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This list showcases the top United States based Partner operating in the Angel Investment space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ronald Conway
Founder & Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft. Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder). Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation. Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin’s book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as ‘the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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About Applied Intuition, FWD.us, Personal Training Systems, Smart Tech Foundation, SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Robert Pollak
Partner of SV Angel
Robert Pollak is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined in 2011 and is responsible for all aspects of running the firm. At SV Angel, Robert has originated investments in and works particularly closely with Fundbox, iCracked, Delighted and Dronebase. Prior to SV Angel, Robert worked for a multi-family office within Morgan Stanley, that focused on VCs, late-stage technology companies, and entrepreneurs. He also worked at Arnold & Porter LLP on large-scale M&A transactions in their anti-trust group. Robert graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics and Foreign Affairs.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Steven Lee
Partner of SV Angel
Steven was one of Twitter’s first employees focused on monetization analytics. During his 4+ years on Twitter’s Global Market Insight & Analytics team, he helped the group grow to 45+ people covering 11+ countries. Steven partnered with over 15 Fortune Global 500 companies like Samsung to analyze and optimize return on investment. He also worked on measuring Twitter’s platform usage for key real‐time events like the Super Bowl and World Cup. Steven graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in economics. While at NYU, Steven was a four‐year member of the NCAA Fencing team and competed in national tournaments during the offseason. He was also a tutor for America Reads. Steven lives in San Francisco, and enjoys good eats, photography, reading, rooting for his hometown Los Angeles sports teams, and traveling.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Topher Conway
Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
Topher Conway is a Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel. Topher joined SV Angel in 2009, coming from a background in Business Development and Sales at EQAL. At SV Angel, he works particularly close with Flexport, Dapper Labs, Stripe, BetterUp, Coinbase, DoorDash, and Deel. He was included in Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2015. Topher studied History at UCLA and is a member of the UCLA VC Fund, helping foster entrepreneurship at the University. Philanthropically, Topher is involved in a wide range of organizations including Family House, College Track, THORN Foundation, Giffords.org, TGR Foundation, and Team RWB.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Beth Turner
General Partner of SV Angel
Beth Turner is a General Partner at SV Angel. Prior to joining, Beth ran operations and invested with a family office focused on seed stage opportunities, investing in companies such as Clover Health, Flatiron Health, LifeLock, and Blue Apron. Prior to this, Beth was managing director of a consulting firm and worked with an international NGO with an operational focus in East Africa. Prior to this, Beth was an early employee at the ad-tech startup Adaptly and worked with one of Israel’s first startups, Netafim. She is a Siemens Westinghouse Scholar, has spoken at TEDx and The World Space Conference, the youngest person to ever record an asteroid occultation, and a musician (performing the national anthem for NBA/NFL, with the Houston Grand Opera, and on an album with Albany records). Beth graduated from MIT with a major in Civil and Environmental Engineering and minors in Physics and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Rich Kleiman
Co-Founder and Business Partner of Thirty Five Ventures
Rich Kleiman is the Kevin Durant’s manager, as well as his co-founder and partner in The Durant Company and Thirty Five Media. With the Durant Company, Kleiman oversees Durant’s investment portfolio, including Postmates, Acorns, The Players’ Tribune, JetSmarter, and many others. The duo’s latest venture, Thirty Five Media, is a media production and creative development company. Their work can be seen on Kevin Durant’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/kevindurant. Previously, Kleiman helped launched Roc Nation Sports, where he served as Vice President of the agency founded by Jay-Z and still works in partnership with the firm. Kleiman started with Roc Nation in 2008 as a music manager representing Solange, Wale, Mark Ronson, & many more. Kleiman has also served as executive producer on HBO’s The Offseason: Kevin Durant and Jay-Z’s Fade To Black.
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About Thirty Five Ventures: Thirty Five Ventures connect established and emerging businesses for meaningful value creation so they can thrive and scale.
Calvin Broadus
General Partner and Founder of Casa Verde Capital
For more than two decades, multi-platinum entertainment icon Snoop Dogg has raised the bar as a global entertainer and innovator. With more than 35 million albums sold worldwide, Snoop Dogg continues to pave the way in the entertainment industry, serving as a mentor to new and established artists. From his YouTube original series “GGN News,” to his investments in tech companies like Secret, Reddit and Robinhood, to his philanthropic work with the Snoop Youth Football League, Snoop’s successful ventures within music, film, fashion, television and technology set him apart as a cultural icon.
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About Casa Verde Capital, MERRY JANE: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Karan Wadhera
Managing Partner of Casa Verde Capital
Karan Wadhera is a Managing Partner at Casa Verde Capital. He is an experienced finance professional and investor, as well as an advisor for several young companies. Spending over a decade in Asia as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs and Nomura, he has had significant international experience. Karan holds a BA in Finance from Babson College.
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About Casa Verde Capital, Cayke: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Ted Chung
General Partner of Casa Verde Capital
Ted Chung is media entrepreneur and visionary based in Los Angeles, CA. Chung is Snoop Dogg’s business partner and co-investor in technology, media, film and entertainment ventures. An industry veteran, Chung is the Founder of Cashmere Agency, a lifestyle-marketing company specializing in identifying trends in popular culture, with a focus on multicultural millennials, and Founder of Stampede Management, an artist and producer management company. Ted graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Entertainment Marketing. He is an avid traveler and enjoys collecting music memorabilia and hot sauces from around the world.
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About Casa Verde Capital, Cashmere Agency, MERRY JANE, Stampede Management: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Darian Shirazi
General Partner of Gradient Ventures
Darian is a Partner at Gradient Ventures. At the age of 15, he interned at eBay as a code tester working on the third version of Sell Your Item. In early 2005, he joined Facebook as a Software Engineer reporting to Mark Zuckerberg as one of the company’s first outside hires. At Facebook, he contributed to several components of the social network’s products and the early versions of its mobile products. After Facebook, Darian studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley for nearly two years before dropping out to work full-time on startups. After leaving Berkeley, Darian began advising and investing in many startups including becoming the first investor in Udemy, the online education marketplace. He then founded Radius, the leading B2B Customer Data Platform, and served as the company’s CEO for more than seven years, growing the company to more than one hundred employees, raising more than $100MM of venture capital from top tier firms, and serving dozens of Fortune 500 customers. In addition to these accomplishments, Darian is an early investor in the following companies: Lyft, Lending Club, Carbon Health, Palantir, Osaro, Casetext, Alloy.ai, Loft, and many others. In 2012, he was recognized as one of Forbes’ top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 at the age of 24 and has been a guest of CNBC’s Squawk Box, Forbes’ Braintech at the Aspen Institute, Web Summit, and several other well-known conferences and events. Darian lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats and enjoys skiing, kitesurfing, and Civilization VI.
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About Gradient Ventures: Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational companies.
Wen-Wen Lam
Partner of Gradient Ventures
Wen-Wen Lam is the Partner at Gradient Ventures.
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Zachary Bratun-Glennon
Partner of Gradient Ventures
Zach is a Partner at Gradient Ventures. Previously, Zach led acquisitions and strategic investments as a member of Google’s Corporate Development team, with a focus on Google’s Cloud, Ads and Commerce businesses. Prior to Google, Zach advised software and internet companies as an investment banker, strategizing and executing IPO, M&A, investment and financing opportunities. Zach started his career at a leading energy trading hedge fund, managing trading algorithms as a quant and data scientist. Zach’s entrepreneurial efforts include co-founding a social media startup, as well as consulting a tech incubator’s portfolio startups on fundraising and legal issues. Zach received his JD from the UCLA School of Law, and his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He received his BS in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia.
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About Gradient Ventures: Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational companies.
Anna Patterson
Founder & Managing Partner of Gradient Ventures
Anna Patterson is the Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures.
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About Google, Google, Gradient Ventures, Washington University in St. Louis: Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational companies.
Renee Delaplaine
Administrative Business Partner of Gradient Ventures
Renee Delaplaine currently works as the Administrative Business Partner for Gradient Ventures. She previously worked at SoftBank Investment Advisers as the Executive Assistant.
