Today, at the 2011 NVCA Annual Meeting in Boston, Paul Maeder, Co-Founder and General Partner of Highland Capital Partners was elected to serve as the 2011-2012 Chair of the Board of Directors. 

Kate Mitchell, Managing General Partner of Scale Venture Partnerscompleted her one year term, helping lead the venture industry through a very challenging political environment.  During her leadership, Mitchell was instrumental in educating Congress on the importance of maintaining tax incentives for long term investment and exempting the venture capital industry from SEC registration under the Dodd Frank Act of 2010, formed the Medical Innovation and Competitiveness (MedIC) Coalition, and presided over a major marketing initiative for the NVCA, updating the Association’s overall brand and materials     

The NVCA also announced that it’s Chairman-elect for 2012-2013 is Ray Rothrock, General Partner of Venrock in Palo Alto, California.

Along with Maeder’s appointment, the NVCA announced six new members to its Board of Directors.  Beginning their four year terms today are Jon Callaghan, True Ventures; David Douglass, Delphi Ventures; Bob Goodman, Bessemer Venture Partners; Ray Leach, JumpStart, Inc.; Jonathan Leff, Warburg Pincus; and David Lincoln, Element Partners.

Retiring from the NVCA Board after serving four-year terms are: Ira Ehrenpreis, Technology Partners; Jim Hale, FTV Capital; Pascal Levensohn, Levensohn Venture Partners;  Kate Mitchell, Scale Venture Partners; Roger Novak, Novak Biddle Venture Partners; David Prend, RockPort Capital Partners; and Jonathan Root, U.S. Venture Partners.

The Association thanks these accomplished investors for their service and we look forward to working with those joining today.