Greg Carlisle - Managing Director of the Prior Fund

Greg Carlisle has over 20 years of experience in software development, high-technology start-ups and venture capital investing. He has served on the boards of directors of seven companies and been involved with investments in 26 portfolio companies. Mr. Carlisle is Managing Director of the Prior Fund, a $50 million venture capital fund, where he oversees the Prior Fund’s investments in and serves on the Boards of Directors of Carmichael Training Systems, Mimix Broadband, Inc., and XAware, Inc. He also served on the boards of Metreos Corporation (acquired by Cisco Systems) and SiVerion, Inc., acquired by LogicVision, Inc.

Prior to joining the Prior Fund, Mr. Carlisle began working with Admiral Inman in 1997 to manage his private investments. Initially, Mr. Carlisle acted as interim CEO of two portfolio companies and successfully negotiated their sale. Intransco, Inc. developed and launched an e-commerce booking engine focused on the travel industry and was sold to i:FAO of North America, Inc., an internet travel company. Jazz IT, Inc., a network management services company, was sold to TManage, Inc., a provider of outsourced telework programs. Mr. Carlisle began his career managing telecommunications and software development projects as a senior manager for Andersen Consulting. He then founded and served as President of Jones Cyber Solutions, Ltd. and was responsible for this software services company’s rapid growth, resulting in $12 million of sales revenue within its first three years. 

He then served as acting COO for an ecommerce company, Ambac Connect Inc., which Mr. Carlisle turned around and grew, directing operations, engineering, business development and marketing. He was also instrumental in launching software infrastructure strategies for strategic communications firms. Mr. Carlisle received a BA degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Carmichael Training Systems, Mimix Broadband, Inc., Bluespace, and XAware, Inc. 

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