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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Jean Hammond Jean is an active angel investor, a co-founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (which invests in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad Venture Group and Hub Angels. An investor with an active portfolio over 50 companies, she has served on the board or as a board-level advisor with over 20 of these firms. She has led a number of syndicated deals increasing capital to growing startups. Jean recently founded NE-ACA Angel Training to help grow new angels and increase the effectiveness of those already in groups. Helping drive the support ecosystem by matching entrepreneurs with investors and other resources, Jean meets with hundreds of entrepreneurs a year. As a part-time entrepreneur-in-residence at the E Center and an active mentor at TCN, TechStars, and MassChallenge, she has directly or indirectly helped dozens of startups, moving them from “idea stage” to “funding-ready” to eventual launch to become vital members of the Massachusetts innovation economy. A serial entrepreneur, she co-founded AXON Networks, which was acquired by 3Com. She led 3Com’s first VC deal and other acquisitions and led the WAN strategy. Jean founded Quarry Technologies, spinning out the BBN Super-router group. Jean is frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and angel investing at colleges, universities and at many organizations. She serves on the board of The Technology Capital Network (TCN), teaching entrepreneurs about the investment process. Jean was recently named to the Alley-to-the-Valley investors group, bringing together the 50 most influential women investors in the country. She will be addressing the We Own It Conference in London, on women roles and behaviors in technology commercialization. Jean is the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Monosson Prize for Entrepreneurship Mentoring, awarded by the MIT Sloan School of Management. On the board of Thompson Island Outward Bound and Boston Rising Jean supports the growth of science education and entrepreneurial jobs in the inner city. She earned a M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and BS in Biology at MIT.
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