Evangelos Simoudis

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Dr. Evangelos Simoudis is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Synapse Partners. He served as Board Member at KITE. He serves as Advisor at Forgepoint Capital. He also is an Angel Investor. He also served as a Board Member at Extole. He also served as Venture Advisor at The Founders Club. Previously, he served as a Senior Managing Director at Trident Capital. At Trident, he focuses on investments in Internet and Software and heads the firm's Internet and SaaS advisory boards. He is a recognized thought leader and frequent speaker on SaaS, Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence, and Adtech platforms. He was named in 2012 an AlwaysOn top investor in online advertising. He is current directorships include 8thBridge, Brightroll, eXelate, Extole, Host Analytics, and PivotLink. He is also a board observer for this moment. Prior directorships include Acteea (acquired by PivotLink), Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Composite Software (acquired by Cisco), Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), Hip Digital, Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM), and Vidavee (now part of OpenText). Prior to joining Trident, he was a partner at Apax Partners, private equity and venture firm where he invested in early and mid-stage IT companies and served on their boards. At Apax, he also chaired the firm's IT advisory board. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech and a Ph.D. in computer science from Brandeis University. He also holds eight software patents.