The network
Board Members
The Capital Network is led by a Board comprised of accomplished and respected entrepreneurs, investors and sponsors.
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Bob Creeden Bob is Managing Partner for the Partners Innovation Fund (PIF), at Partners Healthcare, where he oversees the creation, launching and funding of new ventures generated from Partners innovative research discoveries. Bob has spent more than twenty-five years focusing on commercializing new technologies and promoting emerging businesses, including eighteen years early stage venture capital investing experience and culminating in his 2005 appointment by Partners to establish the PIF. Previously, he was a General Partner at Egan-Managed Capital, a $150 million dollar Boston-based venture fund, after having served as vice president of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, a 25-year-old early stage venture firm that funds technology-based companies in Massachusetts. Earlier in his career, he gained strategic operating expertise as a COO/CFO with start-up ventures and as a management consultant with Control Data Business Advisors. He holds an AB in Economics from Holy Cross College and an MBA from Suffolk University. While serving in a leadership role on the boards of portfolio companies and developing strong relationships with co-investors from New England and across the country, Bob has reviewed more than 2500 business plans and invested in more than 40 companies. His portfolio has included companies developing leading-edge technologies in semiconductors, software, telecommunications, medical devices, manufacturing and advanced materials. He has extensive experience in putting together syndicates of investors, corporations and third parties to fund technology companies through investment, partnership, joint development and research agreements. Bob is a member of the Advisory Board for the WPI Collaborative for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and a former Chair of the WPI Venture Forum, where he currently serves on the Board. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at Tufts University in the Entrepreneur Leadership Program, a Director of The Capital Network and a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and early-stage investing. |
