Hugh Mackworth
Archangel at Oregon Venture Fund
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh Mackworth is a veteran startup operator and board leader based in Portland, Oregon, with 12 years of recent experience advising and investing through roles such as Archangel at Oregon Venture Fund and board positions across multiple growth-stage companies. He blends deep cross-functional fluency—marketing, sales, engineering and finance—with hands-on operational experience dating back to early roles at Apple, 3Com and as founding CEO of Digimarc. Known for pragmatic governance, he has chaired and founded entrepreneurial organizations from Portland Angel Network to regional nonprofits, helping scale both for-profit and mission-driven ventures. Although primarily an investor and board member, he remains technically engaged—contributing to open-source build and release work on projects like CCExtractor to improve cross-platform builds and documentation. This mix of technical credibility, marketing savvy and long-term boardroom experience makes him an asset for startups seeking disciplined growth and reliable operational fixes that often go unseen.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBA, Computer Studies, BA, Computer Studies at Stanford University
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5,903reputation
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177answers
18questions
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Github Skills (30)
multiplatform10
cross-platform10
c1110
c1710
build-automation10
macos10
ipad9
ios9
objective-c9
bash9
iphone9
zlib9
png9
pygame9
ocra8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CCExtractor/ccextractor
Oct 2016 - Nov 2021
CCExtractor - Official version maintained by the core team
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 34 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugh primarily focused on repairing and improving the Mac build processes for the ccextractor project. Their work included fixing compilation errors, updating build scripts, and integrating the project's own PNG/ZLIB libraries. They also added support for optional parameters like OCR and addressed issues related to the location of dependencies like zvbi, ensuring cross-platform compatibility for the build process. The user updated the documentation for the compilation steps as well.
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mackworth/cTiVo
Oct 2013 - Dec 2022
TiVo Show Downloads for MacOS
Contributions:92 releases, 709 commits, 19 PRs in 9 years 4 months
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