General Partners

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  Brad Johns

  Partner Portfolio Companies: ZanttZ

  Brad Johns brings 23 years of operating, business development, private equity and venture capital experience in the Information Technology and Energy sectors to Yaletown. Brad currently manages Yaletown's investment in Zanttz.

  As the Vice President of Business Development for Moneta Energy Services, a private natural gas storage and marketing company, Brad was responsible for identifying, negotiating and acquiring assets for conversion into natural gas storage facilities.  Brad has also worked in private equity, as a Partner with Moneta Capital Partners and in venture capital as a Vice President of Launchworks. 

  
  Brad brings significant IT and Oil and Gas experience to the team.  As the Senior Partner at Moneta Capital Partners, he was responsible for the IT and Oil and Gas portfolios.  As part of the founding team at Calgary-based Launchworks, Brad contributed to the firm’s strong performance returns in a challenging market environment. Brad also has extensive operational experience in the IT sector, including a decade as engineer and manager with Nortel, and as an executive with two telecom startups.
  Brad has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Queen’s University, a Masters in Engineering from McMaster University and an MBA from INSEAD, consistently ranked among the top ten business schools globally.
   

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  Hans Knapp

  Partner & General Counsel Portfolio Companies: Redlen, Cogent, Genologics, Thetus, Mixpo

  Hans co-founded Yaletown Venture Partners and brings over 15 years of legal counsel, corporate governance, turn-around, and investing experience to the Yaletown team. Hans serves on the board of Yaletown portfolio companies Cogent Health Solutions, Redlen Technologies and Thetus, and manages Yaletown’s investments in Genologics and MixPo. In addition, as Yaletown’s General Counsel he directs our firm’s investment transactions, operations and legal affairs. Prior to Yaletown, Hans was Vice President of Investments and Corporate Counsel for Brigill Investments, a private Vancouver-based venture capital firm. Earlier in his career he practiced law in the commercial litigation group of Borden Ladner Gervais and held a prestigious judicial clerkship at British Columbia’s highest court, the BC Court of Appeal. A recipient of Business in Vancouver’s “Top 40 Under 40” award, Hans has B.A. and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia and is called to the Bar of British Columbia.

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  Salil Munjal

  Partner Portfolio Companies: Vizimax

  Salil brings 18 years of senior executive, private equity and public board experience to the Yaletown team. He serves on the Board of Yaletown's portfolio company Vizimax. Salil is both an experienced technology investor and operator, having served as a partner at Penfold Capital, a leading merchant bank and earlier served as Chief Operating Officer of Leitch Technology, a prominent technology company (NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange) that was sold to Harris Corporation (NYSE) for over $560 million in cash. In his role as COO, Salil was responsible for the day-to-day management of the Company, including leading all of engineering, strategy, acquisitions, product management and sales. Earlier, Salil served in other senior leadership positions, including heading corporate development and strategy at a clean technology company. Salil has led numerous financings and is also an experienced board member having served on a variety of public company boards, providing board leadership to companies undergoing significant growth and change. Salil began his career as a corporate lawyer at Torys LLP (New York and Toronto) where he focused on mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance. Salil obtained a B.Sc (Chem.) from the University of Toronto and a law degree from Queen’s University. Salil is a past recipient of the Canadian Society for Chemistry Silver Medal and is a member of the bars of New York and Ontario.

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  Mike Satterfield

  Partner Portfolio Companies: GrowLab, Partnerpedia, Indicee

  Mike brings over 25 years of entrepreneurial and senior operating experience in the software industry to the Yaletown team. Mike serves on the boards of Yaletown's portfolio companies Indicee and Partnerpedia and manages Yaletown's investment in GrowLab. Mike has built product development and management teams in Canada and the US, devised and executed business plans, established strategic partnerships, raised venture capital from US and Canadian investors, and participated in the sale of two companies he founded. Prior to co-founding Yaletown, Mike was CEO of Simba Technologies (acquired by Pivotal). Prior to that he co-founded Paradigm Development, a Vancouver-based contract software development firm whose client roster included Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec. Mike has a B.Sc. degree from the University of British Columbia.

