iNovia Capital, an early stage venture capital fund manager, has appointed angel investor Geoff Judge and entrepreneur investor Kevin Swan as partner and principal, respectively.
Judge is an entrepreneur, operator and active angel. He was senior vice president and general manager of the media division at 24/7 Real Media, and a co-founder of the company.
He was formerly the president of Interactive Imaginations, one of three companies that merged to form 24/7 Media in 1997.
Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Judge spent nine years at American Express in the card division in several roles including vice president and general manager, travel and corporate insurance group and vice president marketing, new card member group.
Judge’s notable angel investments include IndustryBrains (sold to Marchex), Collective, Fetchback, (sold to GSI Commerce) Oggifinogi, Madison Logic, Good Health Media, Pex Card, Transactis, Appssavvy, Mashery, Payoneer, Tynt and Chango.
Judge will be opening iNovia’s permanent offices in New York City where he is based and where iNovia already holds a portfolio of four technology company investments.
"We’ve truly enjoyed the last few years of collaboration with Geoff Judge when he was first introduced to the team through partner John Elton. His role as a venture partner allowed us to rapidly realise how beneficial and valuable his digital media domain expertise was to the many entrepreneurs we were backing," says Chris Arsenault (pictured), managing partner at iNovia Capital. "Now as a full time partner, Geoff will provide additional direct support to existing Fund II portfolio companies, as well as play an important role in the management of future funds."
Swan was with Edmonton based Nexopia.com, Canada’s largest youth social network, from 2007 to today and most recently served as president and chief executive. He also founded Cardinal Venture Partners out of graduate school and began working with entrepreneurs by providing capital and managerial support to such companies as Empire Avenue, Connect 13, Nexopia, SafeFreight, Tagga, Teampages and Thinktel. Kevin will be joining iNovia in its Edmonton and Calgary offices.
