Tom Banahan

Venture capitalist, Organization leader

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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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Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Employment
  • Vice President of Business Development, Marimba
    (1996/03 - 2000)
  • Managing Director, Lightfoot Capital Partners

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on July 23, 2013

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