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William Stewart
Managing Director
For the past six years, Mr. Stewart has been with Sand Hill Capital, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for originating and managing the firm’s venture debt and venture equity portfolios. Before joining full-time, Mr. Stewart was also previously a non-executive board member at Sand Hill Capital. Prior to Sand Hill Capital, Mr. Stewart was the founder and President of Asia Pacific Ventures (www.apvco.com) and has advised over 300 U.S. venture backed IT start-up companies in the Japan/Asia marketplace, raising more than $2 billion in equity, debt and joint venture financing over the past 15 years. Mr. Stewart was also the founding General Partner of APV Technology Partners I, II and III with over $200 million in early stage venture funding under management. Prior to founding the Asia Pacific Venture companies, Mr. Stewart was a senior executive for NEC in Japan.
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Christopher Barber
Managing Director
For the past six years, Mr. Barber has been with Sand Hill Capital, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for originating and managing the firm’s venture debt portfolios. Prior to Sand Hill Capital, Mr. Barber spent 17 years on Wall Street, most recently as Managing Director and Group Head in-charge of UBS’s Large Cap Technology Investment Banking effort, providing corporate finance and advisory services to the 30 largest U.S. based technology companies. Prior to that Mr. Barber was Managing Director and Group Head in-charge of debt private placements and leverage finance at Prudential Securities. Mr. Barber also spent many years at Citigroup originating structured debt and leveraged finance solutions.
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Paul Sestili
Managing Director
For the past five years, Mr. Sestili has been with Sand Hill Capital, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for originating and managing the firm’s venture equity portfolios. Prior to that, Mr. Sestili spent five years with APV Technology Partners, a venture capital firm. Prior to APV, he co-managed Chevron Corporation’s first venture fund. Mr. Sestili has founded two start-up companies and is a recovering engineer, having spent the first six years of his career in technology development.
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Franklin Loffer
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Loffer manages all the financial and operational aspects of Mezzanine Capital Partners. For the past five and a half years, Mr. Loffer has been with Sand Hill Capital, a venture capital firm, serving as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Loffer served as the Director of Fund Administration and Compliance at MVC Capital, the first publicly-traded venture capital firm. During his tenure at MVC Capital, Mr. Loffer assisted in the $330 million raise of capital in March of 2000. Prior to MVC Capital, Mr. Loffer spent six years managing the accounting functions for approximately 12 global debt and equity funds with combined assets exceeding $2.5 billion at GT Global.
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Ian Shelswell
Associate
For the past two years, Mr. Shelswell has been with Sand Hill Capital, a venture capital firm, as an associate supporting the firm’s venture debt and venture equity portfolios. Prior to that, Mr. Shelswell served as an analyst in the Global Technology investment banking division of UBS. While at UBS, Mr. Shelswell worked on a variety of public and private financings and M&A advisory assignments for companies in the technology sector. Mr. Shelswell has a BA in Economics from Stanford University.
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