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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Massachusetts based Partner operating in the Financial Services 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.
Parul Singh
Partner of Initialized Capital
Parul Singh is a product-driven founder and investor with a background in engineering, product strategy, and analytics. Parul spent the past five years on the investing team at Founder Collective, a tech-focused, early-stage seed fund where she covered Boston and NYC, evaluated over 3,000 companies, and spearheaded the firm’s investments in Embark Veterinary, Broadlume, Running Tide, HumanFirst, Flume Health, and HealthNote. Prior to investing, she spent close to a decade as an engineer and product manager at the NYTimes.com, Inc. and Fast Company, and she was the founder of a learning analytics company. At Initialized, Parul will focus her investing efforts on software companies, with a special interest in the areas of healthtech, SaaS, and analytics. Parul has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from MIT.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Chris Price
Partner of Oak HC/FT
Partner @ Oak HC/FT | Co-Founder @ WithMe Health | Investor & Entrepreneur I am a product focused investor and business builder that is passionate about making our healthcare system better. As such, I seek to invest in teams that are focused on driving meaningful improvements in quality, cost and patient experience. During my 15+ year investing and operating career, I’ve tried a lot of different things resulting in some great successes and humbling failures. My investing experience has spanned all stages and every level of the capital structure. As an operator, I have helped build businesses ranging from early-stage start-ups to private equity backed assets with multi-billions in revenue. All of this has resulted in exits representing over $4.5 billion in aggregate value. Within healthcare, I am currently interested in pharma services for complex therapies, risk bearing care management and delivery models within specific specialties, network optimization solutions, clinical and operational workflow optimization, opportunities to disrupt the pharmaceutical value chain and solutions that enable employers to obtain significantly better results for their healthcare dollars. I put people first, constantly challenge convention, enjoy learning, think design is important and always look forward to the future.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Nancy G. Brown
General Partner of Oak HC/FT
Nancy G. Brown, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for McKesson Technology Solutions, has more than 25 years of experience in clinical research and automating clinical information systems, combining management, consulting and information technology skills. At McKesson, she is responsible for helping the company develop, acquire and apply new capabilities that position it to lead the industry and accelerate its Better Health 2020™ strategy, helping healthcare networks reduce costs, coordinate care, assume more risk and manage complex payment models.
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About Boston Children’s Hospital, Oak HC/FT, Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Nancy Brown
General Partner of Oak HC/FT
Nancy Brown (HC), a General Partner at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2014 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in Healthcare. Nancy currently serves on the Board of Axial Healthcare, Cricket Health, Maven, and Unite US. She is also a Board Observer at Limeade. Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Nancy was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for McKesson Technology Solutions. Previously, Nancy was Chief Growth Officer at MedVentive, which was acquired by McKesson in 2012. Before joining MedVentive, she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development as well as Senior Vice President of Clinical Service of athenahealth. Prior to joining athenahealth in 2004, she was a Senior Vice President at McKesson Corporation, focused on marketing and strategic planning. She joined McKesson in 1999 when it acquired a company she co-founded, Abaton.com, a provider of internet-based clinical solutions for the ambulatory market. Earlier, she spent eight years at Harvard Community Health Plan where she held several senior management roles. Nancy is also on the New England Capital Association Board of Directors and is a mentor for MassChallenge. Nancy received a Bachelor of Science at the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Northeastern University.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Pierre Socha
Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners
Pierre is an investment manager at ACP where he focuses on the medtech and healthcareIT sectors. He brings operational experience to our portfolios, having grown and turned around several life science businesses (in biopharma, molecular diagnostics, population genetics and medical foods) and cleantech companies (green fuels, feeds and fibres) in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Over a decade with Avesthagen Ltd, he guided the group’s global strategy and European activities, raised US $120 million and led two dozen transactions including acquisitions, joint-ventures and exits. Pierre started his career as an auditor with KPMG in France. He subsequently worked as a financial engineer at Natixis and as a research fellow in environmental econometrics where he focused on water management, health microeconometrics, oceanic resources management and spatial and urban econometrics. Pierre is French and holds an MSc in Environmental Economics (Hons) from Universite de Provence, France and a BSc in Finance & Econometrics (Math Spe.) from Universite Louis Pasteur, France. He also attended executive programs at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Pierre speaks French, English and conversational German.
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About Amadeus Capital Partners, V7: Amadeus Capital Partners caters to the technology sector with seed, early, and later stage venture, and private equity investments.
Andrea Traversone
Managing Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners
Andrea is a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, focusing on the wireless telecommunications sector. Since joining Amadeus in 1998, Andrea has worked on several transactions, and he is currently on the board of Riskclick, which supplies business process management software to the insurance industry; AePONA, which is a provider of open standards service creation platforms for the telecommunications industry; Seven Networks, which allows mobile phone users real-time access to email applications and Nujira. Andrea started his career as a financial auditor at a chain of resort hotels in Costa Rica, rising to become head of operations, finance and development. He holds an MBA from Cambridge University and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Italian by birth, Andrea is fluent in French and Spanish, as well as English and Italian.
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About Amadeus Capital Partners: Amadeus Capital Partners caters to the technology sector with seed, early, and later stage venture, and private equity investments.
Arsham Memarzadeh
Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners
Born the son of an Iranian immigrant and entrepreneur, Arsham developed an early appreciation for the resilience and ingenuity required to win, even when all the cards are stacked against you. “Building a company requires countless instances of running through, breaking down, and climbing over walls,” said Arsham. “Entrepreneurs are a rare breed and in a league of their own. Working alongside them, enabling their success, is what makes my day-to-day rewarding.” Arsham joined Lightspeed’s growth practice in 2019 to invest in product-driven software companies. He has a passion for evolving distribution models and believes the best companies find GTM leverage out of the product itself. “Consumerization of the enterprise has just as much to do with evolving sales motions as it does with building better products,” said Arsham. “Historically, company-building has been bifurcated into product development and product distribution. The next generation of great software companies will combine those worlds.” Before moving West, Arsham spent five years in Boston at the expansion stage venture firm, OpenView, where he invested in companies like Deputy, Highspot, and GitPrime, among others. He’s backed companies across three continents, in unlikely geographies and led by unassuming entrepreneurs, so it’s no surprise that Lightspeed’s global platform was part of what drew him to the firm. “I love finding great companies that might not follow popular narratives or be the golden child of Silicon Valley,” said Arsham. “I wholeheartedly believe innovation extends beyond the confines of the Bay Area.” Prior to investing, Arsham was a growth consultant, advising SaaS companies and helping analyze market and customer data to define product and GTM strategies. Arsham studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and is an active member of the school’s Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. When he’s not working, you can usually find him exploring all things outdoors or doing his best to not burn down the kitchen while cooking.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
David García
CEO | Founding Managing Partner of Borderless Capital
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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About Algorand, Borderless Capital, Crypto Assets Fund, Ripio: Borderless Capital is a Blockchain-focused venture capital group.
Shawn Broderick
General Partner of SOSV
Shawn Broderick has more than twenty years of experience creating value in software companies as individual contributor, entrepreneur, intrapraneur, manager, investor, and leader. Shawn has extensive experience in business development, sales, and partnering, with repeated success in developing products from concept to customer. Shawn brings an exceptional track record of sourcing, hiring, and retaining stellar employees to SOSV. He prides himself on identifying both diamonds-in-the-rough as well as young talent – and grooming and extracting the best from both. Being adept at managing business teams, technical teams, and creative teams, it’s no surprise that Shawn has broad experience raising institutional and angel funds for businesses and in sourcing LPs for investment vehicles.
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About AYLIEN, dlab, Food-X, SOSV: SOSV is a global VC firm with $1B AUM and 1,000+ investments, that operates HAX, IndieBio, Chinaccelerator, MOX, and dlab.
Reuben Kobulnik
Operating Partner of Valar Ventures
Operating Partner at Valar Ventures.
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About Valar Ventures: Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies.
Steven J. Kafka
Managing Partner of Section 32
Steven J. Kafka (PhD) is the Chief Business Officer at Foundation Medicine Inc. Steven Kafka joined Foundation Medicine in January 2013, bringing over 15 years of business and strategy experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with a focus on targeted therapies in oncology. Steven Kafka was previously Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Aileron Therapeutics, where he led the company’s operations, finance, and human resources functions, and helped to secure a major collaboration with Roche worth up to $1.1 billion. Before this, Steven Kafka was vice president of finance at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INFI) where he led finance, investor and public relations and business operations. While at Infinity, he worked on a number of innovative collaborations with leading pharmaceutical companies, including the company’s strategic alliance with Purdue Pharmaceuticals. Earlier in his career, Steven Kafka was Senior Director of Finance at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where he was a key member of the product team in driving strategic planning and alliance management efforts with partner Johnson & Johnson for VELCADE®, a novel targeted cancer therapeutic. Steven Kafka earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His B.A. with Distinction and Honors from Stanford University.
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About Section 32: Section 32 is a venture capital fund that invests at the cutting edge of technology, healthcare, and life sciences.
Krishna Yeshwant
Managing Partner of GV
Dr. Krishna Yeshwant is a physician, programmer, and entrepreneur who has been working with GV since its inception. He first joined Google as part of the New Business Development team. Prior to Google he helped start an electronic data interchange company that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard and a network security company that was acquired by Symantec. He also co-authored the business plan for Diagnostics For All, which won both the Harvard Business School and MIT $100k business plan competitions. Previously, Krishna published several book chapters and journal articles in the field of computer-guided surgery, completed research in tissue engineering, and developed and licensed multiple surgical devices. He has worked with the technology transfer offices of MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Krishna has a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University. He also earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA where he continues to practice.
