Presenter

Karl O. Elderkin

Managing Partner, Athenian Venture Partners

Mr. Elderkin founded Athenian in 1997. As Managing Partner of the firm, he has overall responsibility for all of its business. He has 17 years of direct technology and life sciences venture capital investing experience and a further five years of relevant experience in engineering, manufacturing, capital investments and strategy/technology management consulting. From 1989 until founding Athenian, he was co-head of Generics Asset Management (“GAM”) the London-based venture capital arm of Generics Group, PLC (“Generics”), a technology consulting organization located in Cambridge, UK. As co-head of GAM, he shared responsibility for all aspects of that venture fund’s management and its investment management activities, which covered a range of technologies and industries, including electronic communications and medical devices. In his early stage with Generics, he was a management consultant. From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Elderkin was with Texas Instruments, located in Massachusetts as a manufacturing engineer and capital investment manager. In 1987, he received the annual Texas Instruments Exceptional Performance Award (one of only two recipients that year from among 6,000 employees in his division) for his service to the company. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1983) and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (1989), with international studies at the London Business School.

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