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Investor
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Randy
Lunn
General Partner
Palomar Ventures |
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over 20 years of venture capital experience, Randy holds an impressive
record for successfully bringing new companies public and is one
of the foremost venture capital investors in Southern California.
He consistently produces significant new and growing businesses
that are leaders in their fields. As a founding partner of Palomar
Ventures, Randy helps set fund strategy and works closely with
portfolio companies.
Randy
has broad and successful experience in the venture capital industry.
He began his venture capital career in 1979 as a founder of
Harrison Capital, the venture arm of Texaco. At Harrison Capital,
he was responsible for investments in such companies as RF Monolithics,
Iomega, Amgen, Compression Labs, MCC, Summa Four, and Synercom.
He then went on to become a founder and general partner of Fairfield
Venture Partners and made investments in Symbolics, Applied
Digital Access, and Life Technologies.
In
1990, he joined TVM Techno Venture Management, a $700-million
dollar international venture capital firm, where he was Managing
Partner of US operations. He helped grow and profitably liquidate
a legacy fund and also built a highly successful portfolio of
investments that included Pairgain, SCM Microsystems, Davox
(AnswerSoft), Benchmarq Microelectronics, Dura, and CollaGenex.
Randy
has sat on numerous boards of both US and European companies,
helped establish US subsidiaries (SCM Microsystems, Sequenom,
ATecoM, Dalim), took interim management positions, and helped
advise companies as they navigated the IPO process both in the
US and Europe. His primary expertise is in early stage information
technology investing. He currently sits on the board of four
Palomar investments: Akonix, Continuous Computing Corporation,
Syntricity, and Inovys.
Randy
graduated summa cum laude in engineering sciences and holds
BA, BE, and MBA degrees from Dartmouth College.
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Frank
R. Kline
Founder
Kline Hawkes & Co.
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| Frank
Kline founded Kline Hawkes & Co. in 1994 to manage investment
capital for institutional investors. With a 20-year successful
track record in venture capital, including experience as a Wall
Street research analyst covering the computer and communications
industries, Mr. Kline directs the companys investments in
mid and expansion-stage venture opportunities in communications,
information technology and enterprise solutions.
Since
its inception, Kline Hawkes & Co. has invested in more than
30 companies and managed approximately $300 million via three
funds: Kline Hawkes California, L.P.; Kline Hawkes California
SBIC, L.P. and its most recent fund, Kline Hawkes Pacific, L.P.
Prior
to forming Kline Hawkes & Co., Mr. Kline was the West Coast
General Manager of Lambda Funds, a private equity fund based
in New York and Los Angeles. Earlier, he was a Partner at Pacific
Technology Venture Fund, which he co-founded with Patrick J.
McGovern, founder of IDG and publisher of Computerworld.
Mr.
Kline has directed investments in a number of highly successful
companies, including MagneTek (NYSE: MAG); Merisel Inc. (NASDAQ:
MSEL) (formerly Softsel); SuperShuttle; Laserscope; Inc. (NASDAQ:
LSCP); Ensoniq/Creative Technology, Ltd. (NASDAQ:CREAF); International
Microelectronic Products (NASDAQ: IMPX); Transoft Networks,
Inc., acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP); CampusLink Communications,
acquired by PaeTec Communications, Inc., and AboveNet Communications,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ABOV) which was acquired by Metromedia Fiber Network
(NASDAQ: MFNX). Mr. Kline is currently a member of the board
of Uprizer, Inc.
A
sought after speaker, Mr. Kline has appeared frequently at industry
events, including the Los Angeles Venture Association, the Tech
Coast Alliance, and the Venture Capital Round Table at the Anderson
School at UCLA. For many years, he served on the judging panel
of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program,
and as a member of the Board of Governors for the National Association
of Small Business Investment Companies. (NASBIC).
Community
commitments include St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica,
Camp Ronald McDonald For Good Times and the Harvard Westlake
School in North Hollywood.
Mr.
Kline received a Bachelors degree from Rider College in
1972 and a Masters Degree from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst in 1974.
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Joe
Addiego
Partner
In-Q-Tel
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