Alsop Louie Partners

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Alsop Louie Partners is a team of seasoned investors who are entrepreneurs and executives with distinctive reputations. Each partner has experience building technology or media businesses that have grown into successful operating companies, public and private. Among our partners, we have experience in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, security, and mobile. Half of the partners have had careers at intelligence agencies.

Prior to founding Framehawk, Peter Badger had nineteen years of experience in software product management and product development, overseeing groups mostly in the financial services industry. Rocket scientist Stephen Vilke, the company’s other founder, started his career with NASA for six years. He developed technical data reduction and graphic display software for three different NASA space missions. Badger and Vilke met one another while working at Barclays Global Investors, the asset management arm of Barclays.

In August of 2008, the two became partners in bootstrapping the company that eventually became Framehawk. The partners pursued a classic entrepreneurship path: Rather than raise money, they started consulting to earn money while developing the technology that would be the product they really wanted to sell. Badger became CEO of the company, while Vilke became CTO and head of development. The trick in bootstrapping with consulting revenue is to keep the efforts separate, so the company had two operating entities – one for product development and one for consulting.

Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a public company and leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003, when Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc.

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