Primary Job Title General Partner Primary Organization Contour Venture Partners
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
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Owen currently works as General Partner at Contour Venture Partners. He was the Managing Director of NYC Seed from 2008 until 2016. Owen is the author of various patents in Internet methods and technologies. He is also the author of the book Instant Java Applets, available from Ziff-Davis Press. He is an original member of the World Wide Web
Artists Consortium and served on that group's original board. He was also an original member of the Board setting online advertising and media specifications and has served as Managing Director of the Wireless Advertising Association. Owen was named various times as one of the 100 Top Internet Executives in New York by The Silicon Alley Reporter and has also been named one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Alley by Business Insider. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and has taught seminars at New York University in New York City and Abu Dhabi.
