About Me

Lenny Raymond helps clients with marketing and strategy issues, primarily in games and social media. He is a partner in Volvox Associates, LLC, a consultancy that focuses on marketing, product development, and strategy for technology-driven businesses, and businesses which are becoming technology-driven whether they like it or not. Volvox’s clients range from Fortune 100 media companies to US Government agencies to garage startups.

Lenny was previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Alsop Louie Partners, an early stage venture capital firm, where he founded and incubated Smith & Tinker, a connected toy and entertainment company. Previously Lenny was General Manager of Majesco Entertainment’s Gadgets business unit, and was co-founder & COO of FingerTwitch, Inc., the leading provider of deployment technology for mobile game publishers. Before FingerTwitch, Mr. Raymond was founding CEO of Xigo, Inc., a venture-funded provider of real-time knowledge discovery and data mining technology for the brokerage industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Raymond was general manager of Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro)’s online and electronic media business unit. Lenny has also worked at Mercer Management Consulting, in Apple’s Advanced Product Group, and in global corporate finance at Citibank.

Mr. Raymond’s education includes a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, film-making at Purchase College, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School.