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About GV, Partners HealthCare, Wingu: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
Ben Robbins
Venture Partner of GV
Ben is a dual degree student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. He co-founded a company to monitor drug adherence at a community health center in Boston and a non-profit to operate a school for AIDS orphans in Tanzania. Ben received his Bachelor of Arts with honors from Dartmouth College and has been recognized multiple times for his social impact work including the Harvard Medical School Dean’s community service award, Harvard Medical School Agents of Change seed grant, Harvard Medical School Master Scholar scholarship, and Harvard Business School Social Enterprise fellowship.
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About CareBridge, Cerevance, GV, Headway: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
David Schenkein
General Partner of GV
Dr. Schenkein joined Agios in August 2009 as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors and has been a hematologist and medical oncologist for more than 20 years. He currently serves as an adjunct attending physician in hematology at Tufts Medical Center and is a member of the board of directors for the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the world’s largest biotechnology trade association, a position he has held since 2012. Prior to joining Agios, from March 2006 to July 2009, Dr. Schenkein was the senior vice president, clinical hematology/oncology, at Genentech, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, where he was responsible for numerous successful oncology drug approvals and leading the medical and scientific strategies for their BioOncology portfolio. While at Genentech, he served as an adjunct clinical professor of medical oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Genentech, he served as the senior vice president of clinical research at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited), overseeing the clinical development and worldwide approval of Velcade®, a first-in-class cancer therapy now approved to treat multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He currently serves on the board of directors of Foundation Medicine, Inc., bluebird bio, Inc., and Blueprint Medicines Inc. Dr. Schenkein holds a B.A. in chemistry from Wesleyan University and an M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate Medical School.
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About GV, Tufts Medical Center: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
Brendan Bulik-Sullivan
Partner of GV
Brendan Bulik-Sullivan is a partner at GV where he focuses on life sciences investments. Prior to GV, Brendan’s career focused on applied statistics and machine learning research in genetics and biotechnology. He designed machine learning models for personalized immuno-oncology therapeutics at Gritstone Oncology and developed methods for statistical genetics research at the Broad Institute. Brendan’s work has been published in high-profile journals including Nature, Science, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Genetics.
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About GV: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
Christina Kelleher
Administrative Business Partner of GV
Christina joined GV in September 2011. Prior to joining the team, she was office manager and executive assistant to the founder/chief creative officer at TOTH+Co, a boutique advertising agency in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously, she worked as an event planner at a catering company in Charlestown, Massachusetts, organizing both corporate and social events. She also has experience in the field of public relations, most notably working at Context Marketing in Sausalito, California for the California Milk Advisory Board “Real California Cheese” and “Happy Cows” campaigns. Christina graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science in advertising and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.
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About GV: GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies.
Jeremiah Daly
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Elephant
Jeremiah is Co-Founder and Partner at Elephant, a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet and mobile markets. Previously, he was a Principal at Highland Capital Partners, where he focused on investments in growth stage internet, software, payments and mobile businesses. Prior to joining Highland, Jeremiah was a Principal at Accel Partners in London. While at Accel Jeremiah led the investment in Ostrovok.ru (Russian-focused online travel agency) and was involved with investments in Atlassian (software for streamlining product development), Showroomprive (online private sales club), SimpliVity (IT infrastructure technology for the virtualized data center and cloud) and Supercell (mobile and social games). Earlier, Jeremiah was an investor at Summit Partners and Gold Hill Capital and a banker at Silicon Valley Bank. Jeremiah lives in Boston and has a strong interest in amateur sports. He was the captain of the Dartmouth golf team where he was a two-time Academic All-Ivy performer and also enjoys skiing, squash, tennis, soccer and supporting Boston sports teams.
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About Elephant, KnowBe4, Malwarebytes: Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet, and mobile markets.
Christopher De Souza
Partner of Elephant
Chris is currently an Investor at Elephant, where he is responsible for sourcing and executing new investments in software and technology. He joined Elephant in 2016 after more than two years as an Associate at Bain Capital. Prior to joining Bain, he was an Analyst at Volition Capital. Chris earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Dartmouth College.
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About Elephant: Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet, and mobile markets.
Gus Coldebella
Partner of True Ventures
Gus Coldebella is the Partner at True Ventures.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Gus Coldebella
Partner of True Ventures
Gus Coldebella is the Partner at True Ventures.
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About True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Yumin Choi
Partner of Bain Capital Ventures
Yumin Choi is a Vice President of HLM Venture Partners. Yumin is currently a Director of Vets First Choice and is a board observer at Institute for Health Metrics (IHM), Nordic Consulting, and TYRX. He is a director to The Capital Network, a non-profit focused on educating entrepreneurs around topics of fundraising and finance, He previously was chair of the New England Venture Network (NEVN), the largest young Venture Capital organization in New England. Yumin is co-chair of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Venture Capital and Private Equity committee and is on Boston University’s Coulter Foundation Oversight Committee. Prior to HLM, Yumin was with Angel Healthcare Investors, a health care focused early stage investment group, ZweigWhite’s Financial Advisory Services and Mergers & Acquisitions Group and was co-founder and CEO of CY Digital. He is also a mentor in health care focused startup accelerators, Blueprint Health and Healthbox, and is an active angel investor. Yumin received a BS from Babson College.
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About Angel Healthcare Investors, Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Michael Krupka
Partner of Bain Capital Ventures
Michael Krupka is a Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Michael Krupka was a Managing Director with the Private Equity Group of Bain Capital, during which time he focused his investing activities on technology and technology-driven companies, including software, hardware, database, and telecommunication services. Earlier at Bain Capital, Michael Krupka was a Principal of Information Partners, a fund focused on early-stage information technology investing. He has also served in several operating roles as President of a $110 M revenue software company and CFO of a $70 M revenue services company. Prior to joining Bain Capital in 1991, Michael Krupka was a consultant with Bain & Company. In addition to his firm and portfolio responsibilities, Michael Krupka also serves on the Boards of the Boys and Girls Club of Boston and MetroLacrosse. Michael Krupka has a BA in Chemistry from Dartmouth College.
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About Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Scott Friend
Partner of Bain Capital Ventures
Scott joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2006 after selling the company he co-founded, ProfitLogic, to Oracle. ProfitLogic was the leader in the world of retail analytics and price optimization solutions. Through the experience of building ProfitLogic from its initial three founders to a 300 person global software and solutions business serving the retail industry, Scott had the opportunity to get to know many of the most influential executives in the retail and apparel brand world. Not surprisingly, Scott’s areas of investment interest since joining BCV have revolved around the retail ecosystem, both online and offline as well as the convergence of the two, and he finds himself splitting time between New York City and Boston. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Scott was Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board and VP of Marketing & Science for Oracle Retail.Prior to its acquisition by Oracle in 2005, Scott was the President and co-founder of ProfitLogic which was a Bain Capital portfolio company.In 2005, Scott was named a winner of the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in New England. Scott was also honored in 2004 as one of Chain Store Age’s “40 Under 40” most influential executives in the retail industry, and in 2006 received the Extended Retail Industry “Lifetime Achievement Award.” Prior to ProfitLogic, Scott held positions at Learning Sciences Corporation, an early pioneer in the e-learning space, The Parthenon Group, a management consulting firm, and IBM, where Scott’s customers were major retailers. Scott received an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School and a BA, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Brown University. At Brown, Scott was captain of the Men’s Varsity Tennis Team and he continues, despite the futility of his efforts, to be a big supporter of Brown Athletics. Scott is a Cubs fan, so you know he roots for the underdog and never gives up hope! He also may be the only Venture Capitalist you’ll meet who knows who Herve Leger is, has visited Zac Posen’s design studio, has been to the runway shows during NY Fashion Week and has met Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn on Project Runway.
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About Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Paul Zurlo
Partner & COO of Bain Capital Ventures
Paul joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2007. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Paul was COO of Mercer Outsourcing, a $750M division of Mercer focused on benefit plan administration. Prior to that, he was the president of GoldK (acquired) and CFO of MCK Communications, a Summit Partners portfolio company that he helped take public. At Summit Partners, he made numerous other investments, including: SeaChange Int’l (NASDAQ: SEAC); DSET (NASDAQ: DSET), and Omtool (NASDAQ: OMTL). Paul started his career as a consultant with Bain & Company.
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About Bain Capital Ventures: Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Axel Bichara
Partner and Founder of Bolt
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About Bolt: Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect.
Matt Thoms
Partner of Bolt
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About Bolt: Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect.
Nick Grossman
Partner of Union Square Ventures
Nick Grossman is a technologist and entrepreneur interested in the intersection of the web and urban, social and civic systems. For the past 10 years, he has developed software and media products, advocacy efforts, and internet-based businesses that help cities and the internet work better together. Grossman is currently the General Manager of Policy and Outreach at Union Square Ventures, where he works on public policy and regulatory issues facing peer networks on the web, and leads advocacy initiatives that support web-based innovation. He is also an advisor at Code for America and a visiting scholar at the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. Previously, Grossman led an incubator for technology and media initiatives at OpenPlans by producing advocacy media properties focused on urban policy, building web applications to spark engagement in local civic issues, and building open source and open data businesses that serve the public sector. Nick Grossman has a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University.
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About Connected I/O, Union Square Ventures: Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
Jeff Immelt
Venture Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE’s Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. Immelt has been named one of the World’s Best CEOs three times by Barron’s, and since he began serving as chief executive officer, GE has been named America’s Most Admired Company in a poll conducted by Fortunemagazine and one of The World’s Most Respected Companies in polls by Barron’s and the Financial Times. Immelt was the chair of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.
