Stephen KLEIN

Stephen Klein has a highly successful history of building innovative technology companies and profitably exiting.

After an18 year career in the advertising and marketing industry, Stephen founded iballs, the first pure-play internet media buying company. He sold the company to Aquantive, Inc. (at a >100x return on invested capital) which went public shortly after the acquisition of iballs, and subsequently was purchased by Microsoft for $6.1B.

After iballs/Aquantive Stephen took the helm of Colloquis, Inc. a venture backed software start-up that he turned around and eventually sold to Microsoft (at a >3x return on venture investment).

Previously, Stephen had an 18 year career in the advertising industry, managing media planning and buying operations as well as managing campaigns of many internet and tech companies (Netscape, DLJDirect, uBid, theglobe.com...) and traditional marketers (Snapple, Panasonic, Volvo...). He began his career at Grey Advertising in media planning, eventually holding the position of Manager of Media Research. His longest tenure in the ad industry was as a Managing Partner at kirshenbaum bond & parntners, arriving when the firm had 15 employees and leaving when over 400 were employed.

Steve currently is an advisor to numerous internet and technology start-ups, chairman of Tunespotter, Inc. and the founder of Urchive LLC.