Howard Lindzon
Founder & Co-Managing Member

Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits® – a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.

Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Howard continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon's new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck.

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

Tom Peterson is the CEO of the Social Leverage Group of Companies, including Social Leverage, LLC an operating and acceleration entity that invests in early stage web-enabled businesses.

As an Angel Investor the past nine years and a long-term investor and advisor to Lindzon’s hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners and Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners, Peterson’s combined portfolios have included companies such as: Golfnow, Lifelock, Limos.com, TubeMogul, Buddy Media, Tweetdeck, Assistly, Betaworks and more.

Peterson began his career working for Exxon affiliated, Imperial Oil Limited, in Toronto, Canada, where he was primarily involved in maximizing branded site operations from a real estate and best offer performance perspective.

His start-up experience came in business development, sales and multi-channel distribution strategies for specialty furniture and equipment manufacturer ISE. Leaving to become President and COO of then NASDAQ traded, Neutral Posture (NTRL), Peterson led North American sales activity and the eventual merger group to privatize the company.

With a high level of connectivity and passion for technology Peterson enjoys early stage investing and entrepreneurs open to value-add investors.

He holds a B.A. from the University of Alberta and a MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State.