Board of Directors

Board Members: Eric Mathewson | Kathy Crawford | Brian Lilly | Nick Trigony | Dave Weiden

Legal counsel: Wilson, Sonsini,Goodrich & Rosati | Boies, Schiller& Flexner

Eric Mathewson
Founder and CEO
WideOrbit

Eric founded WideOrbit in 1999 after discovering that the software systems supporting media companies were very archaic. The goal of WideOrbit is to build world-class software solutions for media companies. Eric is also Managing Director of Prescient Capital. He has been an active private equity technology investor since 1994 and is the majority investor and owner of WideOrbit.

Kathy Crawford
President
MindShare

Kathy is a 30 year veteran of the local broadcast business. She started her career in the TV rep business in New York and then station side at WTTG in Washington. After a seven year stint in Los Angeles with Western International Media as a broadcast supervisor Kathy went back into sales for TeleRep and Petry TV in both Los Angeles and Denver. In 1987, she moved to Phoenix and rejoined Western and founded its DR division working on such accounts as Brinks Home Security, The Church of the Latter Day Saints and Jenny Craig to name a few.

In 1998 she moved back to Los Angeles as EVP, Director of Local Broadcast for Western International (now Initiative Media) where in 2001 she earned the Media All Star award for Spot Television. In June of 2003 she was named President of Local Broadcast for

Brian Lilly
Director
Co-Owner Lilly Broadcasting  

Brian is a second-generation television broadcaster and has been actively involved with Wide-Orbit since its inception. Brian started his career at TeleRep, owned by Cox Communications and later became a Founder and Co-Owner of Lilly Broadcasting.

Nick Trigony
Director
Past President
Cox Television and Radio

Nick Trigony retired as President of Cox TV, Radio and their respective Rep firms in Dec 2000. Nick is WideOrbit’s first outside Director. Prior to retiring from Cox Enterprises, Nick held the position of President of Cox’s 13 television and 80+ radio stations. He also had oversight of TeleRep, HRP, MMT and Cox Interactive, Cox’s TV broadcast representative firms. Nick is Past President of the National Association of Programming Television Executives (NAPTE) and has served on the Board of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).  

David Weiden
Partner
Khosla Ventures

David has been a Partner at Khosla Ventures since 2006 focusing on technology investments. Prior to Khosla Ventures, David worked McCaw Cellular, Morgan Stanley, Netscape/AOL and TellMe. Vinod Khosla was the Founder of Sun Microsystems and a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers from 1986 thru KPCB Fund X.

 

Legal Counsel

Wilson, Sonsini,
Goodrich & Rosati

Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati have provided legal counsel to WideOrbit since its inception in September of 1999. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the leading Silicon Valley based law firm representing technology companies. Wilson Sonsini is also a shareholder of WideOrbit.

Boies, Schiller& Flexner

Boies, Schiller & Flexner is a national firm representing corporate clients and financial institutions in variety of areas including complex financing transactions, significant merger and acquisition, anti-trust and project financing transactions. Boies, Schiller & Flexner is also a shareholder of WideOrbit.