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 Seán Sebastian, Partner
sean@birchmerevc.com
Seán Sebastian is Birchmere’s founding partner, establishing the first fund in 1996. During his twelve years of active venture capital investing, Seán has made multiple successful investments resulting in IPOs and trade sales, most notably FreeMarkets, Neolinear, Safeguard Interactive, and Knova Software. He is actively involved in the development and growth of numerous companies, also serving as a past or current director of CyOptics, Lightningcast, LogicLibrary, MediaSite, ParaData, and Precision Therapeutics.
Seán has over 20 years experience in technology commercialization, management consulting, systems integration, and financial services. Prior to founding Birchmere, he was in PNC Bank’s Corporate Finance Group. He was previously Founder and CEO of The Telford Group Ltd., a technology consulting firm to financial services clients. He also provided management consulting services to major banking and insurance clients at International Systems Services.
While at General Electric Information Services, Seán directed advanced technology commercialization activities. At American Management Systems, he consulted on applied artificial intelligence systems for various public and private sector clients. Seán also served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force.
Seán serves on the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s executive committee and is past President of the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association. He is a frequent guest lecturer on entrepreneurship and venture capital at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
