Dan Burstein

Who is Dan Burstein?

Dan Burstein founded Millennium

Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners

in 2004. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds.

Dan has made personal

venture capital investments since 1983, when he first worked as a consultant

in Silicon Valley. He began making institutional venture capital investments

as the Chief Investment Officer for PS Capital Holdings and PS Capital Ventures,

the predecessor funds of Millennium. In the second half of the 1990s, Dan articulated

and led the investment thesis of those funds, focusing on early stage companies

that were building backbone infrastructure for the Internet and enhancing the

security, reliability, and user experience of the web.

For twelve

years, from 1988 to 2000, Dan was Senior Advisor at The Blackstone Group. Over

the course of his career, he has served as a consultant to the CEOs and senior

executives of major global corporations including Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, and

Sun Microsystems.

In January 2000, Dan founded Millennium Technology Ventures.

The fund invested at a conservative pace in the 2000-2001 environment before

shifting its strategy to focus on a unique blend of value-oriented, late stage,

and post-public technology investments. The fund has had several successful realizations

to date, including the sale of portfolio company Phobos (on whose Board of Directors

Dan served) to publicly-traded SonicWALL, as well as more recent public market

realizations in companies including Internap (AMEX: IIP) and DOV Pharmaceutical

(NASDAQ: DOVP).

Over the last eight years, Dan has served as a director or observer on more

than a dozen technology company boards. In addition to Phobos, Dan served on

the board of a small public company, Lumisys, where he was involved in the merger and acquisition process

that led to a successful sale to Kodak. He is currently on the boards of Applied

Minds, a leading-edge research and development lab in the Millennium Technology

Ventures portfolio, and GlobalOptions Group, Inc., an international risk management and security

company. Dan is the author of six books on new technology trends and global economic

issues, including Road Warriors, a 1995 book about the birth of digital

media and the Internet. He has also written books about the future of China,

Japan, and the European Union. His 1988 book on Japanese finance (YEN!)

was an international sensation, landing on best-seller lists in the U.S., Japan,

and Australia.

Dan has been a forum fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos

and has been honored many times for his books and journalistic work, including

awards from the Overseas Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi. He has emerged as an

expert on PIPE transactions for venture capital investors, has spoken at many

conferences on this subject, and contributed a chapter to a current Bloomberg

Press-published book on PIPEs.

Dan has also worked and traveled extensively in China for many years. In addition

to his well-known book on China's long-term future, Big

Dragon, Dan contributed a chapter on leveraged buyouts in China to a Euromoney book

on global private equity. He is a frequent guest expert on television programs

ranging from CNBC, CNN, Fox, and Bloomberg to Charlie Rose and Oprah. Most recently,

Dan Burstein has edited the New York Times-bestselling blockbusters, Secrets

of The Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code and Secrets

of Angels Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel. These

books are bestsellers not only in the United States but also in more than

two dozen international editions, with over two million books in the "Secrets" series

now in print around the world.