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Tropical Leaves

Our Partners

Our 19 partners each bring 30+ years of professional experience and invaluable networks for the ventures we select. We began in Boston & Silicon Valley as Sage Partners, and expanded into Europe 12 years ago, as Sage Partners Europe.  

We work because we enjoy helping firms accelerate sustainable growth, and in doing so, derive deep satisfaction in our role as a business partner to our venture clients.

Passion | Experience | Connection

Our European Team
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Hugo van der Zee

Partner, Co-Founder Europe

Switzerland, The Netherlands

Focused on strategy, structure, people and culture, Hugo understands that the great enabler of good strategy – is pragmatism and moving quickly.  Hugo opens doors where others see only walls.

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hvanderzee@sagepartners.eu

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Marc Fox

Partner, Co-Founder Europe

Switzerland, France, Canada

Be it with start-ups, scale-ups or mature businesses, Marc is focused on accelerating outcomes to deliver sustainable growth. A respected & creative problem solver, he anchors strategy in customer value.

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mfox@sagepartners.eu

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Paul de Ruijter

Partner

The Netherlands, Germany

Paul is a very experienced, results-oriented yet pragmatic people leader.
Be it mergers, acquisitions or new ventures; Paul sees the problems, and  collaborates with management to deliver sustainable solutions.

 

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pderuijter@sagepartners.eu

Our California Team
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Cedric Crocker

Partner

San Francisco, CA & London

Cedric Crocker works with start-ups, social ventures, and established media, digital learning, professional development, and publishing enterprises in the United States and Europe.

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ccrocker@sagepartners.net

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David R. Currie

Partner

San Francisco, CA

David’s passion and focus is to support technology entrepreneurs in achieving their goal of building a valuable, well funded, and ultimately successful company—from inception to exit. His admirable track record is valuable for entrepreneur and investor alike.

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dcurrie@sagepartners.net

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Donald J. Plumley

Partner

San Francisco, CA

Don is primarily focused on Sage Partners' Venture Acceleration Practice where he assists entrepreneurs and executives to align strategy, core competence, and market opportunity into a compelling story.

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dplumley@sagepartners.net

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Katherine Glassey

Partner

San Francisco, CA

Katherine epitomizes the Silicon Valley entrepreneur as the co-founder of Brio Technology. As a Sage Partner, she focuses on venture acceleration, and is particularly interested in working with founders to design go-to-market plans that scale.

 

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kglassey@sagepartners.net

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John Hansen

Partner

San Francisco, CA

John Hansen is a Partner at Sage Partners, LLC and is based in San Francisco. He works with clients in the firm’s Strategy & Governance and Venture Acceleration practices.

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jhansen@sagepartners.net

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Ted West

Lead Partner, Venture Acceleration

San Francisco, CA

Ted is a Founding Partner of Sage Partners and its Lead Partner in Venture Acceleration. He brings 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and advisor to founders and boards of innovative companies. 

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twest@sagepartners.net

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David Rosenblum

Partner

Los Angeles, CA

David has nearly 40 years experience as a management consultant and advisor across a wide range of industries. He brings unique subject matter expertise in M&A from both sides of the table.

 

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drosenblum@sagepartners.net

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Bill Mitchell

Partner

San Francisco, CA

Bill brings a career of corporate leadership as a public company CEO/Chairman and Director. He pursues opportunities that leverage his experience for companies who share his mission to make a difference, locally and around the world.

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bmitchell@sagepartners.net

Our East Coast Team
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Thomas L. Doorley, III

Chairman, Founder

Boston, MA

Thomas L. Doorley, III is a co-founder and CEO/Chairman of Sage Partners.  He practices across all of our client segments – public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations.

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tdoorley@sagepartners.net

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Kathleen Schaller

Partner

Boston, MA

Kathy works at the intersection of strategy and analytics, helping companies make critical business decisions and serving as a trusted advisor to marketing leaders.

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kschaller@sagepartners.net

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Rich Schneider

Partner

Boston, MA

 

 

Rich brings 40 years of advisory consulting experience in a variety of industries and with organizations of all sizes. He works with boards and executive management teams on challenges of growth, new business entry, and pursuing big opportunities.

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rschneider@sagepartners.net

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Dave Potter

Partner

Boston, MA

 

 

David leverages his Fortune 200 marketing expertise, CEO startup experience, and University tech transfer leadership to advise promising health and consumer tech startups on the best path to commercialize their innovations.

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dpotter@sagepartners.net

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Mimi Macksoud

Partner

Boston, MA

Mimi is co-Leader of Sage Partners’ Opportunity Oversight practice. She has worked extensively as an advisor to CEOs, CMOs, C-suite executives and boards of directors.

 

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mmacksoud@sagepartners.net

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Robert J.Kueppers

Partner

Sarasota, FL

Bob deepens our governance and strategy expertise, focused on the ongoing dialogue around the importance of the oversight role and how management can leverage the the Board.

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rkueppers@sagepartners.net

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Larry Bennigson

Partner

Boston, MA

Extensive experience and focus as a strategy consultant, service company leader, public company board member, management teacher and researcher.

 

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lbennigson@sagepartners.net

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John E. Conway

Partner

Boston, MA

John’s focuses on game-changing strategies and tactics in the Media/ Entertainment/ Sports, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Telecom and Aerospace/Defense industry sectors.

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jconway@sagepartners.net

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