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export interface PersonDetailData {
	photoUrl: string;
	jobTitle: string;
	name: string;
	companies: string[] | undefined;
	linkedIn: string;
	paragraphs: string[];
	description: string;
}

const team: PersonDetailData[] = [
	{
		name: "Richard Seewald",
		photoUrl: "/people/richard-seewald.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Founder and Managing Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardseewald/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Richard is a Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s global activities and strategic direction. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics and brings over three decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role. Richard is a member of the firm’s investment committee.",
			"Prior to establishing Evolution, Richard was a Partner at Alpha Associates, a venture capital and private equity firm where he led investments in software, media and infrastructure companies and was a member of the investment committee overseeing a multi-billion dollar investment program. Previously, he was a founding investor in Sixty-K and NejTV where he held various executive and non-executive roles. He is an investor and board member in category-defining software companies like AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Cognitive Security, Carbon Black, Security Scorecard, Onapsis, LogPoint, DFLabs, Fortscale and Panaseer.",
			"Richard holds an MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business, a Juris Doctor from the New York Law School and a B.A. from Pace University. He was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship by the Palo Alto based Society of Kauffman Fellows. He sits on the global advisory board of the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business.",
		],
		companies: [
			"AVG Technologies",
			"Open DNS",
			"Cognitive Security",
			"Onapsis",
			"Carbon Black",
			"Security Scorecard",
			"DFLabs",
			"Fortscale",
			"LogPoint",
			"Panaseer",
			"NEJ.cz",
			"Triumph Board",
			"Sixty K",
			"CounterCraft",
			"SCYTHE",
			"Cape Privacy",
			"Solidus Labs",
			"Elliptic",
			"Arqit",
			"Pentera"
		],
		description:
			"Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s global activities and strategic direction.",
	},
	{
		name: "Dennis Smith",
		photoUrl: "/people/dennis-smith.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Founder and Managing Partner\n",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-smith-871986/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Dennis is a Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s global activities and strategic direction. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics and brings over four decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role. Dennis is a member of the firm’s investment committee.",
			"Dennis has founded and invested in technology companies around the world. As a serial entrepreneur and technology executive, he has held senior roles as Managing Director, Head of marketing and sales, Product Management, VP of solutions, Head of systems and design and VP of business development. Dennis founded and led a technology consultancy focused on the diagnosis and remedying of underperforming IT environments in government, banking and finance, manufacturing and public utilities which he exited to PwC. He then joined to form the IT component of the firm`s Australasian Strategic Planning Practice.  Dennis` roles included scaling several IT companies from early stage to listings on the Deutsche Borse (Germany) and NYSE. He is a founding investor in NejTV and Sixty-K where he is chairman of the board and he has held various executive and non-executive roles. He is an investor and board member in category-defining software companies like AVG Technologies, OpenDNS, Cognitive Security, Carbon Black, Security Scorecard, Onapsis, LogPoint, Eperi, DefinedCrowd, and DFLabs,.  Dennis is co-Founder and Managing Partner of Evolution Equity Partners.",
			"Dennis holds a B.A. from York University, Toronto and a Tertiary Diploma in Computer Programing from the Humber College Institute of Technology, Toronto. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Endeavour Bulgaria. Endeavor being a global non-profit leader in assisting entrepreneurs to scale locally and then globally.",
		],
		companies: [
			"AVG Technologies",
			"Open DNS",
			"DFLabs",
			"Triumph Board",
			"Eperi",
			"Dice",
			"Sixty K",
			"Zoom.ai",
			"Defined Crowd",
			"Arqit"
		],
		description:
			"Founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s global activities and strategic direction.",
	},
	{
		name: "Karel Obluk",
		photoUrl: "/people/karel-obluk.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/karelobluk/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Karel is a Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics and brings over two decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role. Karel is a member of the firm’s investment committee.",
