OUR TEAM
FP’s partners are proven serial entrepreneurs and seasoned bankers. We have achieved > 85% success rate in Building Companies as founders and closed over 150 transactions when Selling Companies as M&A professionals.
Brian
Flynn
Co-Founder | Partner
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Serial entrepreneur and investor (26 companies, 10 exits, 13 rapid growth)
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Deal-maker (70+ M&A and financing transactions including sale of Macromedia to Adobe)
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Business development, strategy, finance
B.A. University of Notre Dame
M.B.A. Harvard University
Greg
Baszucki
Co-Founder | Partner
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Serial entrepreneur and investor (12 companies, 3 exits, 8 rapid growth)
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Grew Dealix to $80m+ revenues with only $1m investment
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Engineer, operator, product strategy, sales, finance
B.S.E.E. University of Minnesota
Ted
West
Partner
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Serial entrepreneur and investor in Internet, software and services (12 companies, 7 exits, 3 rapid growth)
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Bootstrap company builder to $20 million+ revenues
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Strategy, business development, sales, product, operator, finance
B.A. Princeton University
M.B.A. Harvard University
Dimitri Steinberg
Partner
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M&A investment banker for 25 years (Morgan Stanley, Lazard, BofA, HSBC)
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Experienced deal-maker (75+ transactions, sellside and buyside, capital structure optimization)
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CFO of Internet start-up
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Strategy, deal-making, finance
B.A. Princeton University
M.B.A. Harvard University
Bogy Skowronski
Partner
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Serial entrepreneur and investor (7 companies)
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Deal maker
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(15+ international transactions; listed 12 companies on NewConnect Stock Exchange)
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Co-founder of MIT EF CEE tech accelerator in Warsaw, Poland
B.S. MIT
M.B.A. Harvard University
Don Campbell
Partner
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Serial entrepreneur and investor
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Bootstrap SaaS company builder
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Deep product, business strategy, and go-to-market expertise
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Focused on companies who deliver remarkable customer experiences
B.B.A Eastern Michigan University
Frits
Habermann
Partner
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Serial entrepreneur and investor
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Product strategy, SAAS, Growth hacking, technical architectures, and scaling businesses.
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Co-founder Adobe InDesign, former CTO PopCap Games, CTO & CPO Lynda.com, CEO PicMonkey.com
B.Sc. Carnegie Mellon University
M.Sc. University of Washington
Dave
DuPont
Partner
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Strong, versatile and broadly experienced technology industry leader. 30+ year career in tech, the last 20 years in entrepreneurial ventures.
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Experienced CEO and founder, leading through growth, funding and exits.Played key role at Hewlett Packard in growing the commercial desktop PC business from #23 to #1 worldwide.
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Extensive international experience
B.S. Cornell University
M.B.A. Harvard University
Ajit
Deora
Partner
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Serial entrepreneur, angel, VC
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Initial partner-customer engagement to zero-in product-market fit
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Business & go-to-market strategies to drive eventual virality
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Startups maniacal about easy to use SaaS products
B.S.E.E. Indian Institute of Technology
M.S.C.S. University of Kansas
Keith
Blackwell
Partner
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Serial entrepreneur with focus on B2B software (tools, infrastructure, big data)
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Bootstrapped two startups acquired by public companies (HP and Ziff Davis)
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Setting Vision, recruiting talented teams, product strategy messaging/branding, operations, finance
B.E. Vanderbilt University
M.B.A. Tulane University
Glover
Lawrence
Partner
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Corporate Development executive for 15 years at AspenTech and Avid Technology. Completed 26 transactions.
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M&A investment banker for 15 years (Morgan Stanley, Hambrecht & Quist, McNamee Lawrence)
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Corporate VC at Oracle
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Strategy, deal-making, investing and finance
B.A. Yale University
M.B.A. Stanford University
Yegor
Denisov-Blanch
Associate
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Logistics - Strategy & Chief of Staff to CEO
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Founder of 8-person pro-bono consultancy for 30+ startups; Mentor at MIT accelerator
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Started first business at age 14, grew to $0.5M revenue by age 18
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Former internationally-competitive Olympic weightlifter
B.S. Kelley School of Business
M.B.A. Stanford University, Fellow
We are also supported by over 20 Operating Advisors who lend their expertise to various initiatives across our portfolio companies
