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Bijan Sabet
Bijan Sabet has been a General Partner at Spark Capital since its inception in 2005. Bijan led Spark's investments at Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee, Foursquare, Stack Exchange, ExFM, OMGPOP, and Bug Labs. He also led the investment in thePlatform (acquired by Comcast) and was on the board at Next New Networks (acquired by Google).
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Paul Conway
Paul Conway is a Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Spark Capital. Paul oversees the firm’s day-to-day operations including all finance, limited partner relations and human resources. Prior to Spark, Paul was Chief Financial Officer of Charles River Ventures (CRV) for over 12 years, from 1988 to 2000. At CRV, he oversaw all financial reporting and investor relations for the firm’s 50 institutional investors and 300 individual investors. During his tenure, CRV raised five venture funds capitalized at over $900 million and had multiple stock and cash distributions totaling over $2.5 billion. Before joining CRV, Paul was at American Finance Group, an equipment leasing syndicator. There he was responsible for all investor financial reporting. Prior to American Finance, Paul was a manager at Touche Ross & Co. Paul Conway is a Certified Public Accountant and also holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Todd Dagres
Todd Dagres is a founder and General Partner of Spark Capital. Todd has also led Spark’s investments in Menara Networks, Verivue, Covestor and Kateeva. Previously, he was a General Partner and Executive Committee Member at Battery Ventures where he led the Communications Investment practice while focusing on the Media, Entertainment and Communications Industries. Some of his investments at Battery include: Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM), Qtera (acquired by Nortel Networks), XCOM (acquired by Level 3 Communications), Redstone (acquired by Siemens), River Delta Networks (acquired by Motorola), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola), Arbor Networks and Cedar Point Communications. He was named to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks top venture capitalists who have created the most wealth for their investors, three times. He was also named to the 2008 Hollywood IT list by AlwayOn, which features the top entertainment executives and dealmakers in information technology. Prior to Battery Ventures, Todd was Principal and Senior Technology Analyst at Montgomery Securities, Senior Technology Analyst and Vice President at Smith Barney/Robinson Humphrey, Vice President of Communications at the Yankee Group; and, Business Development Manager for Networks and Communications at Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an MBA from Boston University and a BS in Psychology from Trinity College, Hartford CT.
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Santo Politi
Santo Politi is a Founder & General Partner of Spark Capital. Santo has led Spark's investments in Adapt.tv (Acquired by AOL), Oculus VR (Acquired by Facebook), Admeld (acquired by NASDAQ:GOOG), CNET (acquired by NYSE:CBS), Genie, IPWireless (acquired by NYSE:GD), KickApps (acquired by NASDAQ: KITD), OneRiot (acquired by NYSE:WMT), Tashtego and Triggit. He has also participated in Spark's investments in thePlatform (acquired by NASDAQ:CMCSA) and 5Min (acquired by NASDAQ:AOL) as a board member. Santo most recently was a Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) with an investment focus on media and entertainment infrastructure. His investments at CRV include BigBand Networks (NASDAQ:BBND), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by NYSE:MOT) and Groove Mobile (acquired by NASDAQ:LVWR). Prior to joining CRV in early 2001, Santo served as President of New Media for Blockbuster Entertainment (NYSE:BBI), where he was responsible for establishing a new operating division focused on extending the company beyond its brick-and-mortar retail stores into digital broadcast and video on demand. Before his work at Blockbuster, Santo co-founded BT Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Bankers Trust. Some of his successful investments at BT Venture Partners include Aether Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:AETH), Novatel Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVTL) and DigitalThink (NASDAQ:DTHK). Santo has held various engineering and management positions with the Video Systems Division of Matsushita Electric Industrial in Osaka, Japan; Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company; and Weston Instruments, a subsidiary of Schlumberger Industries. Santo is the recipient of an Emmy Excellence in Technology Award. He has also been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks top venture capitalists who have created the most wealth for their investors. Santo Politi holds an MBA in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. An MS in Electrical Engineering from NJIT. BS in Electrical Engineering & a BS in Physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is fluent in Japanese, conversational in Spanish and French and is a native Turkish speaker.
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