Managing
general partner Randell Young has previously served as chief financial officer for Web portals
MedNets.com, Inc. and
TheGospel.com, Inc. and participated actively, as an officer and/or director, in the capitalization and development of numerous other projects including
Accuray Incorporated (ARAY), the world leader in
stereotactic
radiosurgery;
Home Shopping Latino, Inc. (HSPG), developer's of
America's first Spanish language shopping channel;
Synodon, Inc. (SYD), developers of innovative pipeline surveillance technologies;
Telephony International, Inc., a
joint venture with Lucent Technologies;
Vista Consolidated, Inc., a manufacturer of utility truck covers; and
The Orange County Blues Festival, Inc.
Private equity
partners of note have included
Euro-America Partners;
Jacques Vallee;
Fred Adler;
Al Shugart;
George (Jay) Keyworth;
Copernic Technologies;
ZLUH Partners;
Good Samaritan Health System/Health Advantage Ventures;
Pacific Republic Capital;
Fernando Quinonez Meza,
H-Quotient;
Lucent Technologies; and
The Marubeni Group.
A founder and former Orange County Chapter Chair of
Boone Pickens'
United Shareholders Association, Dr. Young has represented shareholders and, on their behalf, addressed the annual meetings of
Northrop Corporation,
Allergan,
National Education Corporation,
Community Psychiatric and
Southern California Edison.
He
has lectured at the graduate level on contemporary issues in venture capital at
The University of Phoenix and holds a doctorate in music (D.Mus.) from
City University Los Angeles. His
Venture Capital Primer has been used by McGraw Hill's On Line Learning Center in support of its textbook Principles of Corporate Finance, Sixth Edition (Brealey & Myers); and
Harvard University in support of
KSG PED-328 Community Financial Institutions and Microfinance in Theory and Practice.
Dr. Young
has been the subject of interviews and articles appearing in the
Los Angeles Times,
The Orange County Register and the
Orange County Metropolitan.
His commentaries and essays have been published in the
Los Angeles Times,
The Orange County Register,
The San Francisco Chronicle,
USA Today,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Orange County Business Journal,
The Baltimore Sun and
Inc. Magazine.
His public equities market analyses and predictions can be found at
The Motley Fool where his
All-Star-rated portfolio has
consistently placed (on a daily basis) in the top one percent of all prognosticators since August
2007, a span now of
over 54 consecutive months.
Currently, he serves on the boards of directors of
Colossal Storage
Corporation,
developers of atomic holographic optical storage nanotechnology;
PatientCentral Technologies, interactive
healthcare information management;
Smart Track Logistics,
enterprise logistics solutions for asset tracking,
visibility and control;
Pacific Robotics, designers and
manufacturers of industrial robots;
Green Wave Energy Corporation, manufacturers of self-sufficient energy producing products;
Sprague
Astronautics, developers of private space vehicles;
America's
Hunting Network, developers of the Internet's first virtually-integrated
hunting portal; Rosa's Horchata, Inc.,
bottlers and distributors of the proprietary, shelf-stable, authentic
horchata beverage of the same name; and
Home Shopping
Latino, Inc. (HSPG).
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