Paul Tierney Jr.

Paul Tierney Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Paul Tierney is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner & Chairman at Development Capital Partners. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Aperture Venture Partners. He also served as a Member of, the Advisory Board at Trilantic Capital Partners. He served as a Partner at Development Capital Ventures. Mr. Tierney is a leader in the investment world with over 30 years of experience. He has proven his investment skills in a variety of partnerships, all of which he has founded or co-founded, grown, and liquidated. In 1978, Mr. Tierney was a founding principal of Gollust, Tierney, and Oliver ("GTO"), the general partner for Coniston Partners and other investment entities. From 1996 through 1999, Mr. Tierney was a managing member of the general partner of Corporate Value Partners, L.P. In 1999, Mr. Tierney was a founding principal of Darwin Capital Partners, L.P. Mr. Tierney is currently a senior principal of Aperture Venture Partners, LLC, a firm that primarily manages two venture capital funds that focus on investing in early-stage healthcare and healthy living businesses. Mr. Tierney currently serves on the boards of directors of Liz Claiborne, Inc., Earth Color, Inc., Nina McLemore, Inc., Altea Therapeutics, Prosperity Voskhod Fund, and The Protective Group, Inc. He is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching a course on private equity. Mr. Tierney earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Notre Dame and a master of business administration as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School.