			"Prior to Evolution, Karel was CTO, Chief Scientist and interim CEO of AVG Technologies (NYSE:AVG) where he was the architect of the technology platform that today has approximately 400 million users. He led the company’s technology development taking it from a single product company to multi-product platform and to becoming a global leader. Karel is considered to be a leading technologist in the cybersecurity space and was a Director of the Antimalware Testing Standards Organization, a non-profit consortium of security vendors having the aim to improve quality of tests, provide recommendations, best practices and guidelines for good and relevant antimalware testing.",
			"Karel holds a Ph.D. and MSc. in Computer Science from the Brno University of Technology. He was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship by the Palo Alto based Society of Kauffman Fellows.",
		],
		companies: [
			"Cognitive Security",
			"Security Scorecard",
			"LogPoint",
			"Panaseer",
			"Eperi",
			"Morphisec",
		],
		description:
			"Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and data analytics.",
	},
	{
		name: "JR Smith",
		photoUrl: "/people/jr-smith.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/soma808/",
		paragraphs: [
			"J.R. is a Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and consumer and brings over three decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role. J.R. is a member of the firm’s investment committee.",
			"Prior to Evolution J.R. was Chief Executive Officer of AVG Technologies (NYSE:AVG) where he was responsible for strategy and operations and leading the company to an IPO in 2012 on the New York Stock Exchange. J.R. is considered to be a thought leader in the areas of security, privacy and data protection and has authored several books in these areas. Previously, he was CEO of United Kingdom based dot mobile, a mobile virtual network operator he co-founded that partnered with Vodafone to provide mobile services in the United Kingdom. He co-founded Telecom Solutions Group, a pan-European network deployment and telecommunications software company. J.R. began his career in Seattle, Washington with PNC, which became VoiceStream acquired by T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS).",
			"J.R. holds an MBA from the Washington State University School of Business.",
		],
		companies: [
			"AVG Technologies",
			"Open DNS",
			"DFLabs",
			"Triumph Board",
			"Eperi",
			"Dice",
			"Sixty K",
			"Zoom.ai",
			"Defined Crowd",
			"Unbound Security"
		],
		description:
			"Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software and consumer.",
	},
	{
		name: "Karthik Subramanian",
		photoUrl: "/people/karthik-subramanian.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-subramanian-evolution/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Karthik is a Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software, IoT, cloud and analytics primarily in the United States, and brings over 15 years of investment, entrepreneurial, operational, M&A and investment banking experience to this role. Karthik is a member of the firm’s investment committee. Prior to joining Evolution, Karthik led Cisco’s cybersecurity acquisition and investment team. During his time at Cisco, Karthik helped bring together Cisco’s extensive cybersecurity portfolio through numerous strategic acquisitions. He led several marquee transactions, including the acquisition of Duo Security, OpenDNS, Lancope and Cloudlock with a cumulative transaction value of over $3.75B. Under Karthik’s leadership, Cisco also invested in 11 cybersecurity investments over 4 years and his past board observer positions include OpenDNS, Elastica, Skyport Systems, Exabeam, and Threat Quotient. Prior to Cisco, Karthik held several roles in different organizations, including CEO & Co-founder of a social analytics startup, Vice-President of Investment Banking at Barclays (previously Lehman Brothers) and technology consultant at Manhattan Associates.  At Barclays, he advised companies on software M&A and financing with a cumulative transaction value of over $5B and led Xoom.com’s successful IPO on NASDAQ. Karthik holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, an M.S. from Georgia Tech, and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.",
		],
		companies: [
			"TrueFort",
			"BluBracket",
			"Satori Cyber"
		],
		description:
			"Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software, IoT, cloud and analytics primarily in the United States.",
	},
	{
		name: "Taher Elgamal",