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About GE Appliances, GE Healthcare, GE Plastics, New Enterprise Associates, Stanford Graduate School of Business: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Matthew McAviney
Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Matt is a Senior Associate at F-Prime Capital and focuses primarily on the biopharmaceutical and medical technology sectors. Prior to joining F-Prime in 2013, Matt was a healthcare consultant at Oliver Wyman, a biotech equity analyst at Robert W. Baird, and a healthcare investment banker at J.P. Morgan. He began his career researching lipid metabolism at the NIH. Matt holds a M.D. from the University of Illinois and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in biology with honors from the University of Chicago.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Mike Tyrrell
General Partner of Venrock
General Partner at Venrock Associates.
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About Venrock: Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.
Michael Sperling
Partner of The Baupost Group
Partner at The Baupost Group
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About The Baupost Group: The Baupost Group is a Boston-based hedge fund investment manager.
Peter Kolchinsky
Managing Partner of RA Capital Management
Dr. Kolchinsky is a founding Partner and Portfolio Manager at RA Capital. He is active in both public and private investments In biotechnology areas as diverse as drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and life science tools. He authored the e-book “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Biotech Startup”. He also serves on the board of the American Fertility Association, and is a board member of several private healthcare companies. In the past, Dr. Kolchinsky has served on the Board of Global Science and Technology for the National Academies of Sciences. He received a PhD in Virology from Harvard University. His doctoral work involved studies of the mechanism by which HIV infects cells. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
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About RA Capital Management: RA Capital Management is an investment advisor specializing in the life-sciences and drug development sectors.
Felda Hardymon
Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners
Felda Hardymon, a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge, Mass. office, joined the firm in 1981. He focuses on investments in the software, communications and storage sectors. He serves on the boards of Vertica (acquired by HP), Streambase, Goal.com (acquired by Perform), Endeca and SVB Financial Group (aka Silicon Valley Bank). Past investments include superconducting materials company American Superconductor (NASDAQ: AMSC); telecommunications providers Cascade Communications (acquired by Ascend) and Sirocco (acquired by Cascade); Celcore, a maker of switches for wireless-telephone networks (acquired by DSC); African telecommunications provider Celtel (acquired by MTC, now called Zain); Parametric Technology, a provider of product cycle-management software; sporting-goods chain Sports Authority; office-supply company Staples; and Axis Networks (acquired by ACE) a 4G, wireless-remote radio head supplier. Since 1998, Felda also has taught and done research at Harvard Business School where he holds the appointment of MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice. He is currently on leave from Harvard and is a visiting professor of finance at The London School of Economics. Prior to joining Bessemer, Felda worked at BDSI, the original venture subsidiary of General Electric, where he was an investor in Ungermann-Bass, Stratus Computer and Western Digital. Prior to that, he taught mathematics and served as director of systems and research at Duke University. Felda has a B.S. from Rose Polytechnic, an M.A. and Ph.D from Duke and an MBA from Harvard.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.
Andrew Hedin
Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners
Andrew Hedin is a Board of Director at Kymera Therapeutics. He’s also the Vice President in Bessemer’s Cambridge office, where he focuses on investments in healthcare. Prior to joining Bessemer in 2015, Andrew worked at F-Prime Capital, Fidelity’s healthcare-focused venture capital fund. While there, he invested broadly across healthcare in early stage healthcare tech, healthcare services, biotech and medtech startups. Andrew has also worked with Health Essentials, a healthcare services company focused on providing post-acute and coordinated care to the frail elderly. Andrew began his career at Leerink Partners, a boutique healthcare-focused firm where he focused on growth strategies for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies. Andrew holds an MBA with honors from The Wharton School, where he majored in Health Care Management and Finance, as well as a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania, where he conducted research in both the neuroscience and psychology departments. Andrew also serves on the steering committee of the New England Venture Network, the largest group of young venture capitalists in the New England area.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.
Chris Gabrieli
Partner – Cambridge, Massachusetts Emeritus of Bessemer Venture Partners
Chris Gabrieli, a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge, Mass. office, joined the firm in 1986 to launch its healthcare practice. In 25 years of investing with Bessemer, he has invested broadly in healthcare and other industries. He currently focuses on biotechnology, healthcare services and education. Chris is closely involved in Bessemer’s investments in cancer-therapeutics firm AVEO Pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceutical firms Acceleron Pharma, Proteon, Oxagen and Transave. He serves on the board of digital textbook pioneer Flat World Knowledge. Among his past portfolio companies are biopharmaceutical company Affymax ( NASDAQ: AFFY); electronic health-record solutions company Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX); Isis Pharmaceuticals, a company that is the leading innovator in RNA-targeting pharmaceuticals; PerSeptive BioSystems, a maker of instruments for protein synthesis (acquired by Perkin-Elmer); Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a developer of small-molecule drugs (NASDAQ: SIRT, acquired by GlaxoSmithKline); TravCorps, a pioneering healthcare-staffing company acquired by Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN); and VistaCare (NASDAQ:VSTA), a provider of hospice-care services. Prior to his career at Bessemer, Chris founded and served as CEO of GMIS, a healthcare-software company he co-founded and helped build, take public and sell to the leading industry consolidator, McKesson (NYSE: MCK). Bessemer was an investor in GMIS. Chris graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in history and science and completed two years of the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons M.D. program. He is also a leader in education innovation and is founder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.
Stephen Kraus
Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners
Stephen Kraus, a partner in the Cambridge, Mass. office, has worked with Bessemer since 2004 and focuses on the healthcare sector. Currently, he focuses his new deal activity on early and growth stage opportunities in healthcare IT and healthcare services. He currently sits on the boards of Liazon, Health Essentials, DocuTAP, Ovascience, Verastem, Allena Pharmaceuticals and Alcresta and is actively involved in BVP’s investments in Acceleron and Proteon. Steve has been actively involved in Bessemer’s investments in Sirtris Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SIRT, acquired by GlaxoSmithKline); Affymax (NASDAQ: AFFY); Aveo (NASDAQ: AVEO); Alnara, acquired by Eli Lilly; Transave (NASDAQ: INSM); Stromedix, acquired by Biogen Idec, Verastem (NASDAQ: VSTM), and Restore Medical (NASDAQ: REST), acquired by Medtronic. Prior to joining Bessemer, Steve was a director at the Ironwood Equity Fund, a growth-stage, private-equity firm, and a management consultant at Bain & Co. In 2002, he served as speechwriter and operations director for the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts Steve graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Yale University and earned his MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker Scholar. He serves on the boards of the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA), the Achievement Network, and Interise. Steve was recently recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top life science investors if 2013. Steve regularly blogs with BVP’s Ambar Bhattacharyya at HCVC’s(two healthcare investors’ musings on work and life).
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About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.
Kent Bennett
Partner of Bessemer Venture Partners
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About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.
Ivan Reilly
General Partner and Managing Director of Backswing Ventures
Ivan began his career working on complex IT business solutions in Europe. Navigating International markets through sophisticated platforms, Ivan gained experience in strategic Application Delivery and Digital Program execution. Ivan’s granular understanding of QMS / Design Control protocols and Software Development in global regulated environments are key components to his success at MoxēHub. Ivan has a background in economics, and his past experience in software development is extensive, having expertise in the Healthcare, Pharm, Education, and Beauty industries.
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About Backswing Ventures: Backswing Ventures is a $50m venture fund investing in early stage companies in a broad range of industries.
TJ Rose
Partner of ABRY Partners
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About ABRY Partners: ABRY Partners is an equity firm focused on investments in media.
Royce Yudkoff
Managing Partner of ABRY Partners
Managing Partner at ABRY Partners.
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About ABRY Partners: ABRY Partners is an equity firm focused on investments in media.
Nicholas Scola
Partner of ABRY Partners
Partner at ABRY Partners.
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About ABRY Partners: ABRY Partners is an equity firm focused on investments in media.
Brent Stone
Partner of ABRY Partners
Board member Brent Stone has been involved in a variety of media, information and business services investments and financings as a partner at ABRY Partners. His areas of focus have included insurance services, education, motion picture production and entertainment.
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About ABRY Partners: ABRY Partners is an equity firm focused on investments in media.
Stuart Brown
Partner of BV Investment Partners
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About BV Investment Partners: BV Investment Partners, a private equity firm, invests in the information and business services and communications industries.
Stuart Brown
Partner of BV Investment Partners
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About BV Investment Partners: BV Investment Partners, a private equity firm, invests in the information and business services and communications industries.
Dan MacKeigan
Founding Partner of Spring Lake Equity Partners
Dan is a founding partner of Spring Lake Equity Partners. Prior to founding Spring Lake, Dan served as a Partner in Tudor Investment Corporation’s private equity group, the predecessor to Spring Lake, since 2000. He has focused on investments in the wireless, mobile and internet sectors. Dan also currently serves on the board of RBM Technologies, Vantage, Vantrix, and ArcSoft. Prior investments where Dan served as a director or was actively involved include Wimba, N2 Broadband, Shoebuy, and Wavelink. Prior to Spring Lake Equity Partners, Dan spent three years as a Vice President and Senior Public Equity Research Analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, a Northern Virginia-based investment bank, focusing on public and private companies in the internet, media, and technology industries. As a public equity analyst, Dan conducted research on several emerging companies, including America Online, eBay, DoubleClick and Network Solutions. Dan was also a financial consultant for Zurich Investments. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Trinity College in Hartford.
