Curiosity with Kristen
Here you’ll hear real conversations with every day people making a difference, living their purpose, being parents, trying their best and sharing their knowledge of life experiences, both professionally and personally. You’ll also hear from executives about their companies and what cool things they are doing plus how they are navigating their companies and people forward. Each episode is unique and covers wide ranging topics that give my guests an opportunity to share what they have learned, are learning and continuing to learn. Along with their wisdom, hope and some great stories too!
Curiosity with Kristen
27. Marco Thompson, Angel Mentor of EvoNexus + Wake Surfer & Instructor
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Along with a successful career in starting his own companies, selling them, running a venture firm and slowly retiring, Marco has also successfully taught over 1500 people to drop the rope and wake surf in San Diego, CA. Considered as one of the best in teaching wake surfing (If not the best!), I've had the privilege of surfing with and knowing Marco since 2017 when he taught me how to teach wake surfing and taught my kids how to surf. Marco shares his career and wake surf journey. Enjoy!
Angel Mentor at EvoNexus, Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Financing Junkie - Weekend Warrior & Watersports Czar
Former President, EvoNexus- Nurturing the next generation of San Diego Startup companies in Southern California's BEST INCUBATOR, Also Advising and Mentoring over a dozen EvoNexus Portfolio.
Founder at San Diego Sport Innovators - Serving Entrepreneurs and Innovators building great companies in Action Sports, Sporting Goods, and Apparel in Southern California
Managing Partner @ Express Ventures - assisting San Diego based "pre-Series A" entrepreneurs by providing funding and focused assistance in preparation for a successful Series A funding from a venture fund.
Founder, Fundraiser, Mentor, Advisor & Board Member to Action Sports and Technology companies
Express Ventures Fund I - Portfolio:
Certona - (Neural "recommendation engine" for etailers) www.certona.com
MaintenanceNet (IT Channel Services Sales & Renewal) www.maintenancenet.com
Genalyte - a next generation clinical and life science detection tools company www.genalyte.com
Benchmark Revenue Management - (sold to Avadyne Health)
Specialties: Action Sports, Sporting Goods, Lifestyle Apparel, Wakesurfing, Surfing, Snowboarding, Wakeboarding, Skiing, Sports Marketing, Sports Retail, Sporting Goods, Apparel & Fashion, Online Sports, Set top box, Semiconductor, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, SAAS, Web based video, Wireless, Mobile, Engineering management, Embedded Software, Smart Grid Utility Electric, AMI, AMR, MDMS, Smart Meter, Company Formation, Angel Financing, Venture Financing
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcothompson/ (Marco's LinkedIn page)
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid028u3juTPauPnzMVSEpq3VL3be8rSj4y1ccZQf5aMW1m4NSDm9sAa43ikF5FEB5isvl&id=584230654&mibextid=CYgPv5 (Instructional 13 minute video to learn (and teach) wake surfing we created in 2018)
Find me on LinkedIn @ www.linkedin.com/in/krev/
www.therevellgroup.com