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Montlake Capital
President
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 Montlake Capital
where he is responsible for overseeing all firm operations. Andy currently serves as a board member for Montlake Capital portfolio companies Door to Door Storage, ClearMedical, ReliOn, Intrepid, PayScale, HaloSource, ClearAccess and Veriwave; and formerly served as a board observer for Performant, Inc., a Montlake Capital portfolio company successfully exited through sale to Mercury Interactive. He holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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. 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.
Madrona Venture Group
Secretary and Treasurer
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.
Rustic Canyon
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 (board seat), GSI Commerce, IdeaForest, Intrepid Learning Solutions
OVP Venture Partners
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.
WRF Capital
NextGen Venture Association
Mr. Le focuses on investment opportunities in biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, enterprise software and advanced materials. He has worked closely with the management teams and boards of Corus Pharma (acquired by Gilead Sciences), Lumera (NasdaqNM:LMRA), Performant (acquired by Mercury Interactive), and Point of CareWare. He currently represents WRF Capital as a Director of Accelerator Corporation, GPC-Rx and Mirina, and is a Board Observer at Alder Biopharmaceuticals, HaloSource, Hyperion Therapeutics, Teranode, Uptake Medical, and VLST.
Prior to joining WRF Capital, Mr. Le was the founder, president and chief executive officer of MiniMeals, Inc. and a consultant for Capital Management Consulting, Inc. Earlier, he was at Raymond James & Associates, Singer & Xenos Investment Management Company and Capital Management Group LLC, a private investment firm specializing in biomedical ventures.
Mr. Le completed post-graduate studies at the Templeton College of Oxford University and earned a bachelor of arts cum laude in economics and government from Harvard University. He also serves on the executive boards of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association (EVCA), the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association (WBBA), and the Harvard Club of Seattle.
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