George Stroemple is the Chairman of the Board and the Founder of PacStar. Mr. Stroemple has also been involved in numerous Oregon-based companies that specialize in the export of and sale of construction materials to government agencies and contractors throughout the Pacific Rim. Out of this experience, Mr. Stroemple has led overseas business development for PacStar as well as other spin-off companies. In addition to Mr. Stroemple's business interests, he is recognized in Oregon for his philanthropy and serves on numerous boards and foundations. Mr. Stroemple attended Oregon State University where he majored in International Business and served in Vietnam as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Lt. Gen. Boutelle, U.S. Army (Ret) is Vice President of the Global Government Solutions Group (GGSG) at Cisco Systems, which advises government customers on business practices and technology solutions to achieve and enhance their mission goals. Before joining Cisco, Boutelle served as the Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Army, responsible for the Service’s worldwide use of information technology. He introduced converged voice, data and video to the Army, building an enhanced network infrastructure to serve 1.9 million users. His career in the U.S. Army is marked by a consistent record of driving the adoption of new technologies and streamlining processes to improve productivity and enhance collaboration. Boutelle has received numerous industry citations for his leadership, including as a “Top 100 CIO” by Federal Computer Week in 2006; the “North American Leadership Award” by Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association — Rocky Mountains in 2006; and as “US Department of Defense Executive of the Year” by Government Computer News in 2005. Lt. Gen Boutelle received a bachelor’s degree with honors in business from the University of Puget Sound, an M.B.A. from Marymount University, and an honorary Doctors of Law from the University of Puget Sound. He is also a graduate of the Army’s Senior Service College and the US Department of Defense System Management College.
Frank Jungers was employed by the Arabian American Oil Company, the largest producer of crude and liquefied gas in the world, from 1947 through 1978. Headquartered in Saudi Arabia, Aramco holds the concession for all of Saudi Arabia’s oil production. With a background in engineering, Mr. Jungers held several managerial positions in the organization before being named as the Company’s CEO and Chairman. Since his retirement from Aramco, Mr. Jungers has been an independent investor, consultant and board member for several years. He has served as a director of AES Corporation, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Thermo Electron Corporation, Thermo Eckotek Corporation, Thermo Instrument Systems, Inc. Esco Corporation. In addition, Mr. Jungers is an advisory director of Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette Securities and is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Common Sense Partners, LP, a “fund of funds,” located in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Jungers is a graduate BSME of the University of Washington, attended the Harvard Advanced Management Program and completed one year of graduate work at the Middle East Institute for Arabic Studies.
Matt McCooe joined CVP at its inception, coming from Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures (STV) where he managed a portfolio of spinout companies and the deployment of STV's highly profitable seed fund. During his tenure at Columbia, eleven portfolio companies went public or were acquired by publicly traded companies. Prior to Columbia, Mr. McCooe led two startup operations, both of which reached revenues in excess of $125MM and were acquired. In 1998, Mr. MCooe co-founded Eureka Networks, a communications and application software organization. Earlier in his career, he managed product development, sales and marketing, and new product roll-outs for two Fortune 500 companies, Becton Dickinson and MCI. As a national sales leader at MCI, he rose to become marketing manager, launching MCI's flagship voice and data products for Avantel, the company’s start-up joint venture in Latin America. At CVP, Mr. McCooe focuses on early stage investments in communications, software and robotics. He represents CVP on the Board of RemoteReality, StackSafe and PacStar. Mr. McCooe earned an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BA from Boston College. Mr. McCooe also serves on Columbia’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Advisory Board, and as an SBIR reviewer for the National Science Foundation.
Scott has a diverse background as a hands-on operator leading growth stage companies and as a former investment banker working with clients on corporate defining transactions including IPOs, buyouts, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Steelpoint, Scott was President of Archimedes Technology Group, a nuclear waste remediation company which was sold to General Atomics. Scott was also a founding executive and the Head of Investment Banking for Epoch Partners, a boutique technology investment bank which was sold to Goldman Sachs in 2001. Before launching Epoch Partners, Scott worked for nine years at Morgan Stanley & Company in the Investment Banking Division in San Francisco and New York. Scott holds an A.B. in Social Studies (Political Economics & Philosophy) from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Haas Fellow.
Denny Weston is Senior Managing Director of Fluke Venture Partners, a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage, high growth companies in the Pacific Northwest. FVP’s primary areas of interest include information technology, communications and wireless, life sciences and specialty retail. Mr. Weston currently serves on the boards of Isothermal Systems Research, Inc., PacStar, PayScale, Inc. and Carena, Inc. and has served extensively on the boards of many for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Weston earned his BA in Accounting from Central Washington University, where he was named the 1996 Distinguished Alumni for the College of Business, and his MBA, with honors, from the University Of Washington Graduate School Of Business where he received the Outstanding Entrepreneurial Leadership Award in 2004.