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<p>Managing Partner, <span class="offsite-link-inline">Surface Medical Spas</span><br /> My physician community site <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://surface-med.squarespace.com/" target="new">Medical Spa MD</a><br /> Founding Partner, Nimble<br />Founder, Wild Blue<a href="http://www.nimbleit.com"><br /></a>Currently: Joined <a href="http://www.sendsidenetworks.com">Sendside Networks</a> startup management team as: <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.sendsidenetworks.com/company/management-team#jeff" target="_blank">Director of Product Marketing, User Experience Czar, and Chief Evangelist</a><br /> <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbarson" target="_blank">My Linked In Profile</a><br /> (My wife likes me to use this picture and she's right behind me.)</p>
<p>Article: <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.connect-utah.com/article.asp?r=2000&amp;iid=48&amp;sid=2" target="_blank">Connect Magazine, Point of View</a></p>
<p><span id="Content">Born Logan. Schooled in England. High school, back in Utah again. College USU. Majored in Art after pre-Med. Two years Boston. Nine years Manhattan. Now 6 years in Park City.</span></p>
<p><span id="Content"> <span class="full-image-float-left"><img src="http://NimbleTheory.com/storage/thumb%20Eve.jpg" alt="thumb Eve.jpg" /></span>For years I was a <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.ren-man.com" target="new">artist </a>bachelor living in Manhattan and hawking my tawdry wares through my network of agents and publishers. I spent my time painting for clients that included New York City Opera, Ballentine, Coca-Cola, yada-yada-yada times 30. And since, through numerous misadventures, I garner myself at least a little of a reputation, I was commissioned to paint portraits of Princess Diana as well as Vivien Leigh for the 60th anniversary of the release of Gone With The Wind. <a href="http://NimbleTheory.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=935559">See some of my portfolio here</a>.<br /> <br /> <span class="full-image-float-right"><img src="http://NimbleTheory.com/storage/yellowdrape.jpg" alt="yellowdrape.jpg" /></span>I&rsquo;ve been fortunate to have a few hobbies. Managing Director of the Russian-American Society for the Protection of Animals (An international non-profit 501c charity) based in New York City that gave me the opportunity to help save some polar bears and arctic foxes. I scared a whole lot of university students as I bounced around teaching, lecturing and tearing up their work. And I got bounced around a fair amount myself as I was taught <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.nyshorinji.org/" target="new">Shorinji Kempo</a> (beware of being the only large American in an all Japanese martial art). After retiring to Park City (a few East Coast summers of 98 degrees and 98% humidity will do that to you) I put my art career on hold and changed direction for a while.</span></p>
<p><span id="Content"><span class="full-image-float-left"><img src="http://blog.guykawasaki.com//Gapingvoid.jpg" alt="Gapingvoid.jpg" /></span>Moving to Park City I caught something of an entrepreneurial bug. I started a publishing company (closed), a funky furniture company (failed), and learned some valuable lessons. My next ventures into technology in medicine; <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.surface-med.com" target="new">Surface Medical Spas</a> and consumer facing tecnologies for cosmetic medicine; <a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.medicalspamd.com" target="_blank">Medical Spa MD</a>, have met with some success. </span></p>
<p><span id="Content">Moving further into technology, I founded Nimble, a tech startup designed built around aggregated sales for local business.</span><span id="Content">Having formed an angel group in Park City, I came across Sendside Networks, a startup founded by a friend of mine that has the potential to disrupt some really big markets. So, I both invested and joined the team at <a href="http://www.sendside.com">Sendside</a>.<br /></span></p>
<p><span id="Content">I'm married to my dazzling gorgeous and headstrong creative director Shelly, and have one daughter Madison. (Shelly was not put off when, before we were married, I made her attend an opening of mine in South Carolina that included mingling with 600 women dressed up as Scarlet O&rsquo;Hara.) </span></p>
<p><span id="Content"><span class="full-image-float-left"><img src="http://NimbleTheory.com/storage/la3070-001.jpg" alt="la3070-001.jpg" /></span>I&rsquo;m glad to be living in Park City, Utah with my lovely wife Shelly, daughter Madison, dog Jai, cocatoo Loki, and horses; Pharaoh, Maverick, Cakee, and Moon.<span class="full-image-float-none"><br /> </span></span></p>
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