Team
With team members located in New York, the Silicon Valley, Boston, Washington DC, Israel, India, Germany and the UK, and with access to one of the largest armies of proven entrepreneurs and enterprise sales leaders we have a powerful presence worldwide, allowing us to easily expand into new markets and into new verticals globally while developing, acquiring, managing and partnering with a number of powerful brands, products and companies. Our team has worked with most of the Tier 1 VC's around the globe and has deep connections with private equity, Family Offices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Institutional Banks, Wealth Managers, and Corporate Venture Partners around the globe, and expects to deliver extraordinary results both to our limited partners and to our external partners.
ChosenVentures.com and the The NoCodeTechnologies.com Labs entrepreneurial community consists of a number of successful serial entrepreneurs, leaders and
investors, who have been able to achieve significant sales and have participated in nearly one hundred successful exits
Michael Gitelmaker
General Partner
Dr. Ralf Köster
Former CEO of Bartec, German Entrepreneur of the Year
Oliver Ahrens
President Pan Asia, President EMEA, Acer
Paolo Colella
Executive VP, CEO(India) for Ericsson
Erik Preisser
CEO ClickAnt, Head of Sales, Avast
Andreas Berthold-van der Molen
Director, Infor; Director, Microsoft
Eric Stonier
Global Vice President for Experian, Global Director, HP
Dr. Dirk Leising
SVP & VP Sales & VP for Airports and Automotive, Siemens AG
Joerg Jung
EVP & GM EMEA, Infor, SVP, Chief of Staff, SAP
Laird Popkin
CTO, Heart, Sothebys, NewsCorp; Sold Pando to Microsoft
Michael Nutter
Mayor of Philadelphia; President, US Conference of Mayors
Lt. General (Ret) Joseph DiSalvo
Dpt. Commander, U.S. Southern Command
Maj. Gen. Linda Singh
MD, Accenture; Adj. General, Maryland
Marvin Sambur
Former Asst. Secretary of the Air Force, CEO, ITT Defense
Helen Currie
Chief Economist at ConocoPhillips
Team Highlights
Laird Popkin is the CTO at Chosen Ventures and the NoCodeTechnologies Labs
Laird Popkin, is the former CTO and co-founder of Pando Networks, a P2P media distribution company, backed by
Intel Capital, BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners, and acquired by Microsoft after Laird grew it to 140M users, and
that replaced the P2P technology used by Xbox One and Windows 10, is spearheading ChosenVentures.com and the
NoCode Technologies Labs.
A highly experienced CTO, visionary and a technology leader, Laird is well known and well regarded by the
technology community, and has built and has simultaneously led numerous successful product development teams
across a number of large enterprises.
Laird has previously served as CTO of News Corporation, Director of Digital Technology for Warner Music Group,
VP Architecture for Kaplan, and CTO of Sotheby’s Holdings. He has co-chaired and published several standards, has
strong connections to CTO’s & technology directors across numerous leading companies and has ten patents issued.
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