BomBoard LLC

The BomBoard is a sleek, 165lb personal watercraft (vs. 800+) that separates into 4 modules allowing one person to transport it with ease and without a trailer.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Whitewater, WI, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded February 2006
  • Employees 5
  • Website bomboard.com

Company Summary

Bomboard: a Kick-Ass Freestyle WaterKart. The world's only high performance jet ski transportable in the back of a car and at $3,495 affordable to huge market of millions of action sports enthusiasts. Direct channel bypasses dealers and enables explosive growth. Proprietary technology protects against direct competition. Experienced management team has done it all before. Wait list of over $1 million within first week of going "public".

Team

  • John West
    CEO & Founder

    John is a successful serial entrepreneur who has twice before introduced true product innovations. He grew his second company, Cimlinc, from zero to $35 M and 280 employees in 2 years and raised $26 M from VCs such as Kleiner Perkins and had John Doerr on his board for 10 years. Cimlinc was sold to Boeing. KPMG made John Entrepreneur of the Year for Chicago. He grew his prior company from $0.4 M to $28 M over 8 years and was a Marine Core Officer

  • COO / CFO

    Anders was the COO / CFO of S&S Cycle, a motorcycle powersports company, where he led a successful turnaround including growing the company by 40% by pursuing new customers. Previously, Anders was CFO of a $700 million division of publicly traded Spectrum Brands and CFO of a PE sponsored company that grew from zero to $100 million, raising $30 million. Anders was also a management consultant to $50 M to $3 B companies. Anders has a Wharton MBA

  • Robb Dennert
    VP, Product Development

    Robb spent most of his career at Harley-Davidson in various engineering positions including several with Chief Engineer responsibilities. Robb was the first engineer working on creating the V-Rod bike and was the project manager taking it through the engineering and production process. Robb also spent time in supplier management and was involved in setting up Harley’s production in India. Robb has a BSME from Marquette and an MBA from Keller.

  • Brand and Social Media Consultant

    Beatrice is the branding and promotions manager for a number of speakers, actresses, sports figures and healthcare professionals resulting in dramatic increases in publicity and sales for her clients. On the Board of PZM, a motor sports clothing company.

    Beatrice has worked with people like Dennis Rodman, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Liza Minnelli, Elton John, Will Smith, Ice T, Dave Stuart (baseball), Ivana Trump and Emory Moorehead (football).

Advisors

  • Large Wisconsin Firm - See PPM
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Scanlan & Leo
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Chief Operating Partner, Battery Ventures
    Unconfirmed
    Former CEO & Chairman of KPMG - Peat Marwick
    Unconfirmed
    Two Managing Directors of Goldman Sachs
    Unconfirmed

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