Private Equity
San Francisco-based AITV, an early-stage medium-growth venture firm, has named Jeff Sica as a special advisor for its board. Sica is the founder and CIO of Circle Squared Alternative Investments.
4 min read · 29 January 2015
Huddle, a London and San Francisco-based enterprise cloud collaboration service provider, has named Morten Brøgger as its new CEO. Brøgger is the former CEO of MACH. Huddle's backers include Zouk Capital.
3 min read · 29 January 2015
Shasta Ventures has promoted Sean Flynn to managing director. Prior to joining Shasta, Flynn worked at Yahoo where he was a senior director of business development and business operations.
2 min read · 29 January 2015
Madrona Venture Group has hired Kerry Van Voris as director of talent. Previously, Van Voris worked at Amazon.com where she most recently led executive recruiting for Amazon Web Services.
2 min read · 29 January 2015
DFJ announced on Tuesday that Seattle-based Bryan Hale has re-joined the firm as an Executive-in-Residence. DFJ Partner Bill Bryant wrote in a blog post on Medium that Hale was previously an investment professional with DFJ before joining CHEF Software, a DFJ-backed company, in 2009. Bryant wrote that Hale will work with the firm's existing portfolio companie and "work on his own startup, or possibly joining a nascent company as a near founder."
1 min read · 28 January 2015
LogicSource, a portfolio company of Bain Capital Ventures, has appointed Michael Krupka to its board of directors. Krupka is a founding partner and managing director of Bain Capital Ventures. Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, LogicSource is a sourcing solutions firm.
2 min read · 27 January 2015
QuickMobile Inc recently appointed Craig Brennan as its new CEO. He succeeds company founder Patrick Payne, who will continue to serve on the board of directors and as an advisor. Brennan joined QuickMobile as its board chairman in 2014. Prior to then, he was an advisor to Silicon Valley startups and led Overtone, a social media listening analytics company, and Brio Software, a business intelligence company. The Vancouver-based QuickMobile is a provider of mobile enterprise meeting and event apps. It is backed by BDC Capital IT Venture Fund and other investors.
3 min read · 27 January 2015
San Francisco-based cybersecurity company CloudPassage has named Robert Thomas as CEO. Thomas will also join the board of directors. Previously, Thomas worked at Infloblox where he served as CEO. In addition to this appointment, CloudPassage has tapped founding CEO Carson Sweet as chief strategy officer and board chairman. CloudPassage's backers include Benchmark Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures and Musea Ventures.
3 min read · 27 January 2015
Battery Ventures announced today that Dharmesh Thakker, a former Intel Capital managing director who was an early investor in platform companies Mirantis, enLighted, BlueData and Elastic Box, is joining the firm as a general partner. Thakker, who will work out of Battery Ventures' office in Menlo Park, Calif., is due to start on Feb. 1. At Battery, he will focus on venture investments in cloud infrastructure, big data, security and next-generation enterprise applications. Thakker joined Intel Capital in 2011. He previously was with Advanced Technology Ventures.
3 min read · 21 January 2015
Sylvain Paré has been appointed the new executive vice president, finance, at Canadian private equity and venture capital firm Fonds de solidarité FTQ. He replaces Michel Pontbriand, who has retired. Paré joined the Fonds de solidarité FTQ in 2006. He previously worked in senior positions at the Fédération des caisses Desjardins, Desjardins Financial Corp and Netgraphe, a subsidiary of Québecor Média Inc. Based in Montréal, Fonds de solidarité FTQ manages net assets of $10.5 billion.
2 min read · 16 January 2015
