Tom Banahan
Venture capitalist, Organization leader
Who is Tom Banahan?
Thomas E. Banahan is a managing director in Private Equity, head
of Global Venture Capital and a partner in Lehman Brothers Venture
Partners. In addition to oversight of Lehman Brothers Venture Partners,
Mr. Banahan has managerial responsibility for Lehman Brothers' European
Venture Capital Group and Communications Venture Group. Prior to
joining Lehman Brothers in 1999, Mr. Banahan spent 20 years working
as an operational manager in the technology industry. Most recently,
he was the vice president of business development for Marimba, Inc.
(Nasdaq: MRBA). Mr. Banahan joined Marimba as the 14th employee
and was involved in all areas of the company's growth through its
successful public offering in April 1999. Prior to Marimba, Mr.
Banahan was the vice president of worldwide sales for Spyglass,
Inc. He joined Spyglass as the 23rd employee and was instrumental
in helping the company deliver a string of 12 consecutive profitable
quarters that positioned Spyglass as the first Internet company
to access the public equity markets in June 1995. During the six
years prior to Spyglass, Mr. Banahan worked for Comdisco, Inc. (NYSE:
CDO) as a vice president of sales, with his sales team directly
responsible for significant revenue generated from sales to Fortune
1000 companies. Mr. Banahan started his career in the sales organization
at IBM (NYSE: IBM) where he spent seven years. He currently is a
director of Composite Software, GameFly, Infoblox, Mark Logic, Primarion
and Tira Wireless, and was formerly a director of PentaSafe Security
Technologies (acquired by NetIQ) and SevenSpace (acquired by Sun
Microsystems). Mr. Banahan holds a B.A. from the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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- Vice President of Business Development, Marimba
(1996/03 - 2000) - Managing Director, Lightfoot Capital Partners
- Vice President of Business Development, Marimba
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on July 23, 2013
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