Jesse Devitte

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Biography

Mr. Jesse Devitte serves as Co-Founder and General Partner at Building Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Extracker. He serves as Board Member at Skilit. He serves as Board Member at Assemble Systems and as a Board Observer at EnVerid. He is a Co-Founder and served as Managing Director at Borealis Ventures. He leverages his hands-on operating experience and software industry contacts to source and nurtures exceptional application software opportunities for Borealis. He currently is a Director on the boards of Borealis portfolio companies Envista, Handmark, Newform, and Vico, as well as an observer on the SpaceClaim board. He previously served as a Director on the boards of Borealis Fund I portfolio companies at Last Software and Scribe Software. Prior to co-founding Borealis Ventures, he served as an executive in two public application software companies. He helped grow Softdesk from a New Hampshire start-up to a multinational public company. Serving on the Board of Directors and in a variety of senior positions at Softdesk, he oversaw numerous acquisitions, a successful initial public offering, and the sale of the business in 1996 to Autodesk. While at Autodesk, he led the integration of the two companies and served on the Autodesk executive staff as the Vice President and General Manager of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Division. After Autodesk, he advised a number of early-stage companies (Beansprout Networks and ManagedOps.com) and co-founded Handmark (which later became a Borealis portfolio company). He serves on the New England Executive Board of TechNet, the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation as well as numerous other non-profit boards, and is a past Chair of the Software Association of New Hampshire and a past director of the New Hampshire High Technology Council. He graduated with Distinction from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.