David Lord

Lifelong Fly Fisherman

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About

I am a lifelong fly fisherman with a passion for trout fishing. I have fished with guides for most of my adult life and learned many of the various fishing techniques in each area. 

A look back at 2022 fishing: Striper fishing in Cape Cod, Blue Fin Tuna off Cape Cod, Nelson Spring Creek Trout fishing in Montana, Goliath Grouper in Key Largo, Shark Fishing in Tampa Bay, Striper Fishing in the Hudson River in New York, Steelhead fishing the Great Lakes, Cobia & Rock Fishing in California, Yellowtail fishing in the Florida Keys, Largemouth Bass on Lake Okeechobee in Orlando, Peacock Bass fishing in Fort Lauderdale, Sailfish fishing in Palm Beach, Black Sea Bass fishing New England waters, Trout fishing the Madison River in Montana, redfishing in Charleston.

A bit on my Work Career: 

JumpStart Games, CEO

For 11 years I was President, CEO & Board Member of JumpStart Games. JumpStart is the maker of educational games for kids. It was a great honor working to transform JumpStart from a cd-rom product company to a mobile and online maker of incredible learning games and school learning products. JumpStart re-entered the school market and grew our MAU’s 10x to nearly 10mm MAU’s. Along the way we built relationships with DreamWorks/Universal Studios to build games around tremendous brands like Madagascar and How to Train Your Dragons, the NFL and Smithsonian building unique branded learning games.

JumpStart is a 20+ year old venture-backed company. We sold JumpStart to NetDragon (HK: 777) in 2017 and I left early 2019.

RazorGator, CEO

Prior to JumpStart I was President, CEO & Board Member of RazorGator, a venture-back sports ticketing and event company. Backed by Kleiner-Perkins, Oak Investment Partners & SteamBoat Ventures. RazorGator was a diverse company with an ecommerce business selling secondary tickets, a SaaS offering for large corporations to manage their ticket inventories and an event management company to manage big events. We built relationships with the NCAA to run the Final Four, Bowl Games, NFL Teams, Soccer Leagues and many, many more. We grew that company from a small company to over hundred million revenue.

ToySmart, Founder, CEO 

My first company was ToySmart, an ecommerce startup I founded in 1996. As Founder, CEO and Board Member I built the company from the beginning. That was an incredible opportunity to work with great people building a consumer brand. ToySmart was a venture-backed company we sold to Disney in 1999.

Boston

I was born in Boston area grew up loving all things Boston. Attended Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and received an accounting degree. I played college football at Northeastern.