J. Casey Gibbons
Casey Gibbons is an Associate at Commonwealth Capital Ventures. His investment interests include software as a service (SaaS), Internet, and digital media. Prior to joining Commonwealth, Casey co-founded NextPlay, a SaaS provider of applications for high school athletes and college coaches engaged in the recruiting process. Casey led NextPlay’s growth from business plan to investment to a robust web offering that reached over 50,000 active users in three years. In that time, NextPlay helped hundreds of student-athletes achieve their dreams of playing college athletics while creating a new paradigm for online video interaction and distribution in the high school and college sports market. Additionally, Casey led NextPlay’s partnership discussions with several Fortune 1000 sports apparel companies.
Casey graduated from Williams College in 2006 with a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology. At Williams, he was a captain of the men’s basketball team and was a student representative in the College Council.
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