Sean Foote

Athlete, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business mentor, Investor, Musician, Philanthropist, Potential employer, Single, Technologist

Mr. Foote has been a venture capitalist investing in early stage companies for the past 9 years. He is active on the board of directors of Eoplex Technologies, Everyone.net, Integrated Materials Inc., Altierre Corporation and Solaicx. He also serves on the Development Council of Entrepreneurs Foundation, a non profit organization that engages high growth companies in corporate citizenship and philanthropic efforts, Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN), Freedom from Hunger, a nonprofit, international development organization that fights against hunger and poverty, and is founder of Community Promise, an educational focused nonprofit. Before venture investing, Mr. Foote was a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, working in a wide range of industries such as telecom, computers, healthcare, banking, and automotive on topics ranging from strategic alliances to Internet strategies. Mr. Foote also worked as a systems engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing artificial intelligence systems for testing the most complicated telecommunications networks. Mr. Foote is on the faculty at the University of California's Haas School of Business where he teaches the top ranked venture capital and private equity classes as well as Microfinance. He has also taught classes on entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan's Business School, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business Mr. Foote received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri Rolla (1988), and his MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business (1993), where he received the Shermett Award granted to the top 3% of students.

Microfinance. If it were profitable to get people out of poverty, there would be significantly less poverty. Profit is OK in the service of social good.

Guitar and singing. I'm a coffee shop musician with coffee shop aspirations.