David Blivin has had a long and successful investment and entrepreneurial career. Most recently he has worked directly with early-stage companies on their strategic focus, market validation and fund raising under his company Lighthouse Partners. Prior to Lighthouse, Mr. Blivin founded and served as Managing Director of Southeast Interactive and over a five-year period successfully built the team that established the first and largest information technology-focused fund based in the Southeast. During Mr. Blivin’s tenure, Southeast Interactive raised three funds totaling over $175 million. He was directly involved in fund raising and exit transaction events totaling in excess of $1 billion across the portfolio and generated cash on cash returns on his directed investments of over 4X.
Before founding Southeast Interactive, Mr. Blivin served as the Chief Financial Officer of Montrose Capital Corporation, a merchant-banking firm that formed and managed over 20 limited partnerships representing in excess of $100 million in equity and $350 million in total capitalization. Prior to joining Montrose Capital Corporation, Mr. Blivin worked as a Senior Auditor with Arthur Andersen LLP where he audited several companies in the technology and communications fields. Mr. Blivin has also participated on numerous boards of directors including The Pantry (nasdaq-PTRY), Opensite (sold to Siebel), Accipiter (sold to CMGI), Nitronex, Channelogics (sold to Scientific Atlanta) and Buildnet. He served as President of the Durham YMCA and lead their successful effort to secure $9 million and build a new facility in Downtown Durham. Mr. Blivin received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Peter Dickstein has established a demonstrable track record of success as an entrepreneur and as a senior leader of several entrepreneurial companies in software, medical devices and cleantech. In 2007 and 2008 Mr. Dickstein served as Visiting Entrepreneur at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he conceptualized and developed the business plan that led to the creation of the LAVA Initiative. During his tenure he assisted with spinning out and recruiting leadership for a semantic web company, leveraged his industry network on behalf of a Los Alamos spinout that resulted in an early strategic financial investment by Roche, organized a group of New Mexico entrepreneurs to engage more effectively with LANL and advised a New Mexico-based algae/biofuels research organization on commercialization strategy. From 1999 to 2006 Mr. Dickstein founded and served as CEO of eProsper, a Silicon Valley-based SAAS provider of corporate equity management and compliance solutions to private venture-funded companies and their law firms, accounting firms and other providers of venture services. Mr. Dickstein recruited and managed engineering, product development, sales, marketing, customer service and financial teams to build an organization that today has more than 1,200 corporations on its industry-leading platform. He developed and executed go-to-market strategies, product launches and product development plans. eProsper was funded by angel investors and strategic corporate investors and ultimately acquired by Silicon Valley Bank. Between 1993 and 1998 Mr. Dickstein served as CFO of three venture backed companies including EndoTex Interventional Systems, an interventional cardiology products company, which was acquired by Boston Scientific for $100MM+. During his career Mr. Dickstein has arranged and completed dozens of equity and debt financings with top tier venture capital firms, investment banks, strategic corporate investors, angel investors, banks and commercial finance companies. As a consultant to top tier venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins and NEA and their portfolio companies, Mr. Dickstein has advised numerous successful companies on capital strategy and assisted them in raising more than $500MM in growth capital, asset-based financing and M&A. Prior to his career with technology- driven ventures in the Silicon Valley, Mr. Dickstein worked for UGI Corporation as an analyst where he developed financial models for ethanol and coal gasification projects, and as a marketing manager where he developed and executed a successful pilot program to convert vehicle fleets from gasoline to propane. Mr. Dickstein holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MBA from the Wharton School.
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