Damp brings an experienced, pragmatic aspect to category design, baked in from three decades as a company founder, CEO, CMO and startup advisor. He understands how companies work, how markets react, and how to design and build categories. He is also an angel investor and a limited partner at Stage 2 Capital – a VC firm that invests in early-stage B2B software companies.
Participating in two notable exits, he was previously founder and CEO/CMO of Green Leads which was acquired by Next 15 (LON:NFC). He was CMO of Asteria, which IPO’d on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO:3853 Asteria). In his work with Category Design Advisors, the firm takes equity as compensation and has thus far celebrated ten exits through acquisition and IPO.
Mike has served on several boards of both commercial and non-profit ventures. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Merrimack College. Damp speaks regularly at conferences such as Dreamforce, Inbound, etc. He has three daughters, a growing crew of grandkids and lives on the water in both New Hampshire and Florida with his wife and business partner, Linda.
