Alex acts as angel investor, co-founder and/or advisor in internet-based and consumer brand projects, including home repair marketplace MyBuilder.com, Faction Skis, and interactive online music provider U-MYX. He co-founded GoIndustry plc from the proverbial napkin and led it to become a publicly-listed, 17-country, $100M market cap industry leader. Alex is an alumni of McKinsey & Co. and Disney and a trustee of the Venture Partnership Foundation. While obtaining his BA from Stanford and MBA from Harvard, ever the entrepreneur, he co-founded the wine club at both. www.hoye.org, Twitter: alexhoye

Ezra Butler talks with Alex Hoye about life, business, skiing, Telluride, and many other topics at SeedCamp TLV

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Alex Hoye, Chief Executive Officer

[Alex Hoye, CEO]

Alex brings to Latitude a range of entrepreneurial, media and internet experience matched with institutional and global experience.

Media and marketing have been in Alex’s blood his entire career: His first business was an ad-supported periodical he ran as a side business at Stanford University. In 1991 he joined Disney where he dug into traditional media business models – programming including GMTV, terrestrial and satellite broadcasting, and film. Alex perceived the power of online models for media while at Harvard Business School in 1994 and thereafter as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co. working with newspaper, television and music companies migrating to the digital medium.

Succumbing to his entrepreneurial nature, in 1999 Alex co-founded GoIndustry plc in Europe, which he and his partners built from the proverbial napkin into a 17-country global leader in online industrial auctions. He and the team took it public in London where it was valued at over $100M.

Between these three stints Alex, developed experience in the roles of CEO, CFO, CTO and CMO and drove new product development, M&A, international expansion, financing, sales force effectiveness and turnaround management.

Since 2006 Alex has been encouraged by and encouraging the wave of entrepreneurial inspiration capturing Europe. To this end, Alex has acted as angel investor, principal or mentor in technology and internet-based projects and a ski company. He also acts as an advisor to Vitruvian Partners, a €1B private equity fund focused on technology, media and telecommunications.

Alex has worked and lived in the UK, Germany, the US and Latin America and speaks the respective languages to varying degrees. While obtaining his BA from Stanford and MBA from Harvard, ever the entrepreneur, he co-founded the wine club at both.

Outside of his hectic schedule, Alex enjoys skiing, kite surfing and running, though rarely all at once, and is a trustee of the Venture Partnership Foundation, which applies venture methods to the social sector.