James Hunt
Independent Director
James (Jim) Hunt is a seasoned technology and investment professional with a principle focus on companies with technologies that can have a positive impact on the national security sector markets. Hunt began his career in Washington in the mid 70’s as a U.S. Government scientist. After eight years with the government, Hunt founded “BDS, Incorporated” where he served as CEO for ten years. In 1991, BDS was merged with BTG, Incorporated and Hunt assisted in the integration of the two companies. In 1992, BTG was taken public in a successful offering. During this transition Hunt also served on the BTG board of directors and was the second largest shareholder in the merged company.
After his tenure at BDS/BTG, Hunt went to Price Waterhouse where he started and ran the firm’s system integration practice. After two years at PW, Hunt was recruited away with 17 PW colleagues and founded “Ernst & Young Technologies” (EYT), where he was CEO for eight years. EYT was subsequently sold to Cap Gemini and Hunt served as President of Cap Gemini Technologies for two years, leaving Cap Gemini in 2006. After leaving Cap Gemini Technologies, with two colleagues, Hunt founded “The MITA Group” a Washington-based consultancy focused on public affairs and business strategy.
Mr. Hunt began his angel investing activities in the mid 1990’s after the successful BTG IPO, with five investments in area companies. After over 25 years of seed stage investing, Hunt expanded his portfolio from the early 2000’s to the present over 200 early-stage investments. Hunt sits on numerous corporate boards. Hunt has exited over 50 investments over the past fifteen years. Hunt’s investments are in cyber and physical security, Internet-of-Things, data center management, social media, analytics, and mobile applications. As an active member of multiple angel groups and managing partner of “Lavrock Ventures”, an early-stage venture capital firm, Hunt spends a significant amount of his time scouting for world-class, game changing technology. In addition to his investing activities, Hunt serves as a consultant to both government and corporate organizations in overall strategy, product commercialization, channel strategies and M&A strategies.
Hunt has been an Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School at Georgetown for over 20 years as well as at Notre Dame and teaches cornerstone courses in business planning and start-up business management and investing. Hunt has also created and taught courses to international angels and entrepreneurs and has successfully launched four overseas ventures in the past several years, with particular emphasis on technology incubation in developing countries.
Hunt is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Rochester Institute of Technology and sits on the Notre Dame Engineering College Advisory Council. Additionally, Hunt is a past president of the Computing Industry Technology Association.
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