Hey! Did you know ORCA can handle all of your John Frankel
Advisor for Strategy
John Frankel is President of ff Asset Management, an early stage venture fund formed to address the funding gap of early stage companies. John has been an early-stage venture investor for the past ten years, with a broad portfolio of investments. He has worked closely with entrepreneurs in a variety of fields and has experience advising start-ups.
John founded ff Asset Management after 21 years at Goldman Sachs, and four years at Arthur Anderson. At Goldman he held in a variety of roles that involved technology development, business reengineering, and capital markets. His primary focus is helping early stage companies deploy lightweight disruptive business models to become the low cost player in their respective market.
John was an early stage investor and director of Quigo Technologies, which was purchased by AOL in December 2007. He has also served on the boards of Alerts.com and The Goldman Sachs Trust Company, and is currently a director of Patents.com and StrongTech, and a member of the board of advisors of Phone.com and OneTxt.
John holds a MA from New College, Oxford where he studied Mathematics, Philosophy and Logic, and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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