Kevin J. McQuillan
General Partner

Kevin is cofounder and General Partner of Focus Ventures. He was recently ranked 36th on Forbes Magazine's 2007 Midas List as one of technology's top venture investors. Kevin focuses on investments in the software, semiconductor and communication markets and has led the firm's investments in Active Software (WebMethods),Agile Software, Alteon Websystems (Nortel), Aruba Networks, Commerce One, Com21, Copper Mountain, Pixelworks, Vina and Virtusa, all of which became public companies. In addition, edocs was acquired by Siebel Systems and Centrality was acquired by SiRF. Current investments include Cedar Point, DATAllegro, Fanfare, Financial Engines, Kace, Kazeon, LogLogic, Orchestria and Silicon Optix.

Prior to cofounding Focus Ventures, Kevin was a Managing Director at Comdisco Ventures, where he was responsible for investments in companies including CommQuest (AT&T), Corsair Communications (Lightbridge), Diamond Lane (Nokia), Extreme Networks, GetThere.com (Sabre), Integrity Q/A (Pure Atria), Intraware, Netro (SR Telecom), Power Integrations, SalesLogix (Sage), and Virata (Globespan).

From 1986 to 1994 Kevin was a General Partner at Dominion Ventures, a venture capital firm. Some of his successful information technology investments were Capstone, Efficient Networks (Siemens), MMC Networks (AMCC), Nanogen, Red Brick Systems (Informix), Talarian (Tibco), Tessera, Tivoli Systems (IBM), Transwitch, and Xylan (Alcatel). Kevin became involved in the investment industry as a Director of Investments for Equitec Financial Group and was responsible for several investments including Chips & Technologies (Intel) and Cirrus Logic. Additional investments have included Infinera, ONI Systems (Cienna), PlaceWare (Microsoft), RightPoint (E.piphany), Stratacom (Cisco), and Volterra.

Kevin has received MBA, JD and BBA degrees. Kevin is also a member of the Investment Committee for Western Michigan University.

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