Alex Ferrara

Who is Alex Ferrara?

Alex Ferrara brings a variety of experience in growing successful

companies throughout the enterprise software, IT and financial markets

to the SelectMinds Board of Directors. As Vice President at Bessemer

Venture Partners (BVP), Alex focuses on investments in software and

financial services technologies. He has been actively involved with

portfolio companies Revver, Zopa, Pure Networks, Quadriserv, Gerson

Lehrman Group, SiteAdvisor, Skype, and Soleil Securities.

Prior to BVP, Alex worked at Goldman Sachs in Technology Investment

Banking, where he worked on merger advisory and financings in the IT

services and software sectors. He came to Goldman Sachs from his MBA

studies, during which he served as part-time associate with both RRE

Ventures and Apax Partners in projects involving open-source and

enterprise software.

Alex was a member of the founding team of two companies: Mainline

Marketplace, an online auction business, which was acquired by

ChannelSpace Entertainment in 2000; and Boston Technical, an IT

consulting practice serving Fortune 500 clients. He started his career

in the financial sector as a commodities derivatives trader on the New

York Board of Trade and a systems developer for Salomon Brothers.

Alex holds an MBA from Columbia with an emphasis on finance and

entrepreneurship, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the

University of Pennsylvania. He has co-authored a book entitled Programming .NET Web Services, and taught several seminars on emerging technologies.