James Joaquin

James Joaquin served as a board member at Bakpax. He co-founded and serves as Managing Director of Obvious Ventures. He is a member of the board of directors of Miyoko’s Creamery. Serves on the board of directors of MycoMedica Life Sciences. Serves as an observer on the board of directors of VSCO. Member of the board of directors of Together Labs. Member of the boards of Enervee and Incredible Health. Served as CEO of Kodak Imaging Network. Served on the board of directors at CareZone. He has also served as a senior advisor to the Kairos Society. He is a member of the board of directors at Joy. He has served as a partner at Catamount Ventures. He joined the Catamount team in 2011 and works closely with the firm as an investor. James has years of experience building technology companies as an executive and investor. His experience in consumer marketing and identifying trends has helped create new categories such as online photography, web calendar and personal digital assistant. While studying computer science at Brown University in the 1980s, James co-founded Clearview Software, which was later acquired by Apple. After 6 years at Apple in engineering and marketing roles, he co-founded When.com, an online calendar and events service that was acquired by America Online. Following this successful acquisition, he became president and CEO of Ofoto. The service was acquired by Kodak in 2001, and James led the subsidiary to global market leadership thanks to Ofoto’s more than 20 million happy users. His background includes online payments as former CEO of Xoom.com, and consumer cloud services as former CEO of Xmarks and current chairman of Pixelpipe. He is a passionate investor looking to find and develop insanely cool consumer products and services. As a venture partner at Bridgescale, a growth investment firm, he played a key role in three investments: Snapvine (acquired by Whitepages.com), IMVU and Plum Organics. Most recently, he worked closely with Mitch Kapor as an advisor to Kapor Capital. Catamount’s core value of making the world a better place is preached and put into practice by him. He is an angel investor in eco-oriented companies in energy, transportation and media. He has served on the board of directors of Plum.