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AVP Team
Managing Directors
 Luis
Villalobos Managing Director, has a proven
track record as a direct investor in 59 early-stage ventures – 14 successful
exits (4 IPOs and 10 mergers), and 27 ventures remaining active. He has a strong
technology background and holds several patents as lead inventor; he formed,
headed and sold two ventures; and has mentored about a dozen CEOs. He earned
degrees at Harvard Business School (MBA) and MIT (SB Math) where he was a
National Merit Scholar.
He was the founder of the Tech
Coast Angels, whose 111 portfolio companies have received $782 million in
capital. He is a founding Board member of the Angel Capital Association – an
organization with 100+ member angel groups. He helped start two other angel
groups, East Coast Angels in Sydney Australia, and Camino Real Angels in Texas.
He has developed and led over 100 workshops for angel group leaders, angels, bar
associations (for MCLE credit), and entrepreneurs – on valuations, due
diligence, term sheets, deal structures, venture capital, angel investing,
early-stage funding, business plans, patents and intellectual property, and
entrepreneurship. Villalobos is frequently quoted in the press regarding angel
investing, and is a featured speaker and panelist at entrepreneurial events and
conferences.
Villalobos has experience and
expertise in IT (telecom, computer architectures, networks, micros, minis,
codecs, security, graphics, imaging, compression); artificial intelligence
(genetic algorithms, neural networks, fuzzy logic); software (assemblers,
compilers, Visual Basic, application programming, cognitive and recognition
algorithms); biotech (degenerative brain disease therapeutics); applications
(computer-based education).
E-mail:
LVManagingDirector@AngelVenturePartners.com
 Kelly
Perdew,
Managing Director, was President of CoreObjects Software, an outsourced software
developer that has built technology for numerous VC portfolio companies;
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Motor Pride LLC, a car, truck and motorcycle
portal that was acquired by ZAG; Co-Founder and CEO of K12 Productions, an event
production company that ran recruiting events in 15 cities under the marketing
name “The Layoff Lounge;” and President of eteamz.com, a sports portal that
currently hosts over 2.5 million teams and was acquired by Active.com. Prior to
joining eteamz, Kelly was a Manager at Deloitte Consulting in the Braxton
Strategy Practice; and was a US Army Military Intelligence Officer and Airborne
Ranger. After winning the NBC hit show, The Apprentice 2, Kelly spent 2005 as an
Executive Vice President in the Trump Organization.
Kelly earned a BS from the US Military Academy, West Point, a JD from the UCLA
School of Law, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Kelly has been certified as a Corporate Director by the Anderson School
Corporate Director Program and as a facilitator for the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation’s FastTrac Planning and New Venture Program.
Kelly authored, “TAKE COMMAND: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the
Military and Put to Work for Donald Trump,” (Regnery Publishing, 2006) to remind
corporate America that there is a huge talent pool of leadership in the
ex-military in the job force and he is donating a percentage of the royalties to
the USO. He is also hosting a show on the Military Channel called “GI Factory”
that looks at innovative military technologies and takes the viewer into the US
factories where they are made and tracks them from raw materials to completed
product. “GI Factory” airs in March 2006. He is a celebrity spokesperson for Big
Brothers/Sisters and The National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Kelly is a
frequent speaker for organizations and corporations on teambuilding, leadership,
networking and entrepreneurship.
www.kellyperdew.com
E-mail:
KPManagingDirector@AngelVenturePartners.com
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Venture Partners
 Frank Martinez has a proven track record as
direct investor in 13 early-stage ventures – 5 successful exits (2 IPOs and 3
mergers) including NextWave Telecom and Intershop Communications IPOs and
eInvesting (sold to eTrade) and 2 ventures remaining active. Mr Martinez was the
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO (and initial CTO) of Blue Titan Software – acquired
by SOA Software in May 2006. Frank Martinez has played various operating roles
as a senior executive of three startup ventures and was instrumental in building
Intershop Communications from a startup into a multi-billion dollar-valued
public company, in less than three years. At Intershop he was responsible for
industry solutions, product development, strategy and corporate development; he
left in November 1999, and co-founded GazelleLab. He attended UCLA and left
early to start his first company, Trein Technologies, which he sold to Intershop.
He has participated on the boards of several VC-backed ventures: XTime, whose VC
investors included VenRock, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Rosewood, and France
Telecom; InfoCruiser, whose VCs were Friedman Billings Ramsey, Carlyle Group;
and ServiceMesh/Blue Titan Software, whose VCs were Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Frank Martinez is a recognized expert in
the area of distributed, enterprise applications and infrastructure platforms;
and in the development of scalable service-oriented infrastructure software that
integrates business processes and information enterprise-wide. He is a featured
speaker at industry and technology conferences and a published author.
Frank Martinez, was named one of InfoWorld
Magazine's 2004 InfoWorld Innovators – “one of ten technology innovators whose
work, creations, and ideas changed the way we look at technology.” Past winners
include Java creator James Gosling, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the
XML working group, and the iSCSI working group. Martinez was recognized for his
unique vision and work at Blue Titan where he developed service-oriented
infrastructure software to change IT from a cost center to a center of business
responsiveness.
He was also one of CRN's “first-ever 25
Innovators” – and as the article said, a “list, which features the hands-on
technical gurus and product visionaries behind some of this year's most
talked-about technologies.” The list included Adam Bosworth (Chief Architect
and SVP, BEA Systems), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (co-founders, Google);
Jeff Hawkins (Co-Founder, Chairman, Handspring); Bert Keely (Tablet PC
Architect, Microsoft); Rob Clyde (VP and CTO, Symantec); Pat Gelsinger (CTO
and SVP, Intel); Irving Wladawsky-Berger (GM, IBM E-Business On Demand);
Dave Meollenhoff (CTO, Salesforce.com); Kevin Lynch (CSO, Macromedia);
Avadis Tevanian (CTO Software, Apple Computer).
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Advisors
 Dr.
Ian Sobieski, Ph.D., will be available to consult with the Managers on certain
issues relating to angel groups and with respect to the Angel Capital
Association. He is the Managing Director of the Band of Angels (angel group);
and a founder and Managing Director of the Band of Angels Fund, L.P., a $50M
venture fund raised in 1999 exclusively from major institutions, and has helped
lead the Band of Angels since 1997. He has managed more than 40 direct
investments totaling $30M, has served on fourteen boards of directors, and
currently serves on three. Ian is a founding board member of the Angel Capital
Association and is a member of the Young Venture Capitalists Association, the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the National Ski Patrol.
Immediately prior to joining the Band,
Ian served as an executive and director at internet start-up Evite.com and
in engineering positions at medical device company Enact Health Management
and Kaman Aerospace. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Aeronautics from Stanford
University, a B.A. degree in Philosophy and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
from Virginia Tech. He is the author of a dozen technical publications and
is an appointed Lecturer in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches a course in
Entrepreneurial Finance.
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