John Selep

Managing Director

An accomplished global technology executive, John brings several decades of first-hand experience bringing new technology products to market, having launched hundreds of new technology products across a variety of product domains in both small and large organizations.  As an investor and operational leader in product management, marketing, channel development, strategic alliances, engineering, and operations roles, John has gained the perspective necessary to integrate a customer-oriented view of business problems with deep experience aligning technologies, engineering processes and ecosystems to bring new solutions to market, and the ability to visualize and express clearly the value to customers, partners, internal and external stakeholders.  John’s analytic abilities to quickly pinpoint and understand the compelling value or issue in a situation and his communication skills to help key stakeholders align on a common view of the situation mean teams can take swift action to respond to opportunities.    

During his experiences in both small and large organizations including Hewlett-Packard and AT&T Bell Laboratories, John has built global teams driving product development, product marketing, channel development and strategic alliances, including managing teams spanning four continents.  Extensive travel and exposure to different business models and practices in a variety of cultural environments has given John a wealth of perspective in enterprise, commercial, consumer, telecommunications, retail, energy, and financial markets, in technology areas from enterprise software to networking, telephony, and network security; printing, PC, server and storage hardware, and electronic payments. 

John holds a Bachelors in Systems & Electrical Engineering from Boston University, a Masters in Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.