James Bankoff is Chairman and CEO of SB Nation, the largest and fastest growing online sports network. Mr. Bankoff is also a Senior Advisor with Providence Equity Partners, the leading Private Equity firm focused on media and telecommunications. Prior to joining Providence in 2008, Mr. Bankoff served as Executive Vice President of programming and products at AOL.
While at AOL, Mr. Bankoff spearheaded the development of the new AOL.com and TMZ.com. He presided over consumer web sites such as Moviefone, MapQuest, BloggingStocks, AOL Music and Engadget. Mr. Bankoff also oversaw AOL’s industry-leading instant messaging services, AIM and ICQ, and new social networking and community applications including Blogsmith and Netscape.com.
Previously, Mr. Bankoff served as President of AOL Web Properties, where he coordinated the integration of online properties across Time Warner. In this role, he was responsible for Netscape, CompuServe, Moviefone, MapQuest, ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger services.
Mr. Bankoff serves on the boards of Inform, uLocate, Sportsblogs Inc and Network for Good. He received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| gdgt | 7/09 | Series A | $500k | 7 |
| Qloud | 11/07 | Seed | 7 |