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About Spring Lake Equity Partners: Spring Lake Equity Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm. We invest equity capital primarily in later-stage, technology-oriented
Matthew Christensen
Founder, Managing Partner of Rose Park Advisors
Matthew Christensen is the CEO, Portfolio Manager, and co-founder (together with Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School) of Rose Park Advisors, a Boston-based investment firm focused on investing in innovative companies. Matt is an expert in identifying and applying disruptive innovation frameworks and assessing whether management can capitalize on or defend against a disruptive strategy. Matt was formerly a Senior Associate at Innosight, leading engagements in the biotechnology, enterprise software, grocery, and financial services industries, among others. Mr. Christensen was also head of Innosight’s small business and workshops initiatives. Before Innosight, Mr. Christensen worked at the Boston Consulting Group, working on projects in various industries, including specialty chemicals, telecom, technology and industrial goods. Prior to receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, Mr. Christensen graduated from Duke University with a BSc in economics and a BSE in civil engineering with an emphasis in structural engineering. While at Duke, he won a national championship in 2001, playing basketball for Coach Mike Krzyzewski. In 2002, he won the Coaches’ Award, given to the player best embodying the spirit of Duke Basketball, as well as the Dr. Deryl Hart Award (Top Scholar-Athlete). Christensen served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Frankfurt, Germany.
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About Rose Park Advisors: Rose Park Advisors is an investment firm focused on identifying investment opportunities by applying the framework of disruptive innovation.
Trevor Baglin
Venture Partner of Medicxi Ventures
Trevor is a Venture Partner in the investment team with main focus on growth stage clinical opportunities. Prior to joining Medicxi, he was a Consultant Haematologist at Cambridge University Hospitals for 27 years. His main research interests were in personalised risk profiling and the molecular basis of blood coagulation, which ultimately led to his interest in drug discovery and development. He was a Founder and Director of Xo1, Apcintex and SuperX. Trevor served as President of the British Society for Haematology, President of the British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis and Chairman of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology. He was a Founder of the European Congress for Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Between 2001 and 2008 he led the introduction of Clinical Governance into Cambridge University Hospitals and latterly was a Divisional Director. Trevor led an internationally recognised clinical research team investigating the gene-environment interaction leading to thrombosis. He has published more than 200 scientific papers. He qualified in medicine from the University of Manchester and obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists.
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About ApcinteX, Medicxi Ventures, Medicxi Ventures, SuperX: Medicxi is a life sciences-focused investment firm.
William Ribaudo
Managing Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Aaron Fleishman
Partner of Tola Capital
Mr. Fleishman is a Partner at Tola Capital where he invests in early stage B2B software companies. Prior to venture, Mr. Fleishman was a strategist and entrepreneur, with experience as a Strategy Manager at Microsoft and as an eCommerce startup CEO and Founder. Having been on both sides of the investment table, Mr. Fleishman leverages this dual perspective along with his financial, strategic, and operational expertise to identify compelling technology companies and investments. Prior to starting his own company, Mr. Fleishman worked as a Corporate Strategy and M&A Manager at Microsoft. His responsibilities included strategic planning, product strategy, market analysis, deal evaluation, due diligence, and post-deal integration. Mr. Fleishman evaluated acquisition targets ranging from $2M – $50B valuations, including product strategy and synergy analysis that resulted in the eventual $26B acquisition of LinkedIn. He also worked with executives at Microsoft to devise the company’s strategy in enterprise SaaS, cloud, and search. As the CEO and Founder of his own eCommerce startup, Mr. Fleishman conceived of a new business model for the $7B high-end apparel market and built a revenue-generating business in nine months. He built the user experience and back-end systems, managed marketing efforts, forged partnerships with multi-million dollar designer labels, and directed the long-term strategy and vision of the company. Mr. Fleishman worked at a hedge fund in New York earlier in his career and he is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a BSc in Finance and Entrepreneurship and a BA in International Studies.
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About Tola Capital: Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that invests globally in enterprise software companies across multiple stages.
Amir Nashat
Managing Partner of Polaris Partners
Amir Nashat is a Managing Partner in Polaris’ Boston office. Amir joined Polaris in 2002 and focuses on investments in healthcare. Amir currently represents Polaris as a Member of the Board of Directors at AgBiome, aTyr Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LIFE), BIND Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BIND), Fate Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FATE), Metacrine, Promedior Pharmaceuticals, Scholar Rock, Selecta Biosciences, and Syros Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, Amir has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Adnexus Therapeutics (Bristol Myers Squibb), Athenix Corporation (Bayer), Avila Therapeutics (Celgene), Living Proof, Pervasis Therapeutics (Shire Pharmaceuticals), Receptos (Celgene) and Sun Catalytix (Lockheed Martin). At Living Proof and Sun Catalytix, Amir served as the company’s initial Chief Executive Officer. Amir serves on the Partners Innovation Fund and is a Catalyst of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. Amir previously served on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association. Amir has been named to the Forbes Midas List of “Top 100 Venture Capitalists.” Prior to joining Polaris, Amir completed his Ph.D. as a Hertz Fellow in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a minor in Biology under the guidance of Dr. Robert Langer. Amir also earned both his M.S. degree and B.S. degree in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Polaris Partners, Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
David Barrett
Managing Partner of Polaris Partners
20 yr operating exec & entrepreneur. Mentor, coach & partner to innovators, entrepreneurs & technology start-ups. 14 yr early & growth-stage investor focusing on SaaS, data/analytics, cloud infrastructure and healthcare technologies.
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About Polaris Partners, Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Terrance McGuire
Founding Partner of Polaris Partners
Mcguire has served as a member of Acceleron’s board of directors since 2005.McGuire co-founded Polaris Partners in 1996 and is currently one of their general partners.Prior to starting Polaris Partners,.McGuire spent seven years at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., investing in early stage medical and information technology companies.He currently serves on the board of directors of Adimab/Arsanis, Aero Designs/Wiki Cells, Arsenal Medical/480 Biomedical, Iora Health, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Life Line Screening, MicroCHIPS, NextCode, Pulmatrix, SustainX, and Trevena. He has served on the board of directors of numerous other companies, including Remon Medical Technologies, GlycoFi, Akamai Technologies, Aspect Medical Systems, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Transform Pharma, and deCODE genetics.McGuire is the former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, chairman of the board of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and a member of the boards of The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. McGuire received a BS in physics and economics from Hobart College, an MS in engineering from The Thayer School at Dartmouth College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Advanced Inhalation Research, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, MicroCHIPS, Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Pat Kinsel
Partner of Polaris Partners
Pat Kinsel is a Venture Partner at Polaris Partners. He joined the firm in August 2013. Pat specializes in designing and building innovative technologies and consumer products. He has built products in the mobile, search, social, local, productivity, and collaboration spaces. Pat joined Polaris from Spindle, a company he co-founded and led as CEO from December 2010 until it was acquired by Twitter in June 2013. Spindle developed patent pending search technology to surface the most timely and interesting updates from services like Twitter and Facebook. Spindle’s technology advanced search by understanding the implicit context made available by mobile devices to compose a far richer query than a keyword alone ever could. Prior to Spindle, Pat spent several years at Microsoft leading teams within Microsoft FUSE Labs and Microsoft Startup Labs. Pat was responsible for incubating new concepts and bringing them to market. In this role, he led development of Docs.com. Launched by Mark Zuckerberg at F8 in 2010, Docs.com was a collaboration between Microsoft and Facebook to bring Microsoft Office Online to the Facebook audience. Before Docs.com, Pat built several social discovery applications and helped launch Bing’s social search efforts, ultimately bringing Bing Social Search to market in October 2009. At Microsoft, Pat was a co-inventor of several pending patents in the areas of social search and collaboration.
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About Harvard Innovation Labs, Notarize, Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Jon Flint
Founding Partner of Polaris Partners
Jon originated Living Proof’s vision of assembling a team of medical and biotech scientists to develop advanced technology for consumer hair and skin products.Jon served as CEO of Living Proof from November 2010 through December 2011.He is also the co-founder and a managing general partner of Polaris Venture Partners, a $3 billion venture capital fund with offices in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco.Jon’s current board seats include Athletes’ Performance and JibJab Media. Experience: Prior to founding Polaris, Jon was a partner with Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., which he joined in 1984. Before joining BEDCO, he was an associate at the Boston law firm of Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault, where he represented venture capital firms and high technology companies.Prior to Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault, Jon gained substantial investigative experience during his service on the Impeachment Inquiry Staff of the U.S. Judiciary Committee and on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. Boards and Education: Jon currently represents Polaris on the boards of Allurent, Athletes’ Performance, JibJab Media, Inc., Living Proof, Inc., and Modelinia, Inc.Jon’s prior investments include Allaire, American SuperConductor, Avici Systems, Centra, Conductus, Exchange.com, Mariner Health Care, Powersoft, and SolidWorks.Jon holds a JD from the University of Virginia Law School and a BA with high honors from Hobart College.
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About Icelandic Provisions, Polaris Founders Capital, Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Darren Carroll
Partner of Polaris Partners
Mr. Darren Carroll leads the New Ventures Division of Eli Lilly and Company which includes both Lilly Ventures and Lilly Asian Ventures where he is the Senior Managing Director. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Carroll was the founding chief executive officer of InnoCentive, Inc., the first e-business venture created by Lilly. Among other positions Mr. Carroll has held at Lilly, he was the U.S. attorney for Prozac®.
