Gus Warren
Gus Warren
Overview
He is currently a Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures. Their group is part of Samsung NEXT formerly known as the Samsung Global Innovation Center which also includes an Incubator/Accelerator an M&A group a Strategic Partnerships group and a Growth Opportunities group. Samsung NEXT has offices in San Francisco Silicon Valley New York City Tel Aviv and Korea. Prior to Samsung NEXT I was a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital and Co Founder and COO of Disconnect a leading consumer privacy software company with over 15 million monthly active users. Prior to Disconnect He spent 4 years as a VP SVP and GM at Spot Runner a next generation video advertising platform whose investors included Battery Ventures Index Ventures WPP IPG and CBS. Prior to Spot Runner He invested in early stage companies for Granite Ventures (formerly Hambrecht & Quist) and Time Warner Ventures where his portfolio included InfoGear (acquired by Cisco) Speakeasy (acquired by BestBuy) Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm) Arroyo Video Solutions (acquired by Cisco) BigBand Networks (acquired by Arris Corporation) and SkyStream Networks (acquired by Ericsson Television).
