Edward Sager Jr.

Edward Sager Jr. General Information

Biography

Mr. Edward Sager is a Founder and serves as a Principal at Mentor Capital Partners. He has been engaged in venture capital, merchant banking, leveraged buyouts, debt and equity financing, mergers, acquisitions, underwriting initial public offerings, and providing strategic as well as operating assistance to a variety of companies in all stages of development for over 30 years. Among nearly 8,000 professionals who comprise the institutional venture capital industry, less than one percent have such tenure. In 1994 he founded Mentor Capital Partners, Ltd. In 1983, He founded and was Managing General Partner of one of the first venture capital funds in the Mid-Atlantic Region. From 1976 to 1983, He was a Vice President of the Sprout Group, the private equity investing arm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jennette. While at DLJ, His responsibilities included the formation and management of Sprout Capital Corporation, a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC). For four years prior to DLJ, He was an officer at CoreStates/First Pennsylvania Bank in the Special Finance Division, which specialized in loans with equity participations in venture-level companies. Prior to his concentration in venture capital financing, He held operating positions in nuclear power plant construction with Westinghouse Electric Corporation; served as a sales engineer with Duriron Company, a manufacturer of pumps and valves; and was assistant product manager in personal care products with Colgate-Palmolive Company. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lafayette College and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from New York University Graduate School of Business.