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  Kirk Washington

  Partner Portfolio Companies: LaCima, Microstaq, EnerG2, CoolEdge, Endurance

  Kirk brings over 25 years of technical, operational, and investment experience in energy technologies to the Yaletown team. Kirk serves on the boards of Yaletown's portfolio companies CoolEdge Lighting, Endurance Wind Power, EnerG2, LaCima and Microstaq and manages Yaletown's investment in Calisolar (merged with 6N Silicon). Kirk joined Yaletown in 2002 after 13 years with fuel cell company, Ballard Power, where he directed numerous activities including research & development, operations, corporate administration, and special projects.  Most recently, as Director of Corporate Development he analyzed target companies for strategic transactions, negotiated intellectual property licenses, formed joint development agreements and conducted post-merger integrations. While at Ballard, Kirk was also a member of the investment committee of Chrysalix Energy LP, a clean-energy venture capital fund.  He previously managed engineering teams and major projects at MacDonald Dettwiler here in Vancouver, and several disk drive companies in Silicon Valley and Canada.  Kirk attended San Jose State University and holds 10 patents related to his work in clean energy technology.

Investment Professionals

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  Eric Bukovinsky

  Associate

  Eric brings diverse experience in both finance and consulting to the role of Senior Analyst where he supports Yaletown’s investment process. Before joining Yaletown in 2008, Eric covered infrastructure software companies as an equity research Associate with Jefferies & Co., an investment bank and securities firm focused on mid-sized companies. Prior to that, Eric was a Senior Analyst with Analysis Group, an economic, financial and strategy consulting group.

  Eric obtained his B.A. in Economics from Pomona College and is a CFA charterholder.

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  David Dunnison

  Entrepreneur in Residence

  David brings over two decades of executive and Board experience.  David actively consults to a variety of PV companies, including industry leader Q-Cells. David has been an invited speaker at multiple PHOTON conferences as well as at the Lux Research Executive Summit in Boston. David’s blog, d-bits.com, is one of the most popular Cleantech and Solar PV industry websites in Canada.  As VP of Business Development at Yaletown portfolio company 6N Silicon, David developed extensive customer, partner and investor relationships and secured over $2.7 billion in revenue commitments. An innovative provider of purified silicon for the solar industry, 6N received the Deloitte Technology Green 15 Award two years in a row as a leading Green Technology Company.  David’s experience spans the clean-tech, semiconductor, software and not for profit industries. CEO roles include Protexis and Accuzone. In fuel cells, David launched Ballard’s $400m distributed generation business.  David has two science degrees from UBC and a Harvard MBA. David is a five time national Rowing champion and a successful road cyclist.
   

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  Eric Winsborrow

  Entrepreneur in Residence
  Executive VP and GM Comerical Solutions, ZanttZ, Inc.

  Eric has over 20 years of senior level experience in high technology companies out of Silicon Valley. Eric is currently Executive VP and GM Commerical Solutions for ZanttZ, Inc., a Yaletown Venture Partners and Silicon Valley seed funded cyber security company creating solutions for the US Government. Eric was VP of Product Marketing for McAfee, where he conceived and executed the most successful launch in company history, Total Protection solutions. He ran product management for Symantec’s flagship enterprise client and server security, a $450M portfolio, and ran product management for Cisco’s Unified Communications Software Business Unit in the early days VoIP technology, amongst other Director level positions for VOIP and mobility solutions at Avaya and Nortel. Eric also has extensive startup experience. He was Chief Marketing Officer for a Sequoia Capital and Austin Ventures startup, Sipera Systems; CMO for Layer 7 Technologies; Executive Director at Sygate Technologies (acquired for $200M+ by Symantec) as well as executive positions at valley startups such as Cloudmark and Octel (acquired by Lucent for $4B).  Eric conducted his undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics and Economics at McMaster University in Canada, and completed his MBA in International Business and Marketing at IIST in Japan.