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Owner and CEO of The Social Edge, a growth marketer with a passion for intuitive design, pirate metrics, and hacking code.

Mr. Gentes managed a $100M global product line for 7 years while at Symantec. He also built the official MTV News and People Magazine apps for the iPhone and patented a method for clustering virtual machines. Most recently, James started his newest venture, The Social Business, and used Python to build a social business analytics product from the ground up.

He is chairman of the Tech Alliance of Central Oregon 501(c)3, and manages Techspace Bend, a co-working facility for startups, as well a being a co-organizer of the Bend Venture Conference. Finally James runs 2x startup accelerators each year as part of the FoundersPad business accelerator program and is always on the lookout for another entrepreneurial challenge.