Cary Pollack serves as Partner at Ignite Venture Partners. Pollack has taken companies public and has successfully started and exited five companies of his own. He ran an international charity and helped create diplomatic relations between Israel and Croatia. Over his 40-year career in finance he has earned a reputation for integrity and results. The first half of Pollack's career was spent on Wall Street, where he was an executive at Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Lehman Brothers. For the past 20 years he has been an investor in more than ten companies, a consultant to many more, mentored innumerable executives and served on the boards of both public and private companies. Some of Pollack's more noteworthy investor/director portfolio companies over this time-frame have been