Brad Farkas
Brad has been involved in the investment, management and development of technology for the past 15 years. During this time he developed five commercial software products, funded over 25 technology companies and served on more than a dozen boards.

Most recently, Brad was a founding Partner of Lazard Technology Partners (LTP), the venture capital group of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC. At Lazard, Brad focused on investments in internet and data communications technologies. Brad led LTP's investments in Compatible Systems (acquired by Cisco), MCK Communications (NASDAQ:MCKC), Sonoma Systems (acquired by Nortel), and SignalSoft Corp. (NASDAQ: SGSF), and co-led their investment in Quantum Bridge.

Prior to Lazard, Brad was the Acting CFO and Director of Compatible Systems, a developer of IP routers and virtual private networking (“VPN”) equipment. Brad raised three rounds of venture financing for Compatible, and was very active in both business development and product strategy. In addition, Brad introduced the company to Cisco who acquired it for $250M in March 2000.  Immediately prior to joining Lazard, Brad was developing IPSEC client software for Compatible's InterPort VPN product line.

Before Compatible, Brad was the Founder of Argosy Technology, a communications software house. While at Argosy, Brad developed software packages that were published by Symantec, Novell, and Citrix. In addition he performed technology and strategy consulting assignments for companies including AT&T and Booz Allen, & Hamilton. Brad also worked in the Networking Group at Microsoft and researched required enhancements in the wide area networking (WAN) capabilities of its Windows operating system.

Shortly before graduate school, Brad served as a Director and Principal of pcANYWHERE, inc., a developer of remote access software. Brad was appointed to the board following his successful efforts to restructure the company and reorganize its senior management. During his tenure as Director, Brad assisted in the company’s corporate and financial strategy and helped affect its merger with Symantec, Inc. Brad was also a prolific engineer, developing all of pcANYWHERE’s non-Intel based software, as well as TermCom, its predecessor. “The Norton pcANYWHERE” is one of the most successful communications software packages of all time, and continues to sell at rate of nearly $100 million a year.

Prior to his work with pcANYWHERE, Brad was the founder of Metropolitan Asset Technology (“MAT”), a technology consulting firm in the financial services industry. At MAT, Brad developed computer analytics programs for fixed income bond traders. Brad's products included a GNMA forward contract settlement algorithm, and a computational model for valuing fixed income derivatives, developed in cooperation with Fisher Black, Father of the Black-Scholes equity option pricing model.

Just prior to MAT, Brad was the co-founder of Phonetix, Inc., a computer peripherals manufacturer. Brad co-designed the first audio digitizer for personal computers, and a software package for storing and manipulating digitized sound. Brad also co-developed one of the first PC MIDI interface products.

Before and during his work with Phonetix, Brad was an Associate at First Boston, where he consulted to the Corporate Finance, Venture Capital and Equity Research departments. Brad has a BA degree from Harvard College with a concentration in Applied Math and Computer Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School with a concentration in Applied Finance.

 

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