Fireside Chat - Building a West Coast Company
Amanda Reed D'86 After 15 years of successful investing as a General Partner at Palomar Ventures, Ms. Reed is currently co-founding Authentic Partners, a new seed and early stage venture capital firm in San Francisco. Ms. Reed is a third-generation entrepreneur.
She joined the venture capital community in 2001 after a 15-year career in four start-up companies, including two IPOs, an acquisition and a shut-down. Ms. Reed is a Senior Advisor to Astia Ventures, and was recently honored as an inspirational speaker to Microsoft’s Women in Technology. Ms. Reed graduated from Dartmouth College in 1986. While at Dartmouth, Ms. Reed studied Economics and English, was a Social Chair of Kappa Alpha Theta, President of the Women’s Rugby Club, and Publicity Chair of the Winter Carnival Council. |
Alex Tonelli D'06 Alex is a Partner at Endurance Companies, a holding company with offices in San Francisco and Hanover that has built several successful companies since 2009. He is currently building his next company, Vocate, which is a matching marketplace for student jobs, with a pilot launched at Dartmouth. Previously, he Co-Founded Funding Circle, where he was US Managing Director. FC was recently valued at >$1B and has ~350 employees. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Alex was an investor at Summit Partners, Seneca Capital, and Hasso Plattner Ventures, which made him CEO of Global Vision. He has also worked for Citigroup IBD and the US Embassy in Paris. Alex received an MBA from Stanford and an AB, cum laude, from Dartmouth. Within the Dartmouth world, he's on the investment committee of the Green D Fund and an active supporter of DEN, DRFC, and TDX. His wife, Tscharner Hunter, is a Tu'17.
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Trip Davis D'90Trip Davis has served as the executive director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (OETT) in the Provost Division and an adjunct professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College since February 2013. The OETT is responsible for Entrepreneurship programs and spaces as well as Technology Transfer policies and practices, including the management of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (DRTC), the DEN Innovation Center and Technology Transfer for Dartmouth-originated intellectual property. Prior to returning to Dartmouth, Trip served as senior associate dean for external relations and president of the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Also at Virginia, he served as an adjunct professor and co-faculty director of the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior to his appointments at Dartmouth and Virginia, Trip was an entrepreneur in travel technology. Named one of the top 25 most influential executives in the travel industry in 2002 and 2007, he served as the CEO of two technology services firms. In 1995, he co-founded San Francisco-based Green Room with two Dartmouth classmates to deliver web development services to travel companies and sold the company to iXL in 1998. In 1999, Trip joined TRX, a travel processing and data analytics company, as its first CEO. He served as CEO for nine years through 2008 and chairman through July 2013, building the company to 2,000 employees in 5 countries, completing its IPO in 2005 and sale to Concur Technologies in 2013. Trip earned his BA in English from Dartmouth College in 1990 where he was a varsity sailor for four years and MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 1994. Trip lives in Norwich, Vermont, with his wife Nicole Butters and their four children.
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