CFO, Mako Labs
Greg has 26 years of hands-on, in-the-trenches experience starting, financing, operating and building successful venture-backed tech companies in San Diego. He’s grown companies from inception (co-founding two of them) to 300 employees, and in the process raised nearly $300 million of venture and angel financing and achieved several successful exits. Over the past 15 years, he has provided fractional CFO services to dozens of early-stage tech companies in Southern California, including several EvoNexus graduate companies. His experience spans a wide range of industry sectors including RFID, telecom and computer hardware, software, SaaS and various online services, medical devices, specialty materials, ad tech and cloud storage. He was an active member of the board of the San Diego Venture Group for nearly a decade. Greg holds an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA where he was a Venture Fellow, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. His interests include surfing, skiing, backpacking, advising seed-stage businesses, the clean tech industry, and New Zealand.