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Clarence Wooten

Coined a "serial entrepreneur" by Entrepreneur Magazine in February 2000, Clarence has launched and operated numerous tech startups since founding his first, Envision Designs, while initially studying architecture as an undergraduate student in college. Also during undergrad, Clarence co-founded Metamorphosis Studios, an interactive multimedia development firm, where he served as CEO and Creative Director until early 1998 when the company was acquired by MediSolv, Inc. Immediately following the acquisition, at the height of the dot-com boom, Clarence co-founded and served as CEO of ImageCafe.com. Touted as the Internet's first online superstore of customizable websites-to-go, ImageCafe was acquired for $23 million by Network Solutions/Verisign in November 1999, just seven months after it launched.

Clarence is currently founder and CEO of Progress.ly, a Silicon Valley-based stealth startup due to launch in mid 2013. In addition to Progressly, Clarence is founder and serves as Executive Chairman of Groupsite.com, a leader in social collaboration with over 50,000 companies and organizations as customers. Just prior to founding Groupsite.com (formerly CollectiveX) in 2006, Clarence was a co-founding General Partner at Venturepreneur Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm.