2006 Event Chairperson

Josh Grotstein
of
SAS Investors

Biographical Profile

Mr. Grotstein is Partner and Co-Founder of SAS Investors, a venture capital firm created to grow the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast’s most promising pre-seed and early stage high technology ventures.  Prior to SAS Investors, Mr. Grotstein served as a division executive for global ecommerce at Citigroup, led the content and commerce efforts at Prodigy, where he was a member of the senior executive team leading the spin-out (from IBM and Sears) and was the founding general manager of NBC’s Online Ventures, where he was part of the team that formed the initial relationship between NBC and Microsoft which led to the creation of MSNBC. .  He has also had a significant Marketing and Business Development experience across various technology and communication sectors working at CNBC and J. Walter Thompson.  He sits on the boards of Multispectral Imaging and Backfence.