Investor Luncheon Panel

Randy Lunn
General Partner
Palomar Ventures
With 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.

 

Frank R. Kline
Founder
Kline Hawkes & Co.

 

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 company’s 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. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Camp Ronald McDonald For Good Times and the Harvard Westlake School in North Hollywood.

Mr. Kline received a Bachelor’s degree from Rider College in 1972 and a Masters Degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1974.

 

 

Joe Addiego
Partner
In-Q-Tel

 

 

 

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