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Jon Brod



Brod is a technology entrepreneur and has served as a senior executive in the media and technology space.

Early life
Brod is a native New Yorker who graduated, cum laude, from Bowdoin College, and is is the son of Ernest Brod, former director of business intelligence services at Deloitte & Touche, and the late Carol L. Brod, who was a dean at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York and was a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic supervisor in New York; he is married to Heidi Brod who was the former director of creative affairs at Miramax Film.

Career
Brod spent six years at the NBA where he held various marketing and operations positions and where he established NBA Canada and launched the Raptors and Grizzlies expansion franchises.

Brod was also Senior Vice President of Operations for Interactive Search Holdings which was purchased by Ask Jeeves in 2004. Brod then became the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Portals Division of InterActiveCorp (IAC).

Brod was Chief Operating Officer of Polar Capital Group, the private investment company of Tim Armstrong, which is focused on the media, technology and sports sectors.

In 2007 Brod and Armstrong co-founded Patch Media which was sold to AOL on June 11, 2009. Brod was one of CEO Tim Armstrong's closest lieutenants and founded and ran AOL's venture arm, AOL Ventures. He left AOL in 2013.

Brod is currently Co-Founder and President of Confide, Inc. Confide is confidential messenger that combines end-to-end encryption with disappearing and screenshot-protected messages.

Business Media

Brod is a regular contributor to Fox Business (CITATION), CNBC(CITATION), and Yahoo Finance.(CITATION)