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Harry Hopper

Senior Partner

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Harry has extensive experience in starting, analyzing, funding, developing and advising high-growth companies of all stages. He has been a venture capital Managing Partner, an entrepreneur-founder, and an active board member across 25+ companies in the communications, media and technology sector (CMT) over a span of more than 30 years.

After founding 2 companies and serving as a partner in Bachtel Cellular, LP (a mobile communications venture fund), Harry became a partner at Columbia Capital, a CMT venture capital/private equity firm which launched its first institutional fund in 1999. Harry served as a Managing Partner at Columbia for 4 institutional funds ($2 billion+ under management). Prior to Columbia’s first institutional fund, Harry co-founded Digital Television Services (a direct CMT investment by Columbia’s merchant bank), and served as President of Columbia’s affiliate investment bank, the Columbia Group.

Harry’s past public board seats include: Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX); MetroPCS Communications (now NYSE: TMUS); Pegasus Communications (NASDAQ: formerly PGTV); and DSL.net (NASDAQ: formerly DSLN).

Harry’s past private board seats include: Affinity Internet (acquired by Hostway), AFSC (acquired by CDC), Broadslate Networks (acquired by DSL.net), Bachtel Cellular (4 mobile operator JVs acquired by Verizon, AT&T), Cellular One of East Texas (acquired by MTPCS), Columbia Spectrum Management (acquired by P-Com), Cricket Oregon JV (acquired by AT&T), Digital Television Services (acquired by Pegasus Communications), MobiPCS (acquired by Verizon), Open Mobile (acquired by Sprint), Pihana Pacific (acquired by Equinix), Public Mobile (acquired by Telus), Salt, Inc. (merged with Stcky.io), Sky Broadcasting (acquired by Broadcasting Partners) and Xemod (acquired by Sirenza Microdevices).

Harry is currently on the Boards of: SUM Ventures portfolio companies UNest, Inc. and HyperSpectral Corp. (Observer); as well as LendPro, LLC.

Harry started his career as a corporate finance and M&A lawyer.

He received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Harry is an avid cyclist and a supporter of education and the arts. He is a former Trustee of George Mason University and is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Corcoran Trust.