Ned is a Managing Director in the firm's Cambridge, Massachusetts office and is responsible for identifying investment opportunities, performing due diligence, and negotiating and monitoring East Coast portfolio investments. He has more than 28 years of experience in the technology industry as an investment banker, venture capitalist, and senior finance and operations executive.

Before joining Lighthouse in January 2000, Ned held various senior management positions at Avid Technology from 1993 to 1999, including General Manager of the Office and Consumer Group, Senior Vice President of Business Development, and Treasurer. Prior to Avid, Ned was a Managing Director of Robertson Stephens and Company from 1987 to 1993, where he was responsible for establishing and building Robertson Stephens' Boston-based technology investment banking practice in the Eastern U.S. and Canada. From 1979 to 1987 he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in the corporate finance and venture capital groups.

While at Lighthouse, Ned's more than 50 investments have included airwide solutions, AppIQ (acquired by H-P), Aprimo, Authentica (acquired by EMC), Azea (acquired by Xtera), Bit9, DataPower (acquired by IBM), Care.com, EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC), Envoy Networks (acquired by TI), ExaGrid, Glasshouse Technologies, Globoforce, iPhrase (acquired by IBM), Kiva Systems, Konarka, LiveVault (acquired by Iron Mountain), LVL7 (acquired by Broadcom), Marketworks (acquired by Channel Advisor), NameMedia, National Sensor (acquired by BAE), Orthogon Systems (acquired by Motorola), Sandburst (acquired by Broadcom), Servigistics, Soundbite (NASDAQ: SDBT), TheLadders.com, Winphoria (acquired by Motorola), and Ximian (acquired by Novell).

Ned holds an AB from Brown University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.