Primary Job Title General Partner Primary Organization 
Kodiak Venture Partners
Location Princeton Junction, New Jersey, United States Regions East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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John is an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience in technology investing, executive management, and product development that includes successful IPOs and U.S. patents. As a co-founder and General Partner at Arrowpoint Ventures, he focuses on software and services, communications and wireless, and Internet and new media. Prior to
co-founding Arrowpoint, John was a General Partner where he led investments in Application Security; ChannelAdvisor; Recordant Technologies; Aspeed (acquired by SIMtone) and SIMtone Corporation.
John joined Kodiak from Battery Ventures where, as a partner, he focused on software and e-business sectors and originated private equity investments totaling more than $40M. At Battery, he was an early investor in Applimation, Inc.; OpenCOLA; OpenNetwork Technologies; and Optiant, Inc. His other successful investments include Business Software Technology, PhotoDisc, and Witness Systems, which had a successful IPO.
Before joining Battery Ventures, John held a number of senior executive positions in the technology industry including President and Chief Executive Officer of Add-Vision, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of intelligent electronic display and illumination systems. Prior to Add-Vision, he served as Executive Vice President at Compuware Corporation, a publicly held, worldwide software and professional services organization, where he was responsible for managing operations including finance, management information systems and mergers/acquisitions, among others. Before joining Compuware, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering for Boole & Babbage Inc., a public software company that became the foremost vendor of automated operations software products, and ultimately was acquired by BMC Software.
In 1982, John founded Condor Technology, Inc., designed and developed its products, and, as President and CEO, bootstrapped the company from start-up status to a merger with Business Software Technology (BST). Condor/BST's products have sold more than $10B worldwide while operating as a division of Computer Associates, Inc.
Earlier in his career, John was a computer scientist at Bell Laboratories where he authored several software products that remain in use today at every regional Bell System affiliate in the world. He also holds several US Patents.
John attended Columbia University and the University of Illinois, where he studied computer science.
