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​
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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
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​​​​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​
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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
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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
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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
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B.B.A Eastern Michigan University
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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B.A. Yale University
M.B.A. Stanford University
Vijay
Parmar
Partner
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Tech entrepreneur, VC, angel investor, startup mentor, business leader
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Business leader with extensive experience in semiconductors, systems, networking, wireless, IoT, and enterprise SaaS
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Built and successfully exited four venture-funded startups and one bootstrapped startup.
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B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology M.B.A. Tulane 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
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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
