Draper Triangle Team

Our Directors have significant experience in founding, investing in and growing early stage technology companies. Most of us have been working and investing together in early stage technology companies in western and central Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years.

Don Jones

Donald H. Jones is a Managing Director of Draper Triangle. Don is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and investor with over 30 years of experience in growing early stage companies involved in: information technology, telecommunications, Internet-related businesses, advanced automation, and medical technologies.

Jay Katarincic

Jay Katarincic is a Managing Director of Draper Triangle Ventures. Prior to founding Draper Triangle, Jay served as Vice President-Corporate Development and General Counsel of J. Edward Connelly Associates, Inc., a diversified holding company where he was responsible for all corporate acquisitions, minority investments, divestitures and financings.

Mike Stubler

Mike is a Managing Director and co-founder of Draper Triangle Ventures, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvertson. Mike serves on the board of Active Media, Ayalogic, Unitask, TOA Technologies and Landslide and oversees the Fund's investment in Renal Solutions. Mike is a Director and President of the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association and a Director of the Ohio Venture Association.

Tom Jones

D. Thompson Jones (Tom) is a Managing Director of Draper Triangle. Tom is a seasoned entrepreneurial executive with over 20 years of executive marketing experience in high technology companies.

Mark Richey

Mark R. Richey is a Managing Director of Draper Triangle. Mark is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience in creating and managing early stage companies. Prior to joining Draper Triangle, Mark had been involved in many entrepreneurial ventures. Most recently he was part of the PlanSoft management team that successfully merged with seeUthere in 2004 creating OnVantage.

Craig Gomulka

Craig W. Gomulka, CFA is a Director with Draper Triangle Ventures. Prior to joining Draper Triangle, Craig worked as a summer associate for Intel Corporation where he developed supplier cost models and price negotiation tools.

Tim Draper

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and Four11.