Investing Team
John  Burton
Managing General Partner
Richard  Erickson
General Partner
Barry  Goldsmith
General Partner
Conor  Mullett
General Partner
James  Socas
General Partner
Carter  Griffin
Partner
Ira  Cohen
Venture Partner & CFO
Jon  Seeber
Associate
Arie  Abecassis
Vice President, Head of Business Development
Jonathan  Chin
Analyst
Benjamin  Hall
Analyst

Operations Team
Greg  Olear
Vice President, Finance
Linda  Maddox
Manager, Investor Communications
Kevin  Reilly
Senior Fund Accountant
Lisa  Lombarde
Office Administrator
Jaine  Summers
Office Administrator






Jon Seeber

Jon Seeber joined Updata Partners in 2006 as an Associate.  He supports the firm's deal sourcing and due diligence efforts, and works closely with Updata Partners portfolio companies.

Prior to joining the Updata Partners team, Mr. Seeber worked for IBM Global Services Business Development, where he managed acquisition, divestiture, and investment activities for IBM's largest business unit.  He played a key role on several deals, including the acquisitions of Internet Security Systems, Healthlink, and Corio, leading efforts ranging from strategy development and due diligence to negotiation and integration planning.

From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Seeber served on active duty in the US Air Force as an Intelligence Officer, first leading combat intelligence collection missions for Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, and later managing the development of information systems for the Air Force and the Intelligence Community.  He holds a U.S. patent for optimizing remote method invocation in the JAVA programming language (U.S. Patent No. 6,125,400), and has a published patent application (20050229253) for a method and system for reducing false positives in network intrusion detection. 

Mr. Seeber earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in computer science and history from Duke University.  He serves on the Board of Directors of Americans for Informed Democracy. 

Mr. Seeber serves as a board observer for Updata portfolio companies Alert Logic, ContextWeb and ForeSee Results.




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