Our Team:     Ajay Chopra     Tom Cole     Noel Fenton     Ashu Garg     Tim McAdam     Kathy Murphy     Patricia Nakache     Larry Orr     Alex Osadzinski     Dan Scholnick     Gus Tai     Jim Tybur     Fred Wang
		Since joining Trinity in 1996, Gus has specialized in funding early stage companies pioneering new market categories. He particularly enjoys getting involved at the time of company formation, working with founders to help build the team and refine the business model. Gus focuses on consumer services and consumer enabling technologies, and maintains an interest in enterprise software. Representative companies that Gus funded, most for which he led or co-led the first institutional round, include the following: Consumer Services:     Blue Nile (NILE)     Hidden City Games     eSurance (acquired by White Mountains Insurance: WTM)     mSpot     Photobucket (acquired by Fox Interactive Media: NWS)     PlayFirst     scanR     Trion World Network     Wetpaint Consumer Enabling Technologies:     Amalfi Semiconductor     Modulus Video (acquired by Motorola: MOT)     SpeedEra Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies: AKAM) Enterprise Software:     CubeTree     Invio Software (acquired by Veritas: VRTS)     Jobster     Kiva Software (acquired by AOL/Netscape: AOL)     Sygate Technologies (acquired by Symantec: SYMC) Prior to Trinity, Gus began his operational career in engineering management at Digital Equipment Corporation. He also worked at Bain & Company, consulting to technology firms on new product development and business strategy. Gus is a Director of the MIT Club of Northern California and the Chinese Software Professionals Association. Focus: Consumer Services and Consumer Enabling Technologies Education: MIT Leaders for Manufacturing Fellow M.B.A., MIT Sloan School of Management M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, MIT A.B., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University Email:
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