Jerry Neumann

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Mr. Jerry Neumann served as Adjunct Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. He is also an angel investor. He serves as an Advisor at DemandSphere and Board Member at PCB. He founded and served as a Venture Capitalist at Neu Venture Capital and was an engineer with IBM after college. After business school, Mr. Neumann joined Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group as a management consultant, and in 1995, he joined Prodigy Communications, one of the first consumer internet providers. He left Prodigy to run Omnicom Group's venture capital division, Communicade. Communicade invested in many of the early Internet marketing startups. In 2001, he partnered with an outside investor to acquire Communicade. Mr. Neumann ran the portfolio for many years until he co-founded Root Markets in 2005. Root Markets built a marketplace to allow consumers to sell their data. He was named one of New York City's top early-stage investors by Business Insider in 2012 and is a mentor at TechStars NY, Women Innovate Mobile, First Growth Venture Network, and SeedStart. He also served as Board Member at Nanocomp Technologies.