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Bruce Ezell

Portfolio Manager

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Bruce Ezell is a Portfolio Manager in Austin, Texas, with a background in venture capital, start-ups, and strategic planning. His career highlights include roles at Techxas Ventures as a Venture Capitalist and at Dell as a Technology Executive. Bruce has a diverse work history, including founding a company, serving as a CFO, and working in management consulting, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and financial analysis.

Work Experience 

Private Family Office

  • Portfolio Manager

    2015 - Current

    Manage a highly concentrated, unconstrained portfolio of public securities and derivatives Strategies based on perspectives and insights derived from an unlikely set of experiences and circumstances

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Techxas Ventures

  • Venture Capitalist

    1998 - 2014

    Founder/ Managing Partner - Startup to $66 million AUM in 3 years / 4 partners - 1 IPO/ 15 liquidity events - 2nd most active Austin VC firm in 2002 (ABJ) - Chairman, board, and board observer roles - BroadJump (NASDAQ:MOTV); Conformative (Intel); Spectral Genomics (PerkinElmer); StoredIQ (IBM); Medical Present Value (Experian); Caleb (Accenture), Bacterial Barcodes (BioMérieux), NanoTechnologies Inc (Novacentrix), TManage (Covad/ MegaPath), WebIQ (WiQ), Hire.com (Authoria), iMark (FreeMarkets), SoloMio (OpenWave), BusinessThreads (Pavillion), MyTech (Hubbell), etc.

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Dell

  • Technology Executive

    1989 - 1998

    Founder / General Manager, DellWare - startup to $300 million in 2 years (ultimately, a $10 billion+ business) - DellWare model generally recognized as a major PC industry innovation of it’s time - Strategic partner Ingram used what we jointly built to launch Amazon.com Vice President, Financial Services - $80 million to $300 million in lease originations in 2 years (LGI) - largest originator of small-ticket PC leases in the US - innovated first “fax signature” legal doc acceptability Strategic Planning/ Corporate Development Manager - when Dell grew from $300 million to $2.2 billion in 2 years (F500 record) - ultimately went from Tier 3 clone to largest PC company in the world, beating out over 40 competitors

Dell transforms computing and provides high-quality solutions for people and businesses to be ready to move forward.

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Ernst & Young Global Consulting Services

  • Management Consultant

    1988 - 1989

    Strategy and transaction work for Dell, First Reserve Corporation, HEI Hospitals, early-stage tech, family offices, investors, etc.

Underwater Technology Corp

  • Founder / Chief Financial Officer

    1985 - 1988

    - Venture-backed - Commercialized new high performance industrial coatings, Hycote 151 - IPO registration pulled week of Black Monday (10/19/87); acquired by Somay

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Gulf Oil

  • Financial Analyst

    1982 - 1985

    - Elite Fortune 10 financial management leadership program - Gulf/ Chevron merger team (Fortune 5)

Summer/ Part-time jobs (age 15-21)

  • Welder, Machinist, Warehouseman, Retailer, Laborer

    1976 - 1982

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