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Darren Herman

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Darren is an entrepreneur and digital media evangelist, currently the Head of Digital Media for a major New York based media agency. An active angel investor around Silicon Alley, he is a board member and adviser to both startups and emerging companies.

Launched Herman blackbook in late 2008 and in January 2009, Hb released it’s first fund, the New Platforms Fund to fund ideas on napkins into early stage development.

Milestones

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• Darren Herman — VMM is featured on the front page of the NY Times Business Section (5/30/09)
  Posted 7/2/09 at 6:30pm
• Darren Herman — Darren Herman launches Herman blackbook (1/2/09)
  Posted 1/2/09 at 4:42pm
• Darren Herman — Darren Herman and MDC Partners launch Varick Media Management (7/28/08)
  Posted 9/3/08 at 3:15am
• Invested in Path101. (2/9/08)
  Posted 3/17/08 at 4:29pm
• Darren Herman — Joined The Media Kitchen to Head the Digital Media Group (10/07)
  Posted 7/25/08 at 5:09pm
• Added position as Head of Digital Media at The Media Kitchen.
  Posted 3/2/08 at 7:39pm
• Added position as Founder, President at Varick Media Management.
  Posted 10/25/08 at 11:46am

Videos

Investments

Sources

1. Exec News: The Media Kitchen (reuters.com) [edit]
2. Media Kitchen Cooks Up Digital Buying Exchange, Spins Off New Business (mediapost.com) [edit]
3. Herman Blackbook Offers Funds for iPhone, Boxee, Twitter Developers (observer.com) [edit]
4. NY Times (nytimes.com) [edit]
5. Company Blog Post (blog.path101.com) [edit]