David Vogel

David Vogel has over 20 years experience in venture capital and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to co-founding Velocity Equity Partners, David set up and served as a managing partner of Velocity Capital Partners (VCP), a Chicago-based venture capital initiative. David’s prior investments include: MGC Communications (publicly traded), 21st Century Telecom Group (sold to RCN), GoAmerica (publicly traded), and CyberSource (publicly traded). More recently, David has lead investments for VEP in Retail Solutions (recently sold to Verisign), Dotomi, CiDRA, and CyVera (recently sold to Illumina). Earlier in his career, David served in various corporate development roles for Farley Industries and Fruit of the Loom. In those roles he assisted in developing, analyzing and executing corporate acquisition strategies and restructuring alternatives for Fruit of the Loom, West Point Pepperell, Acme Boot Company and other companies affiliated with Farley Industries. David is a 1984 graduate of Amherst College and earned his MBA from The Tuck School at Dartmouth College in 1989. Prior to attending business school, David worked for Lehman Brothers for three years as an associate and analyst in their investment banking division. In his spare time, David enjoys the frenetic pace of a home filled with four children ages 11 to 4.