Tyson Weihs

Current

• Partner at SMH Private Equity Group

Past

• Founder at ForeFlight LLC
• Director of Software Development at Benefitfocus.com, Inc
• Vice President at Rare Medium

• Principal and Co-Founder at Atension, Inc.

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Education

• Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
• Trinity University
• Trinity University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

• SMH Private Equity
• ForeFlight
• MyMetar

Tyson Weihs’s Experience

• Partner

  SMH Private Equity Group

  (Investment Management industry)

  June 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  SMH Private Equity Group invests in early through growth stage technology companies. We focus on emerging sectors that leverage our experience and expertise — providing the most productive guidance to our portfolio companies.

• Founder

  ForeFlight LLC

  (Airlines/Aviation industry)

  July 2006 — 2008 (2 years)

  ForeFlight produces mobile and online Preflight Intelligence(tm) software for aviation.

• Director of Software Development

  Benefitfocus.com, Inc

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2001 — July 2004 (3 years)

• Vice President

  Rare Medium

  (Public Company; rrrr; Internet industry)

  September 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 4 months)

• Principal and Co-Founder

  Atension, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 5 months)

Tyson Weihs’s Education

• Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management

  MBA, 2004 — 2006

• Trinity University

  BS, Business Administration, 1994 — 1998

• Trinity University

  BS, Computer Science

Additional Information

Tyson Weihs’s Websites:

• SMH Private Equity
• ForeFlight
• MyMetar

Tyson Weihs’s Interests:

Flying, shotgun sports (American Skeet, Sporting Clays), declarative programming languages, user interface design, website performance optimization, entrepreneurship, mobile computing, corporate finance.

Tyson Weihs’s Groups:

EAA, AOPA, ACM, NSSA

Tyson Weihs’s Honors:

Texas Monthly's '30 Under 30 Multimedia Technology Wizards'; Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholarship; Gold Medalist - 2000 World Skeet Shoot

Tyson Weihs’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch