Jeffrey T. Webber
Jeff Webber is Managing Director of The Entrepreneurs' Fund III. Jeff Webber is also Managing Director of The Entrepreneurs' Fund II and The Entrepreneurs' Growth Fund.
The Funds’ entrepreneur-centric model is an extension of the philosophy that Mr. Webber employed from 1990-2003 as the founding partner of R .B. Webber & Company, Inc., which provided strategic planning consulting services to high technology companies. Prior to R. B. Webber, Mr. Webber founded New Venture Consultants, Inc., a firm specializing in advisory services to start up ventures, and served as its President from 1980 to 1987. Mr. Webber began his professional career in 1977 as a member of the strategic planning team at McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles.
Mr. Webber’s extensive knowledge and experience makes him a valuable addition to early-stage enterprises. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors at Accept Software Corporation, Efficient Finance, Enquisite Software, JS-Kit, NexTalk, Offbeat Guides, PTRx, SecretBuilders, and SOASTA. Before that, he served on six public company boards— Aurum Software, Inc., AvantGo, Inc., Commerce One Inc., Persistence Software Inc., Sagent Technology and Sybase Inc.—as well as numerous private company boards. Mr. Webber holds a BA from Yale University. When he is not engaging with start up ventures, Mr. Webber enjoys flying, skiing and fly-fishing.
Dan K. Deaver
Mr. Dan Deaver serves as the Fund’s part-time CFO. Mr. Deaver and Mr. Webber have a longstanding relationship, as Mr. Deaver has served as the tax and financial advisor for TEF, TEF1, TEF2 and TEGF. Mr. Deaver is also a Limited Partner in TEF2 and TEGF.
Mr. Deaver is currently a partner in the firm of Comyns, Smith, McCleary & Deaver LLP, certified public accountants. He has 20 years of experience in public accounting, specializing in taxation. He began his public accounting career with Deloitte and Touche LLP. Mr. Deaver’s experience while at Deloitte and Touch LLP included mergers and acquisitions, business and tax due diligence, hedge funds, technology, retail, real estate and tax controversy representation. Mr. Deaver holds a BS in Finance and Accounting from the University of California at Berkeley. He also received a MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University.
Ian Locke
Mr. Ian Locke will be responsible for identifying next generation software investment opportunities in the greater Toronto technology community. Mr. Locke has more than 15 years of experience in the high technology industry, including operating experience as a Senior Executive in international sales and marketing. Mr. Locke delivered major entrepreneurial successes as a senior management team member at Netscape, and as President and COO of docSpace. After the sale of docSpace for $568 million, Mr. Locke became a Managing Director of Jefferson Partners, a leading venture firm based in Toronto. While at Jefferson, Mr. Locke led investments in Accept Software, Avotus Corporation, BorderWare Technologies and Attensity Corporation. Mr. Locke holds a BA in Business Management from Ryerson University and an MBA from the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Umair Khan
Umair co-founded Clickmarks Inc., a Silicon Valley based enterprise software company. As CEO of Clickmarks Umair grew the company through $27 million in venture funding from investors such as Vodafone, DFJ, and Mitsubishi, and successfully took the company to profitability. In July 2005, Clickmarks was acquired by Semotus Inc., a publicly traded US company and a leader in mobile software.
Umair is also founder and chairman of Verisium, a Silicon Valley based software testing tools company founded in 2004. Umair also founded Folio3, a Pakistan-based services company that focuses on providing offshore operations incubation to startups and other small companies.
Prior to this, Mr. Khan was founder and chairman of Wordwalla Inc., a venture backed company providing multilingual software solutions. Wordwalla was acquired in 2001 by Morisawa Corporation, a public company in Japan. He is also co-founder of Chowk, a niche portal focusing on South Asia. He started his career as part of the Itanium microprocessor group at Intel Corporation.
Umair has over 20 industry patents including four from his work at Intel and one for his graduate research at MIT. He has spoken on entrepreneurship at some of the country's top business schools, including MIT and Harvard, and has been profiled in publications such as USA Today, New York Times, and The Entrepreneur. Umair received a BS in Mathematics (1992) and an MS in Computer Engineering (1995), both from MIT.
Todd D. Wakefield
Mr. Wakefield possesses a unique and diverse mixture of entrepreneurial, executive, technical and professional experience. As the CEO and President of Attensity Corporation, which he co-founded in 2000, Mr. Wakefield led the company from inception through several rounds of funding as the company achieved the largest and fastest revenue growth in its history. He also was instrumental in the development of the company’s products and technology, for which he now holds five U.S. patents related to the extraction, integration and utilization of information from structured and unstructured data sources. In 2005, Attensity was named by Fortune magazine to its Fortune 25 list of Breakout Companies, and in 2006, Mr. Wakefield was named one of 50 worldwide Reader Favorites in Fast Company magazine’s Fast 50 Global Readers’ Challenge.
Before starting Attensity, Mr. Wakefield was a founding partner of a successful private law practice, providing counsel for clients in a variety of industries. Among other long-term clients, he served the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and United States Ski Team as their General Counsel from 1995 to 2000.
Dave Leyrer
Mr. Dave Leyrer is currently a co-founder of Push Media LLC. Previously, he was a co-founder of Nexus Group LLC, a San Francisco-based firm managing two venture capital funds and a technology-oriented hedge fund. Prior to Nexus, he was a Director at CSFB Technology Group and DMG Technology Group. Earlier in his career, he worked at Salomon Brothers in New York and Lehman Brothers in San Francisco. Mr. Leyrer is a graduate of Lafayette College. |
