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Marco Janeczek

CEO Domains Income Srl


pjaneczek@hotmail.com

Summary
I have founded and co-founded several companies since the 1990s, mostly in Canada but also some
in USA and Italy.

I have build teams and was mostly involved in business development, strategic partnerships, P&L
and marketing strategies. I have been also heavily involved in product design from concept to
creation to monetization. This carried also a significant business development role in order to secure
first clients and scale the business.

Most of my work involves startups, but I have also participated in companies that have been already
established and needed a turnaround or strategic consulting for growth.

I have served the roles of VP of Sales, CEO, Chief Strategy, as well as Board of Directors and in
specific cases Advisors and Observers.

I have experience in the public markets, with limited knowledge in LBOs and Mezzanine financing.

Extensive connection to the VC and Angel community, industrial strategic partners, permits me to
quickly do many introductions necessary to close different deals and introduce startups.

Knowledge of VC community lets me identify quickly fundable business models and exits, and
therefore identify opportunities to invest in. Combined with knowledge who is listed publicly, lets me
identify quicker business model with a m&a exit strategy.

I have advised on product development, business development, strategic partnerships as well as


strategies to carry forward daily operations of a business.

Raised Financing, participated in Reverse TakeOvers.

I have been also involved in a number of m+a activies both on the buy and sell side of the table. This
includes identifying both companies (startups and non startups). The process involved identifidation,
contact and transaction/negotiation. Involved also in identifying potential exits for portfolio
investments, including divestures mostly on behalf of VCs.

Specialties

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Corporate Strategy, Introductions, M&A, International Business, Brand Identity, Naming, Domains

Experience
CEO at Domains Income SRL
November 2007 - Present (3 years)
DomainsIncome is a startup company growing in H-FARM. SPINRA is the first project, which
revolves around multi mass site building platform for the Yellow Pages, Telcos and Traditional
media players.

CITYADV was an automated proprietary platform that revolves around SEO and CONTENT
AUTOMATION. The company assets where sold to two Local based Yellow Pages publishers in
Italy.

DomainsIncome was also the owner of SEOLUTION, a small SEO agency. The agency supports
growth of the local search business. Seolution is involved in traditional SEO/SEM, landing pages,
link building and article marketing activities. We work with many top accounts in Italy. SEOLUTION
assets where acquired by another web agency. [ITALY]

Chief Strategy Officer at H-Farmventures


August 2007 - October 2010 (3 years 3 months)
H-FARM is a crazy idea. Having a seed fund in Italy where we lack a true VC community is crazy,
yet H-FARM is a successfull Italian based Internet Incubator, with over 200+ people and a number
of initiatives in different geographical areas (Italy, India, USA). H-FARM in 2010 became a mix of an
Incubator and a Venture Capital.

H-FARM invests seed financing in ideas. H-FARM has its own state of the art facilities (campus)
and a team that assists startups in order to succeed. H-FARM has a relationship with a number of
top angels, industrial partners and VC groups in Europe, India and North America.

As chief strategy I am involved in new business ideas, funding, co-investments, finding strategic
partners, divestures, seed financing and Round A's. Heavily involved in connecting to the VC
community, sourcing new ideas, business plan design, decks, P&L for startups, monetization and
business development. Identifying right exits, negotiating M+A transactions on behalf of H-FARM
and incubated companies. Deal flow and co-investments on a local and global basis on behalf of
H-FARM. Industrial Partners Introduction. Involved also in the daily life of the incubator, including
funding, management & strategic advice. Passionate about early stage startups. [ITALY]

CEO and Managing Director at Zooppa.com Srl


August 2007 - November 2008 (1 year 4 months)
One of the most fun, innovative and experiences so far. Zooppa.com is a social adv platform for
user generated content (mostly viral videos) and therefore social marketing. A great time spent in

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business development (top accounts), strategic partners, media agencies and just buliding the
company from the ground up, including revenue from zero up. Establishing Exit Strategies and
raising financing. Internationalization of the business via rollout scenarios in other geographical
areas, including Brazil and USA. Introduction of new revenue channels and monetization
techniques. [ITALY]
1 recommendation available upon request

Board Member at Bank Medical Centre


February 1998 - June 2008 (10 years 5 months)
Established Bank Medical Centre and Ottawa Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, first hyperbaric
treatments in Canada. Managed to build a centre staffed with 17 physicians and staff of 52. This
was one of our family business. Management buyout [CANADA]

CEO and co-founder at Dice Ventures Inc. (Elysium Internet NASDAQ small cap: EYSM)
January 2007 - January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Founder and CEO of Dice Ventures Inc., a domain monetization technology platform. The company
has been acquired by a public company FTS Group (FLIP:OTCBB) and flipped into a public shell
Elysium Internet Inc. (EYSM:OTCBB). The company evolved into a directory business, which still
exists today. [CANADA/UNITED STATES]
1 recommendation available upon request

Advisor at A.G. Media Group (AMGJ:PNK)


September 2005 - October 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Advised the board of directors and the ceo of a number of strategies and partnerships to take for
GospelCity.com, an A.G.Media Company. GospelCity became one of the leading Gospel Music
based portals. The company was publicly listed on the pinksheets. [CANADA]

Founder at JobSoftware Inc.


