Ron Wiener
Ron was the founding principal of Venture Mechanics, LLC, a venture catalyst firm and incubator of high-technology companies in Portland, Oregon. (Earth Class Mail was incubated at Venture Mechanics, and Ron became its full-time CEO in July 2003). Earth Class Mail is Ron's fifth turn in the barrel as the founder and CEO of a venture-backed technology company.
His prior ventures included SnapNames.com, a breakthrough innovator in the domain name industry (named Internet Company of the Year in 2001); PrintBid.com (sold to Kinko's/FedEx), a pioneering artificial-intelligence based B2B exchange for commercial printing jobs and paper stocks; Distribution Sciences Corp./JetStream Aviation, an aviation software and JetStream mail order catalog publisher; and Azure Technology, a San Jose-based manufacturer of navigation avionics and flight simulators, and aviation software and catalog publisher. Ron had previously held various marketing and product management positions with Central Point Software (now Symantec), Eagle Computer, ICOT (AA/SABRE), Orchid Technology and Computer Factory. During much of his career he was heavily involved in the direct mail business, mailing hundreds of direct marketing campaigns and catalogs.
Ron studied EE/Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, and was founding President of the Oregon Young Entrepreneurs Assn. (now Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum). He has previously served on the Board of Directors of PriMotive, Max-Viz, Measurecast, Market Mechanix, SnapNames, PrintBid.com, Distribution Sciences and Azure Technology.
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