Jan is a Sr. Business Development Executive with both Startup and Fortune 500 management experience. He has demonstrated success in setting strategic direction, crafting resonating marketing messages, restructuring organizations, recruiting personnel and growing revenue.

His background includes extensive experience on both sides of the VC transaction including writing business plans, raising capital, establishing strategic relationships, evaluating investments, managing the due diligence process and negotiating contract terms.

Jan's technology background spans the semiconductor, telecommunications and software markets. He has also been an Entrepreneur in Residence for Rock Maple Ventures.

Education: JD and MBA, College of William & Mary; BS in Commerce, University of Virginia.

He lives in the Boston area.

As President and founder of ABR Europe, for 12 years Alain Renaud operated as a venture catalyst and business angel, developing eleven French start-up companies and enabling them to be financed with venture capital, being personally responsible for raising more than $100 million.

Among the companies that have been sold, Leonard's Logic was sold to Hummingbird after two years of operation growing from scratch to 120 employees as a major company in data management. The second major trade sale was the acquisition of SLP Infoware by Gemplus. Alain was also commissioned by the Boston based company NMS to manage the acquisition of a European company, VOX. Synquest, a supply chain management company was initially financed by Warburg Pincus and went public four years later.

In the 1970s, Alain was active in the sales team of Teradyne in Europe and in the US. He later reorganized Teradyne's international service group, taking it to a fully operating revenue group.

Alain is a French citizen, living in France.