George Northup
Silicon Valley CEO, Board Member, Investor
- Role
- Board of Advisors at Genius Ventures, Inc
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About George Northup
George has been tech entrepreneur, CEO, board member and investor for over 25 years with a track record of building leading tech companies in B2B SaaS software. George has built 4 companies with over $5 billion of cumulative revenues, and raised over $500 million of capital through IPO\'s and venture capital. He has worked with preeminent Silicon Valley VC\'s including Kleiner Perkins, DFJ, Foundry Group, and SoftBank (Mobius Ventures). He has 4 exits including an IPO managed by JP Morgan. He has submitted multiple technology patent filings.George is an investor, board member and advisor to venture backed tech companies in Silicon Valley, New York, and other US locations. His scope is global and he advises CEO\'s in Mexico, Dubai and Germany. He is currently an official advisor/mentor to portfolio companies and founders within Fiat Growth Ventures, Boost VC and Draper University Ventures.Through early 2024, he was Co-CEO and President of Reach Enterprises Inc, a mobile app platform. He was previously CEO of Author-it, a global enterprise SaaS software company serving the Global 100 Life Science companies. Author-it had offices in New Zealand, Amsterdam, Seattle and Palo Alto.He was CEO of Memeo, an Inc cloud company backed by Foundry Group, with customers including Samsung, Google, Sony and WD. Memeo successfully exited in 2014. He was CEO of AuctionDrop: 3rd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal Fast 50; 12th in Deloitte & Touche Tech Fast 50 Silicon Valley and an Inc 500 Fast Growth Company. AuctionDrop successfully exited in 2008. He was EVP/CFO of LiveCapital, a financial analytics software company, exited to D&B and which grew from zero to over $600m in revenues.He was EVP/CFO of Online Resources, one of the first internet banking companies which IPO\'d in with JP Morgan. Today, Online Resources provides internet banking services to 15% of U.S. households & processes more than $200B of annual payments and services 17 of the top 50 U.S. banks as customers. George graduated Cum Laude from Duke University and began his career at Deloitte. He was a varsity athlete at Duke in the nationally ranked lacrosse program and still coaches youth and high school lacrosse. He was an Eagle Scout in his youth. George is an avid road biker, typically riding miles annually. He is a board member, investor in, adviser to various Silicon Valley technology companies. George was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan
Experience
Board of Advisors
Oct 2024 — Present
Education
Duke University
BA, Management Sciences
1976 — 1980
Skills
- Strategic Partnerships
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership
- Competitive Analysis
- Start-Ups
- Strategic Planning
- Saas
- Enterprise Software
- Private Equity
- Executive Management
- Finance
- Venture Capital
- Corporate Development
- Business Development
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Management
- Team Building
- Business Strategy
- Strategy
- E-Commerce
- Consulting
- Fundraising
- Marketing Strategy
- Debt Restructuring
- Cloud Computing
- Product Management
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