Dave Furneaux has spent his nearly 30-year career as an entrepreneur and venture investor, forming, leading, building, and investing in numerous high growth companies in information technology, including successful cybersecurity companies and IT infrastructure companies, Watchfire (acquired by IBM), Skystone (acquired by Cisco), Application Security (acquired by Singtel), RMI (acquired by Broadcom) and Aironet (acquired by Cisco).
Dave founded and led Kodiak Venture Partners, which went on to invest in and build successful companies, such as Appnexus (acquired by AT&T), Channel Advisor (NYSE: ECOM), Greenlight Biosciences (Nasdaq: GRNA) and WHERE (acquired by Paypal). Through BlueIO, Dave has worked to build and scale remarkable companies such as Virsec Systems, Lufa Farms, Cybersaint, Lumicell and others. Dave holds a B.A. from Colorado College, Phi Beta Kappa.