Zebi is delighted to have Randall Kaplan as an advisor in our journey towards transforming the way governments and enterprises store, manage, and consume the Zebibyte of data they generate annually.

About Randall

Randall is an experienced entrepreneur and venture capitalist with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry.

Randall is a co-founder of Akamai Technologies, the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, making the Internet fast, reliable, and secure for its customers. Akamai serves nearly 25% of the world’s web traffic, is a member of the S&P 500, employs more than 7,600 people with 64 offices in 28 countries, and had $2.4 billion in 2017 revenues, making it one of only nine U.S.-based software and services companies with more than $2 billion in annualized revenue.

Randall is also the Founder and CEO of JUMP Investors, a venture capital and investment firm. Since its formation in 1999, JUMP has invested in more than 60 early-stage technology companies including Google, Seagate, and Postini, and it is also an active investor in real estate, private equity, hedge funds, public equities, and cryptocurrencies.

Randall is also the CEO and founder of Sandee, LLC, a travel company focused on the promotion of beaches and the beach tourism market around the world, and is the CEO of CollarCard, LLC, a 10-year old fast-growing promotional products company that makes patented men’s collar stays that are sold in more than 30 countries throughout the world.

Over the past 20 years, Randall has been an advisor to more than 50 companies, has served on the board of directors of many private companies, and has served on the board of directors of one public company.

Education

Randall graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990 with Highest Distinction where he was one of only 10 students elected to Phi Beta Kappa during his junior year. Randall also graduated with honors from Northwestern University School of Law, and in 2006 was the recipient of the school’s first Distinguished Entrepreneur Award. Randall served on the Dean’s Advisory Committee at the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at Michigan for 18 years, and he has served on the Northwestern School of Law board for the last 19 years.

Philanthropy

Randall is also an active philanthropist. He is the founder of The Justice Ball, a leading and popular charity concert in Los Angeles that has attracted more than 60,000 attendees and has raised more than $6.5 million over the last 20 years. He is also the co-founder of The Imagine Ball, which has raised more than $1 million to fight homelessness in Los Angeles. Randall also established the Julia Eder Dean’s Scholarship at the University of Michigan in honor of his grandmother for a student raised in foster care, and he also established the Randall Kaplan Dean’s Scholarship for unprivileged students who are interested in future careers in business.

Why Randall chose to associate with Zebi

“I am very excited to work with the incredibly talented and experienced team at Zebi, a group of Silicon Valley veterans that has made impressive strides providing blockchain-based solutions to governments and enterprises which need to protect their high value and sensitive data. The market they are addressing is incredibly large, and Zebi’s impressive technology is the perfect solution for this critical need.”

To know more about Randall do visit his website: http://jumpinvestors.com/ or view his LinkedIn profile here https://www.linkedin.com/in/randall-kaplan-05858340/