Boston's business elite has been busy this past week. Catch up on who's going where below.
Longtime Boston biotech entrepreneur Michael Gilman joined the team at Atlas Venture this week. He will serve as the local VC firm's entrepreneur-in-residence, a role which he also unofficially held in 2006, while working on his startup Stromedix, acquired by Biogen Idec. The scientist-turned-startup expert will work with a number of young companies within Atlas's portfolio. Said the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence of guiding the startups, "And if I should fall in love with one of them, I can run away with them." For more info, read the full story.
Adrian Tompsett made the move to in-store marketing platform Swirl, at which he will serve as VP of business development. Prior to joining the startup, Tompsett held the same role at DataXu, the big data marketing platform recently named the top fifth fastest-growing startup by Inc.com. Swirl, which uses beacons or sensors in brick-and-mortars to push marketing messages to customers' mobile devices, raised an $8 million Series A in October. Read more on Tompsett's transition.
Shareaholic welcomed Rob Balazy on Thursday. Balazy will step into the role of President, in which he will be leading the initiative to commercialize the company. Prior to Shareaholic, Balazy was CEO of Spark Capital portfolio company Lycos and Inform Technologies, and senior director of business development at Applied Semantics, which created Adsense and was acquired by Google in 2003.
To-date, Shareaholic has raised $5.5 million in financing from General Catalyst, Rob Go of NextView Ventures, Kepha Partners, Dave McClure of 500Startups, Boston Seed Capital, David Cancel and Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot, Roy Rodenstein, founder and CEO of Visible Measures Brian Shin and others.
