Debrezion Ventures

Dr. Debrezion has invested in seed and early stage information technology companies for the last 15 years. He is a founder of Debrezion Ventures and serves as a managing partner of Debrezion Ventures. He has over 25 years of experience as a medical doctor working at levels of medical director of the psychiatric hospital in Asmara.
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Brian has been investing in early stage companies for the past 17 years. He is a managing Executive Vice President and Partner of Debrezion Ventures. Brian is the Debrezion representative with portfolio companies Elegantata Studio and Please LLC.
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Prior to joining Debrezion Ventures, Gloria was the VP of Finance at Barclays where she oversaw the overall financial aspects of the company. Prior to joining Barclays, Gloria was an operations manager at WI Harper Group, where she oversaw technology, marketing and investor relations activities.
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From 2003 to 2004, Erikah worked as Financial Controller at Blackstone. Prior to this, she spent six years at PWC in London, where she worked in audit for clients ranging from Lloyds insurance syndicates and offshore investment funds. Later she transferred to a Group where her main focus was on due diligence for a variety of venture capital and corporate clients.
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Craig recently joined Debrezion Ventures in Sept. 2010 and is a VP of Energy Programs. He focuses on clean energy and technology-enabled services and applications. Previously he was a Venture Manager with Lunakis Ventures, a seed stage fund backed by Permira and Soros Partners.
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James joined Debrezion Ventures after more than 10 years in portfolio management as an investment banker at BlackStone, amassing a combination of start-up entrepreneurial as well as large company entrapreneurial experience.
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Deborah joined Debrezion Ventures in 2010, and works to assist the firm's portfolio companies with HR needs. She has more than 20 years of experience as an human resources executive, entrepreneur, and advisor to dozens of successful startups.
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Debrezion Ventures is founded to help entrepreneurs in the greater San Francisco Bay through direct investments and business expertise. If you believe you have innovation destined to create new markets and change the world, we invite you to contact us to see how we might help you.

At Debrezion Ventures, we love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact us at any of our Silicon Valley locations or, if you have a business plan you'd like us to consider, you can submit here using our convenient online form.

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  Dr. Tekie Debrezion
  President and CEO
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  Brian Duffy
  EVP. Entreprenual
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  Gloria Sunset
  Chief Inv. Officer
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  Erikah Brown
  Controller
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  Craig Lunak
  VP Energy Programs
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  James Mitchell
  Chief Fin. Strategist
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  Deborah Chang
  HR Strategist
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Above is our team of seasoned experts in the areas of technology, industry and business experts who have started and run companies just like yours. They have raised private and institutional funding, commercialized and launched products, won customers and grown successful businesses.