Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Linda Levinson is an advisor to professionally funded, privately held ventures. Linda Levinson was non-executive chair of the board of Connexus, Inc. (formerly VendareNetBlue), a privately held Internet media company until May 2010 when it was merged into Epic Advertising.

From February through July 2006, Linda Levinson was also Interim CEO of that company. From 1997 until May 2004, Linda Levinson was a Partner of GRP Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage technology companies in the financial services, Internet media and online retail sectors. From 1982 until 1998, Linda Levinson was president of Fayne Levinson Associates, an independent consulting firm advising major corporations.

Linda Levinson also has been an executive at Creative Artists Agency, Inc.; a Partner of Wings Partner, a Los Angeles-based merchant bank; a senior vice president of American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc.; and a Partner of McKinsey & Company, where she became the first woman partner in 1979.

Linda Levinson also serves as a member of the board of directors of NCR Corporation, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and The Western Union Company. She previously served on the board of directors of DemandTec, Inc.

Linda Levinson executive and consulting career brings in-depth knowledge of business operations and strategy, and an extensive breadth and depth of experience related to compensation strategies and corporate governance through her long tenure serving on the boards of a number of large international companies, including serving as chair of compensation committees.