Mike Onghai

Currently, I am the CEO and Customer Pain Killer of LookSmart. I am also an author, a speaker, and a value investor. I am the founder and Chairman of AppAddictive, a S.W.A.T. team of engineers and data crunchers, who help CEOs and CMOs harness the benefits of data-driven, results-oriented social advertising. AppAddictive has over 50 million Facebook users in its web and Facebook platform, powering over 18 million fans, and 40000 businesses. AppAddictive has over 30,000 social apps created by its users. I managed a value oriented, long-term, concentrated hedge fund in Asian companies. Specialty: online businesses, spin-offs, post-bankruptcies, tender offers, engaged investing (as opposed to activist investing). Multiple winner of the best investing idea at ValueInvestorsClub.com, a 250 member only club that accepts hedge fund value investors only through the merit of your idea. I discovered many spin-off ideas that generated high returns with low volatility, much earlier than the time bigger funds like Greenlight's Einhorn and Dan Loeb took their positions. I have time-stamp proof of my write-ups. I picked up event-driven special situations involving spin-offs, convertible refinancing and rights offerings in Southeast Asia, a region I am very familiar with because of my upbringing, my Chinese heritage and my relationships. I am an admitted Buffett follower and go to Omaha every year for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. Tom Murphy, James Sinegal, Ben & Jerry's are my favorite CEOs. Founded StockSheet, sold to Regent Group. Co-founded 123Jump and raised $15 Million. Prior to that, I was employee#3 and I worked with the 2 co-founders of GeoCities which was sold to Yahoo for $3.5 Billion in 1998. Prior to GeoCities, I worked at the Capital Group, a $1 trillion money management firm in Los Angeles, CA. I have a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Moderator of a value investing group centered on my mentor, Marty Whitman