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About Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Dan Lombard
Partner of Polaris Partners
Dan joined Polaris as a Principal in 2015. He focuses primarily on growth equity investments and buyout opportunities in software and technology-enabled services. Prior to joining Polaris, Dan was a Vice President with H.I.G. Growth Partners, a private equity firm focused on recapitalizations of growth-oriented, lower middle market businesses. While at H.I.G., Dan was responsible for sourcing, executing and monitoring investments in software, internet, and business services. He also served on the boards of several companies. Previously, Dan served as an associate at Symmetric Capital, where he sourced and executed investments in software, healthcare and business services. He also was an investment banking analyst at Bank of America in San Francisco, where he worked with growth-oriented technology and healthcare companies on private capital raises and recapitalizations. Dan received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was recognized as an Edward Tuck Scholar, and a BA from Yale University.
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About Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Chip Hazard
General Partner of Flybridge
Full-time VC who thinks infrastructure software and AI is hip, part-time family Uber driver, photographer, and dogcatcher. Co-Founder and Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures.
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About Datalogue, Einblick, Flybridge, Scitara, StackHawk, XFactor Ventures: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Jeff Bussgang
General Partner and Co-Founder of Flybridge
Jeff Bussgang is the General Partner and Co-Founder of Flybridge Capital Partners. He has a master’s degree in Business and Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.
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About BloXroute Labs, Bowery Farming, Cartera Commerce, FalconX, Flybridge, Global EIR, Hack.Diversity, Harvard Business School, Hedron, Infracommerce, Plastiq, The Graduate Syndicate, Upromise: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Anna Palmer
General Partner of Flybridge
Anna is an entrepreneur with over four years in the start-up space. She holds a B.A. from Eureka College in Communications, Political Science, and History, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has founded two non-profit organizations, served on three non-profit boards, and currently is an active volunteer for BUILD, an entrepreneurship program for high school students.
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About Dough, Fashion Project, Flybridge, Wondermile, XFactor Ventures: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Paul Maeder
Chair and Partner, Founder of Highland Capital Partners
Paul focuses on startups in robotics and online education. He is a Founding Partner of Highland Capital Partners and has 32 years of experience in venture capital. He has served as a director of many public and private technology companies and is currently the Board Chair of 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), is on the board of Imprivata (NYSE: IMPR), and manages Highland’s investments in Avidyne, Carbon Black, BlueTarp Financial, Jaunt VR, and Rethink Robotics. Paul has been recognized by the Forbes Midas List as one of the top venture capitalists in the industry and was the 2011-2012 Chair of the National Venture Capital Association during the creation and passage of the JOBS Act. He is also the 2008 recipient of the Mass Technology Leadership Council Commonwealth Award. Paul serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University and is Co-Chair of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Campaign Committee. He is also a former Board Chair of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and of the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Paul earned BSE in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences at Princeton University, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About Highland Capital Partners, Highland Transcend Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Dan Nova
General Partner of Highland Capital Partners
Dan joined Highland in 1996 as a General Partner to establish and build the firma’s internet investment practice. He also co-founded the Highland Consumer Fund, where he is Chair of the Investment Committee, and he is leading the firm’s expansion efforts into China. He continues to be an active investor focusing on technology and consumer investments with specific experience and interest in internet, digital marketing and media technologies. Dan led the firm’s investments and has served on the boards of a number of successful companies including:Ask Jeeves – IPO,BeFree – IPO,eToys – IPO,Fastclick – IPO, acquired by ValueClick, Gamesville – acquired by Lycos, Lycos – IPO ,MapQuest – IPO, acquired by AOL. N2 Broadband – acquired by TANDBERG Television, Navic Networks – acquired by Microsoft. New York Times Digital – acquired by New York Times, Co, Quote.com – acquired by Lycos. Raindance – IPO,RoweCom – IPO. His current portfolio includes CMI Marketing, Coremetrics, Gotuit, Qihoo, StyleFeeder, TriStar Investors, UUSee and Yoga Works. Dan has been recognized by the prestigious Forbes Midas List as one of the top venture capitalists in the industry. Prior to joining Highland in 1996, Dan was a Partner at CMG Ventures where he co-led the partnership’s investment activities in early-stage internet companies. While at CMG Ventures, Dan co-founded Lycos, Inc. in June of 1995, and played an integral role from its inception to its IPO in April of 1996 and finally through its sale to Terra Networks in 2000. Prior to joining CMG Ventures Dan was a Senior Associate at Summit Partners focused on later-stage technology and environmental investments. He also worked at Wang Laboratories from 1983 through 1989 in a variety of sales management and sales positions.
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About Coremetrics, Gotuit, Highland Capital Partners, Highland Transcend Partners, Qihoo 360 Technology, StyleFeeder, TriStar Investors, VIVA: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Bob Davis
Partner of Highland Capital Partners
Bob is a General Partner at Highland focusing primarily on digital media and the internet and has been with our team since 2001. He currently represents Highland on the boards of Bullhorn, Going, Hangout Industries, NameMedia, Paragon Lake, Quattro Wireless and Turbine and previously served on the board of Fastclick (Acquired by VCLK) until its successful merger with ValueClick (Nasdaq: VCLK), Quigo (acquired by AOL) and Navic (acquired by MSFT). Bob is the best-selling author of “Speed is Life: Street Smart Lessons from the Front Lines of Business (Currency).” Background Prior to joining Highland, Bob served as the Chief Executive Officer of Terra Lycos (TRLY) formed in October 2000 with the $5.5 billion acquisition of Lycos by Terra Networks of Spain. Previously, Bob was the Founder of Lycos, Inc (LCOS) and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1995 where he led Lycos from a start-up with $2 million in venture capital funding to become the most visited online destination in the world with over 100 million unique visitors. Under his leadership, Lycos jumped from the fastest IPO in Nasdaq history, a mere nine months from inception to offering, to a global media entity and an esteemed member of the Nasdaq 100. Bob has served on the boards of several public and private sector companies including John Hancock (JHFS), Ticketmaster (TCMS), Terra Lycos (TRLY), Lycos (LCOS) and Lycos Europe (LCY). He also serves as a Trustee for Children Hospital Trust Board, The Rivers School and also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Northeastern University School of Technological Entrepreneurship. Bob has advised former President Clinton on matters relating to internet commerce and regulation and has addressed Congress, The United Nations, The National Press Corps and the U.S. Council of Foreign Relations on similar matters.
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About Highland Capital Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Craig Driscoll
General Partner of Highland Capital Partners
Craig is a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, which he joined in 2006. Craig serves on the boards of Xometry, WhyHotel and Remote Year. He’s actively involved with Catalant and SessionM. He is a former director of Trilogy Education Services (acquired by 2U in 2019) and INXPO (acquired by West Corporation in 2018). He has also been involved in Bullhorn (acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2012) and Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple in 2010). Previously, Craig worked at Korn/Ferry, JacobsRimell (acquired by Amdocs), Fidelity Ventures, The Yankee Group, and Beacon Power Corporation (IPO in 2000). He holds a B.E. from Vanderbilt University.
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About Catalant, Highland Capital Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
William Johnson
Operating Partner of Advent International
William Johnson is a Member of the Board of Directors at UPS since 2009. William is a Member of the Executive Committee and serves as the Lead Independent Director and Chairperson of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. William is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer at the H. J. Heinz Company, offering high quality and healthy products worldwide. With more than $10 billion in annual sales, Heinz’s 50 companies have leading brands in more than 200 countries. The Heinz brand enjoys international renown and accounts for more than $3 billion in annual sales. Other well-known U.S. brands include Ore-Ida, Boston Market Homestyle Meals, T.G.I. Fridays, Classico and Bagel Bites. Among Heinz’s best-known overseas brands in addition to Heinz are, Plasmon, ABC, Wattie’s, Pudliszki, Complan, and Long Fong. William joined Heinz in 1982 as General Manager – New Businesses for Heinz USA. In 1984, William was promoted to Vice President – Marketing for Ketchup, Foodservice and Sauces. William was named President and Chief Executive Officer at Heinz Pet Products in 1988, and assumed leadership of Star-Kist Foods, Inc., in May 1992, when the pet food business and Star-Kist were re-united. These businesses were spun off and merged with Del Monte Foods in December 2002. In 1993, William was named Senior Vice President of Heinz and joined the company’s Board of Directors. William’s responsibilities included Heinz operations in the Asia/Pacific area, including Australia, New Zealand, China, Thailand and South Korea, in addition to the canned tuna and pet food businesses of Star-Kist Foods, Inc. William became President and Chief Operating Officer of Heinz in June 1996 and assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer on April 30, 1998. William was named Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer on September 12, 2000. Prior to joining Heinz, William was employed by Drackett, Ralston Purina and Anderson-Clayton. William earned his Undergraduate degree from UCLA and his MBA from the University of Texas. An active supporter of community organizations, William has served as a Member of the National Athena Awards committee, chaired the 2001 annual campaign for the United Way of Western Pennsylvania, and chaired numerous local events including the 2004 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust gala event. In 2006, William received the inaugural Global Visionary Award from Helen Keller International for Heinz’s micronutrient program for combating childhood anemia. William also received the Marco Polo Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Chinese government on foreign business leaders, for Heinz’s support of the development of the Chinese food industry. William also serves on the Board of Directors of Emerson Electric Company, PepsiCo, Inc., the Grocery Manufacturers of America and is an active member of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business advisory council. In 2007, William was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.
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About Advent International: Advent International is a global private equity firm that invests in the business and financial services.
