EXPERIENCED TEAM OF INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
Steven L. Fingerhood
Mr. Fingerhood has been the Managing Partner of Technology Opportunity Partners, L.P., since its founding in 2003. Previously, Mr. Fingerhood was the founder of Zero Gravity Technologies Corporation, a developer of document security solutions, and served as its chairman and Chief Executive Officer until its sale to InterTrust Technologies Corporation in 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Fingerhood founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Direct Language Communications, Inc., a provider of localization services to the technology industry. Mr. Fingerhood currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Audit Committee of RPX Corporation (NASDAQ: “RPXC”), and previously served as Lead Independent Director on the Board of Harris Interactive Inc. until its acquisition by Nielsen Holdings N.V. in February, 2014. Mr. Fingerhood received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and is a member of the State Bar of California. He is also active in various philanthropic organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Daniel A. Still
Mr. Still is Partner and Director of Research at Technology Opportunity Partners, L.P., a position he has held since 2007. He previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Transactions Services which included mergers, acquisitions, spin-off, joint ventures and IPOs. While at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, he completed work on over 100 software and high technology transactions with time split relatively evenly between private equity and corporate clients. Mr. Still received a B.S. in Business Administration from California State University, Chico, and earned his CPA license in 2001.
Jesse Johannesen
Mr. Johannesen joined Technology Opportunity Partners, L.P. in June 2022. His career in financial services started in 1996 as a junior analyst for Bodri Capital Management, L.P. a hedge fund he would rejoin thirteen years later. Bodri was long/short value fund with $225 million in assets under management. In that intervening time, he was a partner at MK Global, a venture fund in Palo Alto, CA where he was on the board of Cross Access (acquired by IBM) and Spinergy until 2003 and an investment banker at Kaufman Bros. ,L.P. until 2008. Prior to Technology Opportunity Partners, L.P. he worked in a private wealth management division of Cowen, Inc. for six years analyzing and evaluating investment ideas and advising clients in other ways. Mr. Johannesen received a B.A. from Stanford University in Communications (journalism). His first job out of school was as a radio play-by-play announcer for a minor league affiliate of the Oakland A’s.
