About Elie Seidman
I'm a serial entrepreneur. I live in Manhattan and am the Co-Founder and CEO of Oyster Hotel Reviews (www.oyster.com) . Ariel Charytan is my longtime business partner and a Co-Founder of Oyster.
During 2006 and 2007, I was a venture partner at Lime Rock Partners, a private equity firm based in Westport, CT with $3.5 billion under management.
From 2000 to 2006, I was the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Epana; Ariel was the Co-Founder and COO. We grew Epana to more than 400 employees and $200M/yr in revenue. Epana is a fully vertically integrated branded consumer goods company manufacturing, marketing, selling and distributing telephony and money remittance products.
While I've spent the vast majority of my career as an entrepreneur working on the companies Ariel and I have founded, I also briefly worked at Microsoft and Trilogy (Austin, TX). I went to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1997 with a BSE in Materials Science Engineering.