Bob Chicoski
Founder & General Partner of Tech Pioneers Fund
Bob Chicoski is the founder and Managing Partner of Tech Pioneers Fund, a venture capital fund with offices in San Francisco, Boston and New York. Tech Pioneers Fund makes early and growth stage investments in pioneering companies in emerging and established info tech sectors. TPF is built around a “value network” of successful business leaders, including members of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers community. Tech Pioneers Fund works alongside top tier investors and provides targeted assistance to portfolio companies by leveraging the unique Tech Pioneers Fund network. This network serves to enhance returns and provide other derivative benefits to members. Tech Pioneers Fund portfolio companies include Compass, Orbital Insight, and Digisure. Prior to founding Tech Pioneers Fund, Bob was a General Partner at Saturn Partners, a Boston based venture capital fund, where he led investments in such companies as Alignable and Omaze. Previously, Bob worked for a family office; industry2industry; Deloitte Consulting; and the Federal Reserve Bank. He has also been an advisor to Pfizer and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bob received an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.
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About Tech Pioneers Fund: Tech Pioneers Fund is an independent and membership-driven venture capital fund investing in innovative technology companies.
Alex Benik
Partner of Battery Ventures
Alex joined Battery in 2001 and currently works out of Battery’s Waltham office. From 2001 through 2006, he was based in Menlo Park. Alex focuses on investments in infrastructure technologies for Enterprise, Data Centers, and wired/wireless service providers. He has also been actively involved in building Battery’s semiconductor portfolio. Alex is also the focal point for Battery’s relationships with technologists and end-users at Fortune 1000 enterprises and large web scale operators. He is particularly interested in the challenges of building web scale data center networks and distributed computing systems. During his tenure at Battery, Alex has been involved with several of the firm’s investments including Achronix, Anobit Technologies (acquired by Apple), Aurora Networks, Cumulus Networks, Diablo Technologies, MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL), Nutanix, Optichron, Tracelytics (acquired by AppNeta), Veraz Networks (NASDAQ: VRAZ), VSS Monitoring (acquired by Danaher), and ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip). Prior to joining the firm, Alex was an Analyst at The Yankee Group, where he performed market research and consulting focused on local, wide area, and transport networks. While in this position, he executed strategic marketing and competitive analysis for clients including major telecommunications equipment and service providers. Alex earned a BA in Government from Wesleyan University. Alex co-authors www.thewholestack.com, a blog focused on infrastructure IT, and was named a top cloud investor by GigaOm in 2012.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Morad Elhafed
General Partner of Battery Ventures
Morad joined Battery in 2008. He focuses primarily on growth and buyout investments in the Software and Internet sectors. Based in Battery’s Boston office, Morad is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America and Europe. He is involved with Battery’s investments in IHS, Jeeves Information Systems, SingleHop and Vero Software and was involved with Neolane prior to its acquisition by Adobe. Before Battery, Morad worked in the technology investment banking practice at RBC Capital Markets, where he focused on M&A, equity and debt financings. Morad graduated with a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Jesse Feldman
General Partner of Battery Ventures
Jesse Feldman is a General Partner at Battery Ventures.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Michael Brown
General Partner of Battery Ventures
Since joining Battery Ventures in 1998, Michael has made, or managed, multiple investments in the areas of financial services, enterprise software and technology-enabled business services. Michael currently serves on the board of ExactTarget, Fingerhut Direct Marketing, Panjiva, and TradeKing. In addition, he has been actively involved with Battery’s investments in ChemConnect (acquired by InterContinental Exchange), The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) (acquired by Euronext), MRU Holdings, and OutlookSoft Corporation (acquired by SAP). From 1996 to 1998, Michael was a member of the High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked on numerous debt and equity financings and merger and acquisition assignments. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst within Goldman’s Financial Institutions Group between 1994 and 1996, where he focused on merger and acquisition assignments within asset management, insurance, specialty finance and retail/mortgage banking. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a dual BS in Finance and International Business.
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About Battery Ventures, Next Insurance, Placement Spot: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Zack Smotherman
Partner of Battery Ventures
Zack joined Battery in 2013 as a vice president and focuses on later-stage investments in industrial technologies. He is currently involved with Battery’s investments in James Heal and Noise & Vibration Technologies, a platform company created with Data Physics, Lansmont Corp. and Team Corp. Prior to Battery, Zack was an associate at WestView Capital Partners, where he evaluated and executed middle-market buyout and recapitalization transactions across the tech-enabled services and software sectors. Zack began his career in the investment banking group at Avondale Partners. Zack graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a BS in economics. He also holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Russell Fleischer
General Partner of Battery Ventures
Russell Fleischer, a three-time, software-industry CEO, joined Battery as a partner in 2014 and was promoted to general partner in 2015. He has also served as a longtime executive in residence at the firm. At Battery, Russell focuses on new investment opportunities in the enterprise-software sector. He is currently involved with Battery Ventures portfolio company Enviance and its add-on company Remedy Interactive. He also participated in the spin out and creation of Qognify, a company that Battery acquired from NICE Systems’ Physical Security Business Unit. His focus is later-stage deals, including buyouts, rollups and take-privates. He is also focused on developing new talent, both at Battery portfolio companies and inside the firm. Prior to joining Battery as a partner, Russell was the CEO of HighJump, a supply-chain management software company, and a member of the company’s board of directors. Under Russell’s four-plus years of leadership the business grew to $110M in revenues and a worldwide workforce of over 500 people from $50M in revenue. In July of 2014 the company was acquired by Accel|KKR and merged with Accellos. Before that Russell served as CEO of Healthvision Software, a healthcare information-technology provider. Healthvision was acquired by Lawson Software in 2010. Russell and his team grew Healthvision from a company with $25 million in revenue into a global business employing more than 300 people and generating approximately $70 million in revenue and $20 million in EBITDA. Prior to Healthvision, Russell served as CEO of TriSyn Group, a core banking applications-software provider focused on serving the top 100 banks in the U.S. There, he was responsible for launching the company as a standalone entity after its acquisition from Computer Associates. In addition, he has over time served as a board director for many public and private companies, including Adams Golf, HomeCareHomeBase, Vero Software, Data Innovations and RogueWave. Russell has been both a public- and private-company CFO, primarily in the software sector, for InConcert, InterWorld and Adams Golf. He also worked with CheckFree, D&B Software, Sales Technologies and Xerox. Russell earned a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Vanderbilt. He is a board member and trustee for Cooks Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth and a board member for the Michael E. Nozik Foundation in Rochester, NY, which raises funds to send deserving children to Camp Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes of western New York.
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About Battery Ventures, Healthvision Solutions: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Blake Bartlett
Partner of OpenView
Blake helps identify value and lead investments in product-led businesses driving market dislocation. Prior to joining OpenView, he was a Vice President at Battery Ventures, where he focused on growth-stage software and Internet businesses. Blake joined Battery in 2009 and helped lead 10 investments, including Wayfair, Optimizely, Sprinklr, Catchpoint, Glassdoor, Tealium, Q2eBanking, Mass Relevance, and VSS Monitoring (acquired by Danaher). He began his career in the growth equity group at Kayne Anderson, a $25 billion private equity firm in Los Angeles.
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Mackey Craven
Partner of OpenView
Mackey focuses on investments in the software and internet sectors, partnering with management teams to build enduring value Prior to joining OpenView, Mackey was an Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners focusing on investments in cloud computing, consumer internet, and data infrastructure. At Bessemer, Mackey was a Board Observer at Xtime, Twitch, and Apperian and was involved with the Bessemer’s investments in Infinio, Liazon, Zapier, and Intigua. He began his career in research and teaching positions at the Sloan School of Management and in the Departments of Physics and Biology at MIT where he co-founded BioVolt, a company focused on designing low-cost microbial fuel cells for use in the developing world. He has also served as an independent scientific consultant to Continuum Energy Technologies and analyzed PIPE and SPAC opportunities for Hudson Bay Capital Management. Mackey graduated Phi Beta Kappa from MIT with an S.M. in Technology and Policy, an S.B. in Biological Engineering, and an S.B. in Mathematics in four years
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George Roberts
Venture Partner of OpenView
George Roberts is the Venture Partner at OpenView.
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Ricky Pelletier
Partner of OpenView
At OpenView, Ricky focuses on identifying and analyzing various market and investment opportunities and works with other members of the investment team to structure and conduct diligence on new investments. Ricky is a Board Director at Intronis, SmashFly, and Open-E, and is active as a Board Observer at FieldLens, Spredfast, and FieldAware. Prior to joining OpenView, Ricky was an Associate at Symmetric Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm investing across industries. He previously interned at Landmark Partners, an investment firm centered on acquiring secondary interests in venture capital and private equity funds.
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Sanjiv Kalevar
Partner of OpenView
Sanjiv joined Battery in 2013 and focuses on Internet, SaaS/software and digital media investments. Prior to Battery, Sanjiv worked for Bessemer Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with offices in the U.S., India, Brazil, and Israel. Sanjiv also worked with an early-stage angel investment group in Chicago and with 37signals, makers of the popular project management software Basecamp. Previously, Sanjiv was Business Development Manager with Constellation Software (TSX:CSU), where he helped grow his division 5X through a combination of organic and inorganic growth initiatives. Sanjiv graduated from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth.
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Elizabeth Cain
Partner of OpenView
Liz Cain is a Partner at OpenView where she leads the firm’s Expansion Platform and sits on the Investment Committee. The Expansion team focuses on helping portfolio companies acquire and retain the right customers and talent.
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Dan Demmer
Partner of OpenView
Dan is an operator from the software industry and joined OpenView in 2013. Prior to joining OpenView, he spent more than 25 years as a leader in business management and corporate finance, having served as a President, COO, CFO, and Board Member in high-growth software enterprises. His areas of expertise include business expansion strategy and execution, executive organization design and development, merger and acquisition strategy and execution, and IPO preparation. As President and Chief Financial Officer of Endeca Technologies, Dan led the venture-backed, information analytics software company on a path of rapid revenue growth and profitability. Endeca was acquired by Oracle Corporation in late 2011. Previous to Endeca, he served as Chief Financial Officer of IONA Technologies, a high-growth, public software company specializing in application integration solutions. Prior to that, Dan held a variety of leadership positions at Digital Equipment Corporation. Dan is a member of the board of directors of DataXu, Sonian, and iLevel Solutions.
