after identifying opportunities for on-line personals service, now branded Match.Com. He wrote the company business plan, then raised $1.3 million from venture capitalists and private investors, and later assisted in raising $7.5 million from leading corporate partners, such as Softbank, The Well and Intel, and venture capitalists, such as Canaan Venture Partners, Weiss Peck & Greer and Charter Venture Capital. Match.Com was eventually sold to Ticketmaster / Citysearch for $50 million.
United States Patent Office
He is the primary inventor of the seminal US patent for creating Internet web pages dynamically, patent #5706434 - a patent that he recovered from its purchaser for under $100,000 and resold for over $1,250,000.
Los Altos Technology
Gary was principal founder of Los Altos Technologies, Inc. (LAT), a leader in UNIX security. At LAT, Gary was responsible for marketing, business development, and finance. The company created the first anti-virus product for UNIX as well as a only government approved data deletion product for classified data.
Full Source Software
Gary was principal founder with Ben Dubin (now of Asset Management) of Full Source Software, the world first open software company. The Company downloaded source code from USENET from 1991 - 1993 and resold it to corporate users on 1/4 inch cartidgets for corporate and other users primarly for Sun, IBM and HP systems.
Investor
Gary has invested in over 50 private companies (individually or thru venture capital funds) of which several have either gone public or have had liquidity events.
PUBLIC INVESTMENTS
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AE Biofuels, Inc., (OTCBB: AEBF.OB) together with its subsidiaries, develops, constructs, and
operates biodiesel and ethanol plants primarily in the Midwestern United States
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BladeLogic (Nasdaq: BLOG) is a leading provider of data center automation software with a large installed base of Fortune Global 500 customers.
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Cavium Networks (Nasdaq: CAVM) is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, storage and security applications.
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DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), is a digital media company that enables consumers to enjoy a
high-quality video experience across any kind of device. DivX creates,
distributes and licenses digital video technologies that span the PC, the television and mobile devices
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Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is a global leader in content management solutions. Interwoven tackles content in its toughest form, pioneering solutions for Web and document
collaboration that have since become the gold standards of the industry.
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Acquired by ValueClick, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK), Mediaplex provides technology and services that help advertisers, agencies and publishers manage their interactive and traditional advertising activities.
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Acquired by Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), Mobile 365 is the world leader in mobile messaging services, and reaches more than 2.2 billion mobile users globally.
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Resonate is the leading provider of application performance management solutions for business-critical application environments.
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Tut Systems, Inc., acquired by Motorola, provides solutions and services for delivering high quality digital video over broadband networks.
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TWL Corporation (OTCBB: TWLO.OB) is a publicly held global workplace learning company headquartered in Carrollton, Texas.
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PRIVATE INVESTMENTS
Consulting
Gary's past consulting projects in the satellite area include: i) business planning and business development for Hughes Communications'
New Venture Organization, focusing on satellite delivery of IP transit services, ii) a rollout of a near earth orbit fleet of unmanned planes using
LMDS technology, iii) business planning for NeTune, a venture backed satellite media transmission network, and iv) fundraising for DBS Industries, a publicly traded LEO based AMR automatic meter reading company.
Earlier in Gary's career, he worked at Goldman Sachs in Fixed Income Sales and Trading and before that as a member of the technical staff at
The Aerospace Corporation, where he worked as a software engineer in the areas of computer security and software metrics.
Other past consulting projects include i) retainer due diligence for a venture capital firm ii) general finance and operations for
Photoloft.Com / BrightCube, iii) business plan and investor presentation for Signafy, Inc. (an NEC backed spin-off in the digital watermarking area),
and iv) brokering the domain names Computer.com and Altavista.com.
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Public Speaking
Gary is a frequent speaker on on-line marketing, business development, and capital raising for emerging growth companies. As a leading authority in defining the contours of intellectual property law and the Internet, Gary was a guest luncheon speaker in the 19th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, presented by American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law. He was also ranked in the Top 100 Internet Entrepreneurs according to MicroTimes Magazine.
Recent Speaking Engagements
Naval Postgraduate Institute, San Jose State University
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Education
Gary's education includes an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.
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