Bojago Philip James's Blog

About

Professional Background

Now:

- Founder of the NYC based collective Gramercy Labs. Portfolio companies include:

- Founder of Lot18.

- Founder of Snooth.

- Founder of Popdust.

- Advisory Board member to Fameball.

Then:

- Executive Vice President of Wine Messenger, a national ecommerce and catalog wine retailer, where I managed all aspects of finance and marketing.

- Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch, in London, where I focused on the technology sector, working on both M&A and Corporate Finance transactions. Lead analyst on the Sony-Ericsson joint venture negotiations.

- MBA from Columbia Business School

- Masters from Oxford University, majoring in Chemistry.

Personal Background

- I am originally from Cornwall, South West England, and now live in New York.

- Bojago, this site's title, is Cornish for "little house belonging to the James family"

- I climbed Mt Everest and helped rescue someone from the Death Zone , sailed across the Atlantic and came in 5th place and taught English to underprivileged children in La Paz, Bolivia. Training for a trans-Saharan Ultra-marathon.