Bio: David has over 25 years of experience as an investor, advisor, and board member, with expertise across early and late stage venture capital, growth investing and secondary deals, as well as in technology operations and entrepreneurship. Before joining Blue Ivy, David was Senior VP Corporate Development and Business Development for DataXu, a marketer-aligned data and analytics company.Prior to his time at DataXu, he was a Director with the global venture and private equity firm 3i, and Managing Partner at Great Point Capital (established to manage a venture portfolio spun off from 3i.) This includes Board Directorships with ten companies, as well as strategic advisory work at both the Board and operating levels. His pursuit and passion is helping disruptive technologies and ideas to scale commercially. Prior to his tenure with 3i, David was Co-Founder and COO of Exygy, focused on GPS and wireless technology. He also worked in the Private Equity group at GE Asset Management, where he specialized in late stage venture and growth capital opportunities. David received his BA in History from Yale in 1991, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2000.
Notable Deals: Wellpartner, Carbonite, Dataminr, Rigetti

Bio: Jess Liu-Brown brings to Blue Ivy Ventures investing experience across various sectors and stages. She was previously Vice President at Cathay Capital Group, a private equity firm providing growth equity to private companies. She also helped Foodshed Investors New York select pre-seed round investments, as well as invested in seed-stage companies in China. Before Cathay Capital, she helped build the Strategy Department for Women’s World Banking in Ghana, and worked in investment banking at JPMorgan in New York. Jess has an international perspective on investing, having lived or worked in four countries and invested in the US, China, and other emerging markets. She has an MBA from Yale School of Management and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.

Bio: Stephanie spent more than 15 years in higher education advancement as a fundraiser and alumni relations professional, getting her start at Tufts University. She also worked at Northeastern University, where she led the programming and engagement for 200,000+ alumni worldwide. Earlier in her career, she had her own consulting practice, which focused on fundraising, board development, and communications strategies in the non-profit sector. A strong advocate for mentorship and networking, she brings those passions to investor engagement at AVG. She holds a BA from the University of New Hampshire, where she was a member of the women’s soccer team, and a MA from Emerson College.

Bio: Taylor graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a B.S. in Finance/Economics. Prior to joining Alumni Ventures Group, Taylor spent the early part of his career at Fidelity Investments as a licensed Financial Advisor, providing existing 401k clients with financial planning advice.

Bio: Vik Acharya is the Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Brandywine Hospital, Tower Health. In this role, Vik is responsible for providing executive leadership to all hospital operations and strategic planning with a strong focus on the delivery of high quality and compassionate care. Vik has more than 15 years of experience in leadership roles with a focus on leading change and developing teams that build reliable, value-driven, and patient-centric delivery systems. As an active mentor, he coaches secondary and post-secondary students pursuing a career in healthcare administration. Vik is also active in the community, serving on the Board of Directors for the Downingtown Thorndale Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trustees for Community Volunteers in Medicine. Prior to joining Brandywine Hospital, Vik served as Vice President, Clinical and Procedural Services for University of Chicago Medicine, where he led operational, financial, strategic, and regulatory aspects of Perioperative Services, Heart and Vascular Center, Radiology, Transplantation Institute, Neurophysiology, and Sleep Lab. He also served as Administrative Director at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford where he oversaw financial, strategic, and regulatory aspects of six Pediatric service line clinical programs. Vik also managed the Transplant Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Vik was the recipient of the 2004 Yale University School of Public Health Chauncey Inspiration Award and official nominee of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford Leadership Award in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Vik holds a Master in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Ill., a Master of Public Health from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and a Bachelor of Science degree in Healthcare Administration from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.

Bio: Raymond is a successful entrepreneur and active angel investor. He is also a Lecturer in the Practice of Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management and Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He founded GigaMedia, the first broadband internet company in Asia (its US$280M IPO was one of the largest for an internet company prior to 2000). He also founded Luckypai, a leading TV shopping company in China (sold to Lotte Home Shopping for US$160M). He received his BA from New York University, MBA from Yale School of Management, and MPA from Harvard JFK School of Government.