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Nina Achadjian
Partner of Index Ventures
Nina joined Cota in 2015 as Principal. She is responsible for evaluating and sourcing private side deals and helping drive investment decisions. Prior to joining Cota, Nina held a Financial Analyst position at Google, where she was responsible for a $1.8 billion business. She worked on key strategic monetization deals with eCommerce and Search partners, including landmark deals with IAC, eBay and Amazon. Nina started her career as a High Yield bond trader at Citigroup, later transitioning to Emerging Market Credit. She has vast international experience, including London, New York, San Francisco, Dubai, and Istanbul. Nina also founded HIVE, the first Armenian tech incubator. Nina received her BA in Government, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and was one of six recipients of the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship.
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About Index Ventures: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Mike Volpi
Partner of Index Ventures
Mike joined Index Ventures in 2009 to help establish the firm’s San Francisco office with Danny Rimer. Mike invests primarily in infrastructure, open-source, and artificial intelligence companies. Within the Index portfolio, Mike is currently serving on the boards of Aurora,Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Elastic, Kong, Sonos, Wealthfront, and Zuora. He also serves on the board for Fiat Chrysler Automotive. Mike was previously a director of Blue Bottle Coffee, Hortonworks, and Pure Storage. Mike held several executive positions prior to Index, including Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of Cisco’s routing business. Mike managed a P&L in excess of $10 billion in revenues, and his team was responsible for the acquisition of over 70 companies, some of which were multi-billion deals. Mike has a B.S in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of Stanford’s Knight Hennessy Scholars program.
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About Index Ventures, Sonos: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Shardul Shah
Partner of Index Ventures
Shardul Shah is a Partner at Index Ventures. Shardul Shah joined Index in February 2008. He was first a Principal based in the San Francisco office interested in infrastructure and software investments. Prior to joining Index, Shardul worked with Summit Partners where he focused on healthcare and internet technologies. Previously, Shardul was a molecular biology research technician at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Shardul holds a B.A. in Economics, and B.A. in Biology with a specialization in Immunology from the University of Chicago.
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About Index Ventures, MinIO, Outbrain, Signal Sciences: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Mark Goldberg
Partner of Index Ventures
Mark focuses on venture investments in financial services, insurance, real estate and enterprise software. Having both an operating and venture capital background, he is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Mark joined the Index team from Dropbox, where he ran Business Strategy and drove key initiatives in sales operations, partnerships, and growth. During his tenure at the company, Mark held various leadership positions across the finance and business organizations and helped the company grow from 250 to 1,500 people. Previously, Mark was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. After working on the IPO for Tesla Motors, he joined a clean-tech focused venture capital fund, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, where he led investments in solar energy, energy efficiency and storage technologies. Mark graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he enjoys surfing and playing tennis in his spare time.
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About Index Ventures: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Sarah Cannon
Partner of Index Ventures
Sarah Cannon is the Partner at Index Ventures.
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About Index Ventures, Notion, Quill, The Council on Foreign Relations: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Erik Kriessmann
Talent Partner of Index Ventures
Erik leads Human Capital for Index Ventures where he is largely focused on curating a community of exceptional people who love to solve hard problems and build great companies. He also partners closely with founders and executive leadership across the entire portfolio assisting and advising them on their most strategic talent initiatives. Prior to Index, Erik was the Director of Talent at Khosla Ventures, assisting entrepreneurs in attracting and retaining transformational talent. Before Khosla, Erik worked at the leading Bay Area executive search firm (SPMB) where he helped build leadership teams at some of the most successful companies in technology. Erik graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Legal Studies before joining a seed stage consumer company as employee #5. In addition to technology – music, fashion, nature, food, design, history, and sports are always top of mind. Play to win
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About Index Ventures: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Carter Adamson
Partner of Atomico
Carter is a Partner at Atomico and helps portfolio companies to scale their products, operations and teams so that they can become global market leaders. He is a board advisor to Uniplaces, and also works closely with Gympass, Clutter, Compass & Masterclass. A startup junkie to the core, Carter has worked for a number of different companies at all stages of their development. He co-founded the online music service Rdio, and Sum, a health and wellness wearable startup. He was head of product at Skype, a senior program manager at ICQ whilst they were hitting their stride, and was director of product strategy at AOL during its peak. A lifelong skateboarder, Carter still wears Vans but is now often mistaken for a Staples salesperson. Raised in Virginia Beach (an archipelago of the world-famous “Redneck Riviera”), he has an English degree from Vassar. He is a published writer and lives in Brooklyn with his two sons where he likes to raise chickens in his backyard. Carter also speaks French and Spanish proficiently.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Chi-Hua Chien
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital
Chi-Hua Chien is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital.Prior to co-founding Goodwater, Chi-Hua was a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Chi-Hua serves on the Board of Directors of Path, Lithium (fka Klout), Zaarly, Chill, Level Money, and Zumper. He also invested in Chegg, Inspirato, Karma Science (acquired by FB), Spotify, and Twitter. Previously, Chi-Hua was an Associate at Accel Partners, where he originated Accel’s investment in Facebook. Chi-Hua was an early employee or co-founder of four startups including Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), where he led the marketing and inside sales teams, served as interim CFO, and was appointed to the Office of the President. Chi-Hua fell in love with startups at Stanford University where he earned a BS in Industrial Engineering, a BA in Economics, an MS in Industrial Engineering, and an MBA. At Stanford he was named a Mayfield Fellow, President’s Scholar, and Arjay Miller Scholar. Chi-Hua also serves on the board of charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
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About Citizen, Goodwater Capital: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on consumer tech startups.
Vivek Subramanian
Partner & Chief Product Officer of Goodwater Capital
Vivek Subramanian is the Partner and Chief Product Officer at Goodwater Capital.
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About Goodwater Capital: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on consumer tech startups.
Eric J. Kim
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Goodwater Capital
Eric Kim was a Managing Director with Maverick Capital where he focused on the Firm’s private investments globally and led a number of investments in technology-based companies. Prior to joining Maverick, Eric co-founded Biomimedia and also worked in the US and Asia as a member of McKinsey & Company’s global strategy practice focusing on M&A, technology licensing, turnaround strategies and new product launches. Eric received his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and his Bachelors Degree in Cognitive Science from Yale University (Magna Cum Laude), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of the Richard U. Light Fellowship.
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About Goodwater Capital, Musical.ly: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on consumer tech startups.
Erin Kitchell
Partner and Head of Investor Relations of Goodwater Capital
Erin Kitchell is the Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Goodwater Capital.
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About Goodwater Capital: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on consumer tech startups.
Ramtin Naimi
Founder & General Partner of Abstract Ventures
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About Abstract Ventures: Abstract Ventures is a sector agnostic venture investor in pre-seed, seed, and series A startup companies.
Alex Davidov
General Partner of Abstract Ventures
He is a General Partner of Abstract Ventures.
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About Abstract Ventures: Abstract Ventures is a sector agnostic venture investor in pre-seed, seed, and series A startup companies.
Thomas J Walker
Partner, Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Walker is a Partner of Riverstone and serves as the Chief Financial Officer. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone, Mr. Walker was a Principal at The Carlyle Group serving as the Carlyle/Riverstone Fund Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Carlyle, he held similar positions at Hampshire Equity Partners, a middle market buyout fund managing approximately $900 million of capital commitments; and Ripplewood Holdings, a private equity firm managing approximately $4 billion of capital commitments in the U.S. and Japan. Prior to joining Ripplewood, Mr. Walker was the Director of Financial Reporting and Planning at Asbury Automotive Group (NYSE: ABG), a Ripplewood portfolio company. He started his career in Arthur Andersen’s Metro New York office. Mr. Walker earned a B.S. degree in Accounting and Finance from Binghamton University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Michael B. Hoffman
Partner of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Michael Hoffman is a managing director of Riverstone Holdings LLC, where he is principally responsible for investments in power and renewable energy for Riverstone’s funds. Before joining Riverstone in 2003, Mr. Hoffman was senior managing director and head of the mergers and acquisitions advisory business of The Blackstone Group for 15 years, where he also served on the firm’s principal group investment committee as well as its executive committee. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Hoffman was managing director and co-head of the mergers and acquisitions department at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Mr. Hoffman serves on the boards of Topaz Power, Bottle Rock, Coastal Carolina, Green Earth Fuels, CNAA, Collingwood and ThermaSource. Mr. Hoffman received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Northwestern University and his M.B.A. Degree from the Harvard Business School.
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N. John Lancaster, Jr.
