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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.
Manoj Singh
Global Managing Partner – Operations of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Darwin Deano
Partner, Principal of Deloitte
Deano is the principal and SAP CTO for Deloitte Consulting LLP. He leads the technology and innovation strategy – converging Deloitte industry leading practices and strategic technology alliances with the SAP architecture ecosystem. He has more than 20 years of global technology advisory experience across multiple industries.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Thalia Smith
Partner of Deloitte
Thalia Smith is a Partner in Deloitte’s Assurance and Advisory Insurance practice, with 16 years of experience across the financial services industry. Thalia leads Deloitte’s national insurtech initiative within the Emerging Growth Company practice. She works with insurtech startups to provide advisory support, including market entry/business strategy, accounting, tax, risk and compliance, audit, IPO readiness support, and sell-side advisory.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Scott Lippstreu
Global Lead Consulting Partner – Global Crown Jewel Accounts of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
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.
Kerry Francis
Partner , Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Wendy Jackson
Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Barrett Daniels
Partner, US IPO Services Co-Leader and West Region SPAC Leader of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Todd Beilis
Principal / Partner of Deloitte
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
John England
Partner of Deloitte
John England is a senior oil and gas partner leading Deloitte’s relationships with some of its largest energy clients globally. He previously served as the U.S. Oil & Gas leader for Deloitte LLP across all businesses, including consulting, risk and financial advisory, audit, and tax services. He has led successful projects at some of the largest energy companies over his 29-year career. John serves on the National Petroleum Council as well as on the Board of Directors for the Southeast Texas chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and Northland Christian School.
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About Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
George Simeone
Senior Client Service Partner of Deloitte
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Jannie Herchuk
Partner of Deloitte
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Raanan Katz
Limited Partner of Miami Heat
Raanan Katz is the Limited Partner at Miami HEAT.
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Mark Radcliffe
Partner of DLA Piper
Mark Radcliffe has been a member of the Board of Trustees since the Fund’s beginning. As a partner of DLA Piper USA, LLP and its predecessor firms since 1989, Mark represents startup technology corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. He also represents Fortune 100 companies in complex intellectual property transactions, and has worked in a wide variety of industries, from Internet to software to cloud to semiconductors. In 2011, the Department of State appointed Mark to be one of 10 private members of the U.S.-Japan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council. In 1997, the National Law Journal listed him as one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and the San Francisco Business Times has named him among the best lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been listed in the “The Best Lawyers in America,” and as one of Northern California’s Top 100 intellectual property attorneys in “Super Lawyers.” He has also been named as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” in Who’s Who Legal publication. In 1998, Harvard Law School designated him a “Distinguished Alumni.” Mark earned a B.S. in chemistry magna cum laude from University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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About DLA Piper, FOSSA: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Dale Lazar
Retired Partner of DLA Piper
Dale Lazar is the Retired Partner at DLA Piper
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About Cornell University, DLA Piper, Torrent Tactical Loading Systems: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
David Luce
Partner of DLA Piper
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
James Halpert
Partner & Co-Chair, Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Partner, IP & Technology Practice of DLA Piper
James Halpert is global Co-chair of DLA Piper’s Data Protection, Privacy and Security and Cybersecurity practices. He advises corporate boards, general counsel’s offices and risk officers on risk management, including crisis management, incident response programs, governance, cybersecurity risk reviews and vendor and supply chain risk management. He has advised clients on global security and privacy requirements. He represents clients in major security and privacy cases in federal courts and before the FTC. He has helped draft hundreds of U.S. state privacy and security laws, as well as the NIST Cyber Security Framework privacy provisions. He is recognized by Legal 500 lawyers review service as a Tier 1 “Leading Lawyer” in its Cyber Crime and Data Protection and Privacy categories.
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
David Luce
Partner of DLA Piper
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About DLA Piper: DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries to helps clients with their legal needs around the world.
