Stanford University

Founder, CEO, Inventor and Mentor

Ardent is an early-stage venture fund focused on Seed to Series A investments with a multi-region approach across the Mid-Atlantic, Atlanta, and Denver/Boulder. Ardent has a thesis driven investment focus centered on the Transformation of Work including: vertical applications that leverage automation drivers, security,  productivity and enablement tools, and upskilling for the future.

Ardent Venture Partners

CEO Partner

Mentor and angel investor for multiple Techstars companies in the Boulder program including Halp (acquired by Atlassian), Demo Flow, and The Accessory Junkie

Techstars

Mentor

NetApp

Vice President of Technology Strategy

SolidFire is now part of the industry's most comprehensive All Flash storage portfolio at NetApp, continuing our mission to Advance the Way the World Uses the Cloud.

Vice President and General Manager, SolidFire

SolidFire built the industry leading All Flash Array for the Next Generation Datacenter, powering some of the largest public and private clouds in the world.  
SolidFire was acquired by NetApp in February 2016 for $870m.

SolidFire, Inc.

At Shotput Ventures I was one of 9 partners, all experienced Internet entrepreneurs, who helped lead a idea-stage startup program in Atlanta. Shotput funded companies had multiple successful funding rounds and exits over the following years.

Shotput Ventures

Partner

Ran the Jungle Disk SaaS business at Rackspace while also helping launch the RackSpace Cloud, including multiple components of the OpenStack project.

Rackspace

President of Jungle Disk

Founder and CEO of Jungle Disk, Inc., developer of the Jungle Disk online storage and backup platform. Jungle Disk was acquired by Rackspace in October 2008.

Jungle Disk

Founded the engineering group at GameSpy and led the team until 2004 merger with IGN Entertainment. 
IGN was acquired by Fox Interactive Media (News Corp.) in 2005 for $650m.
Served as Chief Architect for IGN while also assisting with high level architecture and design for other Fox Interactive Media properties after 2005 IGN acquisition.

Dave Wright