Found 193 investors
Jack Selby
United States
Mr. Michael Rhodes serves as Chief Financial Officer at AppTek. He is the Chief Financial Officer at Geostellar. His diverse background includes work in corporate finance, private equity, venture capital, and start-ups. He started with Geostellar in October of 2012, and is charged with providing financial oversight to the company's strategic and operating activities, while being responsible for the finance, accounting, HR, investor relations, and business development functions. Mike's focus at Geostellar is to provide a strong financial and business foundation, and the discipline that will help drive the enterprise value of the company as its velocity accelerates from that of a start-up to a strong, vibrant, solar powerhouse. Mike was previously the CFO of Crystal Media Networks, a mid-sized media advertising and technology firm in Bethesda, Maryland. Crystal Media was a portfolio company of Arlington-based private equity firm MCG Capital (MCGC:NASDAQ), where Mike was a Portfolio Manager for more than eight years. While at MCG, Mike led underwriting teams for both debt and equity investments, managed existing portfolio investments, and assisted in turnaround situations, primarily in the Media and Communications industries. At one point, Mike managed a portfolio of over 15 companies with over $170 million of invested capital at risk. He has assisted in over $400 million of private equity and debt transactions in his career, working with MCG, C1 Venture Partners, Global Partner Ventures (GPV), and the Defense Enterprise Fund. While with GPV, Mike helped fund and create venture-backed start-up companies in the United States and Russia, in the information technology, telecommunications, and manufacturing industries. Mike began his career in corporate finance and business development at the Hamilton Sundstrand Division of United Technologies Corporation, where he worked on international financing and joint ventures. One of those start-up joint ventures, HS-Nauka, is still producing environmental control systems for Boeing 747 aircraft to this day. Mike earned a BS in Finance from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Individual/Angel
James Chiddix
Canada
Mr. Ray Walia is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Launch Academy. He also is an Angel Investor. He was an Advisor of Victory Square Technologies. Mr. Walia served as Managing Partner at Victory Square Labs. He also serves as Chief Operating Officer at Fantasy 360. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Director at Launch Academy (accelerator). Mr. Walia serves as a Managing partner at Victory Square Venture Capital. He is a successful entrepreneur with several years of experience in multiple businesses spanning across a variety of industries with multiple successful exits. He co-founded and is the executive director of the non-profit Launch Academy, a high-energy reaction chamber where a technology start-up's evolution is ignited and accelerated through the fundamental theories of lean start-up, customer development, innovation, accounting, metrics, and accountability. He served as Managing Director, Corporate Development at LX Ventures till May, 2014. He is also Board of Director at Mekenix Commerce.
Individual/Angel
Jeffrey Baltimore
United States
Mr. Ivan Inerfeld is an Angel Investor. Ivan Inerfeld is the Chairman at Inerfeld Family. Mr. Inerfeld served as the CEO and founder at VerticalNet. Mr. Inerfeld is a CPA and holds a degree in Business Administration from Pace University, and has completed advanced management courses at both Harvard University and The Wharton School. Prior to joining Internet Capital Group, Mr. Inerfeld served as an advisor to numerous national and international companies in the media industry for over twenty-five years. Mr. Inerfeld served as a National Director of Media and a Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for two of the "big six" public accounting firms. Mr. Inerfeld was also an Executive Vice President of International Thomson Business Press, Inc., assisting foreign management with their U.S. acquisition strategy, and directing the assimilation and operation of seventeen subsidiaries having fifty-five trade/consumer magazines and twenty newsletters. Mr. Inerfeld served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Regal Communications Corporation where he managed the strategic restructuring of this publicly held, financially troubled, $200-millon direct-response electronic-marketing company. As President of Tiger Direct, Inc., a publicly held $100 million catalog publisher of computer and software products, Mr. Inerfeld organized its operations and successfully positioned the Company as an acquisition candidate.
