cstryker@venturedc.com

Dr. Charles Stryker is the Founder and President of the Venture Development Center (VDC). Founded in 1992, VDC is the preeminent advisory firm assisting firms in the information services industry in all aspects of their strategy and business development activities. VDC has advised many of the traditional market leaders in the space including: Acxiom, Affinion, Catalina Marketing, First Data Corporation, Harte-Hanks, IAC, IBM, LexisNexis, Nielsen, Yahoo, Zagat Survey, and many other market leaders. In addition, VDC has been an active advisor for over 150 early stage firms that include many of the market leaders of tomorrow. A few of the recent VDC engagements have included BlueKai, Groupon, Jigsaw, Mint, Quova, and Zave Networks. The VDC success story is based on identifying new and powerful applications for data assets and marrying the product concept to solid revenue results utilizing both distribution experience and an extensive network of industry relationship.

In addition to his current professional activities, from 1991 to 1999, Dr. Stryker was a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, where he taught in the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center. From 1986 to 1991, he served as a President of InfoUSA. Since 1992 he has also served on many Board of Directors of both Public and Private companies including 24/7 Real Media, Greenfield OnLine, InfoGroup, Intelliquest, and Naviant.

Dr. Stryker has received the BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University.