Bio: Jaques is Executive Senior Vice President at Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s leading private equity firms. Based in New York City, Jaques leads the firm’s family office coverage effort where he focuses on deal syndication across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, power and renewables. Prior to Brookfield Jaques was a senior coverage officer for UBS Global Family Office Americas where he delivered UBS’s capabilities and expertise across the firm’s global wealth management and investment banking platforms. In this role he focused on financing and advisory mandates for family office portfolio companies, unique private investment opportunities, and tailored lending solutions. He has also been an investment banker with Credit Suisse, serving as a senior family office coverage officer. He has extensive private equity and alternative asset management experience. He earned a BA from Bowdoin College with a dual major in Economics and Political Science, and an MBA in Asset Management from Yale School of Management.

Bio: David is an investor and financial strategist with experience in companies and capital markets/M&A, with a focus on energy and technology. He has also directly invested in a number of private companies. He spent over a dozen years at Goldman Sachs Group, most recently as co-head of Investment Banking Strategies. He has managed portfolios for global macro hedge funds Fortress Investment Group and Tudor Investment, served as a CFO of a solar power plant, and was partner and CFO at a boutique investment bank. He graduated from Yale College with a BS in Mathematics and holds an MS in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford.

Bio: Ali’s expertise includes capital raising, market development, sales and product management, and she has led both early stage business development as well as F100 initiatives. She is now founder and managing partner of York Street Strategy, a consultant assisting venture-backed tech companies, and is founder and CEO of Rethink: Circular, an advisory firm helping companies adopt circular economy principles. Past roles were at Seagate, Archetype Solutions, Genius.com, Alliances Wyse (acq. by Dell), and BEA Systems (acq. by Oracle.) Ali has an Economics Degree from Yale and is pursuing an Executive Master’s in Public Policy at the London School of Economics.

Bio: Leslie is a Co-founder and Principal of The Artemis Fund, a VC fund focusing on high growth seed and Series A stage companies led by women. She currently serves as a board member of the Houston Angel Network, on the Board of Advisors of Deep Isolation, a growth stage company that has a novel solution for the disposal of nuclear waste, and on the Advisory Board of SmartGurlz, a STEM education and entertainment company that creates products to address the diversity gap in STEM. She also serves on the board of the Yale Club of Houston, the Advisory Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Texas TriCities Chapter, on the Investment Committee of Blue Ivy Ventures Fund 3, and as an advisor to the Texas Medical Center Incubator Program (TMCx). Leslie is an active member of the Launch Syndicate (Jason Calacanis), PandoLabs in Park City, the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce (GHWCC), and the Rice Business Alliance, as well as the ADT Society of United Way Houston, DirectWomen, Center for Women in Law, and Emerge Houston. In addition, Leslie has directly invested in over 40 early stage companies and 5 seed/series A stage VC Funds. Prior to co-founding the Artemis Fund, Leslie practiced as a corporate lawyer for over 25 years and then as an executive recruiter for 3 years. Her experience in private practice included working with startups from incorporation to fundraising to growth through acquisitions. Leslie left private practice for roles at Waste Management and later Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO). Leslie holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Bio: Neil has worked in industries from AI/machine learning to financial services, networking, robotics, and more. He has broad expertise in engineering and software development, product management, sales, and market strategy. He is now a product manager at Google Life Sciences, working on surgical robotics. Previously, he was in the Apps group, leading large brands strategy for Google Plus, and drove major initiatives in the Ads org. Prior to Google, Neil worked in financial services at ITG (an international broker-dealer) and developing proprietary trading and analytics tools for Wellington Management. Neil holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.

Bio: Reshma’s experience includes public and PE investments, strategy consulting, and business development in healthcare. As Director of Business Development for Stanford Health Care, she facilitates strategic program growth. Prior to that, she was a Partner at Impact Consulting, where she assisted venture-backed health tech and life sciences companies with business development, market strategy, and pre-market planning. She also worked as an Associate in Pinnacle Ventures, evaluating venture investments in med tech, digital health, and life sciences startups. Reshma has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Yale and an MBA from Stanford.