Anthony Anderson
Retired Vice Chair and Midwest Managing Partner of Ernst & Young
Anthony K. Anderson has been a director since November 13, 2012. Anderson recently retired from Ernst & Young LLP, after serving the firm for 35 years. During his tenure, he served as managing partner for the Pacific Southwest region and later for the Midwest region. In 2000, he was named vice chair and became a member of the firm’s governing executive board. Anderson previously served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a frequent speaker on the economy, corporate responsibility and diversity. He also is an active philanthropist, with a strong emphasis on education. He serves as chairman of the board of the Chicago Urban League and on the boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, The Field Museum of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and World Business Chicago. Anderson is a member of the American, California and Illinois Institutes of Certified Public Accountants. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Chicago State University.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Matthew Hatch
Partner and Americas FinTech leader of Ernst & Young
Matt Hatch, Partner & Americas FinTech Leader, Ernst & Young LLP As a partner and the Americas FinTech leader at EY, Matt has over 18 years of experience serving clients in the financial services and technology industries. He’s passionate about helping my clients succeed in a rapidly changing technology and financial services environment. Matt is committed to uncovering opportunities and empowering EY clients as they improve technologies and customer experiences, lower costs, increase scale and manage risk. Matt has a breadth and depth of experience leading complex advisory and assurance projects, including internal audit co-sourcing and outsourcing, financial audit, FinTech innovation, payment processing, governance risk & compliance implementations, IT risk management, and controls optimization efforts. He has served Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups in the financial services and technology sectors throughout his career, most recently working on engagements focused on improving and scaling processes, systems integration, internal audit assessments and large transformation initiatives.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Andrew Sale
Partner of Ernst & Young
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David Chan
Partner of Ernst & Young
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Kelly Grier
US Chair & Managing Partner and Americas Managing Partner of Ernst & Young
Kelly Grier is US Chair , Managing Partner & Americas Managing Partner at Ernst & Young.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Miles Ripley
Partner/Principal – Forensic & Integrity Services of Ernst & Young
Miles Ripley is Board of Director at Better Government Association.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
David Connolly
Partner of Ernst & Young
David Connolly leads the EY Digital Enterprise Transformation practice. He and his global team work with insurance carriers to help them capitalize upon the power of technology to re-visit business models, acquire customers through new channels and create the essential user experiences. Through relationships with both emerging InsureTechs, as well as those who are established, EY applies technology to the needs of insurance carriers in a business-driven and strategic manner. The primary InsureTech areas of focus include Blockchain, Intelligent Process Automation, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, and Sensors, Telematics & Wearables.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Scott Porter
Partner, Advisory Services of Ernst & Young
Scott Porter is a Partner in EY’s Advisory practice, He works with public and privately held companies in the Media & Entertainment and Technology sectors and brings over two decades of experience leading complex projects and integrated global teams. Throughout his career, Scott has contributed to the development of several innovative methodologies and client service solutions, and delivered assurance, business consulting and business risk services to companies across diverse industries. As the Entrepreneur Of The Year Greater Los Angeles Program Director, Scott helps to identify and celebrate game-changing entrepreneurs. In addition to that, Scott currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and the Advisory Board for the New York City High School of Economics and Finance. He is Chairman of the USC Marshall Partners and has served as a past President of the USC Accounting Circle Board.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Nikhil Lele
Partner & Principal of Ernst & Young
Nikhil is a Principal in EY’s Financial Services Organization, and is the Americas Strategy and FinTech Advisory practice leader. He has a proven track record of effectively collaborating with executive management teams to drive a wide array of strategy formulation, operating model transformation, technology blueprint and roadmap, and performance improvement initiatives that yield measurable and sustainable operating results. Nikhil has worked extensively across the Banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management and Insurance sectors solving issues pertaining to improving operational efficiency, driving competitive advantage, and optimizing the business value of technology. Nikhil also has significant international experience leading large global transformation initiatives in LATAM, Europe, and Asia. Nikhil earned his B.S. in Computer Science and MIS from The College of New Jersey and his MBA in Strategy from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
Kimberly Simios
Chicago Managing Partner of Ernst & Young
Kimberly Simios is a Chicago Managing Partner at Ernst & Young LLP.
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Chen Zur
Partner and Principle of Ernst & Young
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Roger Park
Partner and Principal of Ernst & Young
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Praveen Agrawal
Client Partner of Tata Consultancy Services
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Prabhu Goel
Managing Partner of Green Span Ventures
Prabhu began his career by joining IBM’s EDA organization at East Fishkill where he was involved with many developments in the area of chip test automation. At IBM he developed the Podem algorithm and other technologies that earned him 4 patents and several awards. He left in 1981 to join Wang Labs where he was exposed to the commercial EDA industry. He left Wang in 1982 to start Gateway Design Automation – the company that delivered the now industry standard Verilog-XL to the market. In 1989 he sold Gateway to Cadence and continued at Cadence for 2 more years. He left Cadence to become a private venture capitalist. Since 1992, he has been an investor and a Director in a number of private companies. In 1996 he sold one of his companies, Frontline Design Automation, to Avant Corporation for a second venture success. Several of his present investments are in the EDA industry. Prabhu completed his graduate studies from Carnegie Mellon.
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About Green Span Ventures: Greenspan ventures limited is a private limited company Offering technical advice to both private and institutional investors.
