Our experience in starting and building companies offers extraordinary value to entrepreneurs. This value comes in the form of hard-learned lessons that allow us to offer strategic and operational guidance appropriate to the situation of each new business. Two of the three Windspeed partners come from high technology operational backgrounds, the third from high finance on Wall Street. Together, we bring skills in technology evaluation, R&D, marketing, sales, finance, legal and M&A.

We also enjoy a strong network of industry talent including entrepreneurs, seasoned managers, potential co-investors, and ancillary service providers.

John is a founding partner of Windspeed Ventures and has served as managing partner since its inception. John brings more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech communications sector to the firm.  At Windspeed he was the lead manager of the 250 company Comdisco Portfolio, as well as the main interface with several startup investments.

John has served on the board of directors of:

• Bradford Networks (acquired by Fortinet)

• Apps.com (acquired by Intuit)

• Mancala, Fidelia Inc. (acquired by Network General - now Netscout)

• Rate Integration

• Burstpoint Networks (acquired by Avaya).

Prior to joining Windspeed, John was an early (pre-revenue) member of Wellfleet Communications, a leading internet networking pioneer. There he was responsible for building the service organization, including creating a profit center that went from $0 to over $90 million in annual revenue. 

He was then chartered with managing the combining of two independent service organizations as part of the overall Wellfleet/Synoptics merger forming Bay Networks, and continued at Bay Networks as business director, responsible for business development, sales, marketing, and strategy for the $150 million worldwide service organization.

Before Wellfleet John was a software development engineer at Codex/Motorola Corp., developing wide-area data communications products. John holds a BS in Computer Science from Fitchburg State University.

Steve is a founding partner of Windspeed Ventures. With more than a decade of high technology marketing experience, Steve came to Windspeed from Primeon, Inc., where he was responsible for overall marketing activities for this software re-engineering firm. Prior to his work at Primeon, Steve was a co-founder and vice president of marketing for Accordance Corporation, a provider of carrier-scale e-mail server infrastructure. Accordance merged with Software.com in 1996 and then with Phone.com in 2000 to become OpenWave. Earlier in his career, he served as a director for Microsystems Software, a developer of network-based office productivity software, where he was responsible for product marketing, technical support and quality assurance. Prior to Microsystems, Steve spent six years in product management at Data General Corporation. Steve holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in electrical engineering from Brown University. 

Steve is currently a Director at Zipit Wireless. Previously, he served as a Director of VistaPrint Limited (NASDAQ: VPRT) a self-service premium quality printing products and services company which was renamed to Cimpress (NASDAQ:CMPR) in 2014.

Dan is a founding partner of Windspeed Ventures and currently serves as general partner and chairman. He is a seasoned financial expert, having served as senior vice president and partner of Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he was in charge of the firm’s commercial paper division in New York and where he raised over $1 billion for two major customers. From 1987 Dan managed Drexel’s high yield bond development effort in Western Europe from Paris. This included structuring foreign currency debentures for some of Drexel’s European clients. In 1989, he left Drexel to start his own European investment banking company specializing in leveraged buy-outs, corporate finance, and institutional money management and achieved the highest market returns during his tenure. Upon returning to the United States, Dan started FINATECH, Inc., where he continued to advise international corporate finance clients. At FINATECH he helped lead the venture capital financing for Accordance Corporation that later merged into Software.com.

Dan received a BS in business administration from Villanova University.

Dan was formerly a director of Future Point Systems and BurstPoint Networks (acquired by Avaya).