Bio: Northrup has broad private equity experience. In 1990 he founded Noonmark Capital to acquire small, high-growth specialty manufacturers. The firm led a series of successful buyouts, and Northrup currently invests in earlier stage private companies. Previously, he was an associate at Goldman Financial Group and later at Shawmut National Ventures. Northrup serves on the investment committees of the $900M University at Buffalo Foundation and the Seymour H. Knox Foundation, and on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. He received a BA from Amherst College and an MBA in Finance and Organizational Behavior from the Yale School of Management.

Bio: Michael joined the private fund placement agent Monument Group in 1998, and is a Partner in the Boston office. Monument has assisted its clients in raising 79 funds, totaling $86B of equity, and has investor coverage responsibility in the US. Previously, he was a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge Associates, where he was responsible for PE. Prior to this, Michael worked in Merrill Lynch’s Media Investment Banking Group. He has a BA in Political Science from Yale and an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is FINRA Series 7, 63 and 24 registered through Monument Group.

Bio: Phong is an accomplished technology executive and entrepreneur. He serves as EVP of Product Management & Strategy for Accolade, a leading on-demand healthcare concierge (one of Forbes’s 25 most promising companies). Previously, he served as SVP & General Manager for Concur Technologies, a travel and expense SaaS pioneer (sold to SAP for $8.3B) and as Vice President for SAP across key functions including mobility, emerging markets, and corporate development. Phong has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and graduated as a Joseph Wharton Scholar from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bio: Marc is a prolific inventor and medical product developer, with broad operating experience as both an entrepreneur and acquirer. He has held a variety of innovation and executive positions at ODC, Medtronic, Abbott, Facet Solutions, Synthes, and Johnson & Johnson. He has played a central role in R&D, M&A transactions, IP strategy, in- and out-licensing of individual technologies, and post-M&A integrations, including the $19.7B acquisition of Synthes by J&J. Marc earned a BS in Physics at Ursinus College, an MS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming, a PhD in Kinesiology at Penn State, and an MBA from Yale.

Bio: Mat is Founder and President of LKM Ventures, a firm that advises, invests in, and helps manage technology and media businesses. Over the past 30 years, he has held CEO and other executive roles at companies in search, advertising, publishing, communications, and identity security, and has been on the boards of companies from startups to multi-billion dollar corporations. He also served in the federal government and has overseen government affairs, policy, and regulatory initiatives in the private sector. He holds a BA from Yale and completed the Executive Program of the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

Bio: Mark is a Founding Partner of Las Olas Venture Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on Florida and other underserved venture capital markets. Prior to starting Las Olas VC, he spent 15 years at Higher One as CFO, Chairman, and then CEO, where he had a major hand in steering the company from its first round of seed funding and multiple rounds of venture funding all the way to its successful IPO in 2010. Since 2008, Mark has been an active angel investor and has invested in over 30 companies. He is also a Director of the Founder Institute – South Florida, where he helps budding entrepreneurs get their companies started. Mark holds a BA and MA in Economics from Yale University. He was also a founding officer of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society and on its board from 2000 to 2010.

Bio: Rebekah has 18 years of experience in global financial markets and businesses, with a proven track record in asset allocation, portfolio management, and investing. She started her career with the EDB Singapore before spending more than 6 years with a multi-billion dollar single-family office investing across asset classes. Rebekah then joined JP Morgan Asset Management. After JP Morgan, Rebekah joined CDPQ, Canada’s 2nd largest pension plan when it first opened its Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore, covering investments throughout Asia. She currently invests and advises several startups, growth companies, angel networks, and family offices. Rebekah is an active contributor to Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and Yale Alumni Association and has degrees from LSE, Yale University and the CFA/CAIA professional designations.

