Management Team
Osprey's Management Team supervise and control the Fund's operations in their entirety. In this process, the Managing Directors are assisted by the firm's Venture Partners and Industry Expert Investors (IEIs).
David Stastny -- Managing Director
David is the firm's founder. He has built his twenty-four
year technology career through his skills in private equity investing, entrepreneurship, general management, finance, marketing, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and private equity.
Venture Partners
Osprey's Venture Partners are not employees of the Fund, but act as "virtual
partners" with regard to deal sourcing, due diligence, and value creation. Osprey's Venture Partners, due to their domain expertise and industry contacts, are treasured resources that provide the firm with a competitive advantage in the competitive venture capital marketplace.
A continued challenge facing early-stage companies is access to experienced operating and professional service advisors to provide mature insight and guidance to the portfolio companies.
Jerry Brown -- Founder, Brown Venture Associates
Ravi Chiruvolu -- Venture Partner with GKM Ventures.
Ralph Eschenbach -- Vice President and CTO, Trimble Navigation Ltd [TRMB].
Michael L. Hackworth -- Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Cirrus Logic [CRUS].
Eric F. Risley -- Former Managing Director and Head of Software Investment Banking of Banc of America Securities, LLC
Paul Sherer -- Former Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners. and formerly fifteen years in various executive roles at Robertson Stephens & Co.
John Slitz -- CEO of Systems Research and Development (now a division of IBM Corp.), former SVP at Novell, Inc. [NOVL] and Vice President at IBM [IBM] in their software division.
Industry Expert Investors (IEI)
Our elite group of Industry Expert Investors, Advisory Board members, and Venture Partners consist primarily of
professional service executives, other successful venture capitalists, operating executives and technology "insiders" which make our
Fund unique in the traditional venture capital world. Our investor team includes former and current executives from Our investor team
includes former and current executives from Alcatel, Apple, Ariba, AVI Capital Partners, Bank of America Securities, BancBoston Robertson Stephens,
BEA (Weblogic) Bear Stearns, Brown Venture Associates, CIBC Oppenheimer,
Cabletron, Cirrus Logic, Cisco, Citrix, CUC International, Cyras Systems now Ciena (former Cerant founding team), DiamondHead Ventures,
eGain, Epiphany, Excite@Home, GeoCapital, Hambrecht and Quist (now JP Morgan), Heidrick & Struggles, IBM, Infinity Financial (division of
SunGard Data Systems), Insignia Solutions, Intel, Interwest Partners, JP Morgan Chase, Knowledge Universe, Korn Ferry International, Legato,
Linear Technology, Lycos (now Terra Lycos), Marketwatch.com (affiliated with CBS), Allegis Capital (formerly Media Technology Ventures),
MetricStream, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NBC Corp., Novell, Olivetti, Pencom, Phoenix Technologies, Quote.com (division of Lycos),
Rational Software, Rockwell, ROLM (division of Siemens), RSA Data Security, Saleslogix, SG Cowen, Siebel, Smartforce, SmartModular (division
of Solectron), SCM Micro, Sun Microsystems, Spencer Stuart, Symantec, Tandem (division of Compaq), Texas Instruments (a division of SkillSoft),
Trimble Navigation, VerticalNet, Viador, WhoWhere (division of Lycos), WinStar Communications and Xylan (division of Alcatel).
Industry Expert Investors are investors in the Fund who, by their pre-eminent industry positions and contacts, offer a wealth of investment opportunities and proprietary industry insights to the Fund's management. Some of the Fund's current Industry Expert Investors include:
Howard Charney -- Senior V.P. at Cisco Systems [CSCO]
Louis C. Cole -- Former President and CEO, Legato Systems, Inc. [LGTO]
Chris Cooper -- Founder, and former CEO of Quote.com (division of Lycos) [LCOS]
Don Ferguson -- Vice President of Engineering at Terra Cotta Inc., Former Senior Manager, BEA Systems (formerly WebLogic) [BEAS]
William Gardiner -- CEO and Founder of Pencom, Inc.
Steven Humphreys -- Chairman of SCM Microsystems, Former CEO of ActivCard
Tom Kalinske -- President and CEO, Knowledge Universe, Inc.
Roger Lang -- Founder and former CEO, Infinity Financial Technology, Inc. (division of SunGard Systems) [SDS]
Richard Noling -- Former CEO of Insignia Systems [ISIG]
Gunjan Sinha -- Chairman and CEO of MetricStream and former Co-Founder and President, eGain Communications Corp [EGAN]
Al Sisto -- President and CEO, Phoenix Technologies [PTEC]
Pat Sullivan -- Former President and CEO of AttachStor; Founder of SalesLogix, now a division of Saga Software, Ltd.
Mark Templeton -- President and CEO, Citrix Systems [CTXS]
Rick Thau -- CEO and former Chairman of Scale Eight and EIR at Interwest Ventures
Advisory Board
Osprey Ventures has recruited a respected team of value-added individuals
to the Advisory Board of Directors of the Fund. This group acts as a formal
board of advisors. Each of them has been selected for one or more of the
following qualities:
The Advisory Board holds regular formal meetings. However, the bulk of the Advisory Board's
work is the informal interactions the Fund's management has with the individual members of the Board. Selected Board members have acted as active
consultants to the Fund's portfolio companies. Relevant topics for the formal Advisory Board of Director's meetings will include:
Members of the Advisory Board include:
Steven Chrust -- Founder and President of SGC Advisory Services, Inc. and former Founder of Winstar Communication [WCII]
Ken Goldman -- CFO, Siebel Systems [SEBL], formerly CFO at Excite@Home.
Irwin Lieber -- Founder, Chairman and CIO of GeoCapital and Wheatly Partners
Jerry Newman -- Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns
Peter Stoneberg -- Venture Partner with Bank of America Capital Investors and former Managing Director of Bank of America Securities [BAC]
Chip Vetter -- Former Managing Director and Director of Investment Banking at Banc Boston
Mark Yowe -- Senior LifeSciences Consultant with Spencer Stuart and former Managing Director, Heidrick & Struggles

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