Team

Biography

Alexander Lloyd

May 10, 2012

Alexander Lloyd Managing Director

Alexander Lloyd is the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, a venture fund focused on seed-stage investments. Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures, Alexander was a venture partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, where he oversaw the development of their seed-stage investment strategy. Before working in Venture Capital, Alexander was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft's Silicon Valley office responsible for Microsoft's relationships with the West Coast venture capital and startup community. Alexander has also worked as a Product Manager in SGIs workstation division and has held marketing positions at Activision and Apple Computer. Alexander began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent three years as a financial analyst.

Born in New York City, Alexander was raised in Paris, France, and is fluent in French. Alexander earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School. He sits on the boards of SF Camerawork and Junior Achievement of San Francisco.

Alexander Lloyd

Biography

Ben Smith

May 10, 2012

Ben T Smith, IV Venture Partner

Ben Smith is a Venture Partner at Accelerator Ventures. Before joining Accelerator Ventures, Ben served as President of Reply Media which acquired MerchantCircle where he had been a cofounder and CEO. Ben cofounded Merchant Circle and incubated it at Rustic Canyon Partners while he was an Entrepreneur in Residence. Prior to cofounding MerchantCircle, Ben was the SVP of Corporate Development at Borland through four acquisitions and drove the spinoff of their subsidiary, CodeGear, as their CEO through the separation and startup. Additionally, Ben co-founded the company Spoke and is still serving on its board. Ben also holds a seat on the board of Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU). He is a long time angel investor and has funded over 20 early stage companies.

Ben previously served the White House as the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Planning to the Secretary of Transportation, assisting with the creation of the Transportation Security Administration after 9-11. Among his other accomplishments, Ben was a Vice President in Electronic Data System's A.T. Kearney management consulting subsidiary, leading the West Coast operations of the Kearney/EDS Venture Development Group. As a Partner in the High Technology and Strategy Practices at A.T. Kearney, he advised leading technology companies on business, acquisition, investment and marketing strategies.

Ben holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.

Ben Smith

Biography

John Paul Milciunas

May 10, 2012

John Paul Milciunas Entrepreneur-In-Residence

John Paul Milciunas is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accelerator Ventures. Prior to joining Accelerator Ventures, John Paul was at Yahoo! in Strategic Partnerships and Business Development for search and display advertising. Most recently he was part of the Strategy and Emerging Businesses team where he focused on creating innovative strategies for content distribution, audience development, and monetization. Before joining Yahoo!, John Paul worked as a product strategy consultant for Checkfree during the company’s merger and integration with Fiserv.

John Paul has over 13 years experience working with start-up companies. John Paul was CEO of SPI Dynamics, an Atlanta based web security start-up that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $90MM. John Paul also spent 3 years in Silicon Valley working for Scient as a business strategy consultant. He began his career at S1 and was part of the team that created the world’s first Internet bank, SFNB.

John Paul was born in Miami, FL. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and currently resides in New York City.

John Paul Milciunas