Partner & Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Lancaster joined Riverstone in 2000 and is responsible for the sourcing and management of investments across the energy industry, with a particular emphasis on the oilfield service and exploration and production sectors. Prior to joining Riverstone, Mr. Lancaster was a Director with The Beacon Group, LLC (“Beacon”), a privately held firm specializing in principal investing and strategic advisory services in the energy and other industries. Mr. Lancaster began his career at Bankers Trust and later at CS First Boston, spending time as an investment banker and equity research analyst focused on the oil service and unregulated gas transmission sectors of the energy industry. Mr. Lancaster received his B.B.A. from the University of Texas, where he serves on the McCombs School of Business Advisory Council, and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Mark G Papa
Partner of Riverstone Holdings
Papa has broad oil and gas exploration and production industry experience and an in-depth knowledge of EOG operations gained through service in numerous EOG senior leadership roles. He worked for EOG and its predecessor companies for over 32 years. From July 2013 through December 2013, Papa served as Executive Chairman of the Board. He previously served as EOG’s Chairman of the Board and CEO for over 13 years. Prior to that, Papa served in other leadership positions at EOG, including President, CEO and director, President and Chief Operating Officer and President-North America Operations. Papa joined Belco Petroleum Corporation, a predecessor of EOG, in 1981. Papa also serves as a director of Oil States International, Inc. (since 2001), a publicly traded oilfield service company, where he serves on the Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. From July 2003 to April 2005, Papa served as a director of the general partner of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., a publicly traded pipeline and terminal company, where he served as Chairman of the Compensation Committee and as a member of the Audit and Conflicts Committees.
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Ralph C Alexander
Partner of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Alexander is a Partner of Riverstone. He is based in Houston. For nearly 25 years, Mr. Alexander served in various positions with subsidiaries and affiliates of BP plc, one of the world’s largest energy firms. From June 2004 until December 2005, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Innovene, BP’s $20 billion olefins and derivatives subsidiary. From 2001 until June 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer of BP’s Gas, Power and Renewables and Solar segment and was a member of the BP group executive committee. Prior to that, Mr. Alexander served as a Group Vice President in BP’s Exploration and Production segment and BP’s Refinery and Marketing segment. He held responsibilities for various regions of the world, including North America, Russia, the Caspian, Africa, and Latin America. Prior to these positions, Mr. Alexander held various positions in the upstream, downstream and finance groups of BP. Mr. Alexander serves on the Boards of Directors of Dynamic Industries, Enviva, EP Energy, ILX, Silver Ridge Power, Talen Energy, ThermaSource, Vantage, and Vantage II. He previously served on the board of Foster Wheeler, Stein Mart Corporation, and Anglo-American plc.
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Kenneth Ryan
Partner & Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Ryan is a Partner of Riverstone and is responsible for business development. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2011, Mr. Ryan worked for Gleacher & Company / Gleacher Partners in both London and New York, most recently as Managing Director and Co-head of Investment Banking. Prior to Gleacher, Mr. Ryan worked for Goldman Sachs in the European Financial Institutions Group in London, the U.S. Financial Institutions Group in New York, and the European Advisory Group. Mr. Ryan also co-founded UCTX, a European Internet/media company, which he sold in 2001. Mr. Ryan serves on the Board of Directors of TrailStone. He received an LL.B. from University of Dublin, Trinity College.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
R. Baran Tekkora
Partner of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Tekkora is a Partner of Riverstone. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2005, Mr. Tekkora was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the Natural Resources Group. Mr. Tekkora joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 and focused on all segments of the energy and power industry. Mr. Tekkora’s responsibilities included client coverage and leading the execution of a wide variety of M&A, strategic advisory, and capital markets financings for clients across all sectors of the energy industry. While at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Tekkora served as sector captain for the midstream/infrastructure segment. He also spent a year in London, focused on Industrial and Natural Resources clients in Europe. He received his B.A. from Hamilton College.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
James T Hackett
Partner of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Hackett is a Partner of Riverstone. He is based in Houston. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2013, Mr. Hackett was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. Before joining Anadarko, Mr. Hackett served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Devon Energy Corporation, following its merger with Ocean Energy, where he had served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hackett has also held senior positions at Seagull, Duke Energy, and Pan Energy. He also held positions in engineering, finance and marketing with NGC Corp., Burlington Resources, and Amoco Oil Corp. Mr. Hackett received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
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Robert M. Tichio
Partner of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Tichio is a Partner of Riverstone. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2006, Mr. Tichio was in the Principal Investment Area (PIA) of Goldman Sachs, which manages the firm’s private corporate equity investments. Mr. Tichio began his career at J.P. Morgan in the Mergers & Acquisition group, where he concentrated on assignments that included public company combinations, asset sales, takeover defenses, and leveraged buyouts. Mr. Tichio received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, where he serves on the Board of Visitors of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate, and later received his M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
E. Bartow Jones
Partner & Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Jones is a Partner of Riverstone. He is based in New York. Since joining Riverstone in 2001, Mr. Jones has been active across a variety of sectors in the energy industry, with significant experience in midstream, mining, and exploration and production. His specific transactional experience includes investments in PVR, Vantage, Quintana Shipping, Foresight, Niska, Buckeye, Magellan, and Legend. Mr. Jones also has investment experience in the renewable sector through Riverstone’s investments in CODA Holdings and Kramer Junction. Prior to joining Riverstone, Mr. Jones was an Associate in the M&A group at J.P. Morgan in New York. Mr. Jones received his B.S. in Commerce with concentrations in both Finance and Accounting from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Stephen S Coats
Partner, Managing Director & General Counsel of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Coats is a Partner of Riverstone, serving as General Counsel. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone in April 2008, Mr. Coats was a Partner at Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., a law firm specializing in the energy sector. While at Vinson & Elkins, he focused on domestic and cross-border M&A work in the energy sector. Prior to joining Riverstone, Mr. Coats was outside counsel to Riverstone in several transactions including, among others, Niska Gas Storage, Frontier Drilling, Red Technology Alliance, and Phoenix Exploration Company. He received his B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1997. Mr. Coats is licensed to practice law in the states of New York and Texas.
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Dan Avida
General Partner of Opus Capital
A General Partner at Opus Capital, Dan Avida has 16 years experience building successful companies and guiding them through to profitable outcomes. Dan specializes in the developing systems, cloud and enterprise infrastructure and applications, solutions for the post-PC world, security, and next generation collaboration platforms. Most recently, Dan was President and CEO of Decru Inc., a pioneering storage security company that Dan co-founded in 2001. Decru was acquired for $272.5M by Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) in 2005. In 1989, Dan was a founding member of Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII). Under Dan’s leadership, EFI experienced five years of dramatic, consecutive growth, placing the company on Business Week, Fortune and Forbes lists of fastest growing companies, and on the Nasdaq 100 index. Dan holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude. Dan has five granted patents.
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Serge Plotkin
Venture Partner of Opus Capital
Serge Plotkin is a venture partner for Opus Capital, where he sources and evaluates investment opportunities and contributes technical assistance to portfolio companies. Serge is also an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has served since 1989. Together with Opus Capital General Partner Dan Avida, Serge co-founded Decru in 2001 where he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. Serge has published more than a hundred technical papers and has been issued fourteen patents. He served as the vice chair of the Security in Storage Workgroup P1619/P1619.1, IEEE standardization committee, which is tasked with creating a standard for storage encryption, and is the editor of the IEEE1619 standard. Serge obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Before his studies at MIT, Serge served for five years as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Trace Cohen
Founding Partner of New York Venture Partners
Trace Cohen is a serial entrepreneur in NYC and is the President and Co-Founder of Launch.It, a new self-publishing platform for PR professionals, agencies and brands to launch and socialize everything new. Prior to that Trace was an SVP at iFluencePR where he “created understanding for a complex world.” He specializes in strategic PR for tech companies looking to develop their communications, branding and outreach strategies to connect with their communities and costumers with transparency. Trace is a graduate of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University with a double major in Entrepreneurship and Marketing. He is one of the original Co-Founders and former CMO of Brand-Yourself.com, which helped students and young professionals manage their reputation and personal brands online.
