Meet the Affiliate Team Members
Deep Network and Experience
Strategy, Business Operations and Finance
The core affiliate team members of Venture Enterprises are comprised of an accomplished set of entrepreneurs, corporate executives and new venture professionals that have reviewed more than 5,000 business opportunities, raised over $5 billion of venture and corporate capital, launched > 200 businesses across many sectors and ultimately led the growth > $10 billion dollars in market value. We bring the experience and learnings of both our successes and failures to help our clients successfully attain their goals.
Joseph L. Vaillancourt
- Founder of Venture Enterprises
- VP Corporate Venturing Waste Management
- Serial Entrepreneur
John T. Preston
- Founder TEM Capital
- CEO Continuum Energy
- Frmr Director of Technology Licensing MIT
Naveed Khan
- Founder Corporate Venture Consulting
- President Strategic Venture Association
- Frmr Head of Siemens Ventures
Paul Mahoney
- Founder Value Based Capital
- Co-Founder of Corporate Venture Capital Group
- Frmr Managing Director Fleet Capital
Alvin L. Thomas
- Founder General Counsel Consulting Solutions
- SVP, GC Global Geophysical Services, Inc.
- EVP, GC Synagro Technologies, Inc.
Dave Barrett
- Founder, Privatization Capital Group
- Director, Kendall Capital Partners
- VP, US Leasing, Capital Equipment Group
Bill Cooper
- 20+ Years Investment Banking
- ABN AMRO, DLJ, Seven Hills, Wedbush Securities
- M&A and Growth Financing
Toby Lewis
- Editor Global Corporate Venturing
- Board member of the Mawsonia Group
- Frmr editor at Private Equity News, a subsidiary of Dow Jones
Dr. Valerie Kijewski
- Professor of Marketing and Strategy
- New Ventures Consultant
- Co-Developer of the Innovation Audit
Robert Cleaves
- Founder Stratex Energy, LLC.
- President of the Biomass Power Association
- Serial Entrepreneur
Michael R. Webb
- Chairman Co-Founder Relevance Logic, Inc.
- Chairman Founder Michael Moto, LLC.
- Frmr Chairman, CEO The Knowledge Webb
Andrew D. Minckler
- Managing Partner, InsurExcellence
- Partner, Managing Director, Asia OneService International
- Serial Entrepreneur
Tom Malone
- Frmr CEO MicroGreen Polymers, Inc.
- Founder, President Cargo Technology Corp
- Founder, Kyndyl Int'l Ltd
Vincent DeVito
- Partner, Bowditch & Dewey
- Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy
- Senior Counsel, Massachusetts State Senate
Thomas A. Brown
- Founder, BD30
- SVP Eastern Insurance Group (EIG)
- EVP Sales and Marketing, The Meathouse
Bruce Mast
- Founder, President BMA
- Adjunct Professor
- Chair at The RiverWoods Board of Trustees
Richard A. Olliver
- Founder & CEO Aplethora Energy Services
- Executive Boards of WADE, GTC, ECC, CII
- Film Producer and Concert Promoter