George Ehinger is the founder of Beam Reach, Inc., a Saratoga Springs, NY, firm providing angel investment and business advisory services to early stage companies and he is currently serving as VP of Chequed.com one of the Beam Reach portfolio companies. He comes to Sage Hill with over 20 years experience in senior executive roles in the publishing, television and internet industries. Sage Hill co-founders CEO Philip Toffel and President Frank Antalek are honored to have Mr. Ehinger on board. "George's enthusiasm, coupled with his years of experience, will enhance the breadth of combined knowledge of our board and our team. He plans to play an active role on our advisory board and we greatly look forward to his involvement." During the boom and bust cycle of Web 1.0, Ehinger served as senior vice president of the San Francisco-based cable television channel TechTV which was originally launched by tech publishing giant Ziff-Davis as ZDTV. TechTV was revolutionary in its use of the internet to build community and provide unique and valuable advertising solutions to a traditional TV model. Ehinger served as vice president of the New York City based Scholastic, Inc., in the early 1990's and led the turnaround efforts of a fledgling magazine, Home Office Computing. Over the course of the next five years, he turned the money losing property into the highly profitable Scholastic Soho Group, which published multiple magazines, newsletters and websites targeting technology reliant small business owners. Ehinger is looking forward to serving on the Sage Hill board. He said, "The minute I was introduced to Sage Hill through another board relationship, I was intrigued by Sage Hill's client-centric mission and delivery, its strict protocols in a broad base of technical areas, its efficient organization structure, and the comprehensiveness of its service for client families". Ehinger began his career with MCI Telecommunications in New York City. During his eight-year tenure, the company grew from $500 million in sales to over $5 billion. Companies that Beam Reach has either advised or invested in include: Chequed.com—a provider of web based predictive talent assessment; Revision3 -- the first TV Network exclusively distributed on the internet; Logical Image -- an image based diagnostic tool for the health care industry; and Skyworks -- an leading game developer for the ipad/iphone.