Frank is a Principal in Newbury’s Redwood Shores office, focusing on software, Internet, and wireless investments. He has been with the firm since 2004. Frank is a Board observer at NextBio and Sensor Platforms, and helped make the firm’s investments in MetaLINCS (acquired by Seagate), Andigilog (acquired by Standard Microsystems), BDNA, and Echovox.
Prior to joining Newbury, Frank was a Principal at Panasonic Ventures, the venture capital arm of Matsushita Electric, where he helped drive investments in P-Cube (acquired by Cisco), Premier Retail Networks (acquired by Thomson), Raindance (RNDC), MontaVista Software, and Intacct. While at Panasonic Ventures and Panasonic Internet Incubator, Frank structured numerous revenue-generating partnerships between Panasonic’s business units and other technology companies.
Prior to Panasonic Ventures, Frank was at Salomon Smith Barney’s Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco with deal experience in M&A, equity offerings and private placements for software, semiconductor, and networking equipment companies. Previously, Frank was a Financial Analyst in the M&A Group of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. He was also a Summer Associate at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division in Hong Kong.
Frank holds an A.B. with honors in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
Frank enjoys architecture, hiking, and jazz. He and his wife currently live in San Mateo.
