Board of Directors
Instrumental in the decisions we make at Vendasta, our board of directors come with a wide and diverse range of experience across multiple industries, offering their aptitude and talent to our long-term goals.
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Instrumental in the decisions we make at Vendasta, our board of directors come with a wide and diverse range of experience across multiple industries, offering their aptitude and talent to our long-term goals.
Brad Feld
Director
Brad Feld is a partner and co-founder of Foundry. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 35 years, since founding his first company, Feld Technologies, in college. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and, with his wife Amy Batchelor, runs the Anchor Point Foundation.
Brad has written several books on entrepreneurship and venture capital and started blogging in 2004 before VC Twitter existed.
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner who enjoys wandering around alone in the mountains for hours at a time.
Amy’s previous venture capital experience was as an associate with JLA Venture Partners (co-managing partner of the Blackberry Partners Fund), where she provided due diligence and investment candidate screening that eventually led to the financing deal that saw the formation of ZipLocal in August 2006. Prior to joining JLA, she was an analyst with Latitude Partners, a private equity and strategic advisory firm focused on the technology sector. Amy holds a BComm with a finance specialization.
Robert brings over 25 years of experience as a successful serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the field of information technology. He began his career as co-founder of T/Maker Graphics, a developer of Macintosh and IBM PC graphics and desktop publishing products. After founding and co-funding other high-tech businesses, in 1997, he moved into venture capital as a partner with Sierra Ventures, where he identified, sourced and evaluated business opportunities in the internet e-commerce and enterprise software sectors. During this time, he also founded DotBank, a direct competitor to PayPal, where he negotiated partnerships and its sale to Yahoo. In 2000, Robert became a general partner with Alta Partners, with an investment focus in Internet infrastructure, enterprise software, network security and wireless. More recently, he has been the managing director/venture partner with Saints Dakota/Saints Capital, a portfolio of companies purchased from Safeguard Scientifics. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Prior to CBGF, Hai worked at Regimen Equity Partners, Signal Hill Equity Partners, and TD Capital (TD Bank’s merchant banking group). Hai graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School and received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in France.
Throughout her 25 year career, Lisa Reeves has championed emerging trends and technologies, market disruption, entrepreneurial ecosystems, diversity, and global opportunities. She is the Chief Product Officer at TriNet, which provides HR solutions delivered through configurable products on a service and technology platform. Before TriNet, Lisa led Product at Zenefits, Corporate Strategy at Workday, was Co-founder and CEO of Gridcraft and joined WDAY after it acquired Gridcraft. She was also GM for the GoToMyPC line of business at Citrix, which she joined from Vista Ventures. Before Vista, she spent 14 years at SAP, nine years in operational and five years on venture capital.
Lisa enjoys spending time with her family, supporting the Colorado innovation ecosystem, entertaining, and running outside of work. She is a 10-time Chicago Marathon finisher and a six-time Boston Marathon finisher.
In 1996 Lee was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of British Columbia (UBC). Lee was awarded the British Columbia Technology Industries Association Person of the Year Award in 2002. Lee has also received numerous awards for his community service including the Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for significant contribution in the form of public service in 2003. In 2005 he was recognized as an Honorary Fellow of the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. Lee has served as Chair of the British Columbia Technology Industries Association from 1998 to 2001. Lee currently serves as a member of the Premier’s Technology Council and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Sauder School of Business at UBC. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of DigiBC and is one of Canada’s representatives to Asia Pacific Economic Council’s Business Advisory Council.
Lee previously invested in A.L.I. Technologies, Blast Radius, ActiveState, Bycast, and remains active as an angel investor and Director in Pacific Bio-Energy, the leading manufacturer of wood pellet biomass fuel; and D-Wave Systems, developer of the first commercial quantum computer of which he is also Chair.