Primary Job Title Venture Partner Primary Organization 
CSV Capital Partners
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Mr. Stewart is an investor and Avalanche Board Member since October 2006.
He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mezzanine Capital Partners (www.mezzaninecap.com) which specializes in providing venture debt and equity financing to venture backed IT companies.
Concurrently, he is the Founder and President of Asia Pacific Ventures (APV –
www.apvco.com) and has advised over 350 U.S. venture backed IT start-up companies in entering the Japan/Asia marketplace, raising more than $3 billion in equity, debt and joint venture financing over the past 20 plus years.
Mr. Stewart was also the founding General Partner of APV Technology Partners I, II and III with over $200 million in early stage venture funding under management.
Some of Mr. Stewart’s prior venture capital successes include SiliconStor (acquired by LSI), Lexar Media (acquired by Micron), SecureTax (acquired by Intuit), Okena (acquired by Cisco), Sharewave (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel).
Other past investments in which Mr. Stewart has played a key role as a both venture capitalist and personal investor as well as securing additional global investors and business partners include WebTV (Sold to Microsoft), Fatbrain.com (Sold to Barnes and Noble), Capstone (NASDAQ: CPST), Epiphany (IPO), Nexabit (acquired by Lucent), SoonR (www.soonr.com), Plastic Jungle (www.plasticjungle.com), Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA), Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), RSA (acquired by EMC), Wink (acquired by Reunion.com), Certicom (acquired by RIM), Good Technology (acquired by Motorla), JiWire (www.jiwire.com) and Versata (acquired by Triology). Prior to founding APV, Mr. Stewart was a senior executive for NEC Corporation in Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Stewart has a B.A. in Economics from St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH and an MBA in Finance from Suffolk University, Boston, MA. Mr. Stewart represents the shareholder interest of Vulcan Capital on the board of Avalanche Technology.