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Brian S. Cohen
Founding Partner of New York Venture Partners
Considered one of the fathers of science & technology strategic communications – founded Technology Solutions, Inc. in 1983. Client list read like a who’s who list of startup technology companies in computing, communication, software, education, and entertainment. Maintained a strategic communications partnership with Sony & IBM Corporation (10 years). Received the Gold CIPRA award in 1998 for the IBM Deep Blue/Gary Kasparov Chess Match. In 1996, TSI was recognized as the #1 fastest growing agency in the United States. Sold the company to The McCann Erickson World Group in 1997 and became the Vice Chairman. Created Focus Technology, an organization that provided qualitative research and instituted the RPM model of integrated strategic communications providing ultra-competitive technology clients the ability to quickly discover and leverage their key strengths as well as mitigate their destructive weaknesses. Brian was a pioneer in the founding of a number of the first computing publications including Computer Systems News and InformationWeek magazine. Now serves as Chairman of the New York Angels. He is very devoted to the New York City startup community. Developed the AIMS (Applied Internet Media Studies) Program, a senior/graduate level college semester program where students will be rigorously trained to use the internet professionally. Frequent speaker on strategic communication, entrepreneurism and early startup investing. Now writing a book for McGraw Hill – a new organizational product launch model. Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, holds a Masters Degree in Science Communications from Boston University’s School of Communications.
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Brett Queener
Partner & Managing Director of Bonfire Ventures
Brett is a Partner at Bonfire Ventures. His entire career has been focused on growing software companies — fast. From 2013-2016, Brett served as COO at SmartRecruiters, where he partnered with the founder to work through the ‘hard things about hard things” and converted a pre-revenue company into the fastest growing and highest rated enterprise player in the recruiting technology space. Prior to SmartRecruiters, Brett spent a decade at Salesforce.com where he served in a variety of senior leadership roles in Sales, R&D, and Operations focused on driving the company growth and expansion across market segments and product categories. Select titles held at Salesforce included VP of Field Operations, SVP Operations, SVP Products, EVP/GM of Data Cloud, and EVP/GM of Marketing Cloud. Prior to Salesforce.com, Brett held senior marketing and business development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle). Brett is an active seed investor and advisor to numerous software entrepreneurs and serves on the board of SmartRecruiters, Pendo, Lytics, Invoca, ClearedIn, SpekIt, and Aforza. Other angel investments include MOAT (acquired by Oracle for $850mm), Guru, Outreach, Postie and Trackstreet. Brett has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.
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About Bonfire Ventures: Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for talented founders building the next generation of software giants.
Jason Wright
Equity Partner, Tech & Telco of Apax Partners
Jason Wright is a Partner in the Tech & Telecom team and joined Apax in 2000, based in the New York office. He has both led and participated in a number of key deals including Paradigm, Epicor Software Corporation, TIVIT, Realpage, Trizetto, Plex Systems, WebClients, Planview, Spectrum Labs and Yell. He is a director on the Boards of Paradigm, Epicor Software Corporation, TIVIT, Realpage, Trizetto, Plex Systems, WebClients, Planview, Spectrum Labs and Yell. Prior to joining Apax, Jason served in a variety of roles at GE Capital, including as a principal investing on behalf of GE Ventures. Previously, he worked at Accenture, designing and implementing systems for the financial services and pharmaceutical industries. Jason received a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Opportunity Network, an education-focused charity in New York City.
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Nico Hansen
Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Apax Partners
Nico Hansen is a Partner and chairs both the Approval and Portfolio Review Committees. He is based in London after having led the US Tech & Telecom team in New York for over three years. Nico originally joined the company in 2000, in Munich, where he specialised in the Tech & Telecom space. He has both led and participated in a number of key deals including Kabel Deutschland, Sulo, Versatel, Bezeq, Capio, Tnuva, Hub International and Trizetto. He has served as advisor and board member to a number of Apax portfolio companies including Kabel Deutschland, Versatel and Trizetto. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Nico was a consultant with McKinsey & Company where he specialised in advising clients in the telecom sector. Nico holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn and an MA in Economics from the University of Göttingen.
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Marcelo Gigliani
Equity Partner of Apax Partners
Marcelo Gigliani is Managing Partner of Apax Digital and focuses on growth buyout and growth equity investments in leading internet, enterprise software, and technology-enabled services companies. Marcelo joined Apax Partners in 1999 and has most recently been a Partner in the Apax Digital practice and the Services Group. He is based in New York, after having worked out of Apax’s London and Madrid offices.
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Ashish Karandikar
Partner of Apax Partners
Ashish Karandikar is a Principal in the Financial & Business Services team based in New York. Ashish originally joined Apax Partners in 2007 in the Tech & Telecom team. He has led and participated in a number of key deals including HUB International and TIVIT. He has also served as advisor and board member to a number of Apax portfolio companies including Garda World Security Corporation, Empire Pacific Windows, HUB International and TIVIT. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Ashish was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Mumbai and New York offices where he specialised in advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions and in evaluating investments in real estate. Ashish holds an MBA (Honors) from the University of Chicago and a BCom from the University of Mumbai where he was valedictorian of his class. In addition, Ashish is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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David Kim
Partner and Co Head of the Investor Relations of Apax Partners
David Kim is a Partner and Co Head of the Investor Relations team and is based in New York. David joined Apax in 2000 and was a Partner in the Retail & Consumer team. He has both led and participated in a number of deals including Contech Construction Products, Norcraft Cabinets and Tommy Bahama. Prior to joining Apax Partners, David was a Principal at Butler Capital Corporation and an artillery officer in the U.S. Army where he graduated from the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools. David received a BS with Distinction from the United States Military Academy, West Point and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. David is also the Founder and President of the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation which provides college scholarships to military children who have lost a parent to combat or training.
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Seth Brody
Partner of Apax Partners
Seth Brody is a Partner and Co-Head of the Portfolio Support Group. Seth joined Apax Partners in 2008. His prior experience includes time spent at Orbitz Worldwide, Priceline.com and several other leading ecommerce brands. Seth has a BA in American Studies/History from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Dan O’Keefe
Managing Partner of Apax Partners
Dan is Managing Partner of Apax Digital, focused on growth stage investments in consumer internet, software, and technology enabled services areas. He began his career at Apax Partners in 1999 as an Associate, and rejoined the firm in 2016, based in New York. He serves on the board of Apax Digital Fund investment Moda Operandi. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Dan was a General Partner of Technology Crossover Ventures where he focused on investments in the Consumer Internet and Software sectors. Dan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar and is a member of its Alumni Advisory Board. Dan also holds a BA from Brown University. Dan also holds a fellowship with the Foreign Policy Association, is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association, and is the Chairman of The Opportunity Network, an education focused non-profit.
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Sudip Chakrabarti
Partner of Madrona Venture Group
Sudip is a partner on the investment team at Lightspeed Venture Partners and invests in Infrastructure Software, Big Data and Security. Before a16z, Sudip led technology investments at Osage University Partners, a new venture fund that invests exclusively in university spinouts, investing in companies such as Infnio (software-defined storage), Skytree (machine learning), Surfcrew (browser security), and MC10 (wearables). In his prior life, he had been an entrepreneur, an engineer and a technical manager in the technology industry. As a PhD student at Georgia Tech, Sudip started a software company to commercialize his doctoral research in semiconductor testing algorithms. He also cofounded a startup to develop a pioneering analytic platform for retailers based on the cloud computing infrastructure. Sudip holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, and an MBA (honors) with a dual major in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance from The Wharton School where he was a Joseph Wharton fellow.
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Ted Kummert
Chief Product Officer in Residence and Venture Partner of Madrona Venture Group
Ted joined Madrona in 2013 and brings his years of technical and operational leadership in enterprise technology to Madrona and the portfolio companies. As Venture Partner, Ted identifies new investments and provides strategic counsel and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies. Prior to Madrona, Ted drove major product and business initiatives for Microsoft for more than two decades. At Microsoft, Kummert led teams across a broad set of technologies, including operating systems, consumer online services, enterprise security and enterprise application platform. As Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform Group, Kummert led the development of several key Microsoft enterprise products including SQL Server, SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, Windows Azure Data Services and Microsoft’s business intelligence and big data offerings. Widely known as the “data chief” of Microsoft, he led the data platform business through a period of significant growth and drove the cloud and big data strategy for the platform. Ted began his career at Apple and HP.
