Jon LaNasa, Angel Investor

Jon LaNasa is the Chairman and CEO of Photofy, Interim CEO + CFO of Harvest Exchange, a Strategic Consultant, an Advisor & Board Member, and an Angel Investor. Jon has built a career of consistent success founding, running, developing, and funding companies offering needed and innovative products and services to the international market in a wide range of industries, including mobile, e-commerce, manufacturing, fintech, and retail. Adept at scaling companies from concept through multiple rounds of funding or exit. His early career includes building markets and divisions for Amphenol RF, a gasoline business for Priceline.com, and performing consultant work while employed for Booz Allen Hamilton. Jon finds his career incredibly exciting and satisfying by seeing the latest in new technologies, products, and services and have the opportunity to support their introduction and see companies grow and thrive. He has core expertise in contract negotiations, identifying new markets, developing strategic plans, financial analysis, mergers and acquisitions, digital marketing, product UX, project management, and general business management. He's great at identifying funding vehicles for new operations and building and motivating high quality teams to do their best work. Though he prefers to be actively involved with the companies that he supports, including work at Harvest Exchange Corp., bioMASON, Photofy, CafePress, Inc., and L&S Retail Ventures (InvitationBox.com), Jon also acts as an Angel investor for promising new companies. These include private investor relationships where he provides capital for the business startup in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity: • Affect Change (https://affectchange.xyz/) • BoxLock (https://www.boxlock.io/) • Groundfloor Finance (https://www.groundfloor.us/) • Ionic Security (acquired by Twilio) • Lumina, Inc. (Vertical projection 3D software) • Next Century Spirits (https://nextcenturyspirits.com/) • You Bet Me (Social and Sports Betting Platform)