Jonathan Sposato (born March 17, 1967) is an American businessman. He is the chairman and co-founder of

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, an American technology news website, the CEO of the

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, and investor in companies including Pokitdok, EveryMove and Vizify. He founded, grew and sold two companies (

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and Phatbits) to

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Early life and career

Sposato graduated from

Whitman College Whitman College is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla, Washington. The school offers 53 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences, and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacifi ...

in 1989 and serves on the Whitman College Board of Trustees.Sposato is also the author of ''Better Together: 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profit''.

Personal life

The

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his Sposato's efforts around gender equality in 2017 with its "Man of Integrity Award." Seattle Business Magazine profiled him as one of Seattle's most influential people of 2015. Sposato is the co-chair of United Way of King County's fundraising campaign to address homelessness in Seattle.

References

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