Venture Experts, Your Virtual Incubator

"Everyone's an expert at something, but almost no one is an expert at everything!"Teri McCready, Publisher, Expert-Zine

"Who's on your management team?" is one of the first questions prospective investors ask any company seeking funding for a startup, expansion, merger or acquisition.

Venture Planning Associates' can provide a virtual incubator: a wrap-around management team of senior executives on an interim or permanent basis. All of our senior executives have extensive entrepreneurial and management experience as company founders, CEO's, CFO's and COO's. Review their backgrounds below, or click here to read articles written by our experts, for our Expert-Zine.

Venture Capital Resource

Bill McCready has over 25 years of business development experience in venture capital, startups, LBO's, Mergers and Acquisitions, deal analysis, deal structuring, and turnarounds at the CEO, CFO and COO level.

Chief Executive Officer

Bob Campbell is currently Chief Operating Officer of eBilities.com, B2B Marketing Director for @Backup, Inc., a venture funded Internet start-up He was a Director and Chief Operating Officer of Robert F. Driver Company where he led the company to its highest net income and highest single-year stock appreciation in its 72-year history.

Financial Strategist & Corporate Coach

Paul Lemberg's past and present clients include companies and individuals in software, information services, Internet services, financial services, market research, management consulting and a number of Fortune 500 information technology companies. He founded two international banking software companies, a multimedia production company and a sales training company. Get Paul's latest book, "Faster Than the Speed of Change".

Financial Management & Chief Financial Officer

Patricia Casey has over 20 years experience in business and management consulting, as an entrepreneur, and as a finance executive. Currently, she is working with venture funded start-ups that are e-commerce/Internet based domestic and international companies in various stages of growth.

Marketing and Internet Strategist

Teri McCready creates marketing infrastructure for start-ups and develops Internet/e-commerce strategy for small and midsize companies. Recent Web initiatives attracted visitor traffic from more than 93 countries, and clients typically gain Top 20 ranking in key search engines.

Technology Training and Development

Larry Glidewell is a true pioneer in technology delivered training. From his internship with one of the first three interactive-television educational systems in the country, Mr. Glidewell has been at the forefront of developing and marketing technology delivered training. He has started and sold five technology-based companies.

Public Relations Strategist

Peter MacCracken is an award winning founder of MacCracken & McGaugh and previously headed the public relations divisions of two large California agencies. He is past president of PRSA and IABC.

Merger & Acquistions

Ken King worked with fortune 500 companies for twenty years in various capacities, including financial analyst, assistant controller, and director of mergers and acquisitions. He currently is Chairman of the Board of Webinc., a new San Diego-based Internet Incubator and venture capital fund.

Executive Recruiters

One of the key elements of any business is its management team. Executive Recruiters are the lynch pin in finding and attracting excellent talent to your corporate team or board of directors. Both of these firm's principals have been corporate CEO's of fast growing companies.

Technology Expert

Dr. Joel Rakow has directed the development of more than 30 commercially successful software and Web projects in over seven countries. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started and sold five businesses, the most recent of which was ATI, an eLearning company with more than three million users of its learning management system and elearning programs.

Customer Communications

Ernest Lotecka, Ph.D. applies his expertise in business, engineering and behavioral science to his customer assessment and human factor analysis/design consultancy. He specializes in highly cost-effective methods that evaluate perceptions, motivations and communications for designing services. His extensive client list includes Boeing, Sega, and the U.S. Navy.

Corporate Insurance

Protecting your fast growing company from all forms of liability in today's litigeous environment, at a reasonable cost, requires significant expertise. Gary Kloehn's career has been focused on protecting businesses such as yours.

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