Ann Leamon Biography
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Ann Leamon, after co-founding the Center for Case Development at Harvard Business School, now serves as Senior Research Associate dedicated to the Venture Capital & Private Equity class. She came to Harvard after a decade of senior analytical positions in operating companies.
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· Felda Hardymon Biography
Felda Hardymon is Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School where he teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, and is an affiliate partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, a global first tier venture firm.
Felda graduated from Rose Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mathematics. He attended Duke University where he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and remained at Duke to teach, eventually serving as Duke's Director of Systems and Research. He left Duke, and an academic career, to attend HBS (MBA '79, Baker Scholar); and in 1979 joined Business Development Services, Inc (BDSI), the venture capital subsidiary of General Electric.
At BDSI Felda became a Vice President and was an investor in the start-up of Stratus Computer (the second fault tolerant computer company, later sold to Ascend), the turnaround of Western Digital (a communications chip company, later to become a disk drive company), and the growth financing of Ungermann-Bass (the first local...
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