Cole Zucker

ZuVi Investments 

Joint family office focused on lower mid market private equity.

Managing Partner

Member - Santa Monica Chapter

Hey Hero Labs

Acquired by Sanctuary Ventures January 2022

Co-Founder

GREEN CREATIVE

Provides LED lighting products to North America.

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Everbright Engineering

VP of Sales

I'm Cole, an entrepreneur with a running addiction. 

I am a Co-Managing Partner at Zuvi Investments, a joint family office dedicated to helping small businesses transition into established middle-market companies. 

Previously, I was the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GREEN CREATIVE, a commercial-grade LED lighting company. My partner and I bootstrapped the business to over $60m in annual sales, successfully exiting to a PE fund. Our journey is chronicled in our book, “Flipping The Switch” (available now).

I was also a co-founder of Hey Hero Labs, a platform for personalized video content creation. The company was acquired by Sanctuary Ventures in 2022.

Outside of business, I'm driven by my passion for running. Having recently turned 40, I've achieved personal bests that surpass my times from 20 years ago. I'm always experimenting with new techniques and training methods to optimize performance and longevity.

Joint family office focused on low mid market private equity, angel investing, and real estate.

LinkedIn

Sr. Communications Manager II

Led a team of three empowering LinkedIn employees with tools, training and community to be champions of the brand.

Group Manager, Brand Enablement

- Culture Champs volunteer their time to build ​culture within the Brand, Consumer, Market Research team through moments designed to help employees ​feel empowered with knowledge and connection. 
- As co-chair, I helped to drive the strategy, programming and cadence of connection points between our Culture Champs cohort and the wider team.

Culture Champs Co-Chair, Brand, Consumer, Market Research 

- Partnered with executives across the company to transform the way we tell stories at LinkedIn
- Strengthened C-Suite relationships with LinkedIn's most strategic customers by launching an Executive Sponsorship program
- Empowered LinkedIn leaders with tools and training to be dynamic and engaging presenters

Sr. Marketing Manager II, Executive Content, Speakers & Executive Sponsorship

Sr. Marketing Manager, Executive Content & Speakers Program

Astound

Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service. The Astound AI platform uses machine learning and natural language processing to automate IT and HR service and support. Astound is the only company to automate the entire lifecycle of service requests, reducing resolution time and improving work life. Astound has partnered with leading workflow platform providers like ServiceNow and Atlassian plus managed service providers like Infosys to deliver deep integrations with IT service management, HR case management, knowledge management, Customer Service Management (CSM), and social collaboration solutions. Learn more about AI-driven automation and the future of work at astound.ai or follow Astound on Twitter @astound_ai.

Senior Marketing Manager

Cunningham Collective

Cunningham Collective is an innovation-to-market firm that helps enterprises and startups through challenges of traction, transformation and turnaround. With a team of executive-level marketing and operations leaders who span the full spectrum of technology marketing disciplines, we blend management consulting rigor with practical execution and lean principles to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing companies today.

Strategist

Quark Software Inc.

Quark develops a content automation platform that helps large organizations streamline the creation, management, publishing and delivery of business-critical content. Quark's solutions automate the process with reusable Smart Content components that can be dynamically assembled and delivered with precision in any format and to any channel — web, tablet, mobile, print, and more. As a result, leaders in industries such as finance, manufacturing, energy, and government can reduce costs, save time, improve consistency and make their content brilliant.

Marketing Communications Specialist

Tendril

Tendril is a leading Energy Services Management (ESM) technology company in the energy industry.

In my role as Marketing Specialist, I managed speaking and awards calendars, social media presence, and local events. In addition, I crafted presentations for speaking engagements, wrote and edited corporate communications and assisted in the execution of Tendril's strategic marketing and communications campaigns.

Marketing Specialist

Qualvu

Qualvu pioneers innovative and engaging ways to find, generate and share insight by leveraging a video-based technology platform for qualitative market research.

In my role as Technical Writer, I developed and managed all help documentation, tutorials, training and other materials. I also signed off on any text on Qualvu's platform as well as wrote and distributed release notes on new product releases for internal and external audiences. 

In addition to my Technical Writer responsibilities, I also assisted in the execution of Qualvu's marketing efforts by writing copy for email communications, blog and website, increasing brand awareness through social media marketing, and working with the Executive and Product Management  teams on product positioning and brand strategy.

Technical Writer

Working as a Project Manager at Qualvu, I oversaw execution of complex online qualitative market research. I provided strategic and operational guidance for market research firms like Ipsos, Gongos Research, Smith-Dahmer, Seek Research and Hall & Partners. I also managed a group of independent contractors instrumental to the Qualvu project lifecycle.

Project Manager

Project Coordinator

Mobile Local Social

Contributing writer for the coolest tech blog around.  My articles generally focus on social media happenings and pop culture shenanigans.

Contributing Writer

Data Driven Enterprises

I worked with various Departments of Education throughout the country on data collections, educational assessments and program evaluation. In this role, I served as the primary contact for technical support for teachers and administrators. I also conducted focus groups and proctored trainings for the state of Wyoming.

Researcher

Freelance

Various social media and writing freelance work

Consultant

CU Boulder

During my junior and senior year at CU Boulder, I conducted qualitative and quantitative research on Facebook.  Analysis suggests a high importance placed on photographs as currency of authenticating real life identity, and the stress to separate real and virtual lives.  Students seem to be interacting voyeuristically on the site, passively monitoring their "friends" without providing public comments.  Students say that the primary reason they use Facebook is "to connect with a wide social network" but my research suggests that there is a narcissistic underlying appeal of Facebook that provides students the ability to see their self-made identity online and edit and augment this identity however they wish.

Principal Investigator, Virtual Ethnographer, Senior McNair Scholar

I have spent more than a decade working with technology companies large and small. A communicator at the core, I am passionate about crafting impactful content for a wide array of audiences. My specialties include strategic communication, messaging and storytelling, content development and copywriting, and executive presentation skills training and development. 

I have spent the bulk of my career working in tech startups and I excel in high-energy, cross-functional work environments. 

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