Individual/Angel
Jeffrey Fagnan
United States
Dave is a highly skilled professional with more than twenty years of experience with Fortune 500 companies from a variety of industries including health products and services, construction, insurance and telecommunications. He has been with The Johnsson Group for 10 years, leading others with exceptional team building, process improvement, and project management skills. Dave is a CPA with a BS in Accounting from Southern Illinois University
Individual/Angel
Jeffrey Greiner
Hong Kong
Mr. Alex So is the Founder & serves as Group Managing Partner at FastLane Group. He is a fellow member of CPA Australia and has over 20 years of professional finance and accounting, corporate finance, and investment experience in the financial services and asset management companies. Mr. So is also an Angel Investor. He was the Advisor at Launchpilots.
Individual/Angel
Jim Hollingsworth
United States
Mr. Craig Finster serves as Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships at Originate. He serves as Chief Financial Officer and President at Versus Systems. He has over 15 years of experience in finance, accounting, and corporate development for technology companies. He previously served as the Managing Director of Originate's Strategic Advisory Group, working with venture stage companies on strategic and financial issues. He previously spent four years leading the investment team at Originate, focusing on seed and early stage companies. Mr. Finster is the former CEO of a venture capital backed technology start-up, which was sold to strategic buyer. He holds bachelor's degrees in economics and finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Individual/Angel
Jivan Manhas
United States
Mr. Lior Shemesh serves as Chief Financial Officer at Wix. From December 2010, to January 2013, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Alvarion Ltd., a provider of optimized wireless broadband solutions. From October 2008 to December 2010 he served as Alvarion's Vice President of Finance. From May 2003 to October 2008, Mr. Shemesh served as Vice President of Finance at Veraz Networks Inc., a provider of softswitch, media gateway and digital compression solutions. Prior to this, Mr. Shemesh served as Controller, and later as Associate Vice President of Finance of the Broadband division, for ECI Telecom Ltd., a network infrastructure provider. Mr. Shemesh holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics, and an M.B.A. from Bar-Ilan University.
Individual/Angel
Joe O'Connor
United States
Mr. David Freschman is a Co-Founding Partner and Board Member at ARC Angel Fund. He serves as a Board Member at CMP.LY. He also serves as Board Member at WeatherTrends360. He also serves as Managing Principal at Innovation Capital Advisors. He had served as the President and CEO of the DIF since its establishment in 1995. The DIF is a seed- and early-stage venture capital fund that focuses on entrepreneurial ventures in the Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Freschman had been responsible for all aspects of IV's and the DIF's management since its inception, including the business strategy, fiscal and operational management, raising investment capital, and evaluating all investment opportunities and portfolio company management. He was very active in the venture and entrepreneurial communities. He was one of the organizers and initial investors in the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group, where he served on the angel fund's Executive and Investment Committees. He sat on a number of Boards, and has been a lecturer on venture capital, entrepreneurship and angel investing at The White House Conference on Small Business, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, the University of Delaware, Goldey-Beacom College, and Loyola College in Baltimore. He was the creator and founder of Early Stage East - the premier early-stage venture capital event on the East Coast. In 2001, Mr. Freschman was appointed by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to chair the venture capital study of Delaware's Strategic Economic Council. He was appointed and served a three-year term representing New Castle County, Delaware, on the Small Business Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia through 2002. Prior to establishing the DIF, he was responsible for the formation of the corporate finance advisory division of McBride Shopa & Company, one of the largest certified public accounting and consulting firms in Delaware. He began his career with the Enterprise Group of the Philadelphia office of Arthur Andersen, LLP, from 1984 through 1989. He graduated with honors with an MBA from Loyola College of Maryland and cum laude from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in accounting, where he was a John B. Lynch Scholar. He was also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma - the National Honor Society. He served as Board Member at Sidecar (Philadelphia).
Individual/Angel
John Aiken
United Kingdom
Mr. John Aiken serves as Board Member at Jenson Funding Partners. John qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG where he progressed to Senior Manager responsible for around 30 staff providing audit, accounting and corporate finance services to a variety of clients from large multi-nationals to owner-managed businesses. John also undertook tax compliance work and gained wide experience of quoted company reporting issues, including dealing with the Financial Reporting Review Panel. John then became a Finance Director working for four listed companies and held other senior finance roles in the IT and Software sectors. With extensive experience of fundraisings, acquisitions, disposals and reorganizations, John joined Jenson Partners LLP in 2010. Since Jenson Funding Partners was founded John has worked as an Investment Director for a number of our investee companies and been on the Board for the last three years and is now a partner.
