leadership
Experienced Leadership. Enterprise Ready.
The Zenoss management team brings together years of experience and executive leadership in enterprise hardware, software and IT services. These well-seasoned executives foster collaboration, empower teams, and promote a culture that values people and creates customers for life.
Board of Directors
Mitch has primary responsibility for Intersouth Partners' technology portfolio. He joined Intersouth in 1989, shortly after its founding. Mitch has extensive full-cycle venture investment experience and has personally led more than 20 investments for Intersouth.
Prior to joining Intersouth, Mitch served as CFO for a high-growth computer hardware and software company. Previously, he worked as a manager in the high-growth business practice at Deloitte.
Mitch is a former Director and Chairman of the Board of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Technology Association and the entrepreneurially focused NC Ideafoundation. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. In addition, he has served as a mentor to the Kauffman Foundation’s Kauffman Fellows Program.
Mitch is a frequent speaker on the topic of venture capital and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he teaches a course on venture capital. He received an A.B. in management science from Duke University.
Zenoss Investors
Summit Partners
Summit Partners is a growth equity firm that invests in rapidly growing companies. Founded in 1984, Summit has raised nearly $15 billion in capital and provides equity and credit for growth, recapitalizations, and management buyouts. Summit has invested in more than 350 companies globally in the technology, healthcare and other growth industries. These companies have completed more than 125 public offerings, and in excess of 130 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. Summit Partners has offices in Boston, Palo Alto, London and Mumbai.
Whether Summit Partners takes a minority or majority ownership position, their approach is the same. They view themselves as a growth investor that provides strategic and operational guidance to help proven, existing management teams reach their companies' full potential.
Grotech Ventures
Founded in 1984, Grotech Ventures is one of the country's leading venture capital and private equity firms with a track record of helping to build successful companies. Grotech is focused on early- and growth-stage information technology investments and later-stage health care and consumer investments. Led by an experienced team of operating and private equity professionals, Grotech seeks investments where the combination of its financial backing, domain expertise, industry relationships, and operating experience will accelerate growth. The partnership manages $1 billion in committed capital from offices in Maryland and Virginia.
Intersouth Partners
Intersouth Partners is one of the most active and experienced early-stage venture funds in the Southeast, having invested in more than 80 private companies over the last twenty years. Founded in 1985, Intersouth manages more than $775 million in seven venture capital limited partnerships, making it the largest venture capital fund in North Carolina and one of the largest in the Southeast.
Based in Durham, North Carolina and Reston, Virginia, Intersouth Partners seeks a broad range of investment opportunities in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Our experienced team has full-cycle experience in the complex matters associated with investing in fledgling companies, including management team development, technology assessment and transfer, corporate partnering and successful exits.
Boulder Ventures
Boulder Ventures, Ltd. identifies exceptional entrepreneurs building market-leading technology companies and provides the funding, contacts and experience needed to succeed in today's highly competitive environment. We are dedicated to helping start-up, early-stage and emerging-growth companies.
The Boulder Ventures' team of professionals has over 100 years of collective experience in building successful businesses. Our portfolio companies have found that the combination of analytical, technical and interpersonal skills possessed by BV investment professionals are valuable resources not only for identifying and evaluating investments, but in assisting companies throughout their life cycle.