An accomplished business executive with a passion to catalyze the growth of high impact entrepreneurial companies in dual roles as Senior Vice President and Venture Banking Manager at Five Star Bank, General Partner at two boutique angel investment funds (Northern California Investment Funds I and II) and as co-founder/General Partner of an early-stage technology accelerator focused on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (Capital Region AR VR Accelerator).The foundation for these efforts was laid while serving as founder/CEO of Golden Capital Network (an early pre Shark Tank start-up/investor matching entity) that hosted venture forums throughout California and Nevada that featured over 1,500 alumni start-ups to over 300 different venture capital funds and angel groups. Companies that we showcased very early in their start-up phase include PowerSchool (acquired by Apple), A Place for Mom (acquired by Warburg Pincus), SecurityFocus.com (acquired by Symantec), StubHub (acquired by EBay), InterVideo (IPO), Pandora Media (IPO), Health Media (acquired by Johnson and Johnson), and many other high growth companies that have gone on to create thousands of California jobs. My goals are to help the 1%er entrepreneurial companies that represent the historic economic foundation of our country, and the future as well....they have the hardest job, and get little support.