Menlo Park
Michael Lynn, M.D. Partner
Mike is responsible for sourcing and screening private equity investments in the medical device and biopharmaceutical sectors.
Mike serves on the Boards of Directors of Luminous Medical, MyHealthTeams, Pivot Medical, PneumRx, Revascular, TriReme and USGI Medical and is a Board Observer at GlobeImmune.
Location: Menlo Park
Email: nthomsen@adamsstreetpartners.com
Phone: +1 (650) 331-4862
Year Joined: 2007
Previous Experience:
VantagePoint Venture Partners
Stanford University
Highland General Hospital
The White House
Academic:
Carleton College, BA, magna cum laude
Dartmouth Medical School, Pre-Clinical Sciences
UCLA School of Medicine, MD
Executive Assistant:
Nancy Thomsen
nthomsen@adamsstreetpartners.com
Assistant Phone: +1 (650) 331-4862
Kelly Meldrum, CFA Partner
Kelly is a Partner primarily focused on the US portfolio with emphasis on venture capital and growth equity fund investments. She opened Adams Street Partners' California office in 2006. She is also responsible for managing relationships with several of Adams Street's managers including Accel, August, Benchmark, Berkshire and TA Associates. Kelly is a member of the Primary Investment Committee.
Location: Menlo Park
Email: kmeldrum@adamsstreetpartners.com
Phone: +1 (650) 331-4862
Year Joined: 2005
Previous Experience:
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Hewlett-Packard Corporation
Morgan Stanley & Company
Academic:
Bentley College, BS
Executive Assistant:
Nancy Thomsen
nthomsen@adamsstreetpartners.com
Assistant Phone: +1 (650) 331-4862
Robin Murray Partner
Robin is responsible for sourcing and executing late stage venture and growth equity investments in the Internet, software and financial technology sectors.
Robin's investments include Actelis, Criteo, Donuts, Integral Technologies, RadiumOne, RetailMeNot, Rimini Street, You SendIt and Zynga. He was previously an investor in Ancestry.com (ACOM), Appshop (acquired by ATT), Bitfone (acquired by HPQ), Demand Media (DMD), Fotolog (acquired by HIM.Pa), Merchant eSolutions, Mobile365 (acquired by SY now SAP), Omniture (OMTR), Placeware (acquired by MFST) and Vonage (VG).
Location: Menlo Park
Email: kleonard@adamsstreetpartners.com
Phone: +1 (650) 331-4864
Year Joined: 2008
Previous Experience:
3i Ventures
iPIN Corporation
McKinsey
Ernst and Young
Academic:
Bristol University, BS
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, ACA
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MBA
Executive Assistant:
Kerry Leonard
kleonard@adamsstreetpartners.com
Assistant Phone: +1 (650) 331-4864
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Andrew Nesbit Associate
Andrew is an Associate responsible for supporting the Direct Investment Team in all aspects of the investment decision-making process.
Location: Menlo Park
Email: nthomsen@adamsstreetpartners.com
Phone: +1 (650) 331-4863
Year Joined: 2011
Previous Experience:
Stifel Nicolaus Weisel (formerly Thomas Weisel Partners)
Academic:
University of California, Berkeley, with honors, BS
Executive Assistant:
Nancy Thomsen
nthomsen@adamsstreetpartners.com
Assistant Phone: +1 (650) 331-4862
David Welsh Partner
Dave is responsible for sourcing and executing private equity investments in the enterprise software, infrastructure and mobile software, consumer technology and business services sectors.
Dave serves on the Boards of Directors for Atlantis Computing, BrightRoll, Damballa, Five9, Jaspersoft, KPG, LogRhythm and Matrixx Software. Dave is also involved in the firm's investments in APT, AVG, Rimini Street, Spiceworks and YouSendIt. Dave's past investments include: CEON, Excellergy (Acquired by Brinvest), IP Unity, Jungo Software (Acquired by NDS), Microfabrica, Msnap, MxLogic (acquired by McAfee), Netsize, Qpass (Acquired by AMDOCS), Solomio (Acquired by Openwave), Sportgenic (acquired by Glam Media) and Vividence (Acquired by Keynote).
Location: Menlo Park
Email: kleonard@adamsstreetpartners.com
Phone: +1 (650) 331-4864
Year Joined: 2008
Previous Experience:
McAfee, Inc.
Partech International
Portal Software
Academic:
UC Berkeley and Harvard Law Schools, order of the coif, JD
UCLA, BA
Executive Assistant:
Kerry Leonard
kleonard@adamsstreetpartners.com
Assistant Phone: +1 (650) 331-4864
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Mike ZappertPrincipal
Mike is responsible for sourcing and leading late stage venture and growth equity investments in the software/SaaS, Big Data/analytics and Internet sectors.
Mike has been actively involved with Adams Street's investments in Criteo, Five9, Integral Development, Matrixx Software, RadiumOne, Rimini Street, ServiceMax, WhaleShark Media, YouSendIt and Zynga. Previous investments include Demand Media (DMD), BlueLithium (acquired by Yahoo!) and Speakeasy (acquired by Best Buy).
Location: Menlo Park
Email: kleonard@adamsstreetpartners.com
Phone: +1 (650) 331-4864
Year Joined: 2009
Previous Experience:
3i Ventures
Credit Suisse
Academic:
Stanford University, BA, with Honors
and Phi Beta Kappa
Stanford University, MS
Executive Assistant:
Kerry Leonard
kleonard@adamsstreetpartners.com
Assistant Phone: +1 (650) 331-4864
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