Team.
Eric Hahn - Founding Partner -- 
Eric had his first successful software company at age 11 selling software for the Altair/IMSAI 8080. It has been pretty much downhill since then. After getting his BS CS, Eric was one of the six Arpanet "IMP programmers" at Bolt Beranek and Newman. (For the under-40 crowd: the Arpanet was the precursor to the modern Internet).
Eric later spent eight years at Convergent Technologies, mostly in Unix-land, ultimately running the division building the world's first 386-based Unix SMP machines.
He then joined the LAN-based e-mail company, cc:Mail as VP of Engineering, becoming its divisional CEO after being acquired by Lotus in 1991.
Eric started Collabra Software in 1992. Collabra was an e-mail-based groupware company whose marvelous employees, despite Eric's meddling, created Collabra Share™ - winner of 1994 Byte's Award of Distinction, and 1994 & 1995 PC Magazine Editor's Choice. Collabra Share, along only with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows, were finalists for the 1994 PC Magazine Technical Excellence Awards (w00t).
Netscape bought Collabra in 1995 and Eric ran Netscape's Server Products Division. In 1997, Eric became the CTO for Netscape and along with Jamie Zawinski and Frank Hecker was responsible for Netscape's decision to open-source the browser.
Eric started Inventures Group in 1998.
Eric holds a B.S. and honorary PhD in Computer Science from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and has completed the Stanford University/AEA high-technology executive summer program. Eric serves as a trustee for the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California. He is married with two sons and lives in Palo Alto, California. He loves to code when he has the time.
Kathy Beal - Finance Consulting Partner -- 
Kathy brings 25 years of professional accounting management experience to her role as finance consulting partner for The Inventures Group. The past 12 years she has specialized in providing CFO/Controller leadership to Silicon Valley computer software start-ups.
Since 1989, as Consultant CFO/Controller, she has helped to build the financial and accounting foundations for Collabra Software, Inc., Actra Business Systems, LLC, Netscape Communications, Cygent, Inc, Accept.com, Gigabeat, Inc., Omniva Policy Systems, and Good Technology. She has a solid reputation with a “can-do” attitude and is much more interested in results than she is in titles.
Prior to starting her consulting practice, she learned the accounting ropes at one of the first computer manufacturers in the area, Victor Technologies, Inc., of Scotts Valley, (time to get out the history books…we thought 7 Mhz was fast!) where she rose from ordinary accountant to Corporate Controller in less than 2 years. Okay, so no one else wanted the job (in a company fighting its way out of bankruptcy, but it was an incredible learning experience…)
Kathy lives a balanced life and when she’s not consulting you’ll find her in her studio painting, on photographic field trips, or perhaps performing weddings, house blessings, baby blessings and other rituals as an ordained Interfaith Minister. One of the added benefits of being her client is the use of her original paintings to dress up your lobby, conference rooms and offices. Perhaps she’ll also add corporate blessings to her repertoire. Read more about Kathy's "real" life at her site.