A conversation with Anderee Berengian, co-founder and CEO of CIE and RezVen Partners.
Through these organizations and his role on public company boards and as a prominent economic think tank, Anderee has unique insights and perspectives on many different areas of Southern California innovation and technology investing. Please join us for this interesting one-on-one conversation.
Anderee Berengian is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor and technologist. He is the co-founder & CEO at CIE, a technology venture studio that serves as an innovation lab for visionary corporate partners and an accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into new technology ventures. In addition, Anderee is the founder and managing partner of RezVen Partners, a venture capital firm in Newport Beach, where he has helped dozens of start-ups make strategic business decisions to accelerate growth and create liquidity events.Anderee is currently a board director at Petco and a member of the Young Leaders Circle at the Milken Institute, an economic think tank. Prior to RezVen, Berengian was an executive at Overture, a company that pioneered pay-for-performance advertising online.Berengian earned a MA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, and a BS in Biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also published numerous research papers as a Biophysics PhD candidate investigating various biological pathways.
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