Brad Hoover

Forward

Brad focuses on investments in early and growth stage technology businesses. His areas of special interest include wireless, financial services, and consumer internet. He’s currently a board member of go2 Media and MocoSpace, and is involved with CCP Games, ezprints, and QuickPlay Media.

Before joining GC, Brad co-founded The Strategy Learning Center (SLC), a start-up consultancy. While at SLC, he developed a private equity consulting business and helped veteran entrepreneurs secure funding. Before SLC, Brad was a Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey, Brad worked primarily for Fortune 500 clients on growth, market entry, innovation, and sales strategy, in addition to performance management and procurement optimization. Prior to McKinsey, he led the development of an intranet application used by the former Arthur Andersen firm to project manage clients’ mergers and acquisitions.

Brad is a graduate of Cornell University, earning a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.

If you think Brad's background can help you develop an early stage idea, or grow a more mature business, Submit Your Idea to him after reading our Elements of a Strong Business Plan.

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