Ozan Isinak - Co-founder and Managing Partner
Email: ozan@iconangels.com
Blog: 'The World Is Not So Flat In Istanbul'
Location: Los Angeles/San Diego, USA. | Istanbul, Turkey
At Icon Angels, Ozan ensures that the overall business operations of the company are
constantly aligned with the strategic goals set by the partners. His responsibility
is to identify new business opportunities in untouched markets and expand the client
base within North American, European, and Asian markets. He also overseas strategic partnerships.
Ozan Isinak brings extensive International Management Consulting and Project Management
experience to Icon Angels from the Interactive/Technology and Corporate Banking industries.
Prior to co-founding Icon Angels, Ozan worked as the Manager of Product Strategy for the
Small Business Banking & Private Wealth Management Group at CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce),
Sr. Management Consultant for IconMedialab, and Sr. Project Manager at AnswerThink Consulting Group.
He has provided strategic consulting, project management, and business development services for
numerous Global 1000 companies such as Siemens, VISA, Allianz Insurance, Cisco Systems, and
Providian Bank based in San Francisco, Toronto, Hamburg, Munich, and Los Angeles.
Ozan received his MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco - McLaren School
of Business in 1998 and also holds a double major in Economics & Political Science from
the University of Western Ontario.
Darrell Brookstein - Executive Board Advisor
Location: San Diego, USA
Mr. Brookstein is a financial executive with more than 32 years experience in the financial markets.
His boutique investment firms have assisted in raising more than $200 million for companies that
grew to over $8 billion in market capitalization. Mr. Brookstein has operated Broker/Dealers, Registered
Investment Advisors, Commodity Trading Advisors, as well as private equity and hedge funds as president or
managing director. In Mr. Brookstein’s extensive career in natural resource finance and venture capital, he
was a key participant in early-stage financing of several of the most productive mining and natural gas
companies of the last 25 years. He has written extensively and been interviewed internationally on financial
and investment subjects, and was editor of the respected monthly newsletter, The Prospector, for 9 years.
Mr. Brookstein began to focus his professional energies into building the leading financial and corporate
development firm for advanced and so-called small technologies companies in 2001.
In early 2002, he and National Academy of Sciences member, and noted bio-nanoscientist, Erkki Ruoslahti,
MD, PhD began collaboration to found The Nanotech Company, LLC to act as general partner
for nanotech and other advanced technology early stage investment vehicles. Mr. Brookstein is
Managing Director of the firm. The company also owns www.Nanotechnology.com.
He is the author of the highly rated Nanotech Fortunes: Make Yours in the Boom. Winning Strategies;
, and editor of the respected e-digest of nanotech news, "The Best of the NanoWeek" as
well as the leading investment newsletter, "The Small Tech Prospector". Mr. Brookstein received his BA from
Duke University.
Patrick Juarez - Executive Board Advisor
Location: Madrid, Spain
Recently voted one of the top 35 most powerful entertainment executives by The Hollywood Reporter,
Patrick is the managing director of Intuition Media - an entertainment consultancy based in Madrid,
Spain. He brings his global experiences, insight, and direction to Icon Angels through his engagements
with
E!Entertainment Television,
Fox Sports,
Fox Kids,
Warner,
Columbia (now Sony Pictures),
Paramount, and other
entertainment conglomerates.
Patrick is a specialist in TV fragmentation and expansion (IPTV, Internet TV, Mobile TV, Ipod video,
PODCASTS, BITTEREND, DTT, WIMAX, VOD, P2P) and other TV optimizing consumer products and forms of TV
distribution, marketing, branding, market penetration, thematic and local channel development,
and developing mainstream revenue sources from the U.S for film and TV production.
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