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Kevin is cofounder and General Partner of Focus Ventures. Kevin has been listed on Forbes Magazine's Midas List
as a top technology investor for four out of the previous five years. He was most
recently ranked
41st on the 2008 Midas List and was previously ranked
36th on the 2007 Midas List. Kevin was also most recently highlighted on the AlwaysOn VC 100 List. Kevin focuses on investments in the software,
internet 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, Financial Engines, Pixelworks, Vina and Virtusa, all of which became public
companies. In addition, Centrality was acquired by SiRF, DATAllegro
was acquired by Microsoft, edocs was acquired by Siebel Systems, KACE was acquired by Dell, Kazeon was acquired by EMC and Orchestria was acquired by CA.
Current investments include Brand.net, Cedar Point, Data Robotics, Delivery Agent, Fanfare,
LogLogic, Panasas, Ruckus Wireless and Sepaton.
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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