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Dan Skaff is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sienna Ventures,
a private investment firm where he focuses on growth businesses
in consumer, retail, mobile communications and financial services.
Dan currently serves as a director of Glu Mobile, Inc. (Nasdaq GLUU),
a provider of digital entertainment for mobile devices and social
networks; EBT Mobile China PLC, a Shanghai-based retailer of mobile
devices and services; Vivaro, Inc. a national Hispanic communications
and financial services company; and OneCalifornia Bank FSB. Dan’s
previous investments at Sienna include Openwave Systems (Nasdaq:
OPWV), TradePoint Solutions (sold to DemandTec: DMAN); Widcomm (sold
to Broadcom: BRCM); @Motion (sold to Openwave); Protocol Communications
(sold to Willis Stein Partners); Bojangles’ Restaurants (sold
to an affiliate of Wendy’s International); and Heidi’s
Fine Desserts (sold to an affiliate of Edwards Baking Company).
Dan
also serves on the Investment Committee of the Marin Community Foundation
(Chairman-elect) and the Harvard College Fund Council. Prior to
Sienna Ventures, he served as Chairman & CEO of Sienna Holdings
and Founder & Executive Chairman of Pon North America, the U.S.
investment and operating affiliates respectively of Pon Holdings
B.V. of the Netherlands. Earlier in his career he served in the
Corporate Finance Departments of Bankers Trust Company and Bank
of America. Dan received a bachelor’s degree with honors from
Harvard University, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania, where he was a Wharton Fellow.
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