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Aseem Datar
Partner of Madrona Venture Group
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About Madrona Venture Group: Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Troy Cichos
COO & Partner of Madrona Venture Group
Troy Cichos serves as Chief Operating Officer & Partner at Madrona Venture Group. He joined Madrona in 1999 and previously served as Administrative Partner and Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Mr. Cichos oversees the operations, finance and administration for Madrona and the venture funds under Madrona’s management. He also serves as Board Member at The W Fund. Mr. Cichos was formerly with Deloitte & Touche in Seattle where he served for six years as an associate and then tax manager. Mr. Cichos also worked for three years as a manager at ITT Financial. Troy is on the Advisory Board for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Michael G. Foster School of Business which promotes entrepreneurial learning and discovery to students-from undergraduates to PhD candidates-across the University of Washington.Troy received his bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Utah. He earned his law degree from Seattle University School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude and was an editor of the Seattle University Law Review.
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Anu Sharma
Partner of Madrona Venture Group
Anu Sharma currently works as the Partner for Madrona Venture Group. She previously worked at Amazon Web Services as the Sr. Manager.
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Jennifer Chambers
Administrative Partner of Madrona Venture Group
Jennifer Chambers serves as Administrative Partner at Madrona Venture Group. She joined the firm in 1997 and oversees the day-to-day administration of the office, including administrative and executive assistants, she previously served as Fund Administrator. She also manages the day-to-day accounting and reporting functions and works closely with many of the earliest stage portfolio companies, assisting them with start-up and financial activities. Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Seattle University and received her MBA from the Albers School of Business at Seattle University.
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Mona Ashiya
Private Equity Partner of OrbiMed
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About OrbiMed: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Klaus Veitinger
Venture Partner of OrbiMed
Klaus Veitinger is currently a Venture Partner with OrbiMed and he served as Chairman of Promentis Pharmaceuticals from April 2008 until February 2014. During his prior 16-year pharmaceutical career, Klaus Veitinger held senior management positions in drug development, licensing and business development, strategic planning and M&A, as well as general management. Most recently Klaus Veitinger was a Member of the Executive Board of Schwarz Pharma AG and the Chief Executive Officer of Schwarz Pharma Inc. with responsibility for the U.S. and Asia businesses culminating in the ultimate sale of the Schwarz Group. Klaus Veitinger has served and currently serves on the boards of several private and public companies in the life sciences sector. For seven years he was a Director of PhRMA. Klaus Veitinger received his medical degree and his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Heidelberg. He earned his M.B.A. at INSEAD in France.
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About OrbiMed, PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Researcher and Manufacturers of America), Promentis Pharmaceuticals: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Carl L. Gordon
General Partner of OrbiMed
Carl Gordon is a founding General Partner of OrbiMed and Co-Head of Private Equity. Carl Gordon is active in both private equity and small-capitalization public equity investments.He was a senior biotechnology analyst at Mehta and Isaly from 1995 to 1997.He was a Fellow at The Rockefeller University from 1993 to 1995. Carl Gordon received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral work involved studies of protein folding and assembly. He received a Bachelors degree from Harvard College.
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About OrbiMed: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Jonathan Silverstein
Co-Head of Private Equity and Managing Partner of OrbiMed
Jonathan Silverstein, JD, joined OrbiMed Advisors, LLC in 1998 to focus on private equity and structured transactions in small capitalization public biotechnology and medical device companies. Mr. Silverstein was a Director of Life Sciences in the Investment Banking Department at the Sumitomo Bank and an Associate at Hambro Resource Development. Mr. Silverstein has a JD and an MBA from the University of San Diego, and a BA in Economics from Denison University. Currently, Mr. Silverstein is the Chairman of Enobia Pharma, Inc., Cerapedics, Inc., and Gelesis, and he is a Director at superDimension, Ltd., Glaukos Corporation and Nxstage Medical, Inc. He has been a Director or observer in more than a dozen other companies, including: LifeCell Corporation, Given Imaging, Ltd., Cerexa, Inc. (sold to Forest Laboratories, Inc.), Peninsula Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (sold to Johnson & Johnson, Inc.), Predix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(sold to Epix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Orthovita, Inc., Auxillium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bioenvision (sold to Genzyme Corporation), Adiana, Inc. (sold to Cytyc Corporation) and Adolor Corporation.
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About OrbiMed, The Silverstein Foundation: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Michael B. Sheffery
Partner & Co-Founder of OrbiMed
Michael B. Sheffery, Ph.D., is a founding Partner of OrbiMed. Dr. Sheffery was formerly Head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He received both his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and his B.A. in Biology from Princeton University. Dr. Sheffery joined Mehta and Isaly in 1996 as a Senior Analyst covering the biotechnology industry.
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About OrbiMed: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Chau Khuong
Private Equity Partner of OrbiMed
Chau Q. Khuong joined OrbiMed Advisors in 2003 and is a Partner on the Private Equity team. Chau Khuong has experience in start-up operations and business development at Veritas Medicine, Inc. and in basic science research at the Yale School of Medicine and at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a summer Associate in the New Ventures technology transfer group at Columbia University. At OrbiMed, Chau Khuong was actively involved investments in Arius Research, Inc. (acquired by Roche in 2008), Peninsula Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by Johnson & Johnson, Inc., in 2005), Cerexa, Inc. (acquired by Forest Laboratories, Inc., in 2007), Adiana, Inc. (acquired by Cytyc Corporation in 2007), Avanir (NASDAQ: AVNR), and Biodel, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOD). He currently serves as Director or Observer on the Corporate Boards at Cerapedics, Glaukos Corporation, Intercept Pharma, Sonendo, and Pieris AG. Chau Khuong holds a BS in molecular biology with concentration in biotechnology and an MPH with concentration in infectious diseases, both from Yale University.
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About OrbiMed: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Kevin Koch
Venture Partner of OrbiMed
Kevin Koch is a Venture Partner with OrbiMed Advisors, LLC, and the President and CEO of Edgewise Therapeutics. He was formerly at Biogen as Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery: Chemical and Molecular Therapeutics, where he managed global drug discovery and the immunology and hematology teams. Previously, Kevin Koch served as the President, CSO, Board member and Co-Founder of Array BioPharma, where he oversaw the invention of over 20 clinical development candidates in multiple therapeutic areas. Prior to Array, Kevin Koch held senior positions at Amgen Inc. and Pfizer Central Research. He is the co-author or inventor of multiple patents and publications and received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of Rochester.
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Sherman Atkinson
General Partner of Miramar Ventures
Miramar Ventures is a West Coast seed & early stage investment firm focused on funding the most promising founders and market disruptive ideas in the modern mobile sector. Since our inception in 2002, Miramar Ventures has partnered with leading entrepreneurs to transform game changing ideas into capital efficient, profitable businesses.
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About Miramar Ventures: Miramar Ventures, launched in 2002, is focused on seed and early stage venture capital investing in the mobile sector.
Frank Witney
Operating Partner of Ampersand Capital Partners
Frank Witney brings more than 30 years of leadership and innovation in the research, development, and commercialization of many life science products, including diagnostic and analytical instruments to Affymetrix. He previously served at Affymetrix as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer following the acquisition of Panomics Inc., a quantitative biology company which Witney had pioneered and served as president and chief executive officer for six years. Prior to returning to Affymetrix, Witney was President and Chief Executive Officer of Dionex Corporation, an ion and high performance liquid chromatography company which he led to an increase in market share across multiple markets and ultimately a successful acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. Witney also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Packard BioScience, where he oversaw global operations, research and development, manufacturing, and worldwide sales, achieving rapid growth in revenues and operating profits. When Packard was acquired by PerkinElmer Life Sciences, he became President of PerkinElmer’s Drug Discovery Tools division, managing the reagent and instrument business units for high-throughput screening, research products, genomics/proteomics, and liquid handling automation. Earlier in his management career, Witney held numerous positions at Bio-Rad Laboratories, including Group Operations Manager of the Life Science Group where he led successful efforts to enter rapidly growing markets for proteomics and bioassay technologies. Witney was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and holds a doctorate in molecular and cell biology from Indiana University.
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About Ampersand Capital Partners: Ampersand is a middle market private equity firm focused on investments in two core sectors: Healthcare and Industrial.
