Chris Young

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Biography

Mr. Chris Young is a Co-Founder & General Partner at Revel Partners. He also serves as Chairman at StartOut. He also serves as a Venture Partner at eValue. He served as a Board Observer at Nucla. He served as a Board Member at Hudson MX. He also served as a Board Member at Konduit. me. He is a serial entrepreneur and 16-year veteran of the digital video advertising space. He serves on the board of directors of Collective, Zype, Believe Entertainment, and STAQ. He formerly sat on the board of Vidible, sold to AOL at the end of 2014, and visited. He also serves as an adviser to Wider Wake, a digital consultancy. In 2013, he sold Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG), of which he was CEO, to Alloy Digital. Founded in 2008, DBG emerged as a content production and video content syndication platform and was at the forefront of creating digital-first content. Before starting DBG, he co-founded online video advertising and management solutions company Klipmart in 1999 and grew it into the nation's largest video-rich media vendor taking advertiser's TV commercials and putting them online. In 2006, under his leadership, Klipmart was sold to now Google-owned DoubleClick. He assumed the role of Executive Vice President of Rich Media and Emerging at DoubleClick. He also served as a Board Member at Zype.