FirstMark Communications International LLC

FirstMark Communications International LLC, founded in 2003 by Lynn Forester, the "wireless entrepreneur and New York socialite", has "assembled the most prestigious, star-studded board of any startup you never heard of" ... Its directors include:[1]

• Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft
• Bert Roberts, chairman of MCI WorldCom
• Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., Washington power broker Vernon Jordan
• Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
• Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of N.M. Rothschild & Sons
• Michael Price, Co-Chief Executive; a former partner of Lazard Freres

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According to Forbes magazine, Lynn Forester was a "successful entrepreneur in her own right before she brokered the deal of a lifetime last year, marrying Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who sits atop one of the world's oldest private banking families. Forester met the 70-year-old scion at the 1998 Bilderberg Conference, an exclusive summit for financiers and foreign policy experts, which was held in Scotland that year. The duo had a small wedding in London last November, and the very next day Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his wife Elizabeth hosted a dinner for the couple to celebrate, with then-President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary in attendance. Forester now heads the Luxembourg-based wireless broadband venture FirstMark Communications Europe. The startup launched in 1998 with great fanfare, raising $1 billion in funding and landing former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Washington consigliere Vernon Jordan as board members. But with losses piling up and a public offering pulled, investors are now disgruntled. Not to worry--there's no better backup plan than the Rothschild name."[2]