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John McCullough
Partner of OpenView
John works closely with OpenView’s portfolio companies to help strengthen business and corporate development activities with the aim of driving growth and strategic exits. He focuses on identifying potential strategic acquirers, facilitating engagements that result in alliance partnerships, driving M&A and capital raise outcomes, and building and maintaining relationships with the global investment banking community. Prior to joining OpenView, John was Director of Corporate Development at Rocket Software, a global enterprise software company where he drove inorganic growth initiatives and business development activities; while there he successfully executed 10 acquisitions, including public company carve-outs, stock purchases, and cross-border transactions. Before Rocket, John focused on M&A as an investment banker at Barclays Capital, and he has also held various roles within the asset management industry. John graduated with a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Providence College, and earned his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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Devon McDonald
Partner of OpenView
Devon is responsible for working directly with key stakeholders within OpenView’s portfolio to provide strategic guidance in the areas of sales, marketing and influencer channel development, as well as operational efficiencies. Her team supports the portfolio in building repeatable and scalable sales and marketing processes that map specifically to a company’s target segments, buyer peDevon is a Partner at OpenView where she manages the firm’s Ecosystem and sits on OpenView’s investment committee. Over the course of her nine year tenure, she has led efforts in Marketing, Recruiting and Sales support for the firm’s portfolio companies. Today, she focuses on connecting our portfolio with OpenView’s network of executives, advisors and customers.rsonas, and buyers’ journeys. Her team also assists in creating impactful messaging and content, developing training/onboarding programs, and establishing sound management rhythms within sales and marketing organizations. Under Devon’s direction, the Sales and Marketing Support team has launched over a dozen lead qualification programs for OpenView’s portfolio companies. Her team has produced valuable eBooks such as Building Your Sales Funnel: How to Create an Outbound Prospecting Machine and the Sales Forecast: A Question of Method Not Magic. Prior to joining OpenView, Devon built and managed the sales and marketing recruitment team at Michael Page International in Boston. Previous to this, she focused on financial services recruiting and set an office record for the greatest single recruitment fee from a direct placement.
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Peter Weed
Partner of OpenView
Peter Weed joined Lumia Capital in 2017 to further enhance the firm’s data-centric approach to identifying, investing in and scaling globally-dominant SaaS innovators. As part of his leadership role, Peter oversees Lumia’s “Global Success” platform, including its team and broader partner community, research and data initiatives and portfolio execution. By pairing LGS’s collective global insights, relationships and operational capabilities with his years of experience benchmarking and helping scale hundreds of global category-leading innovators, Peter helps ensure Lumia is a market-leading partner for the next wave of SaaS leaders as well as Lumia’s strategic investors and partners, globally. Prior to Lumia, Peter was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was co-founder and global co-head of the ‘Growth Tech’ Practice. In this role he worked with dozens of best-in-class venture capital firms and hundreds of venture-backed innovators, helping companies achieve and maintain category-leading positions scaling from $10 million to $100 million, and beyond. This success was supported by deep insight creation, including codifying and benchmarking hundreds of SaaS innovators on 40+ critical growth and cost structure related metrics (e.g., sales acquisition speed/efficiency, marketing return, and churn) and providing insights across critical pain points such as commercial strategy, go-to-market efficiency, pricing, and customer success. Especially relevant to his work at Lumia, Peter’s practice approached these critical issues from a global lens and execution framework, enabled by dedicated full-time teams across the globe, including Silicon Valley, New York/Boston, London, Berlin, Israel, India, and Hong Kong/China — alongside McKinsey’s broader global footprint and access. Peter was also a leader in McKinsey’s TMT practice, where he drove proprietary knowledge leadership and authorship focused at the cutting edge of broader McKinsey clients’ businesses. In his earlier career at McKinsey, Peter worked extensively with global market-leading tech companies, including enterprise SW/SaaS and infrastructure players, consumer internet/SaaS/XaaS players, network infrastructure OEMs, consumer mobile/PC/device OEMs, micro-chip vendors, and telecoms/MSOs – a majority of the work was on step-out growth strategy in areas of his core knowledge focus (SaaS, mobility, and IoT) and the related key execution and operations of the product pipeline (e.g., design, pricing, COGS, and GTM). Prior to McKinsey, Peter was a Product Manager in Microsoft’s Enterprise Server Division, a software entrepreneur, and helped commercialize software technology out of Harvard and MIT as part of a dot-com era VC fund. Peter holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University (2000), and MBA with Highest Distinction (Valedictorian) from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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Brian Carthas
Partner of OpenView
Brian is responsible for the identification of potential investment opportunities on behalf of OpenView Venture Partners. He particularly enjoys connecting with impassioned entrepreneurs and discussing the potential of their respective businesses. Prior to joining OpenView, Brian served as a Senior Consultant at Kingston Dwight Associates in Boston, where he recruited senior level executives in the finance and accounting arena. Brian graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a BA in International Politics and Economics.
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Casey Renner
Partner of OpenView
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Kyle Poyar
Partner of OpenView
Kyle helps OpenView’s portfolio companies accelerate top-line growth through segmentation, value proposition, packaging & pricing, customer insights, channel partner programs, new market entry and go-to-market strategy.
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Liz Cain
Venture Partner of OpenView
Liz Cain is a Venture Partner at OpenView.
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Harry Kubetz
Operating Partner of Greenhouse Capital Partners
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About Greenhouse Capital Partners: Greenhouse Capital invests growth capital in companies promoting health & sustainability within the areas of Food, Ag and the Environment
Stephen Knight
President & Managing Partner of F-Prime Capital
Stephen Knight joined F-Prime Capital in 2003 where he serves as President and Managing Partner. He has worked in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries for over 25 years and invests broadly across healthcare. Steve serves on the Board of Directors of Beam Therapeutics, Genomics plc, Iora Health, Pulmocide, Sana Biotechnology, and Semma Therapeutics. Steve previously served on the boards of several private and public health care companies including Blueprint Medicines (NASDAQ: BPMC), Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), FoldRx Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer), Innovent Biologics (HKG:01801), Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IRWD), NextWave Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer), Proteostasis Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTI), and Respivert, Ltd (acquired by J&J). Prior to joining F-Prime Capital, Steve held various senior management roles in private and public biotechnology and consulting companies. He also was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, the National Institutes of Health, and Yale University. He holds an M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Organization and Management and received a B.S. in biology from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
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Carl Byers
Partner of F-Prime Capital
Carl Byers brings more than 15 years of experience in healthcare to his role as Executive Partner.Carl was on the founding team at athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHN), where he served as Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 2010. At athenahealth, Carl was responsible for the company’s finance, legal and corporate technology teams and served as a key advisor to the CEO as part of the Senior Leadership Team. When a private company, he built the company’s financial systems and led seven rounds of equity and subordinated debt financing, raising more than $70 million to support the company’s development. Carl led athenahealth’s $96 million 2007 Initial Public Offering, which the Wall Street Journal named as the year’s most successful. In his tenure, he also held various operational roles at different times. Prior to the founding of athenahealth, Carl was a Senior Consultant in Booz, Allen & Hamilton’s New York office, where he worked in the financial services and health insurance industries. Carl teaches entrepreneurial finance at Harvard’s Kennedy School where he is an Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy. He is a director at Lexington Montessori School, a co-trustee of the Bush Trust and an advisor to the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Wesleyan University (CT)
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David Jegen
Partner of F-Prime Capital
David is Managing Partner of F-Prime Capital’s Tech Fund. He is focused on FinTech and data analytics and has led investments in Flywire, Kensho (acquired by S&P Global), FutureAdvisor (acquired by BlackRock), Toast, Quovo (acquired by Plaid), Cloudant (acquired by IBM), EVEN Financial, Unison and Axoni. David was a co-founder of Sensoria and VP of Product Strategy at Into Networks, a Fidelity Ventures and Venrock-backed company. David was also a senior executive at Cisco Systems and held early positions with J.P. Morgan & Co. and The Boston Consulting Group. David graduated Harvard Law School and earned degrees in economics and accounting from Indiana University. He is the father of two lovely, lego-crazed children who think he actually works for the Boston Museum of Science (in fact he only serves on the Board of Overseers). David is, however, insanely passionate about FinTech Sandbox, a nonprofit he co-founded to serve FinTech entrepreneurs by aggregating data and infrastructure for free during a startup’s development phase.
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Jon Lim
Partner of F-Prime Capital
Jon Lim is a Partner who joined F-Prime Capital in 2011. Jon leads F-Prime’s investment efforts in Healthcare IT and Healthcare services, including F-Prime Capital’s investments in Liazon (acquired by Towers Watson), PatientPing, Kyruus, US HealthVest, Stride Health, TraceLink, VitalWare, WelbeHealth, Artemis Health, Protenus, Novaerus, and Lumere (formerly Procured Health). Most recently, Jon was a Principal at Polaris Partners, where he was part of the teams that led investments in several Software-as-a-Service companies (Phytel (acquired by IBM), Egnyte, Recurly, and KISSmetrics) as well as in Ocular Therapeutix (NASDAQ: OCUL) and SustainX. Jon began his investing career in 2002 as an Associate at Summit Partners, where his investments include MDVIP (acquired by Procter & Gamble) and Diagnostic Hybrids (acquired by Quidel). Jon also worked previously at Medtronic in their cardiac rhythm and disease management business. Jon holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude.
