Douglas joined Connecticut Innovations in 2011 and is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, structuring and negotiating new and follow-on investments, and monitoring portfolio companies. He came to CI with extensive experience in business development and management consulting.  Douglas began his career in the telecommunications industry and has worked for a manufacturer of infrastructure equipment, a global network operator, and a Goldman Sachs funded startup, ipCapital Group and he founded a consulting firm serving early stage companies. Douglas has, for a third year, been named by Intellectual Asset Management to the IAM Strategy 300: the World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists.

 

Douglas earned a BA (magna cum laude) in Economics and Mathematics from Boston University, an MS in Electrical Engineering, also from Boston University and an MBA from the Wharton School where he was the commencement speaker. 

 

David is a Partner with ff Venture Capital   He was formerly Acting CEO of Vertical Key and was a Managing Director with Evalueserve, Founder and CEO of Circle of Experts, Founder and CEO of GoldNames  Previously David worked at Bear Stearns’ and Mars & Co. David sits on the Advisory Boards of Accolo, REonomy, and Dancetime Publications. He’s a Mentor with Founder Institute, Dreamit Ventures, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, and NYCSeed.  David led the first-ever study of best practices of VC  and PE funds in originating new deals, published in Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, the Journal of Private Equity, and many other venues.  He is the lead author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, with Scott Allen, and wrote a column for Fast Company. David is a frequent keynote speaker to audiences such as technology entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives.

David earned his BA Yale and an MBA at HBS, both with honors.  

 

Andy has been dubbed a “technology guru” for his innovative thinking and uncanny ability to simplify complex processes and build a vision of tomorrow - today. As the founder and CTO of Perimeter eSecurity, a role he held for 10 years, Andy invented security in the cloud and pioneered it as a service industry. His experience at Perimeter gave him insight to the compliance burden that community financial institutions face, and inspired him to develop a solution to solve this growing problem. As the founder and CEO of Continuity Control, Andy has applied his passion for technology and constructed an award-winning solution to simplify the work of compliance. Andy is currently the President of Gnostic Ventures, a company that advises on security investments, speaks on SaaS and the creation of value, and invests in SaaS companies.

 

Andy studied philosophy and linguistics at UMass Amherst and is an Entrepreneur Partner at CTech.

 

• Barry Schwimmer, - Founder and Managing Partner Stamford Innovation Center

Mr. Schwimmer founded the Stamford Innovation Center in 2011 and leads this incubation, education and investment entity.  Previously Barry ran Stoneybrook Capital, a private investment firm. From 1989 to 1994 Mr. Schwimmer was a Managing Director of Commonwealth Capital Partners, a private equity fund. Previously Mr. Schwimmer co-founded Chemical Venture Partners and served as an original General Partner of the firm .

 

Mr. Schwimmer received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Master in Business Administration degree from The University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business School.

 

Named one of New York Observer's Top 12 to watch in 2012, Jeff Glasse has been innovating in the fields of digital media and video production for over twenty years. Prior to founding Kogeto, Jeff spent a decade in senior management at Teachscape, where he ran interactive and video production, supervised the development of many of the company's more advanced web technologies, and created the panoramic video capture solution in use for the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Jeff has produced video and interactive programs for such diverse entities as the United Nations, the National Civil Rights Museum, ESPN, and The Carter Center. He was the founder of DIGIT New Media, an award-winning documentary and interactive production company, and was a chief architect of Cubist Post and Effects, one of the most successful post-production facilities in Philadelphia. Jeff is a graduate of Princeton University.

 

HBSAANY is one of 15 global chapters of HBS Alumni Angels.  The mission of HBS Alumni Angels is to provide an educational and networking forum for Harvard alumni who are interested in researching and investing in early stage companies on an individual basis.  Membership in HBSAANY is open to all Harvard alumni and others affiliated with the University, not just HBS graduates.  In the last 12 months, its members have made 21 investments totaling $1.7m in 6 companies, with an average check size of $84K.

The Stamford Innovation Center, home to the Stamford iLab Accelerator, is located in the historic and recently renovated old Town Hall of Stamford, an architectural gem and classic example of Beaux Arts architecture from the turn of the twentieth century. It includes floor to ceiling windows, a stunning grand divided staircase with iron-rod railings, a Czechoslovakian glass ceiling above the staircase, terrazzo tile flooring and scagliola plaster on the lobby walls. The outside is limestone faced, flanked with Corinthian columns, and topped with a large clock tower. Its original purpose was to house the office of the mayor, city officials, the police station, courthouse, and even a horse stable. Today it is becoming the home to a community of Entrepreneurs, Investors and Industry Experts. Its inspiring workspaces and start-up-centric programs are built to serve one mission: accelerating the entrepreneur's voyage. 

About CT Innovations

Connecticut Innovations ("CI") was created by the Connecticut Legislature in 1989. Since then, CI has helped over 100 emerging companies research, develop, and market new products and services. This activity has attracted over $1 billion dollars in additional investments from private equity providers. CI has brought the State of Connecticut over $510 million in Gross State Profit and over 5,000 additional job-years. Since 1995, returns from its own prudent investments - not state money - have supported operations and new, forward-thinking funding programs. CI provides strategic capital and operational insight to push the frontiers of high-tech industries such as energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics.  CI is investing in Connecticut's future by guiding good ideas from the mind to the marketplace and advancing technologies to fuel Connecticut's prosperity. 

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