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Trevor R. Loy

General Partner and Managing Partner, Flywheel Ventures

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Mr. Trevor R. Loy is a General Partner and Managing Partner at Flywheel Ventures. He has over 20 years of venture investing, entrepreneurial and operating experience in technology ventures. Mr. Loy founded Flywheel Ventures in 1999 and established its current headquarters in Santa Fe in 2000. At the firm, he invests in entrepreneurs building globally-competitive companies based on innovations in information technology and urban systems. Mr. Loy's specific areas of focus ... are digital services, software-as-a-service, business-to-business software, digital services, and online services; big data; cloud-computing infrastructure; semiconductors; and advanced materials. At Flywheel, he has made over two dozen investments, including those that led to the IPO of Jive Software, the acquisition of MicroProbe by FormFactor, the acquisition of Tuscany Design Automation by Dassault Systèmes, the acquisition of RentPayment.com by Yapstone, the acquisition of Samba Holdings by Cerca Group, and several other confidential liquidity events. He has led its growth to a full-time staff of seven people and nearly $40 million under management. Mr. Loy’s role is to actively ensure the successful continued growth of all portfolio companies. He has technical knowledge across multiple domains and 15 years of venture investing, entrepreneurial, and operating experience in seed and early-stage technology ventures with particular strengths in corporate strategy, executive leadership, design engineering, and sales and marketing. Mr. Loy brings particular strengths in opportunity recognition, marketing strategy, and resource building. During his career, he has founded, managed, advised, invested, and participated in the growth of more than 20 technology ventures. Mr. Loy has spent 12 years in various entrepreneurial, executive, investment, advisory, strategy, and technical roles with various ventures including ParkingNet, Brooktree (acquired by Rockwell Semiconductor, now Conexant Systems), Teradyne, and Visio. Prior to the creation of Flywheel’s institutional funds, he managed Flywheel Capital. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Loy served as an Advisor to 16 technology ventures before raising the first Flywheel fund in 2002. Previously, he served as an initial investor and Senior Executive at Gigabeat, where he had the ownership of business development, strategy, marketing, and product management. Mr. Loy played a pivotal role in securing venture financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as well as from prominent Silicon Valley angel investors. Prior to Gigabeat, he founded a wireless data management company and negotiated its multi-million dollar sale prior to raising any external capital and managed product development team at Brooktree. Mr. Loy’s technical career was forged at Intel Corporation as a Design Engineer and Team Leader on several generations of Pentium microprocessors, including the fastest chip ever developed at the time it was released. He also managed a team of designers working on portions of the Pentium and Pentium II microprocessors. Mr. Loy serves as a Director of AfterCollege, Inc., TerraEchos, Comet Solutions, Inc., Filtrbox, Inc., The Micromanipulator Co., Inc., Tuscany Design Automation, Inc. and SAMBA Holdings, Inc. He has been a Director of Aravo Solutions, Inc. since October 3, 2005. He also serves as a Director of Astria Semiconductor Holdings, Inc. Mr. Loy served as a Director of MIOX Corporation and Trackvia, Inc. He has also dedicated substantial time and resources to several entrepreneurial efforts in the non-profit and educational domains. Mr. Loy lectures frequently on entrepreneurship and was instrumental in working with Professor Tom Byers in the creation of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and developed and directed conferences, materials, and groundbreaking curricula now used to teach entrepreneurship to scientists and engineers at more than 25 universities across Europe, Asia, and North America. An advocate for the role of entrepreneurship across disciplines, particularly in New Mexico, he is a Co-Founder and President of the New Mexico Venture Capital Association and participated in the creation of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association. In the philanthropic arena, Mr. Loy is also a Co-founder and Chairman of Social Venture Partners-New Mexico and the Entrepreneurs Foundation-New Mexico. He is also the Co-founding Director of the Arrowhead R&D Center at New Mexico State University, Member of Social Venture Network, and the Co-Founding Director of Lobo VentureLab at the University of New Mexico. Mr. Loy currently serves as a Director of the Gap Fund at Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing, where he chairs the investment decision process and on the Review and Grant Committees at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Association and the National Association of Seed Venture Funds. Mr. Loy is a Former Director of the National Venture Capital Association. He is also a Mentor in the Society of Kauffman Fellows, the Co-Founder and Former President of the New Mexico Venture Capital Association, helped create the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association, and was a Co-Founder of philanthropy group Social Venture Partners-New Mexico. Mr. Loy has judged business plans at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a contributing Author of the Technology Venture Capital Deals. Mr. Loy has been named a top Power Broker by New Mexico Business Weekly in successive years from 2004-2007 and won the Intel Quality Award for his innovations in the semiconductor manufacturing process. He is an appointed Lecturer on Entrepreneurial Management and Finance at Stanford University. He lectures frequently on entrepreneurship and is a Fenwick & West Entrepreneurship Educator (Adjunct Faculty) in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Mr. Loy has studied in the executive education program at Harvard University, Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation in Kyoto, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. He holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, all from Stanford University and has been ranked in the top 10 percent of his graduating class. Mr. Loy is also a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute.

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