		photoUrl: "/people/taher-elgamal.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/taherelgamal/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Taher is a Partner at Evolution Equity Partners after serving as a Venture Partner for almost 5 years. He leads investments in Cyber security, IoT and cloud and enterprise software companies. He served as the CTO, Security at Salesforce.com for 10 years. He is a co-founder of NokNok Labs and InfoSec Global. Taher was elected in the National Association of Engineering in 2022, received the 2019 Marconi Prize and was the recipient of the RSA Conference 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award and he is recognized as the “father of SSL,” the Internet security standard Secure Sockets Layer. Taher has been issued several patents in online security, payments and data compression. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cairo University in 1977, and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Martin Hellman was his dissertation advisor. He joined the technical staff at HP Labs	in 1984. He served as chief scientist at Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1998 where he was a driving force behind SSL. He also was the director of engineering at RSA Security Inc. before founding Securify in 1998 and becoming its CEO. When Securify was acquired by Kroll-O’Gara, he became the president of its information security group. In 2008, Securify was acquired by Secure Computing and is now part of McAfee. In October 2006, he joined Tumbleweed Communications in a capacity of a Chief Technology Officer. Taher has also held executive roles at technology and security companies, including CSO of Axway, Inc. from 2008 to 2011, CTO of Tumbleweed Communications from 2006 to 2008, CTO of Securify, Inc. from 2001 to 2004, CEO and president of Securify, Inc. from 1998 to 2001 and chief scientist of Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1998.",
		],
		companies: ["Arqit", "Beyond Identity"],
		description:
			"Venture Partner at Evolution and currently serves as the CTO, Security at Salesforce.com.",
	},
	{
		name: "Michal Pechoucek",
		photoUrl: "/people/michal-pechoucek.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Venture Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pechoucek/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Michal Pěchouček is an AI professor, R&D executive and serial entrepreneur. He has been active in the field of cutting edge AI since late nineties, and founded the iconic Artificial Intelligence Center at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Michal have co-founded Cognitive Security, one of the first machine learning startups for cybersecurity, that was successfully acquired by CISCO Systems and resulted in a Cognitive Threat Analytics that protects millions of users. Michal also co-founded AgentFly Technologies, a drone technology firm and BlindSpot Solutions, an AI/ML high-end consultancy. Among several others, he has been also early angel investor in 3Scale, an API business acquired by RedHat in 2016.",
			"Michal has got his master degree from the University of Edinburgh and his PhD from Czech Technical University. He has been working at several leading universities, such University of Calgary or University of Southern California. In 2014 he was listed in New Europe 100 list of most innovative minds in Central and Easter Europe. Since 2017 Michal is a Venture Partner at Evolution Equity Partners.",
		],
		companies: [],
		description: "AI professor, R&D executive and serial entrepreneur.",
	},
	{
		name: "Sylwia Hadaj",
		photoUrl: "/people/sylwia-hadaj.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Principal",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylwia-d-hadaj-138563b/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Sylwia is a Principal at Evolution Equity Partners focused on sourcing and monitoring investment opportunities across technology sectors with specific focus on enterprise software and fintech. She is in charge of portfolio management and reporting, performs valuation analysis and due diligence of investments in Europe and in the US.",
			"Sylwia brings over a decade of experience in private equity, corporate finance and investment management gained while working for family offices and boutique financial advisory firms in Spain and Switzerland. She advised on numerous M&A transactions, including turn-around situations, and debt and equity offerings across a diverse set of industries including retail, semiconductor, technology, renewable energy and infrastructure. Responsible for post-acquisition management, she implemented financial and operating improvements working closely with management teams and boards.",
			"She has a M.S. in International Finance from the joint programme of IEB, the London School of Economics Political Science and Wharton Business School and a M.A. in Economics from the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. Sylwia leads the “Women in Fintech” initiative for the Swiss Finance and Technology Association in Zurich.",
		],
		companies: [],
		description:
			"Principal at Evolution Equity Partners focused on sourcing and monitoring investment opportunities across technology sectors with specific focus on enterprise software and fintech.",
	},
	{
		name: "Bernhard Vogeli",
		photoUrl: "/people/bernhard-vogeli.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Partner and Chief Operating Officer",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernhard-v%C3%B6geli-251b173/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Bernhard is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Evolution Equity Partners. He works across all aspects of the firm’s operations. He oversees portfolio management, fund management, investor relations, resource allocation, recruiting, finance, legal and HR.",