Bio:Michael has extensive operating experience within the technology industry, spanning early, growth, and IPO-stage ventures in the Video Gaming, Mobile AdTech, Software-as-a-Service, and New Media sectors. His versatile interests highlight integrated expertise across Operations, Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Product Development and Design. Notable accomplishments include building a US-China startup that was acquired by The9, orchestrating post-acquisition integration initiatives while at Fyber, and designing various award-winning New Media projects. Michael received his MBA in International Management and Entrepreneurship from UCLA Anderson, and dual majored in Art and Computer Science for his BA from Yale.

Bio: Tobi is currently a third year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. He is also the founder of Gold Medal Grads, an online educational platform aimed at democratizing the college admission process for low income and underrepresented students. His background includes research in medical device innovations and work in global impact investing with Technoserve. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Yale University.

Bio: Qi Cao is currently a manager at Indigo Ag, a high-growth AgTech startup focused on optimizing grower profitability. Previously, he worked as a life sciences strategy consultant with biotech and pharma companies. He graduated Yale cum laude with a degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with distinction.

Bio: Michael Falvey is currently a second-year MBA at Yale’s School of Management. Prior to attending Yale, he served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps for five years. Previously, he has worked at Ford Motor Company and Booz Allen Hamilton. Michael holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (’14).

Bio: Howard (YC’17) is an associate at Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment firm that has the ability to invest across the capital structure. Prior to joining Searchlight, Howard worked at Evercore in New York where he was part of the Industrials M&A group. Howard received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University.

Bio: Lauren Graham is the founder of Velvet Frame, a social change strategy and communications consultancy based in New York.  She works with nonprofits and social enterprises on capacity-building and change management challenges by applying an ecosystems approach.  Lauren’s background encompasses environment and sustainability, strategic communications, international development, and creative media for public engagement.  She’s an alumna of Stanford University, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.

Bio: Anna is pursuing her MBA at Yale School of Management and holds a bachelor’s degree in international management. She started her career in public service, later moving to operations roles at Microsoft and Amazon. Her recent experience spans data analytics, strategy consulting in the TMT space, and internal strategy for a legaltech SaaS company. Anna has significant international experience; she has lived in 5 countries and traveled to over 30.

Bio: Caroline Pringle is an Associate at Y Analytics, an organization launched by TPG’s Rise Fund to guide capital allocators towards more socially-responsible investment decisions. At Y Analytics, Caroline specializes in education investments, including EdTech and adult learning in developing economies. Previously, Caroline worked for the Boston Consulting Group and helped launch the Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East with Sir Ronald Cohen. Caroline holds a BA in Global Affairs with a focus on International Development from Yale University.

Bio: Alina is a recent graduate from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where she primarily focused on sustainable product and business development as well as entrepreneurship. Prior to coming to Yale, she developed skincare products and has since worked with large beauty brands during her graduate school career, not only for product development, but to create corporate-wide initiatives to increase their sustainability. She is now working on a customizable skincare startup that she founded called Alta Mara.

Bio: Spandan is an entrepreneur and investment professional with a deep passion for analytics & emerging technologies. He is a dual MBA graduate (MBA IIM Bangalore, MAM Yale SOM), holds varied certifications including Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP & Scrum Master and is working towards his CFA and CMA charters. Prior to Yale SOM, he was a consultant with Accenture (AI/ML, Blockchain, AR/VR), sold his first drone startup (Quadshotz) and served as the Technical Program Manager for UNICEF (United Nations Public Services Award 2015). Spandan is currently heading the Indian & Middle-Eastern teams for Health Venture Capital and in his free time he enjoys taking long walks, learning new things with friends, and binge-watching on Netflix.

Bio: Eugene (YC15) is currently a program manager for Google Cloud, where he works to develop large enterprise customers. Prior to Google, Eugene worked in vendor management at Amazon, as a Workday consultant for Mercer, and an account executive at Darktrace. Eugene holds a BA in Economics from Yale University.