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Johnny Monsarrat, Managing Partner. Strategy, Marketing, Partnering, Fundraising.

Most of the work of Monsarrat Consulting is done directly by Mr. Monsarrat, taking on a wide range of strategy, marketing, business development, and management tasks. Mr. Monsarrat is a serial entrepreneur who is founder and former CEO, CTO, and Chairman of Turbine, Inc., a Microsoft partner which became the largest privately held videogames company in North America and was purchased by Warner Brothers for $160M. As a consultant he has played stopgap executive roles for Boston-area high-tech firms at the VP level for over a decade. He has an MIT MBA and BS, and also attended Harvard and Brown University. He is an award-winning public speaker and is an occasional lecturer on entrepreneurship at MIT, Brown, and Wellesley. Mr. Monsarrat has appeared in the Boston Globe, CNN, USA Today, Mass High Tech, and the Wall Street Journal.

Rickland Powell. Recruiting, Partnering, Sales.

Mr. Powell is an experienced Internet entrepreneur and manager, currently serving as VP Business Development and Sales at Sandstorm Enterprises, a security software firm. As Executive Vice President of Turbine Entertainment Software from 1995-1997, he managed development, investor relations and sought and negotiated publishing opportunities. Prior to joining Turbine, Mr. Powell founded, grew and sold two companies. Mr. Powell is also Boston's best connected technical recruiter, with close ties to the MIT community.
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