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Jordan Levy is an experienced operating executive with an expertise in sales and marketing. He has led two lasting billion dollar technology companies to successful exits and he is a seasoned venture capitalist who has operated three venture funds where he has realized upper quartile returns.
Mr. Levy currently serves as a Partner for New York investments with SoftBank Capital. Mr. Levy is also a Managing General Partner of Seed Capital Partners, an early stage technology venture fund which he co-founded in 1999 with Ron Schreiber. He currently serves as a Director of CompanyDNA, GT3, The NewsMarket , SilverCarrrot, CoKem International, and XOsoft.
In 1990, Mr. Levy and Mr. Schreiber founded Upgrade Corporation, the first technology customer relationship outsourcing company. Mr. Levy served as the company�s President and Co-CEO with an emphasis on sales, marketing, and all customer-facing activities. The company�s customers included 80% of U.S. software vendors and it grew from $0 to $65 million in profitable revenue. Upgrade�s investors, Venrock and Euclid, realized a significant return when the company was sold to SoftBank to form SoftBank Services Group. Mr. Levy then served as SoftBank Services Group�s co-Chairman and co-CEO and grew the company to $175 million in revenue. SoftBank Services Group was sold to Onyx Corporation for over $100 million. The company is now known as ClientLogic.
In 1988, Mr. Levy served as Senior Vice President of merchandising at Software Etc., a chain of 280 retail software and video games stores. Software Etc. is now Gamestop, the world�s largest retailer of video games and software.
In 1982, Mr. Levy joined Mr. Schreiber at Software Distribution Services, a distributor of every major computer peripheral and software vendor. He served as the company�s Vice-President with responsibility for sales and marketing and grew the company from $0 to $100 million in profitable revenue. After selling the business in 1985 to form Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM), Mr. Levy assumed the role of Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ingram Micro and grew the company to $1 billion in revenue. Ingram Micro is currently the largest technology distributor in the world and has a market capitalization of $2 billion and generates $23 billion in reven | 