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DEAL SCREENING COMMITTEE
LS/BIOTECH SCREENING COMMITTEE

Seven members serve for rotating terms on the Life Science/Biotech Screening Committee. These members represent many of the subdivisions within this industry including Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics, Medical Device & Instrumentation, Drug Discoveries, Diagnostics and Healthcare Services.

Mike Bates
Wally Buch
Denis Coleman
Paul Quadros
Art Reidel
Ian Sobieski

SIG COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Five members serve for rotating terms as the Chairperson for Band of Angels’ Special Industry Groups. These members represent many of the high tech divisions within Band including, LS/Biotech, Energy, Telecom/Security, Software and Internet.

Jan Jannink
Bob Kyle
Paul Quadros
Dean Sirovica
Ron Weissman


MEMBERS

Seven members serve for rotating twelve-month terms on the Deal Screening Committee. They are selected to represent each of the high tech categories of Semiconductors, Software, Internet, Life Science, and Networking/Telecom. 

To learn more about a member of the screening committee click on their names to the left.


Gene Shklar is an active angel investor, philanthropist, and president of a private foundation. He has over twenty-five years of technology development and marketing expertise with database, networking, and application-software companies. Gene is a founding investor and board member of Lohika Systems. He recently retired from Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) where he was Vice President of Public Services as well as a major investor and member of the board of directors. Gene was a founding employee and served as Executive Director of Product Marketing of Siebel Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2006. Gene also served as Vice President of Marketing for Gupta Corporation. Before that, he worked at Oracle as Director of Marketing for both the PC Products Division and the Networked Products Division, at 3Com Corporation as Director of Software Product Marketing, and as Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Software House, Inc., a relational-DBMS vendor acquired by CompuServe.

 

FUND & ANGELS MANAGEMENT

The Band of Angels is managed by a permanent staff and many value added services are contributed by providers in the community.  To learn more about staff members click on their names below.

Ian Patrick Sobieski
Managing Director & Coordinator
Ed Canty
Chief Financial Officer
Tim Massey
Principal
Nicola Corzine
Deal Manager
Tim Taylor
Oral Presentation Coach
Rick Kadet
Written Presentation Coach

MEMBER SELECTION COMMITTEE

Band members are generally former or current high tech executives interested in investing their time and money into startups.   Eight members serve for rotating twelve-month terms on the Member Selection Committee. 

Mike Bateman
David Burwen
Randy Fowler
Brian Frenzel
Art Reidel
Ian Sobieski
Stephen Taylor
Ed Bierdeman
Bill Hilliard
Larry Kelly
Don Lee

 

 

 

 

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