Sara (Pomakoy) Poole
Director, CIT Communications & Marketing
Currently Head of Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations for Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT).
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Career Highlights:
Part of the three-person team that founded UUNET's Web Hosting Business Unit, the first commercially available web hosting service in the U.S. One of the first 20 employees at UUNET Technologies, recognized as the first commercial Internet Service Provider (now Verizon) - experienced UUNET's ascent from early-stage seed funding through hyper-growth, that took organic revenue from hundreds of thousands to $3.6 billion and the third most successful IPO in NASDAQ the year it went public.
After UUNET's acquisition, recruited by the company's founder, former UUNET executives, and the CEO of (then) MCI to help launch new business & non-profit initiatives. Deals included private equity transactions, seed-stage venture capital, private funding, M&A, start-ups, commercial real estate acquisition/development, charitable actions, tech, and creative/luxury lifestyle projects across the U.S., U.K., and Milan, Italy.
As VP of Business Development for the private LLC - responsibilities included C-level leadership, owner representation, project management, marketing strategy, and portfolio operations support of assets totaling over $150 million.
Co-Chair of the American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY) National Advisory Council (a GuideStar Platinum organization headquartered in Boca Raton, FL) and Founder of KidsAreCaregiversToo.com - a platform to raise awareness and develop solutions for over 3 Million caregiving youth in the U.S.
Career Highlights:
Part of the three-person team that founded UUNET's Web Hosting Business Unit, the first commercially available web hosting service in the U.S. One of the first 20 employees at UUNET Technologies, recognized as the first commercial Internet Service Provider (now Verizon) - experienced UUNET's ascent from early-stage seed funding through hyper-growth, that took organic revenue from hundreds of thousands to $3.6 billion and the third most successful IPO in NASDAQ the year it went public.
After UUNET's acquisition, recruited by the company's founder, former UUNET executives, and the CEO of (then) MCI to help launch new business & non-profit initiatives. Deals included private equity transactions, seed-stage venture capital, private funding, M&A, start-ups, commercial real estate acquisition/development, charitable actions, tech, and creative/luxury lifestyle projects across the U.S., U.K., and Milan, Italy.
As VP of Business Development for the private LLC - responsibilities included C-level leadership, owner representation, project management, marketing strategy, and portfolio operations support of assets totaling over $150 million.
Co-Chair of the American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY) National Advisory Council (a GuideStar Platinum organization headquartered in Boca Raton, FL) and Founder of KidsAreCaregiversToo.com - a platform to raise awareness and develop solutions for over 3 Million caregiving youth in the U.S.
