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John Abraham is an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience in technology investing, executive management, and product development that includes successful IPOs and U.S. patents. As a General Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners [1], he focuses on software and services, communications and wireless, and Internet and new media. He sits on the board of directors of Kodiak portfolio companies including Application Security [2]; ASPEED Software [3] ; ChannelAdvisor [4]; Recordant Technologies [5]; Weather Trends International [6] and XDS.
In his years as an investor, John has acquired and managed more than $800M worth of technology, with venture investment returns of more than $1.8B more than capital invested. He also has enjoyed repeat relationships with many entrepreneurs.
John joined Kodiak from Battery Ventures [7] where, as a partner, he focused on software and e-business sectors and originated private equity investments totaling more than $40M. At Battery, he was an early investor in Applimation, Inc.; OpenCOLA; OpenNetwork Technologies; and Optiant, Inc. His other successful investments include Business Software Technology, PhotoDisc, and Witness Systems, which had a successful IPO.
Before joining Battery Ventures, John held a number of senior executive positions in the technology industry including President and Chief Executive Officer of Add-Vision, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of intelligent electronic display and illumination systems. Prior to Add-Vision, he served as Executive Vice President at Compuware Corporation, a publicly held, worldwide software and professional services organization, where he was responsible for managing operations including finance, management information systems and mergers/acquisitions, among others. Before joining Compuware, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering for Boole & Babbage Inc., a public software company that became the foremost vendor of automated operations software products, and ultimately was acquired by BMC Software.
In 1982, John founded Condor Technology, Inc., designed and developed its products, and, as President and CEO, bootstrapped the company from start up status to a merger with Business Software Technology (BST). Condor/BST's products have sold more than $10B worldwide while operating as a division of Computer Associates, Inc.
Earlier in his career, John was a computer scientist at Bell Laboratories where he authored several software products that remain in use today at every regional Bell System affiliate in the world. He also holds several US Patents.
John has been a speaker at key industry conferences such as the Wharton Private Equity Conference, and the Council for Entrepreneurial Development Venture Conference, and others. He has spoken on topics including operational value ad, and driving high-growth-company sales success.
John attended Columbia University and the University of Illinois, where he studied computer science.
