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 (also known as JPMorgan Partners). Bob joined Chase Capital in 1994 when it was known as Chemical Venture Partners. In the ensuing five years he started, built and led Chase Capital's Technology and Internet practice, which included building the technology team and portfolio within Chase Capital, 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 include 3Dfx Interactive, Acurian, Agamatrix, Cobalt Networks, Complient, EXIT41, Fundquest, iXL Enterprises, GeoCities, Homebid.com, Kinkos.com, Masada Security, Multex, N*Able Technologies, Nextec, NuRide, Resonate, SeamlessWeb, Stamps.com, Total Pharmaceutical Care 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 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 since 2000, 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.
Bob lives in Connecticut with his wife and their three children.
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 ninety employees. Matt previously 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. Prior to entering business school, 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.
Matt lives in New York with his wife and son.
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.
Prior to joining CSFB, Ken was the President and Chief Executive of The Lodestar Group, a merchant bank with close ties to Société Générale, France's largest private sector bank, which purchased Lodestar in 1993. Prior to joining the Lodestar Group, Ken ran the Merrill Lynch Mergers & Acquisitions Department from 1982 through 1986, growing it into a $200 million per year business. Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, a leveraged buyout fund, was formed and reported to him during this period.
Ken was a Senior Vice President at White Weld at the time White Weld was acquired by Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining White Weld, he was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. Before coming to Wall Street in 1976 he founded and ran a venture capital firm, known as UNC Ventures, which invested in minority owned businesses.
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. Publications include articles on venture capital, economic development, international relations, and the merger market in "The Harvard Journal of Legislation," "The Business Lawyer," "The New Republic," "The Deal," "The Nation" and "Fortune."
Ken lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.