James Vandervelden Bio

Vandervelden co-founded Ticonderoga Capital in 1997 and has over 25 years of industry tenure including over 18 years of private equity experience. At Ticonderoga, Mr. Vandervelden focuses on deal origination and selection, investment due diligence, managing and exiting investments, and raising capital. Prior to Ticonderoga, he worked at Dillon Read & Co.'s venture capital group making growth capital investments for its fund. He worked previously with TA Associates on minority growth capital and secondary purchase investments, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of growing, lower middle market technology and service-related businesses. Prior to TA Associates, he was employed by APM Inc., where he specialized in strategic and operational consulting to hospitals and academic medical centers in the United States and Canada. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Logical Images, Inc. and Mycroft Inc., and is Ticonderoga's Observer for Brainshark Inc. and BandDigital Inc. Mr. Vandervelden received a B.A. in Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management, with Honors, from Brown University.