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Hunt,
A friend of mine who is on CSIS's Advisory Board is coming to town this week and I thought you might want to meet him. I've taken him on as a client in my media consulting business but that's not why I thought it would be good for you to meet him. I think he might be someone good for you to know in terms of the business world because as far as I can tell everything this guy does is a success.

His name is Navin Thukkaram and he is a 39 year-old tech investor, entrepreneur and former private equity professional. Navin was Paul Allen's number 2 at Vulcan Capital Private Equity where he helped turn a $500 million fund into a $2.5 billion fund. His bio is here: http://bit.ly/1fnVEqw

Last July, Navin and his partner sold their company Qwiki (an NYC-based mobile tech company where Navin was COO and the largest angel investor) to Yahoo! for $50 million. See here: http://bit.ly/1fTLnnZ

Currently Navin is an angel investor in several interesting companies including being the largest angel investor in SkyKick, a company that is partnered with Microsoft to migrate business to the cloud. SkyKick's website here: https://www.skykick.com/

Interested in doing an early breakfast on Thursday or lunch on Thursday? Could also potentially meet for dinner Wednesday night.

Andrew


H. Andrew Schwartz
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