Marc Lederman
Co-Founder & General Partner of NewSpring
Marc is co-founder and General partner at NewSpring Capital and part of the NewSpring Growth investment team. NewSpring Capital manages four distinct investment strategies focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies. Marc is an active member of the Philadelphia region’s venture capital community having served as both a regional and national judge for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He has an extensive background in finance, consulting and accounting and previously served as a Manager in the Business Assurance and Advisory Services Group at Deloitte & Touche. Marc currently serves on the boards of 3Pillar Global, Inc., Liquidhub, Inc., Raritan, Inc., RealTime Media, Inc., Exegy, Inc., Velocidata, Inc. and VidSys, Inc. He earned a B.S. in Accountancy, cum laude, from Villanova University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Intersection, NewSpring, Snagajob, VelociData: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Andrew Panzo
General Partner of NewSpring
Mr. Andrew P. Panzo serves as General Partner at NewSpring Capital. Mr. Panzo joined NewSpring Capital on October 21, 2004 and is a part of the NewSpring Mezzanine Team. He has over 20 years of experience in investment banking, venture capital, and operational management. Mr. Panzo served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Stonepath Group, from January 1999 to June 21, 2001. Mr. Panzo was one of the Founders of Stonepath Group, Inc in September 1996 and served as its President since June 22, 2001. As the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Panzo was responsible for raising $75 million to execute a strategic consolidation of the non-asset based logistics industry. Prior to Stonepath, he was the Chief Executive Officer at Net Value Holdings, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Panzo was the Chief Executive Officer at Brightstreet.com. He was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at American Maple Leaf Corporation. Mr. Panzo also served as Managing Director of American Maple Leaf Corporation from October 1993 to June 1999. He served as Vice-Chairman at Stonepath Group, Inc., since June 22, 2001. He joined York Telecom Corporation as a Member of the Board of Directors on March 20, 2008. He served as a Director of Magellan Energy, Ltd., since 1995. He served as a Director of Stonepath Group, Inc. Mr. Panzo holds an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Temple University and a B.S. in Finance from University of Connecticut.
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Brian Kim
Growth Equity Investor & Partner of NewSpring
Brian Kim is a Partner of NewSpring and the Firm’s dedicated growth funds. Brian joined the Firm in 2014 and prior to NewSpring, he was with Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco-based equity firm focused on middle-market buyout investments where he was responsible for all stages of the investment lifecycle, including sourcing, diligence, execution, and portfolio value creation. Previously, Brian focused on growth equity investments with LLR Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity firm investing across a broad set of industries, including information technology, business services, and consumer services. He began his career as a strategy consultant with First Manhattan Consulting Group, where he focused on the firm’s private equity practice and advised clients targeting the payments and bank technology sectors. Brian received a BSE and BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Steven Hobman
General Partner of NewSpring
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Brian Murphy
General Partner of NewSpring
Mr. Brian G. Murphy is the Co-Founder and Director of Precyse Solutions, LLC. Mr. Murphy is also a General Partner at NewSpring Capital. He is a part of the NewSpring Healthcare Team. Mr. Murphy co-founded Merrill Legal Solutions in 1986. He has more than 25 years of private equity, corporate management, and development experience, focused primarily in health care services. He has a strong background in business strategy, investment structuring, organizational growth, and negotiation of mergers and acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Murphy was a Regional President at NovaCare, Inc., the Chief Executive Officer at Heritage Health Systems, and a Director of Development at Partners National Health Plans of North Carolina, Inc. He was the Founder at Acquisition Management Services and WordWave. Mr. Murphy served as an Executive Officer at Heritage Health Systems, Inc. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of SongBird Hearing, Inc., MinSec Corrections Corporation and RedPath Integrated Pathology LLC. Mr. Murphy serves as a Member of the Board of Salveo Specialty Pharmacy, Inc, Habit OPCO, Inc., Precyse Solutions, and MinSec Companies. Mr. Murphy serves as a Director of TMG Health, Inc., Habit Holdings, Inc., MinSec Holdings, Inc., and Othera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He served as a Director of CyberShift, Inc., Nitric Bio, Inc. and RecoverCare, LLC. Mr. Murphy is the Chairman of the Foundation Board of SUNY Cortland. He received a B.S. in Science from the State University of New York at Cortland.
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Hart Callahan
Partner of NewSpring
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Anne Vazquez
General Partner of NewSpring
Anne Vazquez is a General Partner of NewSpring and is a General Partner of the Firm’s dedicated mezzanine funds. Anne joined the Firm in 2008 and she has more than 14 years of experience in investing, consulting, and strategic planning in growing lower middle market companies. Prior to joining NewSpring, Anne was a senior Analyst at American Capital, Ltd. (NASDAQ:ARCC), at the time one of the largest publicly traded asset managers in the U.S. Previously, she worked in KPMG’s Philadelphia assurance practice as a Senior Associate, where she worked primarily on healthcare, life science, and information technology companies. Anne received a BS from the University of Rhode Island and a Masters of Accountancy and Consultancy from Villanova University.
