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Managing Director
Jed is the Managing Partner of Catamount Ventures. Catamount is rooted in the in art and the creative process of company building and serves the gap in the market between angel investors and large venture funds. Catamount is investing out of its third fund and has approximately $130M under management. Prior to Catamount, in 1997 Jed was the founder of drugstore.com (NASDAQ: DSCM), and served on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos. Prior to drugstore.com, Jed co-founded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software. Before that, Jed was Vice President of Sales at Tribe Computer Works (a networking hardware and software company that was successfully sold). Jed began his career in technology working for Tom Siebel and subsequently Marc Benioff at Oracle Corporation, ultimately serving as District Manager for Eastern Region.
Jed has advised many private companies and currently serves on the Boards of Linden Lab, Siterra Corp., Flock, Piczo, Ecohaus and Revolution Foods. Jed has also served on the board of several education and non-profit institutions, including the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Shackelton Schools and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Jed earned an BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Jed lives in the Bay Area with wife Caitlin and three children - Quinn, Annabel and Lilah.
Managing Director
Mark Silverman has spent the past 15 years immersed in early stage technology businesses. Most recently, Mark served as President and CEO of Bocada from 1999 to 2006. He led the company from inception to the acquisition of 200 leading corporate customers and more than $8.0 million annual revenue. Mark continues to serve as Chairman of Bocada’s Board of Directors.
Prior to Bocada, Mark was Vice President, Business Development and Heath Services and General Counsel for drugstore.com. At drugstore.com, Mark was responsible for building key relationships with industry leaders, including Rite Aid, Amazon, GNC, PCS, CIGNA and WellPoint, as well as for helping the company to raise more than $300 million from venture capital funds, corporate partners and the public markets.
Prior to drugstore.com, Mark was a Partner at Venture Law Group in Menlo Park, CA. In addition to providing legal and business services for dozens of start-ups, Mark was one of three partners who lead Venture Law Group’s successful venture capital investing practice. Prior to Venture Law Group, Mark practiced law for several years at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York. Silverman holds a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley.
Principal
Tamin Pechet joined Catamount in 2007 as Principal. Tamin spent the past seven years as an entrepreneur and investor. His focus areas include consumer internet and cleantech, with a particular emphasis on the water industry. He recently led Catamount’s investment in Lux Research, and serves on its Board of Directors. Tamin also currently serves as Chairman & Executive Director of Imagine H2O, a non-profit organization dedicated to spurring innovation in the water sector.
Before joining Catamount, Tamin was a principal investor at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he co-founded and managed Goldman Sachs E&P Capital to invest in private energy companies. Tamin hired the team and oversaw growth from scratch to over $200 million in capital invested.
Prior to Goldman Sachs, Tamin held a business development position with Launch Media through its acquisition by Yahoo! Tamin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB with honors from Harvard University.
Director of Operations
Kate Chhabra is Catamount Ventures' Director of Operations. Kate has over ten years of operating experience, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations.
Kate began her career at ATEL Capital, a large San Francisco based leasing company, working in operations and human resources, ultimately managing the entire operations for one of ATEL's divisions. She returned to human resources at CriticalArc Technologies, Inc. during its early seed stage. Later, she assumed all administration functions within the company as head of administration, overseeing both the accounting and office management departments as well.
After CriticalArc, Kate acted as Director of Operations for a small business establishing and maintaining their operational procedues and basic administration. Kate received a B.A. degree from The George Washington University.
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The catamount, or mountain lion, ranges the high country from British Columbia to South America. They are solitary, efficient hunters. The big cats have a mystique and a still strength which inspires respect. Like an entrepreneur, the catamount strikes it alone, seeking its own way in the face of constant challenges and harsh realities. Ultimately, by working in partnership with the environment, the big cats survive and thrive. The way of the catamount represents the central goal and thesis of Catamount Ventures.
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