Cynthia Ringo

Cyn­thia Ringo is a Man­ag­ing Part­ner of DBL Investors, which she joined in April of 2008. Cynthia Ringo cur­rently sits on the board of direc­tors of Solex­ant and View and works with Live­scribe, Kateeva and Eco­logic. Cynthia Ringo was for­merly a Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Van­tage­Point Ven­ture Part­ners from 2002 to 2008 where she was Group Leader of the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Sys­tems, Inter­net and Media Prac­tice. Cynthia Ringo served as a Board Mem­ber of the fol­low­ing Van­tage­Point port­fo­lio com­pa­nies: Entri­sphere, Klipsh, Tym­phany, Widevine, Live­scribe, Prov­ina and Meriton. Prior to Van­tage­Point Ven­ture Part­ners, Cynthia Ringo served as the CEO of Cop­per­com, a next-​​generation net­work switch­ing com­pany, from 1998 to 2001 and was the Chair­man of the Board from 2001 to 2002. While at Cop­per­com Cynthia Ringo took the com­pany from pre-​​revenue and five employ­ees to an indus­try leader in two new com­mu­ni­ca­tions mar­kets. Cop­per­com was acquired by Heico Cor­po­ra­tion in 2003. Prior to Cop­per­com Cynthia Ringo was the SVP of Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment and Busi­ness Units at net­work­ing com­pany Madge Net­works from 1993 to 1997. While at Madge Net­works Cynthia Ringo had P&L respon­si­bil­ity for 3 busi­ness units with $400 mil­lion rev­enue and 500 staff, and iden­ti­fied and nego­ti­ated acqui­si­tions worth over $500 mil­lion. Cynthia Ringo was the VP Mar­ket­ing and Sales at data ware­hous­ing soft­ware com­pany Red Brick Sys­tems from 1990 to 1993. From 1980 to 1990 Cynthia Ringo held var­i­ous legal, sales, mar­ket­ing, busi­ness devel­op­ment, and con­sult­ing roles. Cynthia Ringo attended Emory University School of Law and Georgia State University.