ANDREA ABEGGLEN

Venture Partner

Auny is an entrepreneurial business strategy and marketing expert, with over 30 years of experience building companies from ideation through exit. As president of her own consulting firm for the past decade, Auny has filled the role of acting CMO for a variety of start-ups and turnarounds, including PE backed, and privately held businesses. In her role, she creates and executes effective strategic marketing plans, for mission-oriented companies from CPG to EV. She is passionate about branding, communication and digital marketing that successfully drive revenue. 

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Early in her career, Auny was a founding partner of several successful start-ups, including Student Advantage (SA) and Crimson & Brown Associates (CBA). As a co-founder of SA, she helped take the company public – growing it from 10 to over 500 employees. As president of CBA, Auny was instrumental in the sale of CBA to Kaplan (a Washington Post company).
 

Auny went on to head up marketing for Monster.com’s student focused businesses; MonsterCollege and FastWeb, as well as the MonsterCommunities. She then joined the San Francisco based media company, Gigaom, as VP of marketing where she re-branded the company and launched their lead generation program.

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In 2015, Auny began her own successful consultancy. Recent client engagements have included: VinFast US, Canidae, Bandrika Studios, Alpenglow, Infinant Health, Koji, Marc Randolph, NOLS, and The Online Marketing Institute.