Greg is a Partner and a founder of FA Technology Ventures.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of BinOptics, Autotask and Auterra. Previously, Greg served on the Board of Directors of Softricity, IP MobileNet and Concentrix.

Greg had an extensive history in private equity investing prior to FA Technology Ventures and investment experience across every stage of the venture capital 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 that invested in a wide variety of assets and distressed securities.  Greg and his team rationalized the Signal portfolio, deciding which assets to sell and which to support, and maximized the value of the portfolio.  After successfully advancing the Signal Capital portfolio, Mr. Zell became the lead investor in Seacoast.

Prior to Signal Capital, Greg worked as a principal at Capital Growth Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on providing growth equity, and Venture Founders, an early stage technology venture capital firm where he was involved with successful investments in Vicor (NASDAQ: VICR) and MatrixOne (which went public and was subsequently acquired by Dassault Systems in 2006).   He started his career as an engineer and manager on the factory floor of General Motors, followed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he helped design state of the art manufacturing systems to rapidly scale mass production of VAX computers.

Greg was actively involved in recruiting and screening entrepreneurs for Springboard Enterprises, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating women's access to the venture capital markets.

Greg has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ken is a Partner and a founder of FA Technology Ventures.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Knoa Software, and previously served on the Board of Directors of E Ink and as a Board observer on A123 Systems.

Prior to co-founding FA Technology Ventures, Ken served as Director of Investment Banking and Director of Merchant Banking from 1991-2000 at Gleacher, a publicly traded investment banking firm (NASDAQ: GLCH) focused on emerging technology companies.  Ken led the transformation of Gleacher’s corporate investment banking practice from a regional generalist approach to a nationwide information technology and energy technology focused practice.  Investment banking revenues grew from $7.8 million to $32.8 million and equity underwriting volumes of lead or co-lead transactions increased from $24 million to over $2 billion.   The Merchant Banking activity consisted of the venture capital investing of the FATV I Portfolio, which invested over $17 million and resulted in realizations of over $76 million.  Ken also worked on strategy, due diligence and investment negotiations in Mechanical Technology and its follow-on investments in Plug Power, Beacon Power and Satcon as well as FATV I investments in iRobot and META Group.  Prior to working at Gleacher, Ken was a senior investment banker at Bear Stearns and Company, Inc., in New York and in Boston where for eight years he focused on emerging technology companies.

Ken has served as a Judge and Mentor to the annual MIT Enterprise Forum’s Ignite Business Plan Contest for energy technology companies since its inception.  Ken, along with a select group of  leading energy technology executives and scientists, addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science regarding investing in energy technology and accelerating the emergence of the hydrogen economy in the United States.

Ken has a BA from Denison University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Claire is a Partner of FA Technology Ventures and also serves as its Chief Operating and Financial Officer.  Claire currently serves on the Board of Directors of StreetEasy as well as a Board Observer to CreditSights.  Claire has been involved in the recruiting and evaluation of key hires and service providers to portfolio companies including Knoa Software, Softricity and IP MobileNet.

Claire joined FA Technology Ventures in 2002 from Cayman Systems, Inc. (a Charles River Ventures backed telecommunications company) where she was Chief Financial Officer.   In addition to significant operating responsibilities including oversight of manufacturing, IT and finance, she helped position the company for sale to Netopia, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTPA).  Prior to Cayman, she was CFO of Parent’s Plus and of LocalMom.com, two related specialty publishing companies. Claire joined the companies to take on operational responsibilities and to simultaneously evaluate a roll up of similar businesses. She subsequently helped execute a sale of the print business instead.

Previous to these operating and executive roles with entrepreneurial companies, Claire was a senior investment banker for a dozen years, including working for five years with Ken Mabbs at Gleacher where she focused on equity financings and strategic alliances for high growth technology companies.  Prior to Gleacher, she worked in investment banking at Lazard Freres & Co. and CSFB in New York and Boston.

Claire is a Director and past Chair of the Executive Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge the leading forum for the advancement of entrepreneurship in the Boston area. She is also serves on the WGBH Community Advisor Board, on the Finance and Investment Committees of Crittenton Women’s Union which designs and replicates innovative programs to help women who are not economically self-sufficient achieve the training and skills to support their families, and as a Director of TPR Media.

Claire has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Laura Rippy is a Partner of FA Technology Ventures.She joined the team in 2013 for the kickoff of FATV Fund III. Laura has operational experience across many technology sectors: mobile, consumer, internet, SaaS, cloud-based, marketing and enterprise software. As a former startup CEO and executive at Microsoft, she is a hands-on, motivational leader.

For ten years, Laura was Managing Partner for Ripplecreek Partners’ technology practice. She contributed to seven early-stage startups in a variety of roles from Chairman of Zmags (leader in digital catalogs), to part-time executive at InterNoded (mobile device management), LightKeeper (visual portfolio management), and Oneforty (Twitter app store). Her teams achieved exits (Realm, Oneforty, InterNoded) and IPO filings (Inrix). 

Previously, Laura Rippy was CEO of Handango, the original mobile app store. Handango created the app store model, built the ecosystem of developers surrounding it, and served millions of customers.  Under her leadership, Handango grew revenues to $38 million, achieved profitability, partnered with all the major leaders of the mobile world including Palm, Microsoft, Nokia, Motorola, ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, reached the Inc. 500 for 132% CAGR, and received awards for the Best Place to Work in Dallas.

At Microsoft, Laura was an intrapreneur and executive.  She held a series of marketing and executive positions over 6+ years for three products, MSN HomeAdvisor, Sidewalk, and Kid’s Creativity.  She co-founded Sidewalk and HomeAdvisor as part of an elite swat team spun out of Bill Gates office.  For HomeAdvisor she led the team to the fastest ecommerce product launch at Microsoft, numerous press awards, and was one of the youngest general managers at Microsoft.  Additionally, for Microsoft’s Dallas office, Laura led strategic solutions sales of SQL Server and developer tools for Microsoft’s enterprise customers, learning respect for the challenges of enterprise sales teams, and techniques for effectiveness.

Prior to business school, Laura was a strategy consultant.  Her clients included newly-privatized East German companies. 

Laura has an MBA. from Harvard Business School, a BA from Dartmouth College.