V2C Forum 2004
Venture-to-Capital

John May

John May is the founder and managing partner of New Vantage Group, a Vienna, Virginia-based firm that innovatively mobilizes private equity capital into early-stage companies. He is an authority on “angel” investors. New Vantage Group administers four regional angel groups—the Dinner Club, eMedia Club, Active Angel Investors, and the Washington Dinner Club, and has joint ventures with WomenAngels.net and the CEO Club. May is co-author of the book, Every Business Needs an Angel (Crown Business: 2001). In 2003, he co-edited the book and multimedia CD entitled State of the Art: An Executive Briefing on Cutting-Edge Practices in American Angel Investing (Darden Publishing: 2003).

May also has extensive experience with venture funds—he is managing general partner of Calvert Social Venture Partners LP, the Mid-Atlantic Fund of Funds, LP, and is an advisor to the Women’s Growth Capital Fund, the Next Generation Fund, and Solstice Capital. He is vice-chairman of the newly formed Angel Capital Association, a program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and is a lead instructor for their “Power of Angel Investing” seminars. He is co-chair of the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Technology Entrepreneurship Center and a board member of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, Mindshare, the Conservation International’s Verde Fund, and the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology’s GAP fund.

In the fall of 2002, the Batten Institute at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration appointed May as a “Batten Fellow” and in January 2004, he became the part-time director, Northern Virginia Initiative and a UVA faculty member.

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