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SIG COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Five members serve for rotating terms as the Chairperson for Band of Angels’ Special Industry Groups. These members represent many of the high tech divisions within Band including, LS/Biotech, Energy, Telecom/Security, Software and Internet.

Jan Jannink
Bob Kyle
Paul Quadros
Dean Sirovica
Ron Weissman

MEMBER SELECTION COMMITTEE

Mike Bateman
David Burwen
Randy Fowler
Brian Frenzel
Art Reidel
Ian Sobieski
Stephen Taylor
Ed Bierdeman
Bill Hilliard
Larry Kelly
Don Lee

LS/BIOTECH SCREENING COMMITTEE

Seven members serve for rotating terms on the Life Science/Biotech Screening Committee. These members represent many of the subdivisions within this industry including Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics, Medical Device & Instrumentation, Drug Discoveries, Diagnostics and Healthcare Services.

Mike Bates
Wally Buch
Denis Coleman
Paul Quadros
Art Reidel
Ian Sobieski

ABOUT OUR TEAM

Five members serve for rotating terms as the Chairperson for Band of Angels’ Special Industry Groups. These members represent many of the high tech divisions within Band including, LS/Biotech, Energy, Telecom/Security, Software and Internet.

To learn more about a member of the committee click on their names to the left.

Paul Quadros was the former Managing partner of Tenex Greenhouse Ventures, a life science venture fund focusing on early stage medical technologies. He was responsible for sourcing opportunities, integrating seasoned mentors into the venture process and personally nurturing portfolio companies. From 1995-2004 he was the Co-founder and former Chairman of the Board of Directors or Corautus Genetics a Cardiology Gene Delivery, listed on NASDAQ:VEGF. Corautus is a company formed from the merger, in 2003, of GenStar Therapeutics, a public company, and privately held Vascular Genetics, Inc.(VGI). Corautus formed a strategic alliance with Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) to develop and market its lead cardiovascular therapy. At GenStar, Paul was responsible for the incorporation and coordination of this spinout into an independent public company that was listed on the American Stock Exchange, and was one of the top performing stocks on the AMEX in 2000. Initially he managed all business development, administrative, finance and planning functions and led the acquisition of its core technologies. Served as Chief Executive Officer through a milestone partnering agreement with Baxter Healthcare (NYSE:BAX) in 1998. Became Executive Chairman in 1998 and was actively involved in all operational, strategic and financing activities through the merger with VGI and from 1995 to 2003 he served as CFO.

 

FUND & ANGELS MANAGEMENT

The Band of Angels is managed by a permanent staff and many value added services are contributed by providers in the community.  To learn more about staff members click on their names below.

Ian Patrick Sobieski
Managing Director & Coordinator
Ed Canty
Chief Financial Officer
Tim Massey
Principal
Nicola Corzine
Deal Manager
Tim Taylor
Oral Presentation Coach
Rick Kadet
Written Presentation Coach

DEAL SCREENING COMMITTEE

Seven members serve for rotating terms on the Deal Screening Committee. They are selected to represent each of the high tech categories of Semiconductors, Software, Internet, Life Science, and Networking/Telecom.  

Wally Buch
Daniel Joensen
Chris Meyer
David Overhauser
Gene Shklar
Ian Sobieski
David Wu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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