Jane H. Martin

• Regional Managing Director of Capital Investments / Village Ventures, Inc.
  
  
• Before joining Village Ventures, Ms. Martin was Acting Chief Executive Officer at Wisdom Tools, Inc., Indiana University's first technology spinout.
  
  
• Before retiring to Bloomington in 1990, Ms. Martin was a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, managing $350 million in venture funds for Stanford, Harvard, General Electric, Citicorp and dozens of public and private endowments and pension funds. U.S. Venture Partners focused investments in both technology and non-technology companies at all stages of investment but with an emphasis on early-stage companies. During Ms. Martin's tenure, USVP seeded companies such as Sun Microsystems, Applied Biosystems, Advanced Cardiovascular, Gymboree and PetsMart. Ms. Martin's investments at USVP included Avia, Graphic Controls and Callaway Golf.
  
  
• Ms. Martin began her career as a Security Analyst and Portfolio Manager in the Common Stock Division of Allstate Insurance Company in Chicago in 1971. In 1979 she was recruited to Allstate's $250 million Venture Capital Division, which invested in Control Data, Federal Express, Sensormatic and Longs Drug Stores.
  
  
• Ms. Martin is a member of the Distinguished Entrepreneur Academy of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, and is a member of the advisory boards of Arch Development Fund and Dunrath Partners, both Chicago-based early-stage venture capital funds. Ms. Martin is a CFA and holds a B.S. in Marketing and Finance from Indiana University.