January 2007 - August 2007 (8 months)
JobSoftware evolved from a concept that via domain names and relationship with publishers
(magazines/newspapers) we could secure a small piece of the pie of the growing online job posting
market. Although we failed because of competition as well as wrong market approach, we did sign
a number of great clients and partners. The company owned around 600+ job related domain
names and monetized them via its vertical job search engine platform. JobSoftware Inc. was a
spinn off from Planet Domains Inc. The assets where acquired by a domain name company.
[CANADA]

Founder at Planet Domains Inc.


August 2002 - August 2007 (5 years 1 month)
Planet Domains Inc., is an internet holding company with a number of internet assets and over
6,000 domain names. It became one of the leading domain name holding companies in Canada.
We carved out certain domain names in order to form new companies and sold other domain

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names at good valuations. First learning experience with offshore development teams in India,
Romania, Cuba and Poland. The remains of the company was acquired by Boss Holdings Inc., an
offshore holding company in Seychelles. [CANADA]
2 recommendations available upon request

co-founder at PhonePages Inc.


December 2004 - May 2007 (2 years 6 months)
Co-founded PhonePages Inc. a competitive online directory solution in the localsearch space. 6000
clients, 17 telemarketers, state of the art call center in Montreal. First true experience in m&a.
[CANADA]

interim CEO / Advisor at WorldOnline a GlobalMart company


April 2004 - December 2004 (9 months)
CEO of a $3M in sales company. This job was more about refocusing the company and looking at
how to cut costs. The company had 10 different products. We finally decided that POS (mostly for
the restaurant businesses) and online eCommerce based platform (DIY Site Builder) was the road
to take. I assisted in turning around the company and raising a private placement. Prepared for
public listing via RTO of a pinksheet/otcbb. [CANADA]

VP at EuroBit Consulting Inc.


October 2003 - April 2004 (7 months)
Consulting Company to the Government of Canada and to private and public based companies.
Consulted on a number of strategic initiatives, web development. RFPs, RFQs. Family based
business, mostly involved in Consulting (web and mainframe COBOL). [CANADA]

CEO at Perfumes.ca Corp.


June 2001 - October 2003 (2 years 5 months)
I was the founder of Perfumes.ca Corp (M&A Perfumes.ca Corp), an online distributor of perfumes.
First adventure into the online business, trying to replicate what the dotcom boom in California, in
the North Silicon Valley (Kanata). It was painful (shipping / customer support) yet a great learning
experience. Sold to one of the suppliers for a good valuation. [CANADA]

Education
University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
BA, Business Administration, 2000 - 2002

University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa


Economics, BA in Economics, 1999 - 2002

Carleton University
International Business, 1998 - 1999

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Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
French, French, 1996 - 1997

Honors and Awards


Chess

Interests
business, business, business,
stock markets

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Marco Janeczek
CEO Domains Income Srl
pjaneczek@hotmail.com

4 people have recommended Marco


"Marco, Lo stimo tantissimo , ha molta inventiva e svolge il suo lavoro con dedizione. Ha delle doti
che apprezzo come umiltà, discrezione e umanità, cosa pochi hanno svolgendo lo stesso ruolo .
Capace di inventare sempre nuove strategie per la crescita e lo sviluppo di nuovi business.
Permettendo a noi collaboratori di crescere responsabilizzandoci , ma non lasciandoci mai da soli .
seguendoci sempre dietro le quinte, in maniera discreta ma attenta. intervenedo quando era il caso
e lasciandoci fare se lo riteneva opportuno. Mantenedo un clima sereno al fine di creare un gruppo
unito. Credo che questo modo di operare lo renda una persona rara ma molto apprezzata dai suoi
collaboratori. Novara Marilena ha Collaborato con Marco Come Customer Support e responsabile
New Business Spinra in Domains Income Srl."
— Marilena Novara, Responsabile New Business e Customer Support, Domains Income
S.r.l., reported to Marco at Planet Domains Inc.

"Marco has an innate knowledge of startups. He knows everything it takes to go from idea to
successful product. His success in the past speaks for itself. Marco walks with passion in
everything he does, and knows how to build a great team. I highly recommend Marco."
— William Kasel, CEO, JumpFox, was a consultant or contractor to Marco at Dice Ventures Inc.
(Elysium Internet NASDAQ small cap: EYSM)

"Marco is very professional and has strong knowledge of web market and he is business oriented
manager. He is able to support partner from technical issue to sales proposition. Finally Marco is
really a good person and trustworthy fellow."
— Enrica Fantoni, Entertainment Product Manager, Yahoo! Italy, was with another company when
working with Marco at Zooppa.com Srl

"Marco has vision. He routinely dreams up business initiatives that are ahead of their time. He
formulates plans to execute upon his visions and creates marketable products that are offshoots of
his dreams. He is extremely leading edge about the internet marketplace He has a keen
understanding of all aspects of internet activity and ties together unrelated aspects which morph
into revenue models or business models. He can manage programmers / engineers to achieve his
development goals while ensuring that he creates commercially viable proucts/offerings. He would
be a great adviser on technology related matters and is a loyal hard working leader marco is mature

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ahead of his years and has the ability to suppress greed and egomania that are common among his
peers . The result is that he interacts with and gains cooperation from individuals he targets to
accomplish certain goals. I recommend marco for any leadership role that requires out of the box
thinking and visionary measures"
— Michael Kron, CEO, Phonepages, was with another company when working with Marco at
Planet Domains Inc.

Expertise
Venture Capital and Private Equity, Starting Up

Contact Marco on LinkedIn

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