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Jon Staenberg Rustic Canyon President Jon Staenberg has been working with venture backed companies for more than a decade. In this capacity, he has started his own company, worked full-time in other companies, and consulted to over 50 startups. He is one of the most experienced venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, having raised two funds totaling over $100 million. After working in the marketing area at Microsoft for six years, he joined Virtual i-O as VP of Sales & Marketing. During the last eight years, he has been engaged in business planning, business development, financial planning and fundraising, recruiting and M&A work for a variety of Silicon Valley and Seattle-based startups. Jon serves on the boards of Class.com and Micropath, and is on the advisory boards of New Vine Logistics, Vista Broadband, Prime Advantage, Time Domain, Atlantes.com, OneName, Syncronex, and uReach.com. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, where he received his BS, MA, and MBA. Rustic Canyon company representation: ePartners*, GSI Commerce, IdeaForest, Intrepid Learning Solutions * Denotes Board Seat Lucinda Stewart OVP Venture Partners Vice President Lucinda is a principal at OVP and brings 10 years of experience in both the operations and investment sides of emerging growth companies. Lucinda was part of the start-up team of a Welsch, Carson, Anderson & Stowe-backed services company, National Surgery Centers (NSC), where she worked in market and business development for five years analyzing markets for new center development, acquiring existing operations and working with individual centers to improve operational performance. During her tenure at NSC, the company became the largest independent owner and operator of surgery centers, went public and subsequently sold to HealthSouth for $590 million. After NSC, Lucinda worked closely with software and services companies while in investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York and also since joining the venture business in 1999 (initially with Frazier Healthcare). BA, Political Science, University of Puget Sound; MM, Kellogg School of Northwestern University Current board seats: Granite Edge Observer on Max-Viz, UxComm and AskeMe Corp. Outside boards: Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), Northwest Chapter Evergreen Venture Capital Association, Board Member. Kristin Nelson Fluke Venture Partners Treasurer Kristin joined Fluke Venture Partners in January 2001, and is responsible for deal-flow generation, due diligence, deal structuring, and portfolio monitoring. She represents FVP as a Board observer of NetMotion Wireless, Inc. and Klir Technologies, Inc., and also serves on the Board of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association.
Kristin is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management, where she received the Class of 2000 Dean's Distinguished Service Award and was recognized as the school's Top Student in Entrepreneurship. In addition, she was honored with the 1999-2000 Robert & Helen Gottschalk Scholarship for entrepreneurship. While pursuing her MBA, Kristin also worked as an analyst for Northport Private Equity.
Buerk Dale Victor For more than 15 years, Andy has been involved with building and growing companies as an investment banker, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur. Since 2000, Andy has served as Managing Partner and Managing Director at BDV where he is responsible for overseeing all firm operations. Andy is currently a member of the board of directors for three BDV portfolio companies, ClearMedical, ReliOn, and HaloSource; a board observer for Intrepid and PayScale; and formerly a board observer for Performant, Inc., a BDV portfolio company successfully exited through sale to Mercury Interactive. Andy is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. From 1999-2000, Andy served as Vice President of Corporate Development at LHS Group, the world's leading wireless customer care and billing company. He was responsible for corporate planning, strategic partnership building, and technology planning. He assisted with the completion of LHS Group's $4.7 billion merger with Sema Group. From 1993-99, he was a founding member of the management team for Priority Call Management, an innovative telecom software company. At Priority Call, he assisted in raising $15 million from angel and venture capital investors and grew the company from zero to $60 million in revenues within six years. His primary responsibilities included building global sales, marketing, and service operations. Goldman Sachs assisted with the 1999 sale of Priority Call Management to LHS Group for approximately $200 million. Andy was also an early employee at hDC Computer, a software company in Redmond, WA. He served as the assistant to the Director of Finance and Manufacturing and managed the financial control and information system as well as coordination of relationships with outside manufacturers and vendors. From 1988-90 he worked as an investment banker and venture capitalist with Smith Barney in New York where he was involved in reorganizations for Revco Drugstores, Sunbeam Appliance Company, and Eastern Airlines. Andy was honored as one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s top 40 business leaders under the age of 40 for 2003. He holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Greg Gottesman Madrona Venture Group Greg Gottesman joined Madrona in 1997 and currently serves on the boards of Bocada, ePartners, Intrepid Learning Solutions, Rendition Networks, Thinkfire and WildTangent. Previously, Mr. Gottesman served in a board capacity to Singingfish (prior to its acquisition by Thomson), LiveBid.com (prior to its acquisition by Amazon.com) and AdRelevance (prior to its acquisition by Media Metrix). Before joining Madrona, he worked as an Associate at Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Gottesman graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction from Stanford University, with honors and distinction from the Harvard Business School, and with honors from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Gottesman is a board member of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association, University of Washington Center for Technology Entrepreneurship and the Seattle Repertory Theatre where he is chair of the Trustees Committee. He is a lecturer at the University of Washington Business School and teaches a class on venture capital with Matt McIlwain in the Executive MBA Program. He is the author of three books. Robert Headley Ignition Partners Robert is a partner at Ignition. He invests in telecommunications and wireless companies. Robert also acts as Ignition's Administrative Partner overseeing the firm's day to day operations. Robert represents Ignition as director on the board of Extend America. Prior to joining Ignition, Robert spent seven years at Starbucks Coffee Company, most recently as Vice President, Finance & Treasurer. In that role, he managed Starbucks Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Treasury, Business Planning & Analysis, and Profit Improvement functions. At Starbucks, he played a lead role in the company's acquisition of operating units in the Northeast US ($25 million), Northern California ($10 million) and the UK ($80 million). He spearheaded equity and convertible debt financings that raised several hundred million dollars for the company. He also played a key role in the company's joint venture agreements with Dreyer's and Pepsi, the latter a $60 million joint venture that has captured the leading US share of the ready-to-drink coffee market. Prior to Starbucks, Robert spent three years in the Principal Investment Area and Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in New York and Sydney, Australia. Robert holds an M.S. and B.S. degree with distinction in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
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