Bruce Ezell
Portfolio Manager
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
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
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.
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.
Management Consultant
1988 - 1989
Strategy and transaction work for Dell, First Reserve Corporation, HEI Hospitals, early-stage tech, family offices, investors, etc.
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
Financial Analyst
1982 - 1985
- Elite Fortune 10 financial management leadership program - Gulf/ Chevron merger team (Fortune 5)
Welder, Machinist, Warehouseman, Retailer, Laborer
1976 - 1982