Our unique team based approach empowers founders to leverage the network and expertise of all members of our ecosystem

Our Team

Anton Simunovic

 
  • Former Chief Investment Officer of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture firm for individual investors
  • Founded and led Vener8 Technologies, a technology commercialization company he started with GE
  • Former head of GE Equity’s Infrastructure Software Group. Invested $72 million into 10 companies, generating more than $500 million of realized gains
  • Served on the board of directors of more than 20 private and public companies
  • BSc Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ben Holzman

  • Former investor and Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures focused on infrastructure software companies

  • Former CFO and COO at software companies including ObserveIT, Artemis Health and others

  • Former Sales Ops Executive at Iron Mountain

  • Board member at private and public software companies

  • Enjoys mentoring founders and CEOs

  • Loves the outdoors and cooking

Ben Nye

 
  • Former Co-Managing Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, created the infrastructure software investing practice
  • Former CEO of Turbonomic acquired by IBM for $2 billion 
  • Former SVP at Veritas Software Corporation; COO and CFO of Precise Software Solutions, Ltd.; and Partner at Allied Capital
  • Served US Treasury Secretaries Lloyd Bentsen and Robert Rubin and received the Exceptional Service Award

Jenny Pyle

 
  • Former member of Human Resources team at Turbonomic to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Director of Mentoring, Training and DEI
  • A lifelong coach and leader, Jenny’s passion is promoting equal opportunity by bridging racial and socioeconomic divides
  • Former trial and appellate attorney in criminal law in Washington DC. 
  • Turned around a 50+ year old school, Roxbury Weston Programs, Inc, as President and Chair of the Board

Mike Shanahan

 
  • Founder and Managing Partner of Egan Managed Capital - three venture funds with 45 investments in early-stage technology companies
  • Reviewed nearly 3,000 investment opportunities and served on 24 boards, including 2 publicly traded companies
  • Former CFO and SVP of Operations at SevOne, a rapidly growing network performance management company
  • Former Managing Partner of Eastech - three venture funds with 40 investments in early-stage technology companies

Mo Garad

 
  • Former CFO at Turbonomic. Former Chief Customer Officer 
  • Former CFO and first US-based employee of Dynatrace software
  • Former BCV infrastructure software team. Key investments included Solarwinds, AppNeta, and Dynatrace 
  • Former VP of Finance and Strategy at Precise

Newt Davis

 
  • Former General Counsel at Turbonomic 
  • Former partner at Bingham, advising such clients as Oracle Corporation and Citrix on their M&A transactions and such clients as Bain Capital Ventures and their portfolio companies on venture financings and other transactions
  • Newt also spent eight years working at Debevoise & Plimpton and Coudert Brothers in New York, primarily on transactional matters

Sage Nye

 
  • Former Turbonomic Strategic Alliances Manager for the IBM Alliance
  • Degree in applied social sciences and economics at Harvard University
  • Former Director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, managing a staff of 40 and over 200 volunteers
  •  Mindich Fellow at Harvard University

Will Schnoor

 
  • Formerly held multiple GTM Strategy & Operations roles at Turbonomic and Snyk across Sales Ops, Post Sales Ops, and Global Planning
  • Former Enterprise Sales Engineer at Turbonomic
  • Holds a Bachelor's degree and MBA (McDonough scholar) from Georgetown University
  • Previously worked as an investment banking associate at BMO Capital Markets

Our Strategic Advisors