Hambleton (Ham) Lord has over 30 years experience in the software industry founding and building industry leading companies. Currently, Ham is the Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group. Launchpad is a Boston-based angel group that focuses on seed stage technology companies. He manages the group’s deal flow, due diligence and investing activities. He is also the Co-Founder of Seraf, a software company that develops professional portfolio management tools for investors in early stage companies. Ham is an active angel investor and advisor to early stage companies. He is a board member for Qstream and Cambridge Trust and a board observer for Repsly, Building Engines and EveryScape. Ham co-founded data visualization vendor, Advanced Visual Systems. Ham helped launch two computational chemistry companies, MicroChem Technologies and Polygen. These companies were early developers of drug discovery tools, and were part of an industry wide acquisition roll-up that resulted in Accelrys. Ham graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Science from Brown University.

Managing Director @ Launchpad Venture Group is a Boston-based angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies. We are looking for innovative, technology-driven startup companies addressing a significant market opportunity where our investment can make a difference. Launchpad is the largest angel investing group in the Northeast, with a broad base of very active members coming from a variety of backgrounds and professions, including the technology, financial service, industrial and life science communities. As a group, we are well connected to potential customers, service providers, partners and future sources of financing. From January 2002 to Present (14 years) Co-Founder @ Co-Founder of software company Seraf-Investor.com. Seraf is a professional portfolio management tool for investors in early stage companies. Our solution enables seed investors to organize, track, analyze, optimize, and value their portfolios. Seraf puts the power of organization and analysis in their hands, and it puts organized records within the grasp of their advisors and family. From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Board Member @ From May 2012 to Present (3 years 8 months) Board Member @ Qstream is a real-time learning analytics platform developed at Harvard University that uses a simple but powerful question and answer system pushed to a users mobile device. From August 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) Board Observer @ Repsly has been focused on providing mobile software solutions for enhancing field activity management since its inception in 2010. Repsly targets organizations with field reps that visit established clients on a recurring basis to perform customer service and field management functions, such as taking replenishment orders, merchandising products on retail shelves, marketing for referrals, or performing regular maintenance. Deployed by leading global brands as well as innovative start-ups, Repsly enables these organizations to improve the efficiency of their field teams, and greatly simplifies the collection and analysis of field data. As a result, Repsly’s solution helps organizations create a tight connection between the field and back-office operations. From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Board Member @ Building Engines' Property and Tenant Management System captures, communicates, assigsn and reports on all the elements that impact the tenant experience, as well as operating efficiency and profitability. It simplifies operational complexities by improving visibility, extracting information, and speeding tenant communications. The results include a better tenant experience, higher operating efficiency, increases on the top line and higher NOI. From July 2002 to October 2011 (9 years 4 months) VP Marketing @ From January 1992 to June 1998 (6 years 6 months) Software Engineer @ From February 1989 to December 1991 (2 years 11 months) Director, Software Development @ From July 1985 to February 1989 (3 years 8 months)

ScB, Computer Science @ Brown University From 1979 to 1983 Hambleton Lord is skilled in: Start-ups, Venture Capital, Business Strategy, Angel Investing, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Partnerships, Investments, Business Development, Finance, Due Diligence, Mobile Devices, Mergers & Acquisitions, SaaS, Management Consulting, Mergers