Veteran Venture Capitalist Ron Conway and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff are also investing in the venture, called Brigade, according to Ja** Cabrera, worldwide EVP at PR firm Burson-Marsteller. The news was originally reported in Politico
Parker is investing more than $9 million in Brigade and will be chairman and CEO of the company. Adam Conner, Facebook's first Washington D.C. lobbyist, will be Brigade's VP of politics. Yahoo engineer John Thrall will be the company's VP of engineering, and former LinkedIn SVP David Henke will sit on Brigade's board Read more...