Team
Bob Greene - Partner
Bob Greene is a co-founder of Contour Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist since the late 1980's. He has invested in all stages of venture capital across several industry sectors.
Prior to launching Contour, Bob was one of the three managing partners of Flatiron Partners. Located in New York City, Flatiron was a leading venture capital firm focused on the information technology sector. The firm backed over 50 companies with over $500 million of venture capital. Bob has also been an active private investor, where he has invested his own capital in emerging technology companies.
Prior to joining Flatiron full time in 1999, Bob was a General Partner at Chase Capital Partners, having joined its predecessor, Chemical Venture Partners, in 1994. Bob started and led Chase Capital's Technology and Internet investment practice. He built the technology team and portfolio within Chase Capital, which included launching Flatiron in New York City in 1996, backing Pitango Venture Capital in Israel in 1996, and launching Techfund Capital in Silicon Valley in 1997.
Some of Bob's notable investments during his career prior to Contour include 3Dfx Interactive, Acurian, Agamatrix, Cobalt Networks, EXIT41, Fundquest, iXL Enterprises, GeoCities, Homebid.com, Kinkos.com, Multex, N*Able Technologies, Nextec, NuRide, Resonate, SeamlessWeb, Stamps.com, and Vindigo.
Bob started his venture capital career in 1988 with Prudential Equity Investors (later known as Cornerstone Equity Partners) as a generalist investor, working on venture investments and buyouts in retailing, consumer, media, business services and healthcare services. Prior to this, he was a banker for five years with First Boston and Fleet Financial.
Bob is the former President of the Venture Investors Association of New York and has been on the VIANY Board since 1994. Bob has been a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of Business for many years, and formerly served for five years on the Undergraduate Financial Aid Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
Bob received a BS from the Wharton School of Business and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Matt Gorin - Partner
Matt Gorin is a co-founder of Contour Venture Partners and has experience in technology operations, start-ups, venture capital and turnaround management. He is passionate about helping to build early stage companies, with a focus on the financial services and applied technology sectors.
Matt was previously with Promontory Financial Group, a merchant banking and advisory firm focused on the financial services sector. He was part of the launch team at Promontory Interfinancial Network, a financial services technology platform company which has subsequently grown to over one hundred employees. Prior to this, Matt worked for Red Hat in its Strategic Planning & Corporate Development group where he was responsible for starting Red Hat's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partnership Program, ultimately establishing extensive business and technology partnerships with many of the top global independent software vendors. Matt also worked at Morgan Stanley in its strategic venture capital fund, concentrating on making investments in early-stage financial services companies. Earlier in his career, Matt was a turnaround consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he helped devise and implement operating strategies for troubled companies in various industries.
Matt has experience starting and running businesses in the financial services and information technology sectors. He is the Founder & Chairman of StreetWise Partners, a nonprofit focused on providing low-income individuals with a path to a successful career through mentoring, job skills and professional experience. He co-authored a Harvard Business School case study analyzing the origins of free trade and a paper in the World Economic Outlook on the economic and political risks in the Middle East.
Matt received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. in Economics and American Studies from Brandeis University, where he was co-captain of the tennis team.
Ken Miller - Senior Advisor
Ken Miller has a long distinguished career on Wall Street as an investor, banker and advisor. Ken formerly was a Vice Chairman of both CSFB and Merrill Lynch and served on the Board of Directors of Viacom for 17 years. He also has extensive experience in private equity and venture capital, having formed and overseen Merrill Lynch Capital Partners.
Ken is currently head of Ken Miller Capital and formerly a Senior Advisor to Lehman Brothers. Ken was formerly Vice Chairman of CSFB, a global investment banking firm, where he served from 1995 to 2001. In this position, he served as financial advisor to a number of the world's largest corporations. At CSFB, Ken specialized in the media, telecommunications and Internet sectors.
Ken is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Global Kids, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America.
Ken received his J.D. from Harvard University, M.A. from Yale University (Chinese Studies) and B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan. Academic honors include: Phi Beta Kappa, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and Yale University Fellowship.