About
With over 15 years of experience as a Managing Partner at Osage Venture Partners (OVP), I provide venture capital to mission-aligned, emerging B2B software companies in the future of work and education sectors. OVP is a Philadelphia-based fund that seeks business builders who combine innovative technology and business models with knowledge of how to scale. We provide capital and value-added services to attractive early-stage, post-revenue businesses, with initial investments ranging from $1-5 million. As a former CEO for a public B2B software company, I bring a unique perspective and expertise to the OVP team and portfolio companies. I have a deep understanding of product strategy, sales and marketing, technical, operational, and financial aspects of running a SaaS business and the challenges of selling to enterprise customers. I leverage this experience to support and empower the entrepreneurs I work with, helping them achieve their vision and goals. I am passionate about finding and…
Experience
Managing Partner
Osage Venture Partners · Bala Cynwyd, PA (just outside of Philadelphia)
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Osage Venture Partners is a Philadelphia-based, early stage venture capital fund focused on post-revenue B2B Software Companies with a focus on Future of Work and Future of Education. We seek business builders who combine innovative technology and business models with knowledge of how to scale. Osage provides capital and value added services to attractive early stage, post-revenue businesses, with initial investments ranging from $1-5 million. Current boards are listed separately.
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Noodle · New York City, NY
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Noodle helps universities create, operate, grow and enhance agile, world-class online degree programs, changing how universities extend their reach, increase the flexibility of their offerings, engage students, improve access, increase enrollments and maximize tuition revenue - all while reducing costs. The company works with its higher education customers to identify, negotiate pricing with, and manage the industry’s leading providers of marketing, recruitment, retention, instructional design, academic coaching, career planning, job placement, and core integration services. Noodle supports this provider network with a seamless technology infrastructure that integrates each “best in breed” system and provides real-time analytics to enable just-in-time adjustments to optimize marketing, enrollment, retention, and engagement efforts.
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Curavit, the “First All-Virtual CRO", designs and executes decentralized - or “virtual” - clinical trials. Curavit leverages emerging technologies in digital health, cloud computing, and data science to recruit, engage, and monitor diverse patient populations from wherever they live, work, or study; eliminating the need for physical infrastructure and travel, while increasing data quality. Curavit brings together the world’s leading researchers, enrolls previously untapped and underserved patient populations, applies machine learning algorithms to health and social engagement information to recruit participants, and leverages leading telehealth, patient data, and medical device technologies. Curavit’s central virtual site supports remote monitoring and is always audit ready.
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Malbek is today’s most modern, cutting-edge CLM solution with a proprietary AI core that empowers the enterprise to do more with less. By supporting the growing contracting demands of your entire organization, including Legal, Sales, Finance, Procurement, and other critical business units, Malbek’s CLM solution delights every user. Malbek provides end-to-end contract management with out-of-the-box integration to popular business applications, like Salesforce, Workday, Slack, Office 365, and others, allowing your contract data to flow seamlessly while dramatically reducing cycle times. That's contracts reimagined!
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Strategikon
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At Strategikon Pharma, our mission is to lower the cost and expedite the time to market of new medical treatments through built-for-purpose cloud-based solutions that improve and accelerate the planning and outsourcing of clinical trials. The experts at Strategikon developed Clinical Maestro out of a combination of love and frustration. The system was developed and nurtured by financial and clinical business operations executives with both Sponsor and Provider experience. Our founders believed there had to be a better way — and so they created one.
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DrayNow, Inc. · Conshohocken, PA
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Brokers need carriers, now. Carriers need loads, now. Enter DrayNow, the industry’s first matchmaker to meet today’s fast-paced intermodal freight marketplace. Now, finding available loads is easier than ever. With our intermodal marketplace, your phone is the best place to find your next haul. Set your own schedule, control your own destiny, and experience the control you deserve.
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Semantic AI, Inc. · San Diego, CA
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Semantic Research Inc., a privately-held software firm headquartered in San Diego, CA. Powered by a context engine, our technology helps your organization make sense of the most vital resource — data. We help users see and analyze data in context through a human usable data model. Whether it is eliminating fraud or protecting you from cyber security threats or preventing regulatory fines or personalizing information for your customer, we connect all of your data sources – showing you who, what, when, where, how and why are connected. The result: you uncover previously hidden connections and find subsequent insights to make truly informed, most optimal business decisions.
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Quartile (acquired Sidecar) · Philadelphia, PA
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Quartile, the leading ad optimization platform for top e-commerce marketplace sellers, acquired Sidecar, a performance marketing technology provider for e-commerce retailers and brands that completely automates the approach to product listing ads campaigns (PLAs) for Google, Microsoft Bing, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, and other major advertising platforms.
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RackWare brings intelligence and automation to the cloud, providing greater availability for enterprise business units, greater flexibility for enterprise IT users, and reducing costs for enterprise IT providers. Computing resources—physical, virtual, and cloud machines—can be easily and automatically scaled up or down as computing needs fluctuate. The company was founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs with extensive experience delivering enterprise-class products in the server, storage, network, and virtualization markets.
Board Observer
Other
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Arcanna.AI: December, 2023 - Present DeepHow: August 2021 - Present MarginEdge: November 2019 - Present ANRA Technologies: April 2019 - Present Brazen: June 2015 - October, 2023 ExecOnline: September 2014 - Present
Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
MBA, Business
Brown University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
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