Mark Richey

Mark Richey has 3 current jobs including Partner at 1809 Capital, Venture Partner at JumpStart, and Founder and Managing Director at West Capital Advisors. Additionally, Mark Richey has had 5 past jobs including Founder/CEO at Synchrony Communications. Mark has been involved in many entrepreneurial ventures. He founded Synchrony Communications in 1997 raising $38 million in funding from leading VCs, including Charles River Ventures, APAX Partners, and GE Equity. He grew the company to a size of more than 130 employees in four cities serving over 80 customers, including Cincinnati Bell, Bank of America, and Proctor & Gamble. In prior years Mark served in management roles with a series of venture-backed Silicon Valley companies, including Gain Technology (sold to Sybase), Siebel Systems (IPO), and Genesys Telecommunications (IPO). After graduate school, he worked in management consulting with Theodore Barry & Associates (Los Angeles). Mark began his career as a software engineer with Cincom Systems (Cincinnati). Mark founded the Corporate Innovation Institute (Ci2). He is also co-Founder of the Cincinnati Consumer Summit (formerly Omnichannel Marketing and Pervasive Commerce Conference) an invite-only event bringing together leading innovators, investors and corporate executives to review real world case studies and debate the future of consumer engagement. Mark currently serves as an observer on the boards of OnShift, HubLogix, Amplifinity, Alung, and LabelInsight, and is an Advisory Council member for the GreenLight Foundation | Cincinnati. Mark holds an M.B.A. from The Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a BS in Systems Analysis from Miami University.