Clear Venture Partners

Team

Clear Experience

Investment and Administrative Team

Michael Gurau: email, twitter: mgurau, blog

Michael Gurau is the Founder and Managing General Partner of Clear’s investment team. He brings more than fourteen years of successful venture capital experience to Clear Venture Partners coupled with four years of startup operating experience, in marketing and product management. Michael’s venture capital experience includes seven years with private equity firm Advent International (in Boston and London) and most recently, six years with CEI Community Ventures, a fully-invested $10M early-stage venture capital fund for which Michael continues to serve as President. While at Advent Europe, Michael originated opportunities, supported due diligence, led and co-led investment opportunities spanning multiples stages (early, development, later, MBI/MBO/LBO) and diverse sectors (IT, media, internet, chemicals/industrial). At CEI Community Ventures, Michael developed the fund’s investment strategy and plan, led investments in eight companies and oversaw fund operations.

Michael also brings operating experience from healthcare and ecommerce/direct mail with Oxford Health Plans in Norwalk, CT as well as marketing, product management and strategy with Silknet Software (now Kana Communications) in Manchester, NH.

Michael has a BS Finance from Babson College and an MBA from University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on several boards of directors (two as chair) for CEI Community Ventures; Michael is also on the board of directors of the Merriconeag Waldorf School in Freeport, Maine, a K-12 private school.

Jen Walker, email

Clear’s Fund Administrator is Jen Walker. Jen administers the day-to-day operations of the Fund. Concurrent with her role as Fund Administrator of Clear, she serves as Fund Administrator for CEI Community Ventures. Prior to Clear, Jen worked with Wintergreen Financial Group, a Portland-based financial services/broker dealer firm. Before Wintergreen, Jen managed the operational affairs at Masthead Venture Partners, a Portland/Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm focusing on information technology and biotechnology investments.

Jen holds a BA in English from the University of Maine.