2700 member private venture funding advisory network based in Silicon Valley. Founded November 9, 2002

Our founder and moderator, pictured here at Raccoon Straits on a J-92 with his wife, is Hugh J. Sloan III. Hugh is a technology investor and advisor and the former SVP Finance/CFO of 2 prominent Silicon Valley startups - one reaching NYSE status as a public company

Hugh was at Stanford University from 1996-2002 and has a background in engineering and applied math. Despite not completing his Ph.d or any advanced degree, he successfully defended l'Hopital's rule against key investigators from the Hanson Engineering Lab and picked-up a wife in the process. Hugh was a Volpe Scholar at Faculte des Lettres La Sorbonne and received his S.B. from the University of Massachusetts

Hugh directly raised $96.5 Million as a C-level from 1997-2001. Prior to this, Hugh worked at 237 Park Avenue in New York City for Don Carter, the reigning proxy and tendor offer king of Wall Street during the 1980s. Don was portrayed fictionally as Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's 1987 movie Wall Street. Oliver Stone used 237 Park Avenue for many of the scenes from the film.

Hugh's current portfolio includes Radar Networks, Bitarmor Systems, World Golf Tour and a New York City company called Mediamorph, run by an MIT genius named Mike Sid.

The teams that he supports as one of Sand Hill Road's funding advisors, have raised $57 million in Tier 1 venture funding since April 2005.

To relax, Hugh enjoys climbing granite on the High Sierra above 10,000 feet, watching Cardinal football and solving asymptotic expansions of integrals. His wife, a beautiful Stanford blonde who majored in Mechanical Engineering, works as an engineer for one of John Doerr's portfolio companies and is an accomplished pianist, skydiver and pending USPTO filing machine.