Hugh Browne, Managing Director

15+ years of executive management and private equity transaction experience

• Member of two late stage growth capital funds with over $3B AUM – 17 investments
• Active board member serving in all capacities – Chairman, Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and M&A Committee.
• Executive level operations experience with a focus on strategy and planning as an interim CFO and in the operations group of a major financial institution
• MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of business and a BS in Computer Science from the Washington University School of Engineering.
• Toigo Fellow; Named as a Toigo 40 under 40 in 2015

Seasoned investor with wealth of experience

• Broad transaction experience and deep industry knowledge
• Experience with all aspects of the investment cycle – sourcing, due diligence, negotiations, deal structuring, and portfolio management
• Seasoned member of credit committees and investment decisions
• Significant transaction structure experience with a focus on convertible securities with complex preference structures and minority rights

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Prior Experience 

Operating Experience

• Boeing
• Morgan Stanley (Office of the CTO)
• Morgan Stanly Venture Partners
• Rho Capital Partners
• Slacker (Interim CFO)
• Effective Measure (Interim CEO)

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Investment

• Prior Board Participation; Addthis, ChaCha, Chargepoint, Cloudpay, Effective Measure, Inpowered, iRise, Justfab, MSM, Slacker, Soma Networks, Tapjoy, Thoughfulimedia

Skill Sets

• Deal pipeline development
• Investment management 
• Organizational and operational transformations
• Growth equity 
• Strategy
  
• Financing 
  
• Capital structure optimization
• Technology
• Managment 
• ​Partnership