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Lindsay Held is an American born entrepreneur and attorney. He is currently the President of ReserveBar.com, the industry-leading e-commerce and digital marketing platform, offering luxury spirits and champagne to consumers, which he co-founded in 2012. ReserveBar is the official e-commerce and digital marketing partners for most of the top spirits industry companies. Prior co-founding ReserveBar, he was a guiding force in co-founding Kabillion, one of the first On-Demand networks focused exclusively on animated and child-oriented programming. Kabilllion was founded in partnership with Comcast. Lindsay transitioned away from Kabillion upon leading its sale to a consortium of strategic purchasers.

He is alumnus of Dartmouth College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, receiving an A.B. Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in 1988. While at Dartmouth, he was president of his fraternity Gamma Delta Chi. While attending Dartmouth, he served a member of then Vice President George H.W. Bush's presidential campaign field team, while also serving as the New Hampshire state chairman of the college and youth campaign organization. As the youngest member of the Bush New Hampshire Primary Campaign, he represented the campaign in connection with the pre-debate organizational meetings with John Chancellor, who was the moderator of the New Hampshire Republican Primary Debate held at Dartmouth College. He was credited with inserting a very pointed question geared to trip up Senator Bob Dole, who at the time was leading in the New Hampshire primary polls. Senator Dole took the bait and exhibited flippant anger to Mr. Chancellor's question, which, in turn, changed the course of that debate, re-energizing Mr. Bush, the then-sitting Vice President, who had previously lost the Iowa Caucuses badly just several days before. Vice President Bush went on just days later to turn around a nearly 10-percentage point deficit to win the New Hampshire Primary handling. That win led to a sweep of the Super Tuesday states two weeks later. Lindsay Held's contribution to the New Hampshire Primary win was recognized by political leaders in his home state of New York, as Held was named to the New York State delegation to the 1988 Republican Convention, the youngest person to have achieved that position.

Lindsay received his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law in 1991, and he also received a M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. As a corporate attorney, he worked at prestigious law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., including Williams & Connolly. He specialized in mergers and acquisition, sports and entertainment licensing transactions, and media and telecom industry transactional work.

Upon his graduation from Wharton, Lindsay worked for Deutsche Bank Securities, where, as an investment banker, he focused on the telecom and media industry. Post-9/11, he left Deutsche Bank to pursue various entrepreneurial ventures, including a foray in the then nascent low calorie frozen dessert business, and was an early Tasti D-Lite franchisee in New York City, and he became one of the most prominent operators for the brand that had an almost-cult-like following in New York City. Lindsay was once featured in a New York Times article entitled "Franchisees with Advanced Degrees," in which he stated that, despite having three Ivy League degrees, he was living out his childhood dream of owning ice cream stores. He and his partners once served as the Master Franchisee for a territory encompassing over 20 million people in the NY/NJ/CT metro region. He sold his interests out in 2008 to pursue a combination of corporate finance and other entrepreneurial ventures.

In 2008, he joined financial services giant Cantor Fitzgerald as part of the team that created an electronic platform for the buying and selling of life insurance policies by institutional investors, and then later co-founded an brokerage company focused on sourcing insurance investments for institutional clients.

Notwithstanding his varied successes in the entrepreneurial, legal and finance worlds, Lindsay recently