Greg is a Venture Partner with Advantage Capital. He serves on the boards of Hortau and Cultiva. Prior to Advantage Capital, Greg was a Partner and founder of FA Technology Ventures, which funded successes like iRobot, E Ink and A123. He serves on the Board of Directors of Auterra and until their exits, served on the boards of BinOptics, Autotask, Softricity, Concentrix, and IP MobileNet. He is also a board observer at CreditSights.
Greg has an extensive history in private equity investing and investment experience across every stage of the venture capital/private equity life cycle. Greg was a Managing Director and founder of Seacoast Capital (1994-2000), a $100 million growth equity fund. Prior to founding Seacoast, Greg managed the investment portfolio of Signal Capital, a Sam Zell-backed fund ($1 billion) that invested in a wide variety of assets and distressed securities. Prior to Signal Capital, Greg worked as a principal at Capital Growth Partners, a mid-market PE firm focused on providing growth equity and mezzanine capital, and Venture Founders, an early-stage technology venture firm where he was involved with successful investments in Vicor (NASDAQ: VICR) and MatrixOne (IPO; subsequently acquired by Dassault Systems).
Greg has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.