Fred Harman
Managing Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Fred Harman, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners as a General Partner in 1994. Fred’s primary investment focus is on Consumer Internet and Internet New Media. Fred is currently on the Boards of Aspect Software, Brit Media, Dot & Bo, Demand Media, FRS, Keep Holdings, Limelight Networks, Milyoni, NowThis Media, RazorGator, Rebel Mouse, Social Programming, sovrn, Sutherland Global Services, Thrillist Media Group and U.S. Auto Parts. Fred has also led investments in and/or served on the Boards of aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft), Allyes (acquired by Focus Media), Bleacher Report (acquired by Time Warner), Campus Pipeline (acquired by SCT), Fastclick (acquired by ValueClick), Captura (acquired by Concur), Cobalt (acquired by ADP), Exodus, Huffington Post (acquired by AOL), ILOG, IMS (acquired by Celestica), Inktomi, Knowledge Networks (acquired by GfK), Pivotal, Primus, Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), Sanmina/SCI, and SPSS (acquired by IBM). Prior to Oak, Fred worked for seven years with Morgan Stanley’s Venture Capital Group where he was a General Partner. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Fred worked in Business Development at Hughes Communications where he was involved in the formation of the predecessor to DirecTV. Fred received an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where he was a Hughes Fellow. Fred is on the Board of the Stanford Hospital, a Trustee of Sacred Heart Schools, a Trustee of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation, and a co-owner of the Golden State Warriors.
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Bandel Carano
Managing Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Bandel Carano, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners in 1985 and became a General Partner in 1987. Bandel’s investment focus is on Clean Energy and Information Technology. Bandel is currently on the Boards of Airspan Networks, Aurora Algae, Boston Power, Centric Software, eSolar, FirstRain, Good Technology, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Mimosa Networks, MobiTV, NeoPhotonics, Nexant, NextNav, nLight, Norse, Protean Electric, SmartDrive, Solarflare Communications, and Sundrop Fuels. Bandel has also led investments in and/or served on the Boards of 2Wire, Avici, CoreTek, Endwave, Fiber Tower, General Bandwidth, Netopia, Picture Tel, Polycom, Presidio, Qtera, Sentient Networks, Tegic, Trapeze Networks, Wellfleet, Entropic, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas, Actel, Airgo Networks, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NanoH2O, NemeriX, Newport Media, Resonext, SMIC, Synaptics, Virata, Interconnectix, Parametric, SunSun Lighting, Synopsys, Tensilica, Wavestream, and Zayo. Prior to Oak, Bandel joined Morgan Stanley’s Venture Capital Group in 1983. He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments. Bandel received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.
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Scot Jarvis
Venture Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Scot Jarvis, Venture Partner, joined Oak in 1999 as a Venture Partner after a highly successful career in management and investment roles in the wireless communications industry. A graduate of the University of Washington, Scot founded and served as the first President of Nextlink Communications, served as a Regional President of Nextel, and served as a Senior Executive with McCaw Cellular (now AT&T Wireless). More recently, Scot was the Founder of Cedar Grove Investments, a private equity firm with a focus on wireless communications. He has served or currently serves on the boards of public and private companies, including Airspan, Good Technology, Kratos Defense, MobiTV, RootMetrics, Security Solutions, Toba Inlet PCS, and Vitesse Semiconductor. Scot focuses on Oak’s investments in the wireless communications market.
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Ed Glassmeyer
General Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Edward F. Glassmeyer, Managing Partner, co-founded Oak with Stewart Greenfield in 1978. Ed focuses on expansion financings in the Cloud and Enterprise Software and Services companies. He is also actively involved in Oak’s global initiatives in EMEA and Asia. Ed is currently on the Board of Directors of IT Service companies Cloud Technology Partners, EquaTerra (to KPMC) and Geotrace, and storage systems innovator, Xiotech (purchased from Seagate, where Ed was a founding director). He also co-sponsored broadband networking companies GTS (Central Europe) and Zayo. Ed is on the board of earlier stage companies, Movik Networks, whose products substantially reduce peak loads on mobile networks, and eSports company, Major League Gaming. Past portfolio activity includes IT service companies CBORD Group acquired by Roper Industries and Mobius Management acquired by AGS Content Management; Credit Card software company Paysys acquired by First Data; Voice and data switching company Telica (acquired by Lucent); Bellcore spinout Tellium; Aavid Termalloy (NASD:AATT) since taken private; Cogent Communications (NASD: CCOI) and Seagate (NASD: STX ). Prior to Oak, Ed started his career with Citicorp Venture Capital, and later became Managing Partner of The Sprout Group at DLJ (Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette). Ed graduated from Princeton University, served as an officer in the Marine Corps, and received his MBA with distinction from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he serves on the Board of Overseers. Ed was a founding Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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Annie Lamont
Managing Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Annie Lamont is a Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT where she focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare information services and financial services technology. Annie has been ranked as the top healthcare and fintech investor on the Forbes Midas List. Additionally, Annie has been recognized as the first ever recipient for Excellence in Healthcare Innovation by the National Venture Capital Association. She currently serves on the Boards of Acculynk, Aspire Health, Benefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT), Candescent Health, Castlight Health (NYSE: CSLT), Freshbooks, Hometeam, Independent Living Systems, Poynt, Precision Medicine Group, Quartet Health, VillageMD and xG Health Solutions. Prior investments include athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), American Esoteric Laboratories (acquired by Sonic Healthcare Limited), Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), CareMedic Systems (acquired by Ingenix), CLARiENT (acquired by GE Healthcare), Harbor Payments (acquired by American Express), Health Dialog (acquired by British United Provident Association), Odyssey Healthcare, Oak Tree/Oxford, NetSpend (acquired TSYS), PayFlex Systems (acquired by Aetna), PharMEDium Healthcare (acquired by CD&R), Point Carbon (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Psychiatric Solutions (acquired by Universal Health Services), TxVia (acquired by Google), United BioSource (acquired by Medco Health Solutions) and Vesta. Annie also serves on the board of HCA Holdings and is a member of The Advisory Council for the Financial Solutions Lab (CFSI and JP Morgan Chase). She served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees, and on the Executive Board of the National Venture Capital Association. Annie graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Political Science.
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John Beletic
Venture Partner of Oak Investment Partners
John D. Beletic, Operating Partner, joined the Oak team in 2002 and is currently serving as Executive Chairman at XIO after service as Chief Executive Officer for three years. John also serves on the board of portfolio company, Cheddar’s Casual Cafe. In addition, he serves on the boards of Accent Health, iPass Inc and Tessco Technologies. Previously, John was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tigon, PageMart, and Weblink Wireless. He was also a Venture Partner with Morgan Stanley Venture Capital Group. John received a BSBA in Finance summa cum laude from Xavier University and an MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School.
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About J5 Infrastructure Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Sharablee, TESSCO: Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and private equity firm.
Kathy Roland
Venture Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Kathryn A. Roland, Venture Partner, joined the Oak Minneapolis office in 2002 on a part-time basis after 18 years of experience working with retail and services businesses. Her functional expertise includes strategic planning, acquisitions, new business development, market analysis, and retail site selection. Through both corporate positions and consulting engagements, Kathy has worked with a variety of retailers, from venture-backed start-ups to major corporations such as Target and Marshall Fields. Kathy received her BA from Carleton College and her MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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About Oak Investment Partners: Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and private equity firm.
Saad Gómez
Venture Partner of Oak Investment Partners
Saad Gómez, Venture Partner, began with Oak in 2011 and became a Venture Partner in 2014. He currently focuses on Oak’s strategic opportunities in key emerging markets. Angel has a wide range of industry experience in technology, energy, consumer internet, finance, logistics, communications, and consumer packaged goods. He works closely with several Oak portfolio companies including eSolar, NowThis, Airspan, Mimosa Networks, Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW), FRS, and on an ad hoc basis with other portfolio companies. Angel has a finance and consulting background, having advised Fortune 500 and technology companies, and family offices. A native of Mexico, he has served in several advisory capacities to the Mexican Government and with Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), a top international research institution, in their ecosystem development initiatives. Angel actively contributes to developing ecosystems in key emerging markets around the world. Angel holds a BA from Stanford University, where he rowed for Stanford’s Crew team.
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About Oak Investment Partners: Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital and private equity firm.
