Taylor Davidson is a Senior Associate at kbs+ Ventures, the thematic early-stage venture investment arm of the advertising agency kbs+. He is an advisor to a range of early-stage ventures and a mentor with Launch Pad Ignition, a New Orleans-based TechStars accelerator. Over 6,000 entrepreneurs have downloaded one of his Excel template financial models for startups at unstructuredventures.com. @tdavidson

Adam is a media sales and management veteran and has spent the last 13 years working in digital. Currently he is a CRO in Residence at Lerer Ventures advising the portfolio on revenue acceleration. Most recently, Adam worked at Thrillist as CRO & President of Sales to help them launch all aspects of the Thrillist Media Group (Thrillist, JackThreads, and Thrillist Rewards). Prior to Thrillist, he built the sales team at Martini Media as CRO. At Martini he accelerated the business into an eight figure revenue stream helping to increase enterprise value threefold. Before Martini Adam spent spent eight years at Yahoo! in various sales and sales management roles. He helped spearhead Yahoo’s US Hispanic advertising division to build it bigger then Univision digital, while overseeing the joint venture with NBC/Telemundo. In his last role he served as the company’s Executive Director of US sales for Yahoo’s display partnerships, managing a national team that monetized Yahoo’s off-network display assets. In this position revenue responsibility was north of 150 million annually. Adam is active in the advertising community and has presented at events for the NYU Stern School of Business, ANA, Adclub, and Adtech. He has taught digital media courses for the New School University and the Advertising Club of New York. He is also a writer on behalf of the digital media biz and featured on the American Express OPEN Forum, MediaBizBloggers, Mediapost, and of course Twitter.

Mark Hasebroock, President and Founder of Dundee Venture Capital, has several years of experience in the start-up, survival and success of a variety of e-commerce ventures, as well as a background in investment and commercial banking.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Mark began building his entrepreneurial skill set in college with his first start-up called Bored Feet which sold colorful moccasins to sororities. After graduation Mark worked as a commercial loan analyst and then a commercial lender at First National Bank of Omaha while getting his MBA from Creighton University at night. He then made the natural transition from banking to selling ready-to-eat popcorn as a franchisee and wholesaler of gourmet popcorn. After selling this business, Mark worked as an investment banker at McCarthy & Co for 15 years helping privately owned companies raise capital as well as sell their businesses.

In 1998, Mark met Doug Nielsen and Julie Mahloch who were starting GiftCertificates.com and joined them during the early wild-west days of e-commerce growing it to $75 million in revenue. The team left GiftCertiicates.com in 2002 and founded Hayneedle.com, an e-commerce niche retailer of hard to find goods for the home. Today, Hayneedle has 300+ niche stores and $400 million in revenue. These niche stores sell everything from Hammocks to Birdbaths to ToiletSeats.

In 2011, Mark started Dundee Venture Capital with the vision to help fund startup e-commerce and internet service businesses get out of the ground and moving down the right path. To date they have invested $3 million in 5 companies in Omaha, Boulder and Austin. Dundee Venture Capital Fund II is closing July 1 with $15 million in new capital earmarked for more investment in startup e-commerce, Internet service and digital media businesses.

Mark has served on the Board of Directors of Ballantyne Strong (Amex: BTN) since 2003. BTN designs, develops, manufactures, services, and distributes theatre and lighting systems worldwide. He is also on the Board of Directors of Creighton Prep High School and was the founder and board member of the Nebraska High School Hockey League.