Jeff Osborn
Principal
Leesburg, VA

After retiring from UUNET Technologies, Inc. in 1997, Jeff founded Osborn Capital LLC in 1998.
Jeff has been involved in the networking business and the Internet since 1983. He was employed by UUNET Technologies, Inc., the world's largest Internet Service Provider, from 1993 to 1997 in roles including Director of Sales and Marketing, VP Sales, VP Sales and Systems Engineering, VP Sales and Service, and VP International Sales. Annual revenues in this period grew from $8 million to $600 million, and market capitalization from $30 million to nearly $3 billion.
Prior to UUNET, Jeff held roles as VP Sales at InterCon Systems, a networking software company since acquired by Ascend; President of Wilder Systems, a software startup whose core product was acquired by Symantec; and Director of Sales at Cayman Systems, maker of TCP/IP routers. He earlier served in a variety of roles in the networking business including Systems Analyst, Sales Engineer and a variety of sales roles. Jeff received his B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1982.
jeff@osborncapital.com

Eric Janszen
Managing Director
Boston, MA

Eric Janszen is currently Managing Director at Osborn Capital LLC, which he founded with Jeff Osborn in late 1998. Osborn Capital currently has 20 portfolio companies under management at a net asset value of $80M, which has grown from a starting value of $8M. Featured in their major liquidity events are four sales (including one to Nortel Networks, one to Microsoft, two to CISCO) and two IPOs (Interliant and ArrowPoint). Prior to Osborn Capital, Eric held senior operating positions at Stratus beginning in 1983, Cayman Systems in 1989, Centerline Software in 1991, Media 100 in 1993 and Instinctive Technology in 1997. Eric's experience includes three years in software development, six years in product marketing and management, eight years in sales and sales management. He has launched more than a dozen products for three companies and sold software and hardware products for four companies. Eric also held sales executive, district sales manager, region sales manager and director of U.S. sales roles where he built territories and sales organizations which met revenue goals consistently. Eric currently holds four board of advisors seats, two board of directors seats, and participates as proxy voter on six other boards.
eric@osborncapital.com

Sara Poole
Executive Director
McLean, VA

Sara has been a part of the commercial Internet industry from the very beginning and has grown a career around building technology business, working side by side with many of the most influential and successful names in Northern Virginias' high-tech community. From 1993-1998 she served in a number of senior management and business-development positions for UUNET Technologies, an MCI WorldCom Company. Poole was one of the first three Internet sales executives at UUNET, and later was part of the three-man team that founded UUNET's Web Services Business Unit, the first commercial web hosting service in the world, where she was responsible for national sales, marketing and business development. Most recently, Poole worked directly for the Founder of UUNET Technologies' diversified companies as the Vice-president of Corporate Development. Sara received a BA in Communications and Business from Eastern Illinois University, Charleston.
sara@osborncapital.com

Adam Fazackerley
Associate
Alexandria, VA

Adam began his career in 1996 at UUNET Technologies. While in the Web Services Business Unit, Fazackerley focused on building the sales support infrastructure, developing strategic partnerships, researching new technologies, executing competitive market analysis and designing the Web Hosting division's Internet presence. Most recently, Adam worked for the Founder of UUNET Technologies' diversified companies as the Manager of Corporate Communications and Marketing.
In 1999, Fazackerley founded concept2creations; an enterprise that focuses on mission critical corporate web sites, graphic development, strategic-marketing and corporate identity. Adam received a B.S. in marketing from Syracuse University.
adam@osborncapital.com