Jim Kim
Founder & General Partner of Builders VC
Jim Kim began his career with GE Structured Finance and subsequently moved to GE’s Energy Financial Services Division where he worked on project financing for renewable energy projects. As a founding partner of the Energy Technology Ventures group, Jim invested in A123Systems, China High Speed Transmission, Ocean Power Delivery, and several later-stage companies across diverse cleantech sectors. Jim then joined CMEA Capital as a senior partner in the Energy & Materials practice. There he collaborated with entrepreneurs from A123Systems, Foro Energy, and a number of university spinouts. Most recently, Jim Kim was a partner at Khosla Ventures, where he led seed investments in companies like Varentec, Arcanum, and Avogy, and later-stage investments in companies like Ciris Energy. Jim received undergraduate degrees in computer science, electrical engineering and political science from MIT, where he also founded an Internet infrastructure start-up at the height of the technology bubble. He holds an MBA and a master’s in quantitative methods from Columbia University. When he’s not spending his free time making wine or practicing hung gar kung fu, Jim teaches green energy and entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and conducts research with a professor at the Columbia Earth Institute. Jim hopes to see the U.S. National Soccer team win the World Cup in his lifetime.
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About Builders VC, Formation 8: Builders VC is an early-stage VC focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries.
Amit Mehta
Partner of Builders VC
Dr. Amit Mehta leads our health-IT investment practice. As a highly-regarded practicing professional, Amit combines practical knowledge across the value-chain with entrepreneurial experience to help companies from seed through Series B. Amit manages our investments into Carbon Health, Notable Labs and Fitbiomics, in addition to driving our overall Health IT strategy. Prior to Builders, he was instrumental in deploying investments for Formation 8 in the health sector. His primary interest focusses on helping Builders’ founders in market fit and establishing partnerships with hospital systems, clinics and ICNs. He is deeply interested in market validation of new technologies as well as successful strategies in go-to-market launches. Dr. Mehta completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Harvard Medical School where he also completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Image Guided Surgery. He is a founder and the Chief Medical Officer at Intrinsic Imaging, a leading Healthcare IT company operating clinical trials in 64 countries globally for both pharma and biotech sponsors. He has co-authored three textbooks in Radiology, has widely published in peer-reviewed journals and currently is appointed as an SBIR/STTR reviewer for the National Institutes of Health. In addition to his clinical and operational pursuits, Amit serves on the boards of various start-ups and enjoys assisting entrepreneurs in launching early stage companies. He has been selected as one of the “Top 40 under 40″ by the San Antonio Business Journal.
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About Alamo Angels, Builders VC, Formation 8, Intrinsic Imaging: Builders VC is an early-stage VC focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries.
Jocelyn Doe
Partner of Builders VC
Jocelyn is a Partner at Builders VC. She leads the capital markets effort for the firm and its portfolio companies. Jocelyn is a Partner and COO at Builders VC. She heads special situation investments, capital formation, and manages LP relationships. Prior to managing private capital, Jocelyn spent nearly two decades as an investment banker advising technology companies in Silicon Valley, New York, and Hong Kong. At Morgan Stanley, she advised early Internet companies to raise $30 billion in debt and equity financings. At Lehman, she built the firm’s Asian equity capital markets business from scratch into a franchise business for cross-border IPOs. Jocelyn has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. Jocelyn served on the Board and Audit Committee of Fidelity International. In addition, Jocelyn served on the Boards of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Jocelyn graduated with a BA in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School, where she won the Dean’s Merit Fellowship.
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About Builders VC: Builders VC is an early-stage VC focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries.
Mark Bailey
Co-Founder and Partner of DFJ Growth
Mark Bailey is a Co-Founder and Partner at DFJ Growth. Mark has been with DFJ since 2002 serving as a Venture Partner for DFJ ePlanet Ventures (investors in Baidu [BIDU] and Skype) focusing on growth stage investments prior to co-founding DFJ Growth in 2006. Mark has over 29 years of experience with entrepreneurial deal making in both investment and operating roles. Mark has served as a high impact executive in both private and public high technology companies. Mark has played an integral role, as an executive and officer, in building two billion dollar public companies: Symantec Corporation [SYMC], where he led the M&A effort through most of the 1990s and Healtheon/WebMD [WBMD] where he led the early M&A effort pre and post-IPO. Mark also co-founded WebPartner and served as an executive at Portal Software. Mark’s investment experience includes interning as one of the first associates at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (during which time he first met Tim Draper and John Fisher while they were at Alex. Brown & Sons) and serving as a general partner at Venrock Associates. Over the course of his career, Mark has served as a board-member and advisor to numerous companies. Mark graduated Cum Laude with a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About DFJ Growth: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Barry Schuler
Partner of DFJ Growth
Barry Schuler is Managing Director for DFJ Growth and the former Chairman/CEO of America Online Inc. He is credited with being one of the pioneers of the modern Internet. As an entrepreneur for more than 30 years, Barry propelled innovations in digital media, e-commerce, design, and video games. He was a member of the senior management team that scaled AOL from $1B to $200B in market cap during 20 consecutive quarters of growth. Barry co-founded the DFJ Growth Fund in 2006 and is actively involved with its investments which include Twitter, Tumblr, SolarCity, SpaceX and Tesla Motor Company. He serves on the board of directors for Good Technology, littleBits, Raydiance Inc., Synthetic Genomics, and SCIenergy. Barry graduated with a BA from Rutgers University and is a member of its Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Barry is committed to education reform and is chairman of New Tech Network, the nation’s most replicated classroom transformation model, and a Director at Knowledgeworks Foundation. He co-founded Blue Oak School, Napa Valley’s only K-8 independent progressive school.
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About DFJ Growth, Meteor Vineyard, Raydiance: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Randy Glein
Co-Founder and Partner of DFJ Growth
Randy Glein is a co-founder and Managing Director of DFJ Growth. His career spans more than 25 years as a venture capital investor, operating executive and entrepreneur. Randy has led investments in numerous high-growth technology companies, including Box, DataStax, Performics (Google), SpaceX, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA), Tremor Video (NYSE: TRMR), Tumblr (Yahoo), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and Yammer (Microsoft). Previously, Randy was CFO of FeedBurner, a DFJ portfolio company acquired by Google, and a member of the founding team at DIRECTV. He also served in senior roles at Tribune Ventures and Hughes New Ventures. Randy began his career as an engineer with Hughes Space & Communications.
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About Coinbase, DFJ Growth, Threshold: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
John Fisher
Co-Founder and Partner of DFJ Growth
John H. N. Fisher is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, with 27 years of venture capital investing experience. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, John has served on the boards of many companies, both private and public. At present, his board positions include SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), Good Technology, CafeMom, SCIenergy, Pulsepoint, and Raydiance. In addition, John serves on the Investment Committees of DFJ Growth Fund (Menlo Park), DFJ Esprit Ventures (London), DFJ ePlanet Ventures (global) and DFJ New England (Boston). Previously, John worked at ABS Ventures, where he focused on enterprise software and services. In addition to his venture capital experience, John gained further investment industry experience at Alex. Brown & Sons and Bank of America. In the non-profit realm, John serves as a Trustee of the California Academy of Sciences, and he is on the board of Common Sense Media. John is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
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About DFJ Growth, Threshold: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Mohammad Islam
Partner of DFJ Growth
Mohammad is an associate at DFJ. Prior to joining DFJ, Mohammad worked on the technology team at In-Q-Tel, where he conducted technical diligence on investments made on behalf of the US Intelligence Community. Mohammad previously had multiple engineering roles at Lockheed Martin, the National Science Foundation, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Mohammad graduated with a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford, with interdisciplinary honors in international security studies. While at Stanford, he served as a research assistant in the Very Low Frequency Group and the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He also worked on energy entrepreneurship as the chief financial officer of Energy Crossroads and on transparency for online fundraising as a developer at Soup.
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About DFJ Growth, Mythic, Threshold, Threshold: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Sam Fort
Partner of DFJ Growth
Sam joined the DFJ Growth Fund in the fall of 2010. He focuses primarily on later-stage investments in Internet, mobile, cloud, and cleantech companies, and has been actively involved with the firm’s investments in SolarCity, Box, SCIenergy, Tumblr, and Yammer. Prior to joining DFJ, Sam worked with TPG Capital in San Francisco where he focused on investing in late-stage technology and telecommunications companies, including the acquisition of Alltel Corp and eventual sale to Verizon. Previously, Sam worked with Morgan Stanley’s investment banking practice in New York City where he focused on mergers, acquisitions, and initial public offerings for companies in the media and communications industries. He has also worked with Nth Power, a leading venture capital firm focused on energy technology investments. Sam holds a B.S.E. in Computer & Telecommunications Engineering and B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also serves on the Board of Directors of America SCORES Bay Area, a 501c3 organization providing after-school literacy classes and team sports for Bay Area elementary and middle schools.