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Glenn Rieger
General Partner of NewSpring
Venture Capital has been a passion of Glenn Rieger’s for close to 30 years. The work that is done at NewSpring Capital is to be applauded for mentoring companies through the many twists and turns in growing a successful business. Glenn Rieger is a General Partner of NewSpring Growth Capital and a Partner of NewSpring Capital. At NewSpring he works closely with all aspects of its growth equity investing operations and works closely with 7 companies. Prior to joining NewSpring, Glenn Rieger was a co-founder and Managing Director by Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, the management company that oversees the operations of three venture funds. There he was responsible for the operations of Cross Atlantic’s U.S. activities out of its Radnor, PA office and worked closely with six companies. Prior to Cross Atlantic, he was a Senior Vice President for Safeguard Scientifics in charge of business development. In this position, he developed and oversaw merger, acquisition, investment and exit opportunities for Safeguard. In addition, he served as a business partner and director for five of Safeguard’s partnership companies. Prior to joining Safeguard, he was a managing director of a boutique investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, and President and Chief Executive Officer of a $1 billion California savings bank that employed over 250 people. Glenn Rieger welcomes the opportunity to mentor young and upcoming stars in his firm and commits himself to helping them be the best they can be. He is active in the venture capital community as a board member of the National Venture Capital Association, chairing its Growth Equity Committee, and for the 2004 program year chaired the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group, a trade association representing more than 80 venture funds representing approximately $12 billion in assets under management. Glenn Rieger is a graduate of Colby College and has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is married to Tami and has 2 adult children. he enjoys Golf, boating and travel in his spare time.
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Jim Ashton
General Partner of NewSpring
Jim Ashton is a General Partner of NewSpring and Director of the diversified holding company within the Firm, NewSpring Holdings. Jim joined NewSpring in 2014 and has over 30 years of experience. Previously, he was Division CEO for SunGard’s financial systems division, a $2.5 billion business with 13,000 employees worldwide. While at SunGard, Jim also led software and service businesses in the areas of Wealth Management, Insurance, Corporate Treasury, Trading, Risk Management, Brokerage, and Consulting Services. He also sponsored and integrated approximately 40 key acquisitions and played a key role in SunGard’s 2005 $11.5 billion leveraged buyout with a consortium of private equity firms including TPG, SilverLake, KKR, and Bain. Prior to SunGard, Jim held senior management positions at Premier Solutions Inc., a Safeguard Scientifics technology company that was acquired by SunGard in 1997. He began his career at EDS in Dallas where he held various technical, sales, and managerial positions during a span of 10 years. Jim received a BS from Fairmont State University and was part of the Executive Education Program at SMU-Cox School of Business.
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About NewSpring, NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Lee Garber
Partner of NewSpring
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Michael Kaplan
Partner of NewSpring
Michael Kaplan brings to Altos Health more than twenty years of healthcare experience as an operator, acquirer, investor, board member, consultant and investment banker. Mike founded Altos Health in 2009 as a better alternative to the traditional venture capital model. Prior to founding Altos Health Management, Mike was a Partner at Three Arch Partners, a venture capital firm focused on medical devices and healthcare services. At the time, Three Arch managed approximately $1.1 billion in a series of five funds, and investments ranged from seed capital to late-stage growth equity and buyouts. Mike led the investment in and/or served on the boards of 18 portfolio companies during nearly a decade at Three Arch. Healthcare service companies included Free & Clear (acquired by Alere), Ascend Health (acquired by Universal Health Services) and Habit Holdings. Medical device companies included Novacept (acquired by Hologic), Vascular Control Systems (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), and eValve (acquired by Abbott). The companies Mike was involved with realized exit values in excess of $1.8 billion. Three of his companies are still private. Before joining Three Arch Partners, Mike was an operating executive at Blue Shield of California. At the time, Blue Shield was a $3 billion health insurer offering HMO, PPO and ASO products. Mike had a variety of roles over time at Blue Shield, including Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, Regional Chief Executive for Northern California, and Vice President of Business Transformation. Earlier in his career, Mike was a Senior Manager in consulting for APM Incorporated/CSC Healthcare and a Financial Analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. Mike received a BS in Business Administration with High Honors from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mike believes that everyone should give back to the community, both with their time and their money. He is involved with Second Harvest Food Bank, youth sports, Stanford’s Alumni Consulting Teams (which serve non-profits), and Congregation Beth Am. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee at the Center for Health Policy at Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Altos Health, NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Skip Maner
General Partner of NewSpring
Mr. Skip P. Maner is a General Partner of NewSpring Capital and NewSpring Holdings L.P. Mr. Maner served as the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Principal of Inverness Graham Investments. He joined Inverness Graham Investments in 2002 and along with the other Managing Principals, shared responsibility for all major operational functions of the firm, including investment sourcing, structuring, negotiating, divesting and working with portfolio companies. He was Managing Principal at Inverness Capital Partners I, L.P. He served as Managing Director of Spyglass Partners. He was a Managing Director of Internet Capital Group. Mr. Maner was a Senior Associate at TL Ventures and Safeguard Scientifics. Prior to becoming a venture investor, Mr. Maner was an entrepreneur and has served as the President and the Founder of two companies including a recycled products manufacturer. He served as the Managing Director of ICG Group, Inc. Mr. Maner serves on the Board of Directors of Pelion Systems, SmartFlow Technologies, Inc., DemandPoint, Inc. and SkyBitz Inc. Mr. Maner also serves on the Board of Directors of University of Richmond’s President’s Council, Youth Empowerment Services, Metropolitan Career Center, two Philadelphia-based non-profit organizations, and Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance. He served as Director of Axxis, Inc., iSKY, Inc., Masterpack International, Inc., ICCNexergy, Inc. and Investor Force, Inc. He has served on non-profit boards throughout the Philadelphia region. Mr. Maner received an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. degree in History from the University of Richmond.
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Bruce Downey
Partner of NewSpring
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Kristen Lee
Partner of NewSpring
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Adam Veverka
Partner of NewSpring
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About NewSpring, NewSpring, NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Gregory Barger
General Partner of NewSpring
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About NewSpring: NewSpring Capital is focused on leveraging operational expertise and capital to build market leading companies.
Warren Spieker
Managing Partner of Continuing Life
Warren Spieker joined Continuing Life in 2001 and provides general management oversight for the company’s operations. Mr. Spieker led the successful pre-marketing and initial occupancy efforts at University Village and now advises the marketing programs at both stabilized and start-up Continuing Life® communities. Prior to joining CL, Mr. Spieker worked with the investment bank Alex. Brown and Sons. Mr. Spieker received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Continuing Life: Continuing Life provides advisory and business services for retirement communities.
Zachary F. Sadek
Partner of Parthenon Capital Partners
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About Parthenon Capital Partners: Parthenon Capital Partners funds growth-stage companies in the services industry and is a Boston-based private equity firm.
Keith Cox
Partner of Parthenon Capital Partners
Keith Cox has over 17 years of experience building and growing leveraged lending businesses targeting sponsor-backed transactions in the middle market, both at large financial institutions and smaller specialty lenders. Prior to joining Parthenon in 2017 to launch a credit strategy, Mr. Cox most recently started, managed and headed the Acquisition Finance group for SunTrust’s (NYSE: STI) Commercial Bank, which underwrote and held senior secured loans primarily in sponsor transactions. In this role, Mr. Cox led a team of nine bankers and built a portfolio of over 30 names and $800 million commitments over 2.5 years. Mr. Cox oversaw deal selection, underwriting and portfolio management. Mr. Cox joined SunTrust in 2010 as Team Leader in the Investment Bank’s Acquisition Finance group where he covered the Financial Services and Technology verticals and was responsible for underwriting and structuring transactions involving over 150 companies and $10 billion of SunTrust hold positions. Prior to SunTrust, Mr. Cox was at Hercules Technology Growth Capital (NYSE: HTGC) where he expanded Hercules’ middle market leveraged lending practice and focused on originating and underwriting sponsor-backed healthcare transactions. Mr. Cox was also at NewStar Financial (NASDAQ: NEWS) where he was a founding member of their Healthcare lending vertical and underwrote over $400 million of healthcare loans. Prior to NewStar, Mr. Cox began his lending career in Acquisition Finance at FleetBoston Financial (now NYSE: BAC) in Boston.
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About Parthenon Capital Partners: Parthenon Capital Partners funds growth-stage companies in the services industry and is a Boston-based private equity firm.
Anand Shah
Partner, US FS Banking and Ops Leader of KPMG International Limited
Anand Shah is a Partner from the KPMG Atlanta office aligned to the Financial Services Banking Practice. Anand currently serves as the KPMG US Banking Technology leader focused in the Banking Transformation (Retail and Commercial), Lending, Digital, and Advanced Analytics. Over the course of 22 years in the consulting industry, he has served as Engagement Partner on several large scale end-to-end banking transformation initiatives at several Top 20 US and global banks, ranging from Merger Integration, Enterprise Risk, Core Bank systems replacement, and multiple Loan transformation initiatives. Anand Shah also serves as a thought leader, having driven multiple banking use cases leveraging the power of data to drive cost optimization and revenue generation via Analytics, while enhancing the overall customer and employee experience.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Shivani Sopory
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Shivani Sopory is the Partner at KPMG.
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Tomas Otterstrom
Partner and Advisory of KPMG International Limited
Tomas Otterström is the Global Lead of KPMG’s Sustainable Finance Services. He also leads KPMG’s Responsible Investment and Sustainability Services in Finland and Sweden. Tomas has over 20 years’ consulting experience and a solid knowledge of business management, responsible investment and asset management, ESG in investor relations, climate finance and markets, ESG Due Diligence and environmental economics. He has supported financial sector actors with integrating ESG in their investment processes and corporates with integrating sustainability in business strategies and key business processes.
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Scott Jones
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Scott is a Partner in KPMG’s Strategy group, leads the firm’s Semiconductor Practice for Advisory and has nearly 20 years of experience working with semiconductor and other high tech companies. He began his career at Intel in finance and later became a program manager in the Enterprise Product Group. After departing Intel he covered the Semiconductor sector at JPMorgan for the #1 ranked equity research team on Wall Street. Later he joined AlixPartners to lead their Semiconductor Practice and the Digital Transformation for the Technology, Media and Telecom sector. Scott is recognized as a thought leader in the Semiconductor industry with a series of publications on R&D Efficiency, Portfolio Management and Operations. He has also led numerous panels and delivered presentations on advanced technology topics such as 3D/2.5D TSV, EUV, 3D NAND, and AI at industry and client events. He has worked with a large group of clients across the high-tech landscape including: Intel, Qualcomm, GlobalFoundries, ARM, Western Digital, Xilinx, Lam Research, VMware, HP Enterprise, Microsemi, Allegro Microsystems, Microchip Technologies, KKR, CVC, Veritas Capital, One Equity Partners and others.
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Lindsay Farnsworth
Partner of KPMG International Limited
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Jim Adams
Partner, National Aerospace and Defense Leader at KPMG LLP of KPMG International Limited
Jim Adams is a principal with KPMG in the Industrial Manufacturing Strategy practice bringing over 20 years of experience in aerospace & defense, energy, technology, and highly engineered products and services. He specializes in strategy-based transformation, corporate strategy / corporate development, acquisition support, and improving company and product competitiveness, including operations / margin improvement Prior to joining KPMG, Jim was with PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) for over 12 years. His most recent role was the U.S. Aerospace and Defense strategy practice leader for Strategy&. Previously, Jim worked at Boeing for about ten years with roles in engineering, operations, and program management. He also spent two years with Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory where he assisted in design and manufacture of ultra-violet sensors for space-based observation. Jim also had a short tenure with Toyota Financial Services in the Treasury group as a Senior Derivatives Analyst. Jim earned a MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a MS in Engineering from UCLA (he was a Hughes Fellowship recipient for his MS in Engineering). Jim’s undergraduate degree is from the University of California Berkeley with a BS degree in Engineering. Jim is also a U.S. Army veteran.
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Lisa Daniels
Managing Partner KPMG & Risk Consulting Partner of KPMG International Limited
Lisa Daniels is the Managing Partner KPMG & Risk Consulting Partner at KPMG.
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Judith Venturino
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Judith Venturino is Partner @ KPMG.
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Michael Mackiewicz
Partner of KPMG International Limited
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Jacob Pszonowsky
Principal (Partner) of KPMG International Limited
Jacob Pszonowsky is the Partner Advisory Board member (volunteer) at Ping Identity.
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Jacob Pszonowsky
Principal (Partner) of KPMG International Limited
Jacob Pszonowsky is the Partner Advisory Board member (volunteer) at Ping Identity.
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Raja Bose
Senior Partner, Transformation Services – Banking & Capital Markets of Genpact
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Lois Coatney
Partner and President, Americas Sales of Information Services Group
Lois is a recognized expert in the field of Service Management and Governance. As Partner and Global Leader of ISG’s Managed Services Practice, she drives innovation and industry leading practices in the area of service integration, operational effectiveness and operating model transformation. She brings more than 25 years of experience in IT operations transformation to her work with such ISG clients as Abbott, CNA, Exelon, Loblaw, Monsanto, Pitney Bowes and United Technologies.
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Krishna Veerareddy
Partner & Managing Director of Shore Group
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Derek Johnston
Partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Derek Johnston is Partner at Bryan Cave.
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Derek Johnston
Partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Derek Johnston is Partner at Bryan Cave.