Individual/Angel
Jonathan Sisler
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Jonathan Sisler began his career in finance and accounting as a financial assurance consultant with Arthur Andersen LLP. While at Andersen, ...
Individual/Angel
Karim Attia
United States
Mr. Paul Tarell serves as Chief Financial Officer at Gaia (Colorado). Mr. Tarell is also an angel investor. He served as Vice President of Finance & Operations at SET Media. Prior to joining SET, Paul held senior finance roles with mobile tech company Velti and accounting firm Armanino McKenna LLP. Mr. Tarell became Gaia's Chief Financial Officer in July 2016. Prior to this, Mr. Tarell, was Chief Financial Officer of Gaia's subscription segment since May 2014 and Vice President of Finance since September 2013. From January 2012 until August 2013, Mr. Tarell was Head of Finance and Operations of SET Media, Inc. (acquired by Conversant, Inc.), an online video technology company. From October 2010 until March 2012, Mr. Tarell was Senior Director of Finance at Velti, Inc., a mobile advertising technology company. From 2005 until September 2010, Mr. Tarell was a licensed CPA in California, working in public practice at Armanino LLP.
Individual/Angel
Katherine Kang
Seattle, Washington
Startup Finance & Accounting Consultant | Angel Investor
FinTech
Kathy Vrabeck
United States
Mr. Ben Schlang serves as Vice President at Harbour Point Capital. He has been involved in principal investing since 2012. Before joining Harbour Point, he was an Associate at Sopris Capital, a growth equity firm that seeks to invest in fast growing healthcare and tech-enabled services companies. Prior to that, he was an Analyst at Roark Capital Group focusing exclusively on buyout investments in the retail and consumer industries. He received a B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.
Individual/Angel
Katie May
United States
Mr. Brian Nelson serves as Angel Investor at Brian Nelson. He served as Vice President, Business Strategy at Identiv. Mr. Nelson became Identiv's VP Business Strategy in November 2015. He previously served as Identiv's Chief Financial Officer from December 2013 to November 2015. He has more than 20 years of practical experience in accounting and finance, ranging from executive finance positions with both emerging and established technology companies in Silicon Valley to providing audit assurance and transaction-related services to public and private companies. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Nelson was Chief Financial Officer of idOnDemand, a pioneer in cloud-based identity management solutions that was acquired by Identiv in May 2011. Prior to idOnDemand, he served for five years as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Kleer Corporation, a wireless audio company. His previous positions also include Vice President of Finance for Silicon Access Networks and for PlanetRx, Corporate Controller for LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft) and various other technology startups, and he was an Audit Manager with KPMG LLP in Silicon Valley. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Practice in the M.B.A. program in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Nelson received his B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University, studied in the M.B.A. program at Santa Clara University, and earned his CPA license in the State of California.
Individual/Angel
Kenneth Jones
United States
Mr. Paul Habibi serves as Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He serves as Board Member at Pacific Charter School Development and Knock. He previously worked as an Investment Banking Associate at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Manager of Transaction Support with The Walt Disney Company, and Audit Manager with Arthur Andersen LLP. He holds an MBA with Highest Distinction, under merit scholarship, from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he received the David T. Shelby Award. He also holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from UCSB. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and Real Estate Broker. He serves as an Industrial Advisor for EQT Partners, a Swedish private equity group of 18 funds with $30 billion in capital.
Individual/Angel
Kirsi Eräkangas
United States
Mr. Taylor Clauson is a Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Abstraction Capital. He served as Principal at OpenAir Equity Partners. He joined OpenAir in July 2012. Prior to OpenAir, he worked as Director of Operations at EcoFit Lighting, a cleantech startup that designed, manufactured, and marketed outdoor LED lighting products. At EcoFit, he worked at supply chain management, logistics, and financial planning & analysis, as well as helping to fundraise. He started his career as an Investment Analyst for the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC), a public/private partnership that invested in seed-stage technology companies for the state of Kansas. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Kansas State University.
