Chad Salinas

Current

• Board Member at TasmanAve
• Board Member at CryptoCert
• Managing Director at Najdorf Capital

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Education

• New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
• Stanford University

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Chad Salinas’s Summary

Professional Affiliations:
• SVASE First Impressions Program Chair
• Software Development Forum (SDForum)

Chad Salinas’s Experience

• Board Member

  TasmanAve

  (Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  SOA, Oracle BPEL, UDDI Toolkit to Brocade, Clorox, HP, Logitech, Salesforce.com

• Board Member

  CryptoCert

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  VC-backed SaaS data security firm

• Managing Director

  Najdorf Capital

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

  • Sourced, led, and managed investment opportunities consistent with defined investment space.
  • Developed, documented, and executed overall investment strategies and implementation plans.
  • Evaluated business plans on team, product, IP, market, channel dimensions.
  • Conducted financial and technical due diligence.
  • Negotiated the deal structure.
  • Worked with other Financial VCs and assisted with syndicating investments, when necessary.
  • Championed investments through the internal approval process.
  • Determined competition for deals [corporate or private funds, investment banks, other].
  • Managed relationships with startup companies and potential investors, pre- and post-investment.
  • Actively managed investments through life-cycle and exit.
  • Facilitated business relationships between portfolio companies and operating units.
  • Supported existing portfolio companies, recommended follow-up investments where warranted.

Chad Salinas’s Education

• New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

  MBA , Finance & Accounting double major , 2000 — 2002

• Stanford University

  Computer Science , Computer Security, Automata & Complexity Theory

Additional Information

Chad Salinas’s Interests:

Finance, Technology, Computer Science, Math, Chinese, Chess

Chad Salinas’s Groups:

SVASE First Impressions Program Chair,
SDForum

•    SVASE
•    RSA Conference
•    Invest in China
•    NYU Stern School of Business
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Venture Capital Group
•    Friends of the Street
•    NYU Venture Community