Miles Arnone
Miles Arnone joined American Capital in September 2002 as a Vice President in the Operations Team and was promoted to Principal in 2004 and Managing Director in 2006. Previously, Mr. Arnone was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Charterhouse Group International, a private equity firm with $1 billion under management. There, Mr. Arnone was responsible for conducting due diligence and managing portfolio companies. His assignments included work in the machine tool, electronics, and medical device industries.
Prior to his tenure at Charterhouse Group Mr. Arnone was President of Boston Digital Corporation, a machine tool builder with approximately $30 million in sales. While there he authored the reference work High Performance Machining, an implementation guide for recent innovations in CNC machining. His most recent work, America's Trading Partners: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was published in November 2004.
Mr. Arnone holds graduate degrees in management and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT as well.
Scott Jarus
Scott Jarus is CEO of Cognition Technologies, a company which has developed an evolutionary meaning-based linguistic Search technology that dramatically increases the precision and recall of Search results. Mr. Jarus is a serial entrepreneur with twenty-five years of management experience in the telecommunications industry, beginning with a company that built one of the world's first public packet-data switching networks. Prior to joining Cognition, he was chief executive of j2 Global Communications (NASDAQ: JCOM), who signature product, eFax®, serves more than 9.5 million customers in more than 1,500 cities in twenty-five countries on five continents. Mr. Jarus' background includes executive management at OnSite Access, RCN Telecom, Multimedia Medical Systems (which he co-founded) and Metromedia Communications.
Mr. Jarus serves on the Board of Directors of FreeConference.com, Ironclad Performance Wear Corp. (ICPW), and Forval International. He was named E&Y's 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year for Media, Entertainment and Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas.
Warren R. Jason
Warren Jason is a telecommunication entrepreneur who has conceived and implemented highly innovative, successful, pioneering applications in Computer Telephony and interactive voice response systems for over twenty years. He holds a B.A.degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland and an M.A. degree in Psychology from California Graduate Institute. Mr. Jason was the Founder of FreeConference.com, as well as the original network and systems architect, and supervising Web designer of the project. He has held lead systems analysis, programming and data processing positions at the University of Maryland, the Federal Communications Commission, California Federal Savings and Loan, Petersen Publishing Company and The Chancellor's Office of the California State University and College System.
Virginia M. Turezyn
Virginia M. Turezyn joined American Capital in April 2006 as Managing Director of the Technology Group and currently serves as the group's co-director at American Capital's Palo Alto office. Ms. Turezyn brings over 24 years of experience in technology investing in areas that include consumer Internet, digital media, software and services. She served as Managing Director at Constellation Ventures, an affiliate of Bear Stearns Asset Management, was a Co-founder and Managing Director of Infinity Capital, LLC and its predecessor company Information Technology Ventures and served as Vice President in the Venture Capital Group at Morgan Stanley & Co., where she established a west coast presence and venture capital practice.
Will Rudat
Will Rudat joined American Capital in February 2002 and was promoted to Associate, Operations Team, in 2003, and then to Vice President in 2007. During his tenure with the Operations Team, Mr. Rudat evaluated and executed investments and operational improvements in support of the restructuring, growth, and exit strategies of portfolio companies.
Prior to American Capital, Mr. Rudat held corporate development positions with startup telecommunications companies CityNet Telecommunications and NETtel Communications. He started his career as an auditor with Ernst & Young LLP, working primarily in the Financial Services and Aerospace and Defense industries.
Mr. Rudat holds an MBA in Finance and Operations Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BBA in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a four-year Division I letterman in swimming. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Tim Huelskamp
Tim Huelskamp joined American Capital in January 2008. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Huelskamp worked with Jefferies Broadview, the technology investment banking division of Jefferies & Company, where he focused on M&A and equity and debt financings. During his tenure, Mr. Huelskamp worked on a variety of merger & acquisition transactions and helped technoloy companies raise capital in the debt & equity markets.
Mr. Huelskamp obtained his BS in Finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.