Individual/Angel
Kohan Ventures
United States
Mr. Lavigne served as Board Member at Puppet and BMC Software. Mr. Lavigne serves as a Director at DocuSign. He is managing director of Lavrite, LLC and former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Genentech Inc., leads DocuSign's Audit and Finance Committee. He brings decades of corporate finance, accounting, growth strategy and IT management experience to DocuSign's board. In his twenty-three years at Genentech, he led the company's financial, corporate relations and information technology groups as revenues grew from $40 million in 1983 to $300 million in 1988 when he became CFO to more than $6.5 billion in 2005 when he was named 'Best CFO in Biotech' by Institutional Investor. Mr. Lavigne is a Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors of Accuray, Inc. (Chairman of the Board & Compensation Committee), Allergan, Inc. (Member of the Audit and Finance & Science and Technology Committees), BMC Software (Chairman of the Audit Committee & Member of the M&A Committee), Depomed, Inc. (Audit Committee member), NovoCure (Audit Committee Chairman) and SafeNet, Inc. (Audit Committee Chairman). Previously, he was a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of several other public companies including Arena Pharmaceuticals, Equinix, Kyphon and Genova. Mr. Lavigne is also part of the Pacific SW Audit Committee Network of Audit Committee Chairs and Deloitte's Life Sciences Advisory Board. Mr. Lavigne is the managing member of Spring Development Group, LLC, a strategic investor in companies with unique growth opportunities. Mr. Lavigne is a board member and former Chairman of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Mr. Lavigne is also a member of the West Coast Audit Committee Network and the faculty of the GLG Institute. He also served as Chairman of the Children's Hospital & Research Center Foundation. He serves as Board Member at Zynga.
Individual/Angel
K Partners
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
K Partners is an accounting and financial services firm providing personalized financial services solutions to its clients.
Venture Capital
Kuba Tymula
United States
Mr. Glen Sato served as a Partner at Cooley. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a partner in the Life Sciences and Public Securities practice groups and a member of Cooley Godward Kronish's Business department. He rejoined the Firm in 2006 and is resident in the Palo Alto office. Mr. Sato's practice focuses on corporate transactions, SEC reporting and compliance, disclosure issues, intellectual property licensing and licensing strategy, general corporate counseling, insider trading compliance and working with Boards of Directors and audit committees on various risk and accounting related matters. Together with strong finance capabilities, Sato also has substantial experience in corporate partnering, international and domestic M&A and other heavily negotiated transactions. He has worked closely with underwriters on public and private company acquisitions and led initial public, follow-on and secondary and convertible note offerings. He has also led or been significantly involved in corporate partnering and licensing transactions involving pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Abbott, Bayer, Biogen Idec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exelixis, Eli Lilly, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, PDL BioPharma, Progenics, Roche, Sankyo and Tanox. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Sato served in diverse legal, financial, operational and strategic planning positions where his responsibilities included finance, business development, IS, HR and Facilities. He most recently served as Protein Design Labs' (PDL) Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He joined PDL from Exelixis, where he served as SVP, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel for approximately three years. Prior to his time at Exelixis, he served in various legal and strategic planning positions at PDL, including Vice President, Legal and General Counsel. In addition, Mr. Sato worked at NeXT Computer as Associate General Counsel. He was an attorney in Cooley Godward Kronish's Business Department in Palo Alto for two years. Mr. Sato started his career at Jones, Day in Washington, DC. Mr. Sato received his JD and MBA from UCLA in 1987, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review. He received a Bachelor's degree in Economics and the College of Social Studies in 1981 from Wesleyan University. Mr. Sato is a member of the State Bar of California and an inactive member of the Washington, DC Bar Association.
Individual/Angel
Larry Felix
United States
Mr. Larry Stolzenburg is an angel investor. He serves as Advisory Board Member at OneTen Capital. Larry also serves as Partner and Head of Private Client Services at Sandhill Investment Management - one of the fastest growing wealth managers in the country. Before joining Sandhill, most of Larry's career was dedicated to building a tax and accounting practice focused on growing businesses (Kicinski & Stolzenburg). Larry also built a successful business valuation firm named Ellis Group, Inc. which was acquired in 2005. Larry is passionate about utilizing his experience to help business owners grow profitably and in sustainable ways. Larry has invested in various closely held businesses in Western New York and in most cases, also acts as an advisor to the principals of those firms.
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