David Lane

For the past 25 years David Lane has created, built and financed information technology companies. During the past 20 years he has managed investment funds totaling in excess of $2 billion. In June 2000, David co-founded Diamondhead Ventures, which manages $140 million in its first fund. David is or has been actively involved in the following Diamondhead portfolio companies: Cranite Systems, Entercept Security Technologies (sold to McAfee), Availigent, Habeas and UPEK. Previously, David was a partner with Alpine Technology Ventures, a $72 million information technology-focused venture fund. Prior to joining Alpine, David spent seven years as one of the senior venture capital investment officers at the Harvard Management Company, which manages Harvard University's $28 billion endowment.

David has a passion for working with entrepreneurs spinning out of leading research universities. He is on the University of Southern California Engineering School's Board of Counselors, and was Chairman of USC's Commercialization/Technology Transfer Committee for the School of Engineering. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at many leading universities including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Northwestern, UCLA, Cal Poly and USC. David earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and his B.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California.