Sandy Kory is a managing director at Horizon Partners, San Francisco. He is also a general partner at Horizon Venture Capital. Before joining Horizon, he was Vice President, Director of New Media and Technology at Media Venture Partners, a boutique mergers and acquisitions consulting firm in San Francisco. He is also an advisor at Bold Health. He founded and led MVP's new media and technology practice. At MVP, he worked on a number of deals in the digital media and interactive marketing sectors, such as the sale of Freeverse to ngmoco, the largest M&A deal in the iPhone/iPod Touch app sector. Prior to MVP, he was Vice President of Arbor Advisors and led its successful entry into digital media and interactive marketing. He has advised clients on a number of industry-leading deals, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale of Investopedia.com to Forbes Media and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate. He regularly speaks at industry conferences including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon.