Experience

Azure Capital Partners

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Partner

  • Apr 2000 - Present

  San Francisco/Menlo Park CA Founder and general partner responsible for investments across the IT landscape including: enterprise, data center, cloud, analytics, communications infrastructure & services, Internet infrastructure, consumer and fin tech sectors. Current board and advisory responsibilities include: Decision Next, GenXComm, PepTalk, Pliant, ScreenMeet, Selector, Virtana; other active investments include Ginkgo Bioworks, Magic Cube, MomentRanks and NativeVoice. Prior investment responsibilities included;… Show more Founder and general partner responsible for investments across the IT landscape including: enterprise, data center, cloud, analytics, communications infrastructure & services, Internet infrastructure, consumer and fin tech sectors. Current board and advisory responsibilities include: Decision Next, GenXComm, PepTalk, Pliant, ScreenMeet, Selector, Virtana; other active investments include Ginkgo Bioworks, Magic Cube, MomentRanks and NativeVoice. Prior investment responsibilities included; Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom), Concercent (acquired by OneTrust), K2 Software (acquired by Nintex), NeoNova (acquired by NRTC), Parama (acquired by BayMicro), Prediction IO (acquired by Salesforce.com), Sylantro (acquired by BroadSoft), Tutum (acquired by Docker), Unitas (acquired by Digital Alpha), World Wide Packets (acquired by Ciena), Vapps (acquired by Citrix). Show less



DecisionNext

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area DecisionNext enables risk aware decisions for companies in commodity industries through machine learning.



Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  Greater Boston Area Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom organisms for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new organisms that replace technology with biology.



GenXComm Inc.

• Investor/Board Observer

  • Nov 2017 - Present

  Austin, Texas Area GenXComm Inc. was founded in 2016 to commercialize years of research and development out of the University of Texas at Austin around dynamic filtering and Radio Frequency (RF)-photonic systems.



Interblock Capital Partners

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Advisor

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Dallas, Texas, United States Manage and operate blockchain projects and investments



MagicCube, Inc.

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Unlike hardware, you are not beholden to specific device-makers or use-cases. MagicCube protects your users’ activity, logic and data on virtually any device, ranging from mobile payments and medical devices to connected cars and virtually any other consumer device.



ScreenMeet

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor/Board Observer

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Modern customer support software. ScreenMeet is integrated with leading CRM and ITSM vendors including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk and Microsoft Dynamics 365. With ScreenMeet, your agents no longer need additional software to run remote support sessions from your CRM



Selector Software

• Romania
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor / Board Observer

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Santa Clara County, California, United States Industry-leading AIOps platform for operational intelligence. Selector’s usable AIOps is the first analytics solution to provide instant, real-time actionable insights for managing multi-domain network and application infrastructures. Selector Analytics is designed to reduce MTTR, improve IT performance and efficiency and help reduce overall costs.



Virtana

• Trinidad and Tobago
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • May 2012 - Present

  Santa Clara, CA Virtual Instruments delivers the industry’s only real-time AIOps platform for mission-critical IT infrastructure – from the data center to the public cloud. The VirtualWisdom® and WorkloadWisdom® platforms provide unprecedented visibility into the performance, health, and utilization of IT infrastructure – empowering our customers to guarantee the performance and availability of their mission critical applications and to proactively prevent application slowdowns and outages.



Unitas Global

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Greater Los Angeles Area Unitas Global Connected Hybrid Cloud consists of private cloud, public cloud, connectivity, orchestration, monitoring, management and support -- all fully managed, and all working together as one seamless end-to-end solution.



NetFortris

• Australia
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Feb 2017 - Jun 2023

  Dallas/Fort Worth Area NetFortris has consistently focused on providing reliable, secure and highly customizable managed communications solutions to mid-market and enterprise customers delivering our cloud solutions over secure connections leveraging NetFortris' Internet and local loop, MPLS, SD WAN, Wi-Fi and backup 4G networks. We pride ourselves on our customer-centric culture, consultative approach to customers’ communications needs and five-star concierge service.



Tomorrow Ideas

• Italy
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor

  • Dec 2017 - Jan 2022

  Greater Seattle Area Life planning software that enables simple creation and management of changing family needs for wills, estate planning, insurance, etc.



Convercent (acquired by OneTrust)

• Board Member

  • Dec 2017 - Apr 2021

  Greater Denver Area As a leading global provider of ethics and compliance software, Convercent weaves ethics and values into everyday operations at some of the world's largest and most admired companies. Its Ethics Cloud Platform, which is comprised of a suite of applications including Convercent Insights, Convercent Helpline, Convercent Campaigns, Convercent Disclosures and Convercent Third Party, leverages a global dataset to deliver business leaders the insights they need to make proactive, informed decisions… Show more As a leading global provider of ethics and compliance software, Convercent weaves ethics and values into everyday operations at some of the world's largest and most admired companies. Its Ethics Cloud Platform, which is comprised of a suite of applications including Convercent Insights, Convercent Helpline, Convercent Campaigns, Convercent Disclosures and Convercent Third Party, leverages a global dataset to deliver business leaders the insights they need to make proactive, informed decisions about their company's ethical health. Companies use Convercent to engage with employees, understand organizational risk and create opportunities for stronger, sustained business performance. Convercent has more than 600 global customers. Show less



K2 Software (acquired by Nintex)

• Board Member

  • Jun 2015 - Oct 2020

  Seattle, WA K2 is a leading provider of business application platforms and solutions that empower people to build and run business apps



Fonality (acquired by NetFortris)

• Board Member

  • Dec 2005 - Feb 2017

  Los Angeles, CA Over 25,000 businesses and 300,000 users rely on Fonality's Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) solutions, which can be provied as either an on-prem solution or as a cloud service,



NeoNova Network Services

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Feb 2008 - Jul 2013

  Raleigh, NC Acquired by NRTC



BroadLight

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jun 2004 - Mar 2011

  Israel Acquired by Broadcom



Vapps

• Kenya
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Board Member

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2008

  Greater New York City Area Acquired by Citrix



World Wide Packets

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Nov 2000 - Mar 2008

  Spokane, WA Acquired by Ciena



VMware

• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Investor

  • May 2000 - Jan 2004

  Palo Alto, California, United States Acquired by EMC



Credit Suisse First Boston

• Managing Director

  • Jun 1998 - Apr 2000

  San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for company and indsutry research specializing in communications equipment, communicaiton software, data networking, semiconductors and telecommunications



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Managing Director

  • Feb 1998 - Jun 1998

  San Francisco Bay Area Managing Director of Equity Research - focus on communications and data networking equipment



Paine Webber

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Dec 1994 - Mar 1998

  New York and San Francisco Managing Director of Equity Research - focus on communications, data networking equipment and data storage



Kidder Peabody & Co.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SVP & Managing Director

  • Jun 1987 - Dec 1994

  Boston and New York Equity Research analyst - focus on communications, data networking equipment and data storage