Dr. Ronald Weissman
Chaiman of the Band of Angels Software Special Interest Group and Member of the Board of Directors, Angel Capital Association
Dr. Ronald Weissman has been a VC and Angel investor for more than twenty years. He was a partner for seventeen years at global PE / VC firm Apax Global, focusing on US and cross-border technology investing. He has invested in or advised 70+ companies and has served on 30+ Boards of Directors. He was a senior executive at Verity (enterprise search) when the company won large cap turnaround of the year (1999) and at NeXT, reporting to Steve Jobs. He has lectured about venture and angel capital at Stanford, Berkeley, the American University of Armenia, the Deggendorf Institute of Technology and the University of Santa Clara and has worked to promote private capital-funded innovation ecosystems in Hong Kong, Armenia, Ukraine, Chile, Australia, Israel, New Zealand and the US White House. He was one of three US angels profiled in The American Angel (2017). His investment focus is on artificial intelligence and analytics.