Evangelos Simoudis
Evangelos
Simoudis joined Trident Capital in 2005 as a Venture Partner and has been a
Managing Director since 2007. Evangelos focuses on investments in Internet and
software businesses.
Prior to Trident, Evangelos spent 5 years as a partner at Apax Partners, a
private equity and venture capital firm where he invested and served on the
boards of early and mid-stage IT companies. At Apax he also chaired the firm’s
IT advisory board.
Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience
in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing,
sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving
as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired
by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence
Solutions at IBM.
Evangelos' current directorships include Hip Digital, Host Analytics, Infopia and PivotLink Software. Prior directorships include Bristol Technology (acquired
by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)), Composite Software, Confluent Software (acquired
by Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL)), DesiHits, Doppelganger (acquired by Hip Digital),
Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM) and Vidavee (acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ:
VIGN).
Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS
in electrical engineering from Caltech.
Read my blog at blog.tridentcap.com.
Q&A: Venture Capital Investor Sees Solid Future for Cloud BI, DW (tdwi)
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Evangelos’ interview in Milestone Group’s quarterly
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