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John O'Brien

Founder at SBS Comms & OnBoard. Investor in Startups.

Seattle, Washington

Angel
Scout
Founder
Investor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Media Relations
Strategic Communications
Crisis Communications
Social Media
Corporate Communications
Internal Communications
Public Relations
Press Releases
Publicity
Facebook
Social Media Marketing
Blogging
Analyst Relations
Message Development
Digital Marketing

Education

Investments

Sanctuary AI

Seed

Total Funding:

Lightmatter

Series B

Total Funding: $490M

FRNGE Inc.

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Permanent Data Solutions Inc.

Seed

Total Funding:

Work Experience

SBS

2017

  • Founder

    2017

    SBS is for companies that need more than a PR Agency. We have driven strategic outcomes for some of the most innovative companies, institutions and venture firms on the planet including: The Allen Institute for AI, American Express, Arweave, Cloudflare, Deel, Flexport, GitHub, Lightmatter, OpenResearch, Paradigm, Plaid, Ramp, Relativity Space, Rivian, Runway AI, Shopify, Twitter, and many others.

The OutCast Agency

2009 - 2017

  • Vice President of Media Strategy

    2009 - 2017

Horn Group

2008 - 2009

  • Account Supervisor

    2008 - 2009

Weber Shandwick

2006 - 2008

  • Senior Account Executive

    2006 - 2008

CNN

2002 - 2006

  • Editor, Writer, Producer

    2002 - 2006

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

2002 - 2002

  • Intern

    2002 - 2002