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Jeff Hinck Joins Vesbridge Partners as Senior Managing Director
August 16, 2004
Westborough, Massachusetts, August 16, 2004 — Vesbridge Partners, LLC, a leading
early-stage venture capital firm focused on the networking and IT infrastructure markets,
today announced that Jeff Hinck has joined the firm as a senior managing director and will lead the firm’s enterprise IT infrastructure practice.
As part of the leadership team at Vesbridge Partners, Jeff will work alongside Rick Boswell, Bill Cadogan,
Zenas Hutcheson and Rod Randall. Jeff will focus on investments in the rapidly expanding datacenter application,
web services, systems automation and storage markets. Jeff was most recently a general partner with Crescendo
Ventures and has extensive experience as a venture investor and in solving vexing IT issues for large
enterprises as one of the original members of the team at Crescendo as well as through his years with
IAI Ventures and McKinsey & Company.
“Jeff combines an established track record of successful venture investing and company building
with deep industry sector knowledge,” said Zenas Hutcheson, senior managing director of Vesbridge
Partners. “At Vesbridge, we identify and fund promising companies, help build great management teams,
grow markets and provide access to an unparalleled resource network and Jeff will augment our ability
to successfully achieve these goals.” Prior to joining Vesbridge, Jeff had been with Crescendo Ventures since its inception.
During his six-year tenure at Crescendo, Jeff led investments in several companies that contributed significantly
to the advancement of both the network infrastructure and enterprise infrastructure fields including: Algety (acquired by Corvis);
iBEAM (IBEAM); IPCell (acquired by Cisco); NuSpeed (acquired by Cisco); Sistina (recently acquired by Red Hat);
Airband; BroadSoft; Compellent; NetCentrex; and Stonefly. He also served on the board of Endwave (ENWV). In 2003,
Jeff also served as the CEO of Sistina Software, an innovative storage infrastructure software company delivering data sharing
solutions acquired by RedHat. Jeff was also a venture capitalist with Crescendo's predecessor firm, IAI Ventures and as a
consultant at McKinsey & Company. Jeff is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Northwestern University.
“Vesbridge presents an exciting opportunity to join an early-stage investment firm actively involved in their portfolio
companies through all stages of corporate development,” said Hinck. “Vesbridge Partners has a successful 15-year history of
helping finance some of the industry’s most successful networking and large enterprise IT infrastructure companies.
I look forward to funding the next wave of companies that will reshape their respective markets as part of the Vesbridge team.”
About Vesbridge Partners
Vesbridge Partners thrives on helping early-stage; leading-edge networking and IT infrastructure companies
bring their software and service platforms to enterprise and carrier market. Vesbridge Partners, headquartered
in Boston, Mass. has a long history as part of St. Paul Venture Capital (SPVC), a well established early-stage
venture capital firm with a strong track record over the past 15 years of helping finance some of the industry’s
most successful technology companies. Additional information can be found at the firm's website at
www.vesbridge.com.
Note to Editors: Vesbridge and Vesbridge Partners are trademarks of Vesbridge Partners LLC. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
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