Robert Levitan

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Mr. Robert Levitan co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Flooz.com. He serves as Board Member and Advisor at LiftForward. He also serves as Advisor at Runway Venture Partners. He co-founded and served as Board Member at Calendre. He also served as Chairman at Reloaded Games. He is an entrepreneur who has started five companies and has raised more than $150 million in venture capital financing. A pioneer of New York's Silicon Alley tech industry, he co-founded iVillage in 1995. iVillage grew to become the largest women's community on the web. At iVillage, he was responsible for sponsorship and ad sales. He led a team that brought many major consumer brands online for the first time. In 1999, iVillage was one of New York's first internet companies to have a successful public offering. In 2006, NBC Universal acquired iVillage. In 1999, he was the co-founder of the online payment system and digital currency platform Flooz.com. In 2003, he co-founded the US operations of Dotomi, a personalized ad-targeting company, which ValueClick acquired in 2011. Most recently, He was the CEO and chairman of Pando Networks, a cloud-based media-delivery company. In 2013, he executed the successful sale of Pando Networks to the Xbox division of Microsoft. He earned a BA in History and Public Policy from Duke University.