Team: Bios

John Vander Vort, JD Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer

John W. Vander Vort joined MPM in 2005 from DuPont Capital Management, where he constructed and managed a venture capital portfolio. Prior to that, he was a General Partner and Co-Founder of BlueStream Ventures, a venture capital firm with $280 million under management. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Dain Rauscher Wessels (now RBC) where he ran the West Coast Networking and Communications Investment Banking Group and served as an advisor to leading venture-backed technology companies. Mr. Vander Vort began his career as a corporate transaction attorney in the San Francisco office of Cooley Godward, where he represented venture capital firms and venture-backed companies. Mr. Vander Vort earned his B.A. from Amherst College and his J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School.

Present Boards
MPM Acquisition Corp.

Past Boards
Calient Networks, Inc. (Observer)
Invio Software, Inc. (now Veritas Software, Inc.)
Semrock, Inc.

Past Investor Committee Boards
Aberdare Ventures
ATA Ventures
Gold Hill Capital Management, LLC
New Leaf Venture Partners
Valhalla Partners