Neal Strickberger

General Partner

2020 - Current

As GP of the Seed Milestone Fund, I focus on finding passionate and committed founders with truly innovative seed stage technology companies, especially creating sexy innovation in un-sexy markets. We then apply catalytic engagement to actively mentor and support teams to succeed long-term - connecting strategic targets to tactical execution and transforming ideas into reality.

Principal

2011

Member, Board of Directors

2017 - 2024

As a board member, my focus is influencing and connecting the organization to democratize access and support for artists in creation of new and increased audience and public engagement with art.

Advisor

2012 - 2021

Advisory Board Member

2016 - 2020

Interim CTO

2018 - 2020

Angel Investor

2012 - 2017

Keiretsu Forum is a global investment community of accredited private equity angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors. The group is a worldwide network of capital, resources and deal flow with 33 chapters on 3 continents.

Advisor

2013 - 2015

Board of Directors

2009 - 2014

ArtSpan connects the public to arts and artists in San Francisco. Through Open Studios, exhibitions, and the Art For City Youth program placing artists as teachers in target schools.

V.P. MIS and Customer Operations

2008 - 2011

Managed business intelligence systems to distill useful information, drive measurement and fact-based decisions and provide reports to internal and external customers. Deployed data collection, analytics, ETL, Oracle data warehouse and self-service portals. Focused business process automation and streamlining, integrating internal Oracle and MySQL databases with Salesforce.com and ERP systems. Led integration projects with ProQuest post-acquisition. Managed a customer support and sales engineering team known for high satisfaction and passionate customer loyalty. Security, authentication and compliance: developed policies, process, integrations and systems for seamless user access combined with statistics based violation detection and automated response.

V.P. Operations

1999 - 2008

In a software startup, did just about every job at some point. Managed operations and service delivery to bring ebrary to production to a major academic content platform (sold to ProQuest/Cambridge Information Group in January 2011). Maintained lean teams with startup energy and much larger external footprints. - Led a small in-house IT team to build, deploy and scale the ebrary content delivery network built on Cisco infrastructure, Sun/Dell servers and commodity storage arrays running UNIX/Solaris, LAMP and Oracle. Responsible for DevOps, servers, network infrastructure, colocation/hosting, internet bandwidth. - Accountable for budgets, capital equipment planning and procurement. Drove procurement at deep discounts through aggressive vendor negotiation, partnerships and secondary market channels. - Implemented PDF content acquisition and systems, enabling publishers to contribute ebook content from their standard workflows. - Built an in-house customer support team providing highest industry customer satisfaction and retention.