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Matthew B. Lehr
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mr. Lehr is a member of Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, practicing in the Menlo Park office. He heads our intellectual property litigation practice, focusing primarily on complex patent litigation matters. He has extensive experience in patent and technology cases involving such areas as biotechnology, medical devices, computer architecture, chemical products, pharmaceuticals, plasma physics, electrical devices, computer networking and software, and consumer products. Mr. Lehr has served as lead counsel in numerous bench and jury trials and has represented clients in complex cases involving trade secrets and commercial litigation, as well as Lanham Act and antitrust actions in courts across the United States. He has also appeared and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Anthony I. Fenwick
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mr. Fenwick is a partner in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, based in the Menlo Park office. He has extensive experience litigating patent infringement and other intellectual property cases, as well as complex commercial disputes concerning technology-related issues.
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Sarah K. Solum
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ms. Solum is a corporate partner in Davis Polk’s Menlo Park office. She advises on public and private corporate finance transactions, including initial public offerings and convertible and other debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, SEC disclosure and corporate governance.
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Daniel G. Kelly, Jr.
Retired Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Daniel G. Kelly, Jr. is a founding partner of Davis Polk’s Menlo Park office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and joint ventures. He has significant experience in representing boards of directors in governance and sensitive corporate matters. Mr. Kelly has also been actively involved in a number of large financial restructurings as both a lawyer and, earlier in his career, an investment banker.
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Bruce K. Dallas
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
A member of Davis Polk’s Corporate Department, Mr. Dallas is a founding partner of the Menlo Park office. He advises on corporate finance, derivatives, SEC disclosure and corporate governance. His transactional work includes initial public offerings (with an emphasis on high-technology and bio-technology companies), high-yield, convertible and straight debt offerings and issuer repurchase programs.
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Alan Denenberg
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Alan Denenberg joined Davis Polk & Wardwell as Partner in 2000.
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Neal A. Potischman
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Mr. Potischman is a member of Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, based in our Menlo Park office. He has represented individuals and institutions in a variety of civil, regulatory and criminal matters. He has participated in and helped prepare multiple cases for trial, including by cross-examining a number of fact and expert witnesses. He also has represented a number of witnesses in testimony before the Securities and Exchange Commission. His practice focuses on securities and acquisition-related litigation, antitrust and consumer fraud class actions, and regulatory matters (including relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act).
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Rachel D. Kleinberg
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ms. Kleinberg is a partner in Davis Polk’s Tax Department and works in our Menlo Park office. Her practice focuses on advice to corporate and private equity fund clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs and reorganizations, as well as cross-border restructurings. She also has significant experience in the areas of corporate finance and derivatives.
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Christopher Hockett
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Kirtee Kapoor
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Christopher Hockett
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Arthur J. Burke
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
As a member of Davis Polk’s Litigation Department in New York and Menlo Park, California, Mr. Burke has represented clients in a variety of antitrust, securities, corporate governance and general litigation matters. In his antitrust practice, he advises clients on the competition law aspects of mergers and acquisitions and represents clients in investigations of mergers undertaken by federal antitrust authorities pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
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Steven Salmon
Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Tom Nicholas
VP, Strategic Partnerships & Alliances of Mavenlink
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Bryan Neuberg
Managing Partner, Executive Coach of Neuberg, Gore & Associates
Once a professional activist and a coach at Google, Bryan Neuberg is now a Managing Partner at Neuberg, Gore & Associates which is an executive coaching firm that helps startup entrepreneurs become the executives needed to scale their companies. NGA is one of the few executive coaching firms that solely help startup CEOs and their leadership teams scale their companies. Clients have included: Harry’s, Sprig, Earnest, Spredfast, Teespring, Apteligent, Maker Studios, SOLS (3D Printing), Orbital Insight (satellites)… Their team members collective experience include coaching within dozens of startups, the Fortune 500, the US Military, NASA, and even Burning Man. Their partners support the next generation of business leaders through one-on-one and team coaching programs.
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Michael Costuros
Partner, Executive Coach of Neuberg, Gore & Associates
In the wake of the dotcom collapse, he cofounded a tech startup called liveBooks.com. They built an international team to 60 people across three offices — and millions in annual revenue. Through the experience, he discovered his passion and talent for developing leaders. Michael did what few other coaches in our industry did: he accrued 2,500+ hours in coaching and conflict resolution. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs manage complex interpersonal dynamics and strengthen the resiliency skills necessary to sustain fast-growth companies.
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Jason Gore
General Partner, Executive Coach at Bryan Neuberg and Associates of Neuberg, Gore & Associates
During a 20 year career, Jason Gore has led leadership programs in over 80 cities worldwide for dozens of startups, the Fortune 500, NASA, the Military, and even Burning Man. Jason is now a Managing Partner at Neuberg, Gore & Associates. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs develop innovative cultures and teams who want to accomplish the impossible. Jason speaks on a variety of topics including: Influence, Negotiations, Collaboration, Leading Change, Organizational Strategy, Delegation & Accountability. The combination of a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Haas School of Business at Berkeley has given him a unique combination of coaching skills to facilitate startups to scale up their companies.
