Nate joined Osage Venture Partners in 2008 and as Managing Partner oversees investment and portfolio management activities. He serves on the Board of Directors of BA-Insight, DrayNow, HiveIO, Malbek, Noodle Partners, RackWare, RiskLens, Semantic AI, and Sidecar. In addition, Nate is on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technology (PACT), where he previously served as Chairman of the Board, and he serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, a state-supported early stage seed fund. Nate is a frequent speaker and panelist at venture events and is actively involved with numerous venture focused organizations including PACT, NJTC, and MAVA.
Prior to joining Osage, Nate was President and CEO of Verticalnet, a publicly traded SaaS solutions provider, which was sold in January 2008 to Italy-based BravoSolution. Earlier, Nate was a Partner at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) and led both the San Francisco and the Hong Kong offices. He is a graduate of Brown University and of the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated with honors.