Richard Beedon

Bio

Mr Beedon is an entrepreneur and angel investor with over 30 years of technology experience. Dick's vision is to bring change to the entrepreneurial environment in Michigan to foster growth of technology businesses, jobs and market value. Over the past 14 years, Dick has created four IT companies resulting in over 160 new jobs and $120M in market capitalization. Dick's first venture was University Netcasting, where he served as founder and CEO leading up to a successful merger and IPO in 2000. It is currently one of the leading sports web sites on the Internet with over eight million unique visitors per month. He then founded JustTalk (2000) and the MacBeedon Group (2002). Most recently, he architected the acquisition, turn-around, and sale of Entyre (2006). Through Dick's leadership Entyre created a state-of-art web services application to manage the processing of final mortgage documents for large banks. Dick started his career as a business development and sales executive at IBM. In addition to his expertise in sales and marketing and demonstrated success in growing companies, Dick brings an extensive network of human capital and demonstrated ability to raise funding. Dick is a graduate of the University of Michigan.