Mirza Baig
Advisory Board Member
Biography
Prior to co-founding Aldrich Capital Partners, Mr. Baig was a serial entrepreneur and investor in healthcare and technology, successfully scaling operations and driving sales growth to build large, independent businesses. As a co-founder of Imaging Advantage, he played a variety of roles in helping build the company from zero revenues and less than 10 employees to well over $100 million in run-rate revenue, and over 200 employees globally prior to his departure. Previously, Mr. Baig held executive positions in strategic investment and financial management at AOL Time Warner including CFO of the eCommerce group, a division with revenues that grew from $350 million to $850 million under his leadership.
Mr. Baig’s involvement in the companies where AOL Time Warner was the investor goes beyond investing. He has led various efforts in these companies ranging from recruiting board members, recruiting and mentoring key executives, forming strategic partnerships and leading scaling up efforts.
Mr. Baig’s previous investments include: Affinity Concepts, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Anka Systems (sold to Topcon Medical), eToys, KiwiTech, Health Recovery Systems, Imaging Advantage (Co-Founder), Legal Advantage, LiG (sold to Zynga), Loma Vista Medical (sold to Bard), MangoSoft (sold to Google), Naaya, Parallel Networks, Respond.com, Smartbargains.com (sold to GSI Commerce), Stamps.com (NASDAQ:STMP), Streamlined Medical (sold to Emcare) and Tech Fetch.
Mr. Baig currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aldrich portfolio companies Decisions, eHealth Technologies, Lavu, Paymerang, ProcessMaker, Woundtech, Rhythm Management Group and TimeDoc Health.
Mr. Baig has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA with honors in Economics from Cornell University.