Board
George Spencer III
Seyen Capital
George is Senior Managing Director of Seyen Capital, a Chicago-based venture capital firm. He has 20 years of venture capital industry experience. Prior to founding Seyen, George was a co-founder and Partner of both Adams Street Partners and JK&B Capital. George has invested in more than 40 companies during his career. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Convio (CNVO-NASDAQ), SPS Commerce (SPSC-NASDAQ), Cybera, and Fifty-One. In 1997, George became the only outside institutional investor in Knightsbridge Solutions, a business intelligence consultancy that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2006. George earned a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
Terrence Ryan
Chief Executive Officer
Before founding LaunchPoint, Terrence was the Director of the Worldwide Information Management Services practice for Hewlett-Packard, where he was responsible for building HP's global business intelligence and information management presence. Terrence joined HP in late 2006 when it acquired Knightsbridge Solutions, a leading business intelligence consultancy that he co-founded. At Knightsbridge, Terrence served as CIO as well as Operations leader, which included strategy, portfolio development, methodology, resource management, delivery, and infrastructure. Prior to Knightsbridge, Terrence held various senior leadership roles at Lante, Technology Solutions Company, and American Management Systems. Terrence’s consultative management background, significant domestic and international leadership experience, and executive oversight in many capacities have directly impacted the year-over-year growth and success of the companies he has served.
Peter Gifford
Vice President of Business Operations
Before founding LaunchPoint, Peter served as IT Integration Manager at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the company’s IT integration of Knightsbridge Solutions by unifying the companies’ IT infrastructures, applications, teams and processes for HP’s new Worldwide Information Management Services practice. Prior to HP, Peter served in a variety of capacities at Knightsbridge Solutions during his 10-year tenure. As Director of IT, he led and grew the team responsible for scaling IT infrastructure and multiple application implementations to improve operational efficiency of critical ERP, finance, HR, and legal functions. As a Principal Consultant, Peter advised leading financial services, high technology and pharmaceutical companies on their data warehousing initiatives, building and managing projects that delivered significant business efficiencies, cost savings, and more intuitive information management.
Paul Vosters
Healthcare Chief Operating Officer
Prior to founding LaunchPoint, Paul led HP’s Information Management Services practice for Health & Life Sciences. In this capacity, he provided leadership oversight for the strategic and technical solutions for healthcare payers, providers, biopharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, and health services companies, leading to double-digit growth for the practice. His teams were known for applying innovative solutions to client problems, winning awards for excellence and business impact. Prior to HP, Paul led the Health & Life Sciences practice at Knightsbridge Solutions, where he built the practice to become the company’s largest revenue and profit contributor. Successful client initiatives include reducing operational costs by 40% for a healthcare decision support solution provider, and leading the charge to develop the nation’s first statewide surveillance system to detect bioterrorism and infectious outbreaks for the State of North Carolina. Before then, Paul held key business and technology posts at Baxter Healthcare. His varied roles included leading the company’s global data warehousing initiative as Global Architect; consolidating 128 data centers into a single location in Europe; and running Baxter’s global supply chain, decreasing inventory by 10% while tripling churn. His 20+ years of leadership and project management includes ERP implementations, data management architecture, and global data warehousing solutions with windows to supply chain, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, finance, and customer service. Paul also worked for international companies in the manufacturing and retail industries while living in Belgium, Norway, Spain and Germany.