			"Prior to joining Evolution, Bernhard was a Principal at Alpha Associates, a venture capital and private equity firm. In his role as Head of Operations, Bernhard developed the infrastructure and implemented processes to scale the company and eventually manage over USD 3 billion in capital. During his 6 year tenure at Alpha, he was also responsible for cash flow planning as well as the analysis and due diligence of investments. Previously, Bernhard held senior investment management roles at Adveq, a private equity asset manager where he was responsible for the due diligence of venture funds in the US and Israel. Previously, Bernhard held several operating roles at Nantero, a Boston based Semiconductor Company and is the founder of EpiSpeed AG a Switzerland based Semiconductor Company.",
			"Bernhard holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ) and worked in research and development in Switzerland, Japan (Hitachi) and the US (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He holds an MBA from the W. E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester and is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).",
		],
		companies: [],
		description:
			"Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Evolution Equity Partners. He works across all aspects of the firm’s operations.",
	},
	{
		name: "Stephan Riesen",
		photoUrl: "/people/stephan-riesen.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Chief Financial Officer",
		linkedIn: "http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanriesen",
		paragraphs: [
			"Stephan is the Chief Financial Officer at Evolution Equity Partners . He oversees the funds’ financial operations and monitors compliance with the governing rules and regulations as well as the respective agreements.",
			"Stephan has many years of experience in funds administration, reporting and compliance as responsible manager with Horizon21 Private Equity Partners and Swiss Re Private Equity Partners, which were Swiss investment managers of internationally active Private Equity funds catering to European institutional investors, where he built and was in charge of the back and middle office operations. In addition, Stephan worked for Swiss banks in accounting and reporting in central group and investment banking functions, and he is also very experienced in corporate management, taxation and accounting.",
			"Stephan is a Certified Public Accountant (Swiss CPA), Bachelor of Science in Business Management and certified financial risk manager.",
		],
		companies: [],
		description:
			"Chief Financial Officer at Evolution Equity Partners. He oversees the funds’ financial operations and monitors compliance with the governing rules and regulations as well as the respective agreements.",
	},
	// {
	// 	name: "Ollie Bone",
	// 	photoUrl: "/people/ollie-bone-new.png",
	// 	jobTitle: "Associate",
	// 	linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/olliebone/",
	// 	paragraphs: [
	// 		"Ollie is an Associate at Evolution Equity Partners focused on sourcing and monitoring investment opportunities across technology sectors. He is the first team member in the United Kingdom, in Evolution’s London office.",
	// 		"Before joining Evolution, Ollie designed and ran an accelerator program for Cybersecurity ventures at Tech Nation. He supported over 50 startups with a bespoke curriculum and global mentoring community from the Cybersecurity sector. Prior to Tech Nation, Ollie led market research and venture scouting for global corporates in Defense, Manufacturing and Consulting. ",
	// 		"Ollie sits on the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Cybersecurity, is a mentor on startup programs such as CyLon and CyberASAP, as well as a judge for Tech Nation’s annual Rising Stars competition.",
	// 	],
	// 	companies: [],
	// 	description:
	// 		"Ollie is an Associate at Evolution Equity Partners focused on sourcing and monitoring investment opportunities across technology sectors. He is the first team member in the United Kingdom, in Evolution’s London office.",
	// },
	// {
	// 	name: "Eduardo Martinez",
	// 	photoUrl: "/people/eduardo-martinez.png",
	// 	jobTitle: "Associate",
	// 	linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edu-mart/",
	// 	paragraphs: [
	// 		"Eduardo is an Associate at Evolution Equity Partners focused on sourcing and monitoring investment opportunities across the technology sector. He is in charge of portfolio management and reporting, performing valuation analysis and due diligence of investments.",
	// 		"Eduardo is an Investment Professional with extensive track record in advising M&A, restructuring, and fund-raising transactions in Spain and the UK. He brings over 8 years of experience advising in numerous M&A and turn-around transactions across a broad range of sectors including technology, industrial, infrastructure and renewable energy. ",
	// 		"He is an Executive MBA candidate at IESE and holds a M.S. in International Finance from the joint programme of IEB, the London School of Economics Political Science and Wharton Business School.",
	// 	],
	// 	companies: [],
	// 	description:
	// 		"Eduardo is an Associate at Evolution Equity Partners focused on sourcing and monitoring investment opportunities across the technology sector. He is in charge of portfolio management and reporting, performing valuation analysis and due diligence of investments.",
