Managing Partner, Initialized Capital
Trusted Insight LP Pitch Day 2017
San Francisco, CA
Featured Speakers at Trusted Insight LP Pitch Day 2017
Nakul Mandan
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Nakul is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners since 2014. He specifically focuses on the firm’s enterprise software/SaaS investment opportunities. He previously worked at Battery Ventures and Blue River Capital. At Battery, Nakul helped lead the firm’s investments in category defining companies such as Marketo, BlueJeans Networks, Gainsight, Intacct, 6Sense and Yesware.
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Alex Bangash
Founder
Alex is the co-founder and CEO of Trusted Insight, a machine learning driven platform that hosts the world’s largest network of institutional investors. Prior to Trusted Insight, Alex managed capital for premier Endowment, Foundation, Family Office, Insurance, Sovereign Wealth and Pension clients since 2003. He has helped invest over $2 billion in 50 funds. Earlier in his career, Alex was an engineer and executive at ATT, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, and GE. Alex holds an MBA from the Wharton School (where he frequently guest lectures); MEng in Operation Research from Cornell; BS in Computer Science, English and Economics from Cornell.
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Peter Pham
Co-Founder & Partner, Science
Peter Pham leads the effort to raise money for Science incubated companies, which has totaled $400M. Science Inc has been a part of companies like Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, Home Hero and Wishbone.
Pham is a passionate entrepreneur with roots in Southern California, where he started his career with 8 years in the enterprise hardware and software space. Having success in building companies ranging from solid state storage to SAS businesses, he then focused his time in the consumer internet space. Pham moved to Silicon Valley in 2005 and started building companies like Photobucket. As Vice President of Business Development at Photobucket, he was the 5th employee and was responsible for driving growth to 61M users and leading its $300M acquisition in 2007 to Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. Pham then turned his energy into helping people save money as CEO of BillShrink from inception to their 1st Million users in a little over a year. BillShrink became TruAxis which was acquired by MasterCard in 2012. Most recently Peter Pham spent time as a 2nd time Entrepreneur In Residence at Trinity Ventures. Show more
Pham is a passionate entrepreneur with roots in Southern California, where he started his career with 8 years in the enterprise hardware and software space. Having success in building companies ranging from solid state storage to SAS businesses, he then focused his time in the consumer internet space. Pham moved to Silicon Valley in 2005 and started building companies like Photobucket. As Vice President of Business Development at Photobucket, he was the 5th employee and was responsible for driving growth to 61M users and leading its $300M acquisition in 2007 to Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. Pham then turned his energy into helping people save money as CEO of BillShrink from inception to their 1st Million users in a little over a year. BillShrink became TruAxis which was acquired by MasterCard in 2012. Most recently Peter Pham spent time as a 2nd time Entrepreneur In Residence at Trinity Ventures. Show more
Murray Indick
Partner at Morrison & Foerster
Diamond Sponsor Morrison & Foerster - Murray Indick. Murray Indick is a partner at the global law firm Morrison & Foerster, where he co-chairs the Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group. He has more than thirty years of corporate law, investment fund, and related experience, both in private practice and as partner and general counsel.
Murray frequently works with startups at every stage of development and has assisted his clients in all rounds of financings. His transactional experience covers a wide variety of corporate matters, including venture financings, acquisitions, mergers, buyouts, private equity financings, fund formation, corporate restructurings, and compliance programs. He routinely works closely with the senior management teams and board of directors of businesses, and has served on corporate boards for private and public companies.
Murray received his law degree, magnum cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Find out more about our Diamond sponsor, Morrison & Foster, here.
Jack Abraham
Founder & MP at Atomic
Jack Abraham is a Co-Founder and Partner of Atomic Management LLC. He co-founded Atomic in 2012 and served as the Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Abraham serves as Advisor of Felicis Ventures. He was the Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer of Milo.com, Inc. Mr. Abraham is an angel investor in Invite Media, Pinterest, Postmates, Ampush Media, and Flatiron Health. Mr. Abraham began coding and building some of the first data extraction and processing mechanisms that would quickly help comScore (SCOR) grow. He has experience developing behavioral targeting campaigns for Microsoft and Drugstore.com. Mr. Abraham serves as a Director of Milo.com, Inc. He served as Director of eBay Local, where he led the redesign of eBay’s homepage. He also led the efforts behind eBay Now. He has been named in Business Week’s Top 25 Under 25, Inc’s 30 Under 30, and Fast Company’s Top 100 most creative people in business. He was nominated for “America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs” by BusinessWeek and has made Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list two times. Mr. Abraham studied Technological Entrepreneurship at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2008.
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Josh Stern
Director, Private Investments
Joshua B. Stern joined the investment unit of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in January 2012 as a senior investment officer. Prior to arriving at the Foundation, Josh was the director of Private Investments in the Office of Investments at Rockefeller University.
He was a director in the Higher Education and Not-for-Profit Group at Standard & Poor's, which was part of the Public Finance Department. Over the course of his career he also worked as an investment banker, focusing on higher education institutions.
Stern received an MPA in public finance from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, an MS in non-profit management from New York University and a BA in history and sociology from Binghamton University.
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Trang Nguyen
Executive Trusted Insight/Co-founder, TI Platform Management
Trang Nguyen is a lead portfolio manager at Trusted Insight (TI), as well as the co-founder of the asset management side of the organization and its affiliates. She has years of investment, finance and marketing experience at various tech and financial services organizations and start-ups. Some of the notable firms that she has worked at are Visa, Bank of New York and Sutter Health.
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Tom Drummond
Managing Director at Heavybit
Tom Drummond serves as also the Managing Director of Heavybit, Inc. Drummond's responsible for managing Heavybit's program, supporting all Heavybit member companies, and fostering the Heavybit community. He serves as an Advisor of Reed Elsevier Ventures ltd and Reed Elsevier Ventures. He joined Reed Elsevier Ventures in early 2004 and was its Principal. He supports the investment team, sourcing new opportunities, advising on potential investments, and conducting due diligence. He also supports and manage transactions and portfolio management. He serves as an Observer on the boards of Martini Media, SpaceCurve and Tolven. Mr. Drummond holds a Masters of Engineering and Information Sciences from Clare College, University of Cambridge.
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