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potentially expanding the team in SF
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jdeloche@rosemontseneca.com
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2013-03-09 00:25:47
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Devon Archer
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Eric Schwerin
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Hunter Biden
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Neil Callahan
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Rob Walker
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Gents, I have been wanting to have a local partner in SF and I think I may have found one. Will Lee is a bootsrapped entrepreneur who started his own software company, Theory Center, in 1999 with $2mm of friends and family money which was acquired by BEA Systems in a stock deal originally valued at $160mm which then rose to $700 million with stock price appreciation. He has ridiculous street cred with entrepreneurs out here and is a great, and very smart dude. Additionally, he would invest personally in the first closing and thinks he can bring in $3-$5mm from his network for the first closing. He has been investing personally since he sold his company and is looking for a full time gig. He has a very technical background: computer science, math and engineering degrees from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon so a very strong complement to our team's skill set. He also speaks Mandarin and Cantonese which may come in handy for fundraising at some point (now). I would like him to meet you guys to see if you think he would be a good cultural fit. My thought would be to add him as a venture partner in San Francisco if you guys like him. He will attend the annual meeting but would like to meet you guys earlier if possible. He and I will be in NY (and possibly DC) on 3/20-3/22. he is going to intro some investors on the trip. Are you guys in town those days? I'd like to bring him by to meet you. Would also be good to get together to do a little work on Annual Meeting prep. Here is his bio: Mr. Lee is a visionary enterprise software entrepreneur and an active investor. Over the last ten years, he has built both successful products and a portfolio of investments. Prior to NextStage, Mr. Lee was Senior Director of Technology at BEA Systems’ eCommerce Applications Group. He led and executed the group’s technology sales strategies for worldwide markets. At The Theory Center, Mr. Lee was Chief Technology Officer, and was the co-inventor behind the company’s patented Enterprise JavaBeans component-based products which became part of BEA's WebLogic Commerce Server. Prior to co-founding The Theory Center, Mr. Lee was at Motorola, where he led the development of mobile based operating systems and award-winning component-based software. Mr. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science with honors from Carnegie Mellon University in Mathematics, Computer Science and Computer Engineering. He also earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from Cornell University. Best, John John DeLoche *Managing Director* Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners One Market, Spear Tower, 36th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 office: 415 293 8147 mobile: 415 793 7070 This email communication is privileged and confidential and is intended only for the individuals or entities named above. Any unauthorized dissemination of any of the contents of this email is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose to others the contents of this communication. Please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error and then delete the e-mail
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