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Matt Bruck

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Lots of experience building and running businesses in challenging environments (startups, turnarounds).

Co-founder & President of Joios, a community and app-driven process for flavor discovery. We taste blind, filter collaboratively, make recommendations and enable acquisition of food and drink.

Partner in McDuff Advisors: invest in and advise companies ready to grow; work with CEOs to optimize offer, competitive positioning and pitch; build compelling business models; mentor staff in business development approach.

Previously: ran Americas business for RICS; led a $1.4 billion fund as COO of Meredith & Co.; defined strategies for Marakon, “incubated” software startups for KnowledgeCube.

Startups: early leadership of Firefly (acquired by Microsoft), KaanBaan and Nexaweb. Advisory Boards of Argus Software (acquired by Altus), Flavorpill, GameRank, QLogiq.

Early career: Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Lehman Brothers, KnowledgeCube, Marakon.

Stanford, MIT alum.

Specialties: creating scalable business models, assembling/leading multi-disciplinary teams, making decisions and solving complex problems, building relationships and closing sales. Many successful new product/market launches, brand re-launches and sales accelerations in mature and emerging markets.

Frequent speaker and panel moderator. Recent topics include cross-border investment, valuation, demographics shifts and retail, partnering in Latin America, non-profit strategies.

Always open to new learning, challenges and opportunities.

Recent Milestones

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  Matt Bruck added a position as Managing Director at McDuff Advisors, LLC. (6/1/11)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 8:19pm
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  Matt Bruck added a position as General Manager; Business Unit Director at RICS Americas. (7/1/03)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 8:19pm
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  Matt Bruck added a position as Partner at McDuff Capital. (8/1/01)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 8:19pm
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  Matt Bruck added a position as VP Finance & Admin at KnowledgeCube. (2/1/00)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 8:19pm
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  Matt Bruck added a position as Chief of Staff; COO at Meredith. (2/1/98)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 8:19pm
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  Matt Bruck added a position as Managing Director at McDuff Advisors.
  Posted 1/5/12 at 9:37am
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  Matt Bruck added a position as Partner at McDuff Capital.
  Posted 2/7/12 at 6:47am
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  Matt Bruck added a position as Co-Founder & President at Joios.
  Posted 4/19/12 at 8:57am

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