	// },
	{
		name: "Aron Khurana",
		photoUrl: "/people/aron-khurana.png",
		jobTitle: "Head of Investor Relations",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aronkhurana/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Aron is the Head of Investor Relations for Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for the firm's fundraising efforts and client activities. He brings over 12 years of experience in the financial space including roles in both the traditional and alternative asset classes.",
			"Prior to joining Evolution, Aron was a Principal at Siguler Guff & Co., a $15B AUM multi-strategy private equity firm where he led fundraising efforts for the European region as well as in the Western and Southeastern US. Previously, Aron held roles at Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, The Chicago Board of Trade, and Enhanced Investment Partners investment partners- a hedge fund in Hong Kong.  ",
			"Aron is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College where he completed a degree in Economics with a minor in Leadership and played varsity basketball. Aron has also served on Claremont Mckenna’s Alumni Board. Additionally, Aron is the Founder of One Hoop Camps, a 501c3 that has served over 1600 children in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas since 2010. Aron is also a board member and has been a mentor to two students with the Student Sponsor Partnership in New York since 2016.",
		],
		companies: [],
		description:
			"Aron is the Head of Investor Relations for Evolution Equity Partners and is responsible for the firm's fundraising efforts and client activities. He brings over 12 years of experience in the financial space including roles in both the traditional and alternative asset classes.",
	},

	{
		name: "Phil Quade",
		photoUrl: "/people/PhilQuade_Photo.jpg",
		jobTitle: "Chief Operating Officer",
		linkedIn: "",
		paragraphs: [
			"Phil Quade is Evolution’s Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the firm as well as a member of the investment team.",
			"Phil joins Evolution after 5 years at Fortinet where he served as Chief Information Security Officer. He led strategy for the Operational Technology / Critical Infrastructure business practice, advised business and government executives on cybersecurity matters and was chairman of the company’s US Federal subsidiary.",
			"Prior to that, he was a long-time executive of the National Security Agency, with diverse assignments such as the creation and execution of highly-disruptive technical and operational worldwide capabilities within the guidelines of the President, Congress, and Courts; formation and execution of forward-leaning national security strategies and policies at the White House, and; day-to-day operations of the national security organization responsible for the worldwide protection of classified information, generation of nuclear command and control codes, and production of cryptographic keys for the United States and its allies. Other assignments included US Cyber Command; the US Senate; the Director of National Intelligence, and a special CIA/Pentagon joint technology and operations center.",
		],
		companies: [],
		description:
			"Phil Quade is Evolution’s Chief Operating Officer. Phil will take responsibility of the day-to-day operations of the firm and as a member of the investment team. Phil also brings with him a wealth of security experience acting as a CISO advisor to portfolio companies and advises on selling to the federal government.",
	},
	{
		name: "Yuval Ben-Itzhak",
		photoUrl: "/people/yuval.jpeg",
		jobTitle: "Partner",
		linkedIn: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuval-ben-itzhak/",
		paragraphs: [
			"Prior to joining Evolution, Yuval was the CEO of Socialbakers, a $50m ARR SaaS business acquired in 2020. Before Socialbakers, Yuval served as the CTO of Outbrain (NYSE: OB), the leading content discovery platform. Before that, Yuval served as the CTO of AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), where he played a crucial role in the company's IPO.",
			"Before joining AVG, Yuval was the CTO of the cybersecurity company Finjan (acquired by M86 in 2009). He is the listed inventor of the web-application firewall and the co-founder of KaVaDo (acquired by Protegrity in 2004). Yuval has been selected as the 25 most influencing CTO by InfoWorld, 40 Innovative IT People To Watch by Computerworld, and Chief Technology Officer of the Year by GeekTime in 2017.",
			"Yuval is a graduate of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and an inventor of 26 U.S. granted patents.",
		],
		companies: [],
		description: "Prior to joining Evolution, Yuval was the CEO of Socialbakers, a $50m ARR SaaS business acquired in 2020. Before Socialbakers, Yuval served as the CTO of Outbrain (NYSE: OB), the leading content discovery platform. Before that, Yuval served as the CTO of AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), where he played a crucial role in the company's IPO.",
	},
];

export default team;
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