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Glen Sato
Partner of Cooley
Glen Sato has been a partner in the Life Sciences and Companies practice group at Cooley Godward LLP since January 2006. Prior to that time, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PDL BioPharma, Inc. (PDL) from May 2003 to September 2005. He joined PDL from Exelixis, Inc., where he had served as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel since November 1999.Previous to Exelixis, he served in various legal and strategic planning positions at PDL, most recently as Vice President, Legal and General Counsel. During his tenure at PDL and Exelixis, Glen Sato was responsible for finance, SEC reporting and compliance, disclosure issues and internal and external business functions, including business development, intellectual property licensing and licensing strategy, general corporate counseling, insider trading compliance and intellectual property protection. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, and his J.D. and M.B.A. from UCLA.
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Rachel B Proffitt
Partner of Cooley
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Ron Hopkinson
Partner of Cooley
Ronald Hopkinson is a partner in the Cooley Business department. He is resident in the New York office and joined the firm in 2016. Mr. Hopkinson has played a significant role in some of the largest leveraged buyouts and high profile private equity transactions consummated in the marketplace on behalf of some of the world’s largest private equity firms and private equity consortiums. He also has worked with leading corporations in major acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings.
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Derek Colla
Partner of Cooley
Derek Colla is a Partner at Cooley LLP.
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Adit Khorana
Technology Transactions Partner of Cooley
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Charley Haley
Partner of Cooley
Charley Haley is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP.
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Wainwright Fishburn
Partner of Cooley
Wainwright Fishburn, Jr. is a founding partner of Cooley’s San Diego office, a prominent venture capital attorney and global chair of the firm’s digital health group.
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Heidi Lawson
Partner of Cooley
Angel investor, strategic advisor and recognized leader in insurance law with more than two decades of international legal and business experience in the insurance industry. Works with a broad range of fintech and insurtech companies. Counsels on risk management, insurance product creation and software development. Admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and New York, Solicitor in England and Wales.
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Mike Platt
Partner in Charge Colorado Office of Cooley
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Thomas Coll
Partner of Cooley
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Bo Yaghmaie
Partner of Cooley
Babak (Bo) Yaghmaie is a partner in the Cooley Business department and a member of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice groups. He joined the firm in 2009 and is resident in the New York and Palo Alto offices. Yaghmaie is the head of the New York Business Technology Group. His practice entails the representation of private and publicly-held emerging growth high technology and life science companies, leading investment banks and venture capital funds, with a particular focus on private placements and venture financings, public offerings of equity securities, and mergers and acquisitions. Yaghmaie has been involved in many of the leading corporate and financing technology transactions in the New York area, including the representation of Union Square Ventures in connection with the formation and financing of Twitter. He regularly represents a broad range of startups, venture-backed companies and venture capital funds. He serves as a TechStars Mentor and as an ER Accelerator Mentor. Yaghmaie is also a member of the Entrepreneurial Sounding Board at Columbia University’s Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center. Yaghmaie has represented both issuers and underwriters in dozens of public offerings by venture-backed issuers across a variety of industries. He has also served as counsel to many leading investment banks, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Friedman Billings Ramsey, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Cowen & Company and Stifel Nicolaus. Yaghmaie has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers,” and was recognized by AlwaysOn in 2012 and 2013 as a “New York City Power Player” for helping entrepreneurs who bring technology breakthroughs to the world of digital media. He played an integral role in the 2012 launch of the Digital Media Center in New York which serves to provide a networking platform for emerging companies and members of the digital media ecosystem. He has also been named among the Top 100 IPO Lawyers in the United States. Yaghmaie is one of the authors of the widely used book, Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation, published by Aspen Law & Business. He is also a senior contributing editor of VC Experts’ Venture Capital Encyclopedia, and has authored chapters in the Securities Filings volume entitled, “Compliance with the Securities Act in the Acquisition Context” and in the Venture Capital: Nuts and Bolts volume entitled, “Venture-backed Company Structures 101: Basic Issues to Consider.” Yaghmaie is a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute. His topics of instruction include venture capital, securities laws, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Cooley, Yaghmaie headed the New York Corporate & Securities Technology group and Venture Capital practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Prior to that, he was a co-founding partner of the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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Pang Lee
Partner of Cooley
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Mike Lincoln
Partner of Cooley
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Brent Fassett
Partner of Cooley
Brent Fassett is the Partner at Cooley.
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Peter Werner
Partner of Cooley
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Marya Postner
Partner of Cooley
Dr. Marya A. Postner is a partner in the Cooley Life Sciences practice group in the Business department. She joined the Firm in 1996 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.
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Aaron Velli
Partner of Cooley
Aaron Velli is the Partner at Cooley LLP.
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