Howard Lindzon
Founder & Co-Managing Member

Howard Lindzon has over twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Mr. Lindzon spent the last ten years managing his hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners, and is Partner and Principal of Knight's Bridge Capital, a private equity firm based in Toronto.

Mr. Lindzon has tremendous insight into new media and is a very active angel investor in the financial and internet business sectors, invested and involved with over 30 companies. He sold his startup videoblog Wallstrip to CBS Corp. and has made many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (sold to Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), and Internet Brands (NASDAQ).

Mr. Lindzon's new media and internet business investments include: MyTrade.com (purchased by Think or Swim in December 2008, NASD SWIM), Limos.com (sold December 2008), Covestor.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Foodzie, and Tweetdeck, to name a few. Mr. Lindzon is actively involved in his latest venture, Stocktwits, an open, community-powered investment idea and information service built on the twitter platform.

Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management

Tom Peterson
CEO and Co-Managing Member

With nearly twenty years of strategic investing experience Tom focuses on opportunities for Social Leverage.

Tom's corporate training came right out of grad school working for Exxon affiliated, Imperial Oil Limited (aka ESSO), in Toronto, Canada. Peterson was primarily involved in maximizing branded site operations from a real estate and best offer performance perspective.

From there, Tom found his way to start-up experience with seven years in Biz Dev for ergonomic equipment manufacturer ISE also based in Toronto, Canada. ISE ultimately took him to reside in the Bay Area where customers consisted mainly of Fortune 1000 type technology companies. Responsible for product development, sales and distribution strategies Tom left ISE to become President and COO of then NASDAQ traded Neutral Posture (NTRL) for five years culminating in the successful privatization of the company. Most recently, Tom has been involved independently and collaboratively in Arizona based commercial and residential real estate development.

His experience with capital infusion sources and interfacing with private and institutional investors was solidified in corporate training, start-up management and leading a public company.

Tom holds a B.A. from the University of Alberta and a MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State. He resides in Scottsdale, AZ with his wife and three boys.

Mike Kasten
CFO

A CPA with Twenty years of professional accounting and finance experience, Mike Kasten has extensive experience with startups and technology companies. His background includes audit manager at a big 4 accounting firm, where he was responsible for issuing client financial statements, holding numerous Controller positions including an ebusiness unit of a fortune 40 Company, and Director of Finance responsible for internal and external financial reporting including SEC Reporting for a public company.

Mike served as the former CFO of GolfNow (purchased by Comcast for 40 million), the largest tee time booking engine' on the web. He advises Social Leverage portfolio companies on how to build structure as they grow and will take a board seat or advisory role where applicable.