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About DFJ Growth: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Justin Kao
Partner of DFJ Growth
Justin is a Partner at Co-Founder DFJ Growth. Prior to that, he co-founded Helix, a personal genomics company dedicated to empowering every person to improve their life through DNA. Justin holds a BS in chemical engineering (with distinction) and an MS in bioengineering from Stanford University. He also received a JD from Stanford Law School and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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About DFJ Growth: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Jocelyn Kinsey
Partner of DFJ Growth
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About All Raise, DFJ Growth: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Jess Segal
Partner of DFJ Growth
Jess Segal is a partner of DFJ Growth, where she is responsible for developing and managing the firm’s wide array of investor relationships. Jess helps DFJ Growth attract the capital and network to help founders build new companies that improve the world through their innovative technologies. She is a trusted advisor to a host of prominent institutional investors and instrumental in helping drive teams that have raised more than $30 billion across the liquidity spectrum, personally managing some of the largest and most complex allocations. Jess has been responsible for launching and supervising several new investment products during a career defined by building deep and senior relationships with all forms of institutional investors (E&Fs, pensions, SWFs, consultants, family offices) and partnering with them to build and fund investments in private equity, hedge funds, and credit strategies. Prior to DFJ Growth, Jess spent over four years with Vista Equity Partners, helping them realize a dramatic expansion of assets under management, after successful tenures at both Farallon Capital and Elliott Management. Before joining the buy side, she had a successful career at Morgan Stanley, ultimately co-running a team that covered hedge fund clients of prime brokerage. Jess holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth College with a dual major in government and sociology. More importantly, she is a life-long Red Sox fan.
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About DFJ Growth: DFJ Growth is a late-stage global venture capital firm that provides capital to companies in seed, early, and growth-stages.
Sid Shah
Managing Director & Partner, Global Leader of Energy Practice of BCG Digital Ventures
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About BCG Digital Ventures, HRX: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Steve Mallouk
Partner & Managing Director, Head of Financial Services Practice of BCG Digital Ventures
Steve Mallouk is the Partner & Managing Director, Head of Financial Services Practice ofBCG Digital Ventures
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About BCG Digital Ventures: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Robert Derow
Managing Direct and Partner of BCG Digital Ventures
Consumer marketing professional with over 15 years’ experience across multiple media disciplines. Foundation and core experience in digital & mobile media combined with traditional marketing experience. (Rodale, American Express, MTV Networks, FOX/News Corporation, Feenet AG, Virgin Games)
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About BCG Digital Ventures: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Hans Yang
Managing Director, Partner of BCG Digital Ventures
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About BCG Digital Ventures: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Dmitry Grishin
Founding Partner of Grishin Robotics
After graduating with distinction from the Faculty of Robotics and Complex Automation (Department of CAD Systems) at Moscow State Technical University and working as a software engineer on several projects, Dmitry joined Mail.Ru in 2001. He became CEO of Mail.Ru in April 2003. In 2005, he co-founded the Mail.Ru Group. He then assumed the CEO role of the Mail.Ru Group in 2010. In that same year, he helped transition the company as it went public on the London Stock Exchange. Dmitry became elected Chairman of the Mail.Ru Group Board in 2012. Currently, Dmitry also serves as the head of the department of Information Technologies and Programming at St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. His passion for innovation led him to found the Russian Code Cup – the largest competition for programmers in Eastern Europe.
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About Grishin Robotics: Grishin Robotics is a VC firm, focused on robotics and IoT.
Feng Deng
Founding General Partner of Northern Light Venture Capital
Feng co-founded Northern Light Venture Capital in 2005, a China focused fund. He has more than 15 years of technical and managerial experience in the computer, communication and data networking industries. In 1997, Feng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, and served as the Vice President of Engineering, Chief Strategy Officer and Board member. NetScreen went public on NASDAQ in 2001 and was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4 billion. From 2004 to 2005, Feng served as VP of Corp. Strategy at Juniper Networks. Feng was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2002 and the Innovator of the Year award in 2003. Prior to founding NetScreen, Feng worked at Intel Corp. Now he also serves on the Board of Directors of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA) and is a board member of the Tsinghua University Foundation. Feng holds a MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, a MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California and a MS degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University. He also holds five U.S. patents in computer system architecture and IC design.
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About Northern Light Venture Capital: Northern Light Venture Capital is a Chinese company that provides early- and growth-stage funding to tech and consumer service companies.
Anamitra Banerji
Managing Partner, Founder of Afore Capital
Anamitra Banerji joined Foundation Capital in February as an EIR. Anamitra comes to Foundation with 8 years of product management experience in advertising and social media at Twitter, Overture and Yahoo. Prior to product roles, Anamitra worked as a software engineer in the enterprise space for 4 years. He also co-founded an internet-healthcare company during the ’98-’00 boom-bust. Anamitra joined Twitter in March 2009 as its first product manager and employee number 30. He helped start the company’s advertising platform and core revenue engine, leading the team that launched the first monetization products, including promoted tweets, promoted accounts and promoted trends. At Foundation, Anamitra will foster his own passions with exploration of the fast growing online collaboration, marketplaces, and mobile industries, as well as help the firm identify promising start-ups, and advice on the investment process. Along with his EIR responsibilities, Anamitra is also helping to launch Widescope, an early-stage experiment at Stanford focused on online collaboration. The website (http://widescope.stanford.edu ) encourages the community to find a solution to reduce the federal budget deficit and seeks to build consensus by allowing members to vote on submitted ideas. Anamitra is a mentor at 500 Startups—Dave McClure’s accelerator program—where he advises a number of startups. Anamitra has earned an MBA from Cornell University and a degree in Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India. Anamitra is an avid soccer fan and follows Liverpool football club. He used to play competitively at the under 18 level in India. He continues to play today—albeit less competitively. Anamitra is also an aspiring coffee aficionado, his favorite blend is the ‘cubano’ at Epicenter Cafe in SOMA. Anamitra lives in San Francisco with his wife and 15 month old son.
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About Afore Capital: Afore Capital is a venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Gaurav Jain
Co-founder & Managing Partner of Afore Capital
Gaurav Jain is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Afore Capital and an Investor at Modern Health, Flatfile, Petal, BenchSci, and Sinai Technologies. Prior to that, he was the Principal at Founder Collective.
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About Afore Capital, Transfix: Afore Capital is a venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ashton Newhall
General Partner & Co-Founder of Greenspring Associates
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About Greenspring Associates: Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.
John Avirett
General Partner of Greenspring Associates
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About Greenspring Associates: Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.
Todd Ruppert
Venture Partner of Greenspring Associates
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About Greenspring Associates: Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.
Jim Lim
Managing Partner of Greenspring Associates
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About Greenspring Associates: Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.
Deric Emry
Venture Partner of Greenspring Associates
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About Greenspring Associates, TIGER 21: Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.
Lindsay Redfield
General Partner of Greenspring Associates
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About Greenspring Associates: Greenspring Associates is a platform focused on fund, direct, and secondary investments within the venture capital asset class.
Pedro Pablo del Campo Klerman
Partner of Magma Partners
Pedro Pablo del Campo Klerman is a partner at Magma Partners.
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About Magma Partners: Magma Partners is an early-stage investment firm that supports Latin American entrepreneurs.
David P. Mixer
Managing Partner of Middleland Capital
Dave is a Co-founding Partner at Point Judith Capital. Dave has been investing in early-stage technology companies for 25 years. Prior to being a co-founder of Point Judith, Dave was a founding partner of Columbia Capital, a venture capital firm focused on the communications industry with nearly $2 billion under management today. Dave also founded Rex Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology investments. In his career he has been a member of the investment committee for 77 investments, for an aggregate of over $400 million invested and in excess of $1 billion returned. Dave is currently serving as a mentor to investors and entrepreneurs. Dave is a co-founder of Hidden Jade Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early and growth stage companies in China. Through his extensive industry and investor relationships, he will be assisting Point Judith portfolio companies with strategies to address the market and develop partnerships within China. Prior to his venture capital career, Dave served as President of Providence Cellular where he led the company in the acquisition of U.S. cellular properties. In addition, he held various management positions within corporate planning for AT&T. Dave holds a BA from Union College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Middleland Capital, Union College: Middleland Capital is a private investment firm focused on global early-stage technology opportunities.
