Mark Montgomery

Over the past 15 years, Mark has worked with hundreds of entertainment and corporate clients, including names like Sony, Kanye West, Keith Urban, RIM/Blackberry, Bon Jovi, Pearl Jam, Best Buy, Gnarls Barkley, Rascal Flatts, and General Motors to name a few. He is a pioneer in the e-commerce and business-to-consumer marketing space.

Mark was the co-founder of echo, a Nashville-based digital media and services company focused on building communities around entertainment brands. He was the co-creator of the patented platform echotools™, a direct-to-consumer delivery and data management system which ultimately grew to serve millions of users and distribute hundreds of millions of pages, data feeds, and e-commerce transactions. The company was successfully sold in 2007 to IAC/Ticketmaster, generating nearly a 10x return to echo's investors.

A winner of multiple "Best in Business" awards, as well as "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2007, Mark is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at music business and industry functions from well-known university business schools to Grammy organizations throughout the United States.

Mark participates in the firm’s digital media strategy, supporting both prior and current portfolio companies as well as contributing to the analysis of the firms existing and future digital media investment opportunities.