VCET and portfolio firms benefit from an exceptional, volunteer Venture Capital Advisory Board. These world-class Advisers add significant organizational capacity, market savvy, networking linkages and venture capital expertise. VCET is honored to have assistance from the following individuals:
David Aronoff
Flybridge Capital Partners
David is a General Partner at Flybridge in Boston with investment focus in the semiconductor, enterprise systems and security sectors. David is from the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont and a UVM graduate. He blogs at www.geekvc.com
Richard Bruno
Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Partner
Richard is an entrepreneur, ex-senior manager of Philips NV, past venture partner at iNovia Capital, adviser on innovation-investment policy in Quebec, a current venture partner at Cycle Capital and Chairman of Quebec Angels. Richard now lives in Vermont.
Neil Campbell
Mosaigen Corporation and Endeavour Capital, Ltd
Neil is CEO of Mosaigen, a global healthcare & IT technology development corporation and a General Partner with Endeavour Capital, ltd in New Zealand. He has been CEO for EntreMed Biopharmaceuticals, and held other senior executive roles at Celera Genomics, Life Technologies, IGEN and Abbott Laboratories. Neil is a native Vermonter and Norwich University graduate.
Peter Feinstein
BioVentures Investors
Peter co-founded BioVentures in Cambridge, MA and remains General Partner investing in companies commercializing breakthrough life science and healthcare technologies. BioVentures currently has over $145 million under management. In 1985, Peter co-founded the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.
Jamie Goldstein
North Bridge Venture Partners
Prior to North Bridge in 1998, Jamie co-founded PureSpeech, a venture backed speech recognition software and applications firm and was an early employee with Symmetrix, a provider of manufacturing execution software. Jamie’s investment interests include software, storage, wireless, semiconductor and materials companies.
Evan Lovell
Virgin Green Fund
Evan is a Partner in the $500M Virgin Green Fund formed with Sir Richard Branson to invest in the cleantech sector. Prior to this, Evan was a partner in TPG’s Aqua Fund, which focused in the water and renewable energy sectors. Evan is a UVM graduate and lives in Vermont.
Jim MacIntyre
Serial Technology Entrepreneur and Product Labs Founder
Jim is a serial entrepreneur with over a 20 year track record for technology innovation. Most recently, he was founder and CEO of pioneering web analytics and optimization firm, Visual Sciences, which he sold to Omniture. Jim is a native Vermonter and UVM graduate.
Bill Maris
Google Ventures
Bill is now a Managing Partner of Google Ventures. Previously he founded and sold Burlee in South Burlington and he was a portfolio manager for Investor AB, one of the world’s largest industrial holding companies, where he co-managed the biotechnology and health care portfolios. He is a Middlebury College graduate.
Jack McMullen
Consultant and Private Investor
Jack is a well recognized management consultant and technology firm adviser, a successful private investor and Board Director on numerous venture backed biotechnology and software firms. Jack has served on VCET’s Client Selection Committee.
Sim Simeonov
Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Partner
Sim was chief architect at Macromedia (now Adobe) and at Allaire, one of the first large internet platform companies. His innovations include: the first web application server (ColdFusion), the best open-source web services engine (Apache Axis) and the first rich internet application platform (Flash/Flex). Sim is a former Venture Partner at Polaris Ventures in Boston. Check him out at www.fastignite.com.