Angel Investors Overview - Who Angels Are and How They Finance Startup Companies

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There is no archetypical Angel Investor. Some form Angel Investment Groups such as Launchpad and other work individually. Mr. Stone will take us for a tour of the Angel Investment Landscape, describing how Angels work and how they identify companies they choose to invest in.

R. Gregg Stone, Manager, Kestrel Management and Investor, Launchpad Venture Group (www.kestrelvm.com). Gregg serves as the sole manager of the general partner of two venture funds, Kestrel Venture Partners and Mass Ventures Equity Partners. He is also an active angel investor. Investments have included companies in the healthcare, software, retail and manufacturing industries. He currently serves as a director of four private companies and as a chairman of another. Past directorships have included IntraServer, merged into LSI Logic, Progressive Technologies, merged into Brooks Automation, and NovaCare, from inception through NYSE listing. Before founding Kestrel in 1996, Gregg worked at Pell, Rudman & Co. Inc. (now Atlantic Trust Company), a Boston-based investment adviser, and served as the general partner of its two venture funds. Gregg joined Pell, Rudman after practicing law at the firm of Hemenway & Barnes in Boston. He holds J.D. and A.B. degrees from Harvard. Gregg serves as a director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Summer Search Boston and Camp Pasquaney and as a member of the Board of Managers, which manages three major Boston endowments. He is a trustee emeritus of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Robert Adelson, partner at Boston firm Engel & Schultz, LLP (www.engelschultz.com) has been a corporate and tax attorney since 1977. He began as an associate at major New York law firms Dewey Ballantine and Weil Gotshal & Manges, before returning home to Boston in 1985 where he has since been a partner in small and medium sized firms. Mr. Adelson’s clients are (1) early stage companies, (2) independent consultants, (3) senior executives and key employees, and (4) family businesses. His main practice areas are: Business formation and finance; Commercial contracts, licensing, alliances; Executive employment, stock, options and severance; Trademarks, copyrights; M&A.. He is a frequent speaker and author of articles published by Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, Family Business Magazine, Genetic Engineering News and others. A member of the MA and NY bars, he is also Vice-Chairman of the Boston Entrepreneurs Network and a Board member of 128 Innovation Capital Group. He holds degrees from Boston University, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University (Chicago), J.D., Law Review, New York University, LL.M. in Taxation.