Leadership Team

Robert is a successful venture capitalist and Silicon Valley tech operator, and an all-around great guy. Robert joined NVP (Norwest Venture Partners) in 1998 and is focused on a wide variety of investment categories, including mobile, cloud & IT infrastructure. His current investments and board seats include Act-On Software, ClariPhy, ClearDATA, Elemental, mBlox, Mozes and Zenverge. Robert was formerly a member of the board of directors of Brand.net (acquired by Valassis Communications), Covigo (acquired by Symbol Technologies), KACE (acquired by Dell), Occam Networks (acquired by Calix), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices) and SideStep (acquired by Kayak). He has also worked with such companies as Embark (acquired by Princeton Review), Escalate (acquired by GERS), Kayak (Nasdaq: KYAK), mPower (acquired by Morningstar) and Quantum Effect Devices (acquired by PMC-Sierra).

Robert has nine years of operational experience in various roles, from engineering to marketing and product management. Before joining NVP, he was at Silicon Graphics. Prior to Silicon Graphics, Robert worked at IBM-ROLM Systems.

He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and an MBA, all from Stanford University.

Vin is a partner at HLM Venture Partners and leads the firm’s healthcare technology accelerator and start-up efforts. Vin holds several portfolio company board seats and observer roles, oversees investor relations and communications, administrative functions, and is active in various aspects of new investment due diligence. Vin is a board member of HLM portfolio companies ClearDATA and Prism Education and is an observer at ArroHealth, Binary Fountain and Persivia.  Vin is also on the board of Zillion.

Vin has been a mentor to various start-up companies through several healthcare accelerator programs, including, among others AidIn, Credsimple, Luminate Health, WellTrackOne and MediQuire. Prior to joining HLM, Vin held several senior financial executive positions in the financial services industry, including Vice President-General Manager at First Data Investors Services where he was responsible for managing a $35M division providing outsourced accounting and administrative services to mutual fund and brokerage companies and developing offshore administration and global custody businesses to support clients’ international growth. Vin is a former Director of the Private Equity CFO Association as well as several nonprofit board roles.

Bill is a General Partner at Flare Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding Flare Capital Partners, Bill was with North Bridge Venture Partners since its inception in 1994.

During Bill’s more than 20-year tenure investing in young and emerging healthcare technology companies, he has served on the Boards of numerous industry-leading companies and played a critical role, actively helping and working closely with founders and management. Flare Capital Partners is focused exclusively on healthcare technology and investments include Aetion, Bright Health, Circulation, ClearDATA, Curisium, Health Verity, HealthReveal, Iora Health, Valence Health (Evolent Health), VisitPay and Welltok. In Bill’s prior firm, healthcare technology investments included Humedica (Optum Analytics), Connance, Phase Forward (Oracle), Pharmetrics (IMS Health), NaviNet (Nant Health) and eBenX (ADP).

Previously, Bill was a Partner at Hambro International Equity Partners. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer at MathSoft, a science and engineering applications software start-up that went public on the NASDAQ and was later acquired by a leading design and product lifecycle software solutions company, and a CPA at Arthur Andersen and Company.

Bill received an undergraduate degree from Boston College’s Carrol School of Management Honors Program and has served his alma mater in a variety of capacities, including former Chair of the Board of Trustees and current member of its Investment and Endowment Committee. He has been Chair of the Parents Committee of Duke University and Chair of the Stanford University Parents Advisory Board. Additionally, Bill is on the Board of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, was appointed by the Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, to the Oversight Council of the Center For Health Information and Analysis, and is on the Advisory Council of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.  Reach Bill at bill@flarecapital.com.

Graham Hunter joined Heritage Group in 2012 and serves as a Partner for the firm. Prior to joining Heritage Group, Graham was an Associate with Ridgemont Equity Partners, a $3 billion private equity firm in Charlotte, NC focused on buyout and growth investments across a broad range of industries. While at Ridgemont, he played an active role in all aspects of deal execution and provided post-acquisition support to portfolio companies. From 2006-2009, he worked as an Analyst in Leveraged Finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In that role, he helped originate, structure and execute approximately $30 billion in credit facilities to support leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations and refinancings.

Graham graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College. He resides in Nashville with his wife and two daughters.

Mike Morgan is a Principal at the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (MGHIF). He has over 10 years of experience in strategy consulting and investment roles in healthcare. Prior to joining Merck in 2021 he worked at Accenture advising clients on a range of healthcare, venture, and M&A initiatives. At MGHIF, Mike focuses on investments in real world data and evidence, clinical development, manufacturing and supply chain, and enterprise IT. He has board responsibilities at ClearDATA, N Power, Transvoyant, and Tag N Trac.  Mike holds an MBA from Yale University and a BA from Haverford College.

With more than two decades of security and technology experience,
Aman started his career as a software developer, performed Level-2 IT support, was a pen tester, worked in app security and then worked his way into security leadership roles.

Aman led the security strategy and execution at enterprise scale and has worked with business and IT leaders, regulators and Boards to ensure manage security risks.

Reed is the former President and CEO of ThreatMetrix, the leader in digital identities to provide identity authentication and fraud prevention. At ThreatMetrix, Reed guided the company from first product introduction to an $830M acquisition in 2018 by LexisNexis. Prior to joining ThreatMetrix, Reed was the president and CEO of Callidus Software, where he led the company from its inception through IPO. Reed has more than 30 years of experience scaling growth companies. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Arkose Labs.

Caleb has nearly 20 years of operating, start-up and financing experience in life science and healthcare companies. He plays an instrumental role in sourcing and structuring deals and works closely with portfolio companies to form strategic partnerships and to develop commercialization and marketing strategies. He currently (or formerly) represents Excel as a Board Director or Observer at Aileron, Aventura, ClearData, InfoBionic, Molecular Templates, ShapeUp, Saladax, Biomedical and MedVentive (sold to McKesson).

Prior to joining Excel, Caleb was a Principal at Biotechonomy, where he financed and managed several entrepreneurial ventures, including Synthetic Genomics, where he was also the Director of Finance, BioTrove (sold to Life Technologies), Biocius (sold to Agilent Technologies), and Xcellerex (sold to GE).

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Caleb was an award-winning sales and marketing executive at medical device and diagnostics companies. He received his MBA from Babson College, magna cum laude, where he was a Babson Fellow in the Center for Technology Enterprise. He received a BA in Biology with a minor in Economics from Colby College.

Jessica is an enterprise investor at Norwest focusing on application, security, and infrastructure spaces. She works with companies across the enterprise sector and across stages.

Prior to joining Norwest in 2018, Jessica was at Evercore in the Technology M&A group. In this role, she advised financial sponsors and technology companies in the enterprise software, internet, and infrastructure sectors.

Jessica holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.