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Ben Auspitz
Partner of F-Prime Capital
Ben is a Partner at F-Prime Capital and has worked in pharmaceuticals and life science for over twenty years, both in industry, as a consultant, and as an investor. Most recently before joining F-Prime Capital, he served as Therapeutic Area Head for Immuno-Inflammatory products at CombinatoRx Inc. during its growth from an angel-backed start-up to a publicly-listed company. In this role, he oversaw the advancement of seven programs from the assay stage into phase II clinical studies and was co-inventor on 15 product patents. Ben focuses on therapeutics, with a particular interest in Series A and company formation — including first venture investments in Ultragenyx, REGENX Biosciences, Symbiomix Therapeutics, Precision Biosciences, Unum Therapeutics, and two companies where he was a company founder, Orchard Therapeutics and Dimension Therapeutics. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Unum Therapeutics, Precision Biosciences, Orchard Therapeutics, Symbiomix Pharmaceuticals, and Compass Therapeutics. Previously, Ben was involved in F-Prime Capital investments in Bikam Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Shire), Ligocyte Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Takeda), Respivert (acquired by Johnson and Johnson), Blueprint Medicine (NASDAQ: BPMC), Coherus Biosciences (NASDAQ: CHRS), REGENXBio (NASDAQ: RGNX), Dimension Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DMTX), and Ultragenyx (NASDAQ: RARE)
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Gaurav Tuli
Partner of F-Prime Capital
Gaurav is a Partner at F-Prime Capital, the global venture capital firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments. For over 50 years, F-Prime Capital has had the privilege of backing ground-breaking companies in technology and life sciences, including Atari, Nuance Software, Alibaba and Denali to name a few. Gaurav leads investments in enterprise technology and serves on the boards of Threat Stack, Riskrecon, Protenus, OTA Insight and previously Appsflyer and Neo Technology. Most recently, Gaurav was a Principal at F-Prime’s sister fund, Eight Roads Ventures, based in London, where he invested in European software and online services businesses. Previously, Gaurav was at EMC where he drove new growth initiatives and product portfolio management for EMC’s largest business unit, Symmetrix. Gaurav was a computer scientist by training and has worked as a software engineer at NASA, the U.S. Air Force and Motorola. Gaurav attended MIT for his bachelors and masters degrees in computer science, as well as his MBA.
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Thomas R. Beck
Executive Partner of F-Prime Capital
Tom joined F-Prime Capital as an Executive Partner in September, 2007. Most recently, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer at Dyax Corp. Prior to that, he held positions at UCB Pharma (Corporate Vice President, Director of Global Research and Development), CytoMed, Inc (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer), and Enzytech, Inc (President). He began his industry career at Smith Kline and French, where he held positions in both clinical development and business development. Dr. Beck is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology and was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry. He received his B.S. degree from Yale University and his M.D. from Cornell University. Since joining F-Prime Capital, Dr. Beck has been on the boards of NeuroTherapeutics Pharma, Topaz Pharmaceuticals, Vicept Therapeutics, and Dimension Therapeutics. He is currently on the board of Adagene, Ltd. He has been CEO of Topaz Pharmaceuticals and Dimension Therapeutics.
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Robert Weisskoff
Partner of F-Prime Capital
Robert Weisskoff, Partner, joined F-Prime Capital in 2004. Robert has worked extensively in both academia and the bioscience industry for thirty years. Prior to F-Prime, he held various senior roles in R&D and Business Development at both pharmaceutical and medical device companies. In his academic career, Dr. Weisskoff was Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, on the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Technology (HST) Program, and performed research at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was Associate Director of the MGH-NMR Center. There he worked at the intersection of basic research, medical technology development, and clinical research in a variety of areas. Robert is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and an inventor on 6 US patents. Robert holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He received his A.B. degree in Physics from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Robert serves on the Board of Directors of Caribou Biosciences, Plasmagen Biosciences, Tempest Therapeutics, Trivitron Healthcare, and Zenflow, Inc. He has previously served on the boards of Accuri Cytometers (acquired by Becton Dickinson), Laurus Labs (NSE:LAURUSLABS), Surface Oncology, Tetraphase (NASDAQ:TTPH), Transave (NASDAQ:INSM), Topaz (acquired by Sanofi Pasteur), and ViewRay (NASDAQ:VRAY).
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Sanjay Aggarwal
Venture Partner of F-Prime Capital
Sanjay Aggarwal is a Venture Partner focused on enterprise software and financial technology investments. Prior to joining F-Prime Capital, Sanjay was CEO of Unicel Technologies, an India-focused mobile CRM company. During his tenure with Unicel, he grew revenues by 6x, leading to a successful sale of the business to mGage India. Earlier in his career, Sanjay worked at Devonshire Investors (the private equity group of Fidelity Investments), McKinsey and Company in their US and India offices, and at Berkeley Process Control (acquired by Moog Inc), where he built advanced machine control systems. Sanjay holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Mary Bevelock Pendergast
CFO, Partner of F-Prime Capital
Mary Bevelock Pendergast joined F-Prime Capital in 2011 where she serves as Partner and Chief Financial Officer and manages the finance and administrative functions of the firm. Mary has over 25 years of industry-related experience. Prior to joining F-Prime Capital, Mary served in a similar role as the Chief Financial Officer of Globespan Capital Partners, a global venture capital fund investing in go-to-market rounds of information technology companies. Mary was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration at JAFCO Ventures before joining Globespan. She also served as Vice President of Finance and Administration for Pretzel Logic Software, a venture-backed software company, and as Managing Director of the Boston office of cyberCFO. Earlier, Mary was Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Entrepreneurial Services Center, where she advised venture-backed and newly public companies on navigating the financial and operational challenges of growth. She also managed the firm’s relationship with a number of venture capital firms. Mary earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Boston’s Women in Alternative Assets and a member of the Council for Women of Boston College.
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Ketan Patel
Partner of F-Prime Capital
Prior to joining Fidelity Biosciences, Dr. Patel was an engagement manager in the MEDACorp consulting division of Leerink Swann & Company. While at MEDACorp, he worked for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from biotech to leading pharmaceutical and device companies. Dr. Patel advised clients on brand strategy, clinical development plans, and business development activities. Prior to this, he was a physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he completed his internal medicine training. Dr. Patel is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine, where he received both his MD and MBA as part of that institution’s Healthcare Management Program and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his undergraduate studies in biology and economics with highest honors at Rutgers University.
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Jay Farber
Venture Partner of F-Prime Capital
Head of Growth at Juniper Square.
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Jason Robart
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Seae Ventures
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Russ Wilcox
Partner of Pillar VC
Russ Wilcox is a partner at Pillar. Prior to VC, he has 20 years of start-up operating experience and has founded three companies. At Pillar, he is a general partner investing ~$500K to $2 million in seed-stage companies coming out of the Boston-area innovation ecosystem. Pillar typically leads and plays an active role in helping founders to create new companies and scale them to success. As Co-Founder and CEO at E Ink Corporation, he commercialized electronic paper invented at the MIT Media Lab. E Ink conducted materials research, filed patents, scaled a factory, and shipped tens of millions of displays for the Amazon Kindle and other devices. To date consumers have purchased more than $10 billion of E Ink-related devices and content. Following E Ink, Russ co-founded Transatomic Power, advancing a source of clean energy; and Piper Therapeutics, conducting pre-clinical studies for an immuno-oncology drug. Russ actively supports the Boston entrepreneurial community. Since 2012 he has volunteered as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Harvard Business School Rock Center and counseled hundreds of students on achieving their start-up goals. He sits on the Harvard Physical Sciences Accelerator Review Board and was a Board Director for Harvest Automation, a venture-backed developer of agricultural robots. He has been an angel investor in several start-ups, including Disruptor Beam, PowerInbox, Calimmune, Gen9, DriveFactor, and Camino Financial. Russ began his startup career as a product manager at PureSpeech, a speech recognition company co-founded by Jamie Goldstein. Russ graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and worked in Boston and Paris as a management consultant for Oliver Wyman. He was a Baker Scholar at the Harvard Business School. He is an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year and a Mass High Tech All-Star. He holds thirty-three issued U.S. patents. Russ enjoys foreign cultures and traveled around the world with his family during 2010-2011. He also supports enrichment education and has coached middle school teams for Destination Imagination, FIRST Lego League, and Model United Nations.
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Sarah Hodges
Partner of Pillar VC
Sarah Hodges is a Partner at Pillar, a seed-stage venture firm in co-founded by 22 CEOs, including the leaders of DraftKings, Ginkgo Bioworks, Wayfair and Tripadvisor. We’re the first-capital-in for unstoppable founders. Almost half the companies Pillar has backed are university spinouts, and the firm’s investments include PillPack, Desktop Metal, Kuebix, Algorand, Asimov and PathAI, among others. Prior to Pillar Sarah Hodges was a member of the executive team at Pluralsight, the world’s largest online learning community for IT, dev and creative training. At Pluralsight, Sarah served as the Vice President of People Operations, helping the company double in size in less than one year. Before joining the company, Sarah was a member of the executive team at Smarterer (sold to Pluralsight), where she oversaw business strategy, operations and marketing. Sarah has held leadership roles in early-stage startups including RunKeeper (sold to Asics) and Carbonite (CARB). She currently serves on the board of the New England Venture Capital Association. In 2012, Sarah co-founded Intelligent.ly, a leadership development company that has transformed over 1,000 emerging leaders across 50 high-growth companies, and continues to serve the Boston community.
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