Team

Kelly Porter - Managing Director

kelly.porter@woodsidecap.com

Kelly Porter specializes in advising internet, digital media and entertainment companies engaged in media, web 2.0/3.0, advertising and entertainment. He has extensive experience in corporate finance, corporate strategy and venture finance as a CEO, venture capitalist and private investor, having participated-in or completed dozens of transactions, including financings, acquisitions and IPO's.

Prior to Woodside Capital Partners, he was Managing Partner of a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, ZAP Ventures, where he evaluated approximately 3,000 technology, software and media companies. As both a venture capitalist and private investor, he has made investments in 22 companies in all stages of growth, and has participated on the boards of 17 companies. Prior to ZAP Ventures, he was Chairman and CEO of CatchTV, an interactive TV software firm where he oversaw acquisition of the firm by Liberty Media/ACTV. He also held positions as Executive Vice President of InterActive Corp/HSN-Home Shopping Network where he worked closely with Barry Diller; and Vice President of Fox Television in Los Angeles, where he was one of the founding executives of the company's cable television division. He began his career as a Media Planner at Ogilvy & Mather advertising and as Director of Business Development at Seltel, an ad sales network for 300 television stations.

He is a native of Palo Alto, CA, earned a Masters as a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in broadcast management from the University of Southern California. He grew-up with an entrepreneur – his father is Bill Porter, founder/former CEO of E*TRADE and founder/former chair of the International Securities Exchange. He is a member of the Board of Councilors of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and former Co-Chairman of Silicon Valley Social Ventures / SV2.