Bob Crutchfield
Bob Crutchfield is the managing director of the BrightEdge Venture Fund. BrightEdge is the American Cancer Society’s strategic venture philanthropy platform, targeting investments in advanced therapies to treat, detect, and prevent all types of cancer. Prior to the BrightEdge Fund, Bob was a Sr. Partner at Harbert Growth Partners where he led the healthcare practice. […]
Alan S. Goldstein, Ph.D., MBA
Alan is a managing director at The Procter & Gamble Company, with the role of identifying and establishing partnerships for our P&G Ventures organization. His mission is to create $B businesses in new areas for P&G, allowing him to have an expansive global network within the start-up and investment comminutes. Alan, an alum of UF, […]
Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley has spent nearly 20 years as a General Partner at Benchmark, joining in 1999. Before entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston. Bill also maintains a blog on the evolution and economics of high technology businesses […]
John McGee
Accomplished technology executive with a proven track record of business growth and extensive experience in running large scale manufacturing services for consumer, enterprise, medical, and industrial OEM’s. Dr. McGee also holds widespread experience with service & delivery, quality & security, infrastructure development, facilities and international expansion, partnerships & strategic alliances, business development, contract negotiations, and […]
Rodney Rogers
With more than 30 years in the technology services industry, Rodney Rogers is recognized as a successful serial entrepreneur and expert technologist, known for his leadership contributions in the realization of two back-to-back “unicorns” — startups that achieve billion-dollar valuations. Today, Rod operates as a founding partner of the Blue Lagoon Companies. Blue Lagoon, through […]
Randy Scott
Randy is a Partner and co-founder of HealthQuest Capital, a venture capital firm focused on growth investments into companies transforming the value of healthcare. HealthQuest has approximately $850M in committed capital across 3 funds. At HealthQuest Randy currently serves on the Boards of Magnolia Medical Technology, Trice Medical, and Springbuk and is a Board observer […]
David Seider
David Seider is a principal at Weatherford Capital, a Tampa-based growth equity firm with over $650 million in committed capital since inception. He leads the firm’s investment analysis, transaction execution, and portfolio management activities. David serves on the board of directors of SOMA Global and HDVI and is a board observer at The Zebra. Prior […]
Kyp Sirinakis
Kyp has more than 30 years of experience in creating and growing companies both as an early-stage venture investor and a senior executive in various technology and life science companies. Kyp is the co-founder and managing partner of Epidarex Capital, a majority women-owned and led venture capital firm which finds, invests in, and builds early-stage […]
Chris Walker
Chris Walker was asked to join the UF Strategic Early Stage Investment Committee in 2019 given his extensive background within private equity. Chris is currently a principal at HarbourVest Partners where he joined in 1998 in the primary partnership group and has focused most of his efforts on US venture capital and buyout fund investments. […]