Seven Peaks Ventures

Dino has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and exec in leading technology companies and is focused on building and growing the tech eco-system in Bend Oregon. He recently founded Seven Peaks Ventures, is co-founder of the Founders Pad Accelerator in Bend OR, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Entrepreneurship at OSU Cascades in Bend OR.

Prior to Seven Peaks Ventures, Dino was a General Partner with Formative Ventures, Bay Partners and Vulcan Ventures. Earlier in his career, he held senior executive positions at Qualcomm, Metawave, and Dain Rauscher. He began his career in engineering design and management roles at TRW and US West Cellular.

Active board seats and investments include: Vungle, Droplr, Manzama, CrowdStreet, Inbound Writer, and Capella.

Solar City

John is currently the CTO of SendMe, a leading mobile entertainment company in San Francisco. John has 16 years in technology management, specializing in building large, complex web applications and assembling outstanding teams to support them efficiently. Prior to joining the SendMe team, John was the Co-Founder and CTO of Prosper, a Benchmark-backed startup in the P2P lending space. Previous to Prosper, John ran several web design/consulting firms and was an early pioneer in both mobile and SAAS as the Co-Founder and CEO of Red Gorilla, a multi-platform time tracking and billing service. He is also an avid Baja desert racecar driver, a NCAA Champion and former American Record Holder in swimming.

John has a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of San Francisco.

Rally Ventures

Jeff has been a venture capitalist since 1997 and has focused on early-stage business technology companies throughout his career.

Jeff began his professional career at McKinsey & Company then started his venture career at Crescendo Ventures. He co-founded Vesbridge Partners with Rally Venture Partner Zenas Hutcheson and has been a General Partner with El Dorado Ventures since 2008. Jeff also ran Sistina Software as CEO and has twice been the President of the Minnesota Venture Capital Association (MVCA).

In his spare time, Jeff enjoys biking, boating and fine wine, preferably all in the same day.

Green Visor Capital

Michael Walsh is a General Partner at Green Visor Capital, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on Fintech. Prior to joining Green Visor, Michael was a Partner and founding member of Lusman Capital Management, a hedge fund focused on global value and special situations. Earlier in his career, Michael worked as a senior investment professional at a large family office and as a financial services focused investment banker at Citigroup where he worked on several billion dollars worth of capital markets and M&A advisory transactions.

Michael has worked in the financial service industry for 14 years, including 10 years of experience investing in both public and private markets across assets classes (venture, public equities, high yield debt, derivatives), industries (financial services, energy, mining, industrial, telecom, healthcare) and geographies (US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Latin American, Asia, Africa.)