Phil Black
Phil is a partner at True Ventures. He has dedicated his professional life to the venture capital industry, and True embodies many of the best management practices and investment principles gathered from his 18-year career.
Historically, Phil has invested in great entrepreneurs with great ideas, which has created track record of success in the communication/networking, enterprise and internet software markets.
Phil has served on the board of directors of over 20 private and public companies and is currently also a director of Automattic, Apacheta Corporation, and Kurtosys.
Eric Antonow
Eric works for Google, helping to market their consumer products. He was previously CEO of Katabat Corporation, a web-based software company focused on real estate brokers. He led the company’s growth over 5 years until it was acquired in 2005 by Trader Publishing/Dominion. Prior to Katabat, Eric was Director of Corporate Strategy at Giant Step until its acquisition by Leo Burnett (now Publicis). Eric co-founded and edits Freshwater Venture, an organization dedicated to mapping entrepreneurial activity in Chicago. Eric graduated from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Managment.
Morris Miller
Morris formed Sequel Ventures, LLC in 2005. Sequel invests in and acts as advisor to numerous startup and established technology companies.
Prior to founding Sequel, Morris co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting, where he acted as Managing Director and Co-Chairman and helped build the company to over $150 million in revenue.
Previously, Morris formed a startup company, Curtis Hill Publishing, a legal publishing firm that was the first to publish Texas case law on CD-ROM. Morris also held various positions at Matthews & Branscomb, which is now part of Cox, Smith & Matthews, San Antonio’s oldest and largest law firm.
Mike Hakimi
Mike is a telecom industry veteran with operational and transaction experience in the field of communications technology and infrastructure. Mike founded Chicago-based American Information Systems (AIS) in 1994 to apply early internet technology to commercial applications. As CEO of the company, he built AIS into Chicago’s leading independent provider of internet services to the enterprise market. After coordinating the sale of AIS to Exodus Communications in 1999, Mike joined Exodus as Senior Director of Corporate Development. While at Exodus, Mike was responsible for executing a broad range of strategic transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances and private equity investments. Since 2001, Mike has managed MH Capital Holdings, LLC, a private investment company engaged in venture capital, private equity and real estate transactions. Mike holds a degree in Finance, with honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1997, Crain’s Chicago Business named Mike to its list of the 100 most influential technology players in Chicago.
Richard Yoo
Richard was the founder, and was previously the CEO, of Rackspace Managed Hosting. Through his vision and influence, Rackspace has become a powerhouse in the web hosting industry, leveraging its bullet-proof infrastructure and “Fanatical Support” offering. With revenues approaching $250 million annually, its customer list now includes names like Sony Music, GE, Hilton Hotels, Delta Airlines, Virgin, and Miller Brewing.
Richard also set out and founded the perfect “Self-Managed Server” company. Built from the customer up, ServerBeach used custom proprietary technology to tailor the hosting product for a more technical and scrappy user. “The Beach” (as it’s often called) has become popular with influential internet hipsters such as Nick Denton of Gawker and Evan Williams of Odeo.
As an avid technology evangelist, Richard can be heard weekly via satellite radio XM-152 and Sirius-117 on The David Lawrence Show every Monday at 8p-9p PT. He is a member of the Trinity University Computer Science Advisory Board, and he has been recognized as one of San Antonio’s rising stars with the San Antonio Business Journal’s Annual 40 Under 40 Award for 2003.
Bob Sabin
Bob is a tax partner for Miller Cooper. He is the director of personal financial counseling, estate planning and estate administration. In addition, he has extensive experience in advising and servicing a wide range of clientele in the field of taxation with special concentration in owner operated businesses.
Bob has spoken at numerous professional conferences, Bar Association Seminars and has co-authored and authored several publications appearing in several journals including the Journal of Taxation and CCH Taxes The Tax Magazine. Bob has provided expert testimony in numerous circuit court cases and before the Internal Revenue Service.