Chris Mirabile

Biography

Mirabile, a graduate of New York University Stern School of Business, was the youngest entrant to win the NYU Stern Business Plan Competition, from which Hotlist.com was launched, and is now a guest lecturer there. Mirabile and co-founder Gianni Martire went on to raise an $800,000 first round of capital for their venture from Joseph J. Grano, Jr.'s Centurion Holdings, and was accepted into Mayor Michael Bloomberg's startup incubator program in the SoHo district of New York City.

After more than 700,000 nominations for 25 categories, Mirabile was considered one of the top five Entrepreneurs of The Year at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, as part of the 2010 Mashable Awards.

Mirabile's technology career began at age 15, when he worked as a Web Consultant to the now defunct Silicon Alley startup, InternetCash.com. In 2002, at the age of 18, Mirabile led international expansion efforts for a US-based industrial contracting firm, United States Rebar. The resulting Mumbai, India-based Computer-Aided Design subsidiary was recently acquired by an international steel conglomerate.

Immediately prior to Hotlist, Mirabile worked in Private Equity at Putnam Lovell Investment Bank, and as a consultant to hedge funds on behalf of Morgan Stanley. Chris independently consulted algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading hedge funds on their custom technology needs.

In a video interview conducted by Fox Business Network, Mirabile speaks of having had a brain tumor that was discovered and successfully removed when he was 17 years old, and how it was a motivating factor in becoming an entrepreneur.

Chris Mirabile is not to be confused with angel investor Christopher Mirabile, who is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Chris and Christopher know each other and believe they are likely related based on a comparison of family origin stories and some common roots two generations back.