Board of Directors
Randell Young, MBA, D.Mus.
Founder and Managing General Partner of Venture-Net
Partners Newport Beach , California
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Board of Directors Randell Young, MBA, D.Mus.
Founder and Managing General Partner of Venture-Net
Partners |
Randell has
previously served as Chief Financial Officer for Web portals MedNets.com,
Inc. and TheGospel.com,
Inc. and participated in the capitalization and development of
numerous other projects including Accuray
Incorporated, the world leader in precision radiosurgery
and manufacturer of the only such device CyberKnife approved by the
FDA for full-body applications; Vista Shells, Inc., a manufacturer of
utility truck covers; Telephony International, Inc., a
long-distance telecom reseller; Netunes.com, Inc., one of the Internet's
leading virtual record labels and The Orange County Blues Festival, Inc.
Equity partners of
note have included Euro-America Partners; Copernic Technologies; ZLUH Partners; Good
Samaritan Health System/Health Advantage Ventures; Pacific Republic
Capital; H-Quotient;
Lucent
Technologies; and The Marubeni Group.
A founder and
former Orange County Chapter Chair of T.
Boone Pickens United Shareholders Association, Dr. Young
has represented shareholders at National Education Corporation, Allergan,
Northrup
Corporation, Community Psychiatric and Southern California Edison.
He has owned and
operated several small businesses including a property management concern with
over 150 commercial tenants and a restaurant touted by the Orange County
Register as "the best jazz club in
He has lectured at
the graduate level on contemporary issues in venture capital at The University of
Phoenix. He holds a doctorate in music (D.Mus.)
from City
University Los Angeles> as well as a BS in business administration
and an MBA from Hamilton University.
Dr. Young has been
the subject of interviews and articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times,
the Orange
County Register and the Orange County Metropolitan. His
commentaries and essays have been published in the Los Angeles Times,
the Orange
County Register, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Orange County
Business Journal> and Inc. Magazine.
Dr. Young's Venture
Capital Primer is currently used by McGraw Hill's On Line Learning Center in support of its
textbook Principles of Corporate Finance,
Sixth Edition (Brealey & Myers); by Harvard University
in support of KSG PED-328 Community Financial Institutions and Microfinance in
Theory and Practice and other notable colleges and universities.
Currently, he serves on the boards of directors of Venture Net PartnersAeroFon
Corporation, a developer of innovative telecommunication systems; Synvax
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., developers of proprietary biopharmaceuticals;
Independence
Energy, Inc., an energy consulting and management group; Colossal Storage
Corporation, developers of atomic holographic optical storage
nanotechnology; Media
Syndication, Inc., a distributor of special interest video on
demand; Home
Shopping Latino, Inc., America's first Spanish language shopping
channel and NETunes.com,
Inc.