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Josh Berman |
This year's public lecture,“My Entrepreneurial Journey from UCSB to MySpace and Beyond”, will be held on Monday, May 19 at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Campbell Hall at 2:30pm. Admission is free.
Josh Berman is currently the Co-President of Slingshot Labs Inc. Slingshot Labs, a division of News Corporation, is a web incubator dedicated to building new Internet companies. Slingshot Labs will employ a portfolio approach to the development and launch of businesses, and plans to nurture four to five ventures per year.
Josh Berman is a co-founder and was the chief operating officer of MySpace.com, the leading online lifestyle portal. MySpace has created a new platform for a generation to communicate and discover culture based around the self expression and connectivity of the site’s 120 million active users.
Berman formerly co-founded and managed successful Internet companies, ResponseBase Marketing, and Xdrive Technologies. Prior to his start up life, Berman was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and an international marketing manager and a senior financial analyst at Twentieth Century Fox.
Berman received his MBA from the University of Southern California, his BA from UC- Santa Barbara, and is a CPA in the State of California.
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