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Mr. Cagan is Managing Director and co-founder of Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, LLC a technology focused private equity firm in Cupertino, California. Previously he was president and founder of Cagan Capital, LLC, a merchant bank he formed in 1990. Mr. Cagan has been involved, over the past 20 years, as a venture capitalist, investment banker and principal on a wide variety of financings, mergers, acquisitions and investments of high growth companies in a wide variety of industries. At Goldman, Sachs and Drexel Burnham Lambert he was involved in over $14 billion worth of transactions. Recently, as an early shareholder, Mr. Cagan assisted EarthShell Corporation, a materials sciences research and development company that invented a biodegradable replacement for Styrofoam, to raise over $50 million of private capital and then in March, 1998, complete a $277 million IPO at a $2.1 billion market valuation.
Mr. Cagan assisted in starting, as an officer and/or director, the following companies: Acorn Technologies, Inc, a high technology, intellectual property development and licensing company; Burstein Laboratories, Inc., a medical diagnostics company; Wall Street Direct, Inc., an Internet financial portal providing a global database for investors of public and private deals; GeriGene Medical Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on identifying the genes of aging; and BarterNet, a worldwide, Internet B2B exchange, He raised $26 million of venture capital for BarterNet as CEO, founder.
Mr. Cagan attended M.I.T. and received a BS, MS degrees in engineering and an MBA from Stanford University. He is an active member of the Young President's Organization. | 