Jim Hale

Founding Partner

Jim co-founded FTVentures in 1998 and served as Managing Partner until 2004. He has over 29 years of commercial and investment banking experience. Before establishing FTVentures, Jim was a Senior Managing Partner at Montgomery Securities where he founded and managed the financial services corporate finance practice and was responsible for managing more than 200 financial industry transactions. Prior to Montgomery, Jim founded the corporate development group at Bank of America. He is a co-founder and board member of the San Francisco Venture Capital Forum and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association where he is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Venturing. Jim is on the Public Radio International Board of Directors and is a member of the Investment Committees of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, and formerly a member of DUMAC(Duke University) Investment Board. Jim received a BS from the University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from Harvard University and is a CPA.

Jim was a board member at ExlService (NASDAQ:EXLS), Verus Financial Management (acquired by Sage Group PLC), Avesta Technologies (acquired by Visual Networks) and Xign Corporation (acquired by JPMorgan Chase).