Brandon Zeuner likes to break things with entrepreneurs, and he likes to invest in things, too, should anyone be crazy enough to let him.

Brandon has been in tech for over 15 years in companies such as Interact Commerce (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix - sold to Sage in 2001), Flypaper, Plan Plus Online (Franklin Covey), and Sage Software. He also remains very active in a music technology startup.

When he’s not breaking stuff with entrepreneurs, he is spending time with his family, skateboarding with his son (where he tries very hard not to break anything), golfing, listening to music, breaking more things, and reading.

Ryan is an entrepreneur, a husband, a father, a golfer, a skier, a surfer, a weak musician, and a strong beer drinker.

Ryan began his business career working for a private investment firm managing clients across North America. In 2004, he co-founded a media company that had an innovative approach to delivering online video content.

His most recent venture is an online music technology platform that aggregates social APIs and live webcasts for the music industry.

Greg has worked in the institutional investment industry since 1996 – representing world class investment firms to professional investors at corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations, and high-net-worth family offices.

Greg has held key executive roles at Russell Investment Group and Silver Creek Capital Management.

Greg brings his institutional, operational and fund management experience to Venture51 and guides investor relations & key institutional development activities.

As a chief technology officer and user experience architect, Boz has built his reputation designing/developing some of the richest web experiences for Hollywood and Fortune 500 companies in the past 15 years.

With his award winning creative talent, in-depth knowledge and experience in engaging front-end interfaces, back-end coding as well as deep understanding of mobile platforms, Boz brings important technological value to Venture51 and gives ideas exemplary visual appeal.

When he's not coding or designing on his 12 monitors, Boz loves to spend time with his closest friends grilling steaks, drinking beer, laughing and rocking games. He's a home theater geek, who loves building crazy overpowered computers while constantly thinking about new startup ideas.

Ted Hellard founded and remains Chairman of the Board at Critical Mass, one of the largest independent digital creative and strategic planning agencies in the world. Critical Mass has been Agency of Record for some of the worlds finest brands including: Mercedes Benz, NikeID, Hilton Hotels, Las Vegas Convention Visitor Board, Nissan, Dell, NASA, Rolex, Best Buy, Budweiser, Adidas and AT&T (to name a few).

Previously, Hellard was co-owner and managing partner for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. Ted brings a massive amount of tier-one agency and real-world startup experience to the table.

Cyan is an entrepreneur and angel investor with early investments in Facebook, Mimoco, Space-X, Tagged, EQAL, Thumbtack & EcoMom (to name a few). Cyan and her husband (Scott Banister) are best known for their work at IronPort Systems, which sold to Cisco for $800M in 2007. Scott's early investments include Zappos, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5, Tagged, iLike, & Causes.com

Cyan currently is the co-founder and CEO of Zivity (a social-networking site with a twist).

As a side note, Cyan donates money every year to the world juggling federation, women's division of course.

Howard Lindzon has over twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Howard spent the last ten years managing his hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners, and is Partner and Principal of Knight’s Bridge Capital, a private equity firm based in Toronto.

Recently, Howard is the co-founder and CEO of StockTwits (an open, community-powered investment and information platform) and the co-founder of Social Leverage (an early-stage technology fund).

Eghosa is a venture capitalist focused on general consumer internet investments (community, commerce, collaboration, tools, content & media); specific interest areas include search and semantic technology-based platforms and services - domain expertise in semweb opportunities. Prior to creating his own investment platform, Eghosa was with Intel Capital and held several roles in corporate, VC and M&A.

Silicon Valley-based, some of his current investments include SpeakerText, Miso Media, Stipple, DailyWorth and Retailigence.