Andy Dale

Andy has served as Managing Partner of Montlake Capital a leading Pacific Northwest Growth Equity firm since 1999. For more two decades, he has been involved with building and growing companies including Acme Packet (IPO/Oracle), Clear Access(Cisco), Clear Medical (Stericycle), Halosource(IPO), Intrepid (Xerox), Linktone(IPO), Payscale (Warburg Pincus), Performant (Mercury Interactive), Priority Call Management (LHSG) and Veriwave (Ixia). He is former Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Infectious Disease Research (SeattleBiomed) and former President of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association. Early in his career, Andy served in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Smith Barney in New York, where he worked on reorganizations for Revco Drugstores, Sunbeam and Eastern Airlines. He also worked with Smith Barney venture capital group First Century Partners. As a communications industry entrepreneur he helped build Priority Call, prior to its acquisition by LHS Group in 1999. At Priority Call, Andy assisted in raising $15 million of angel and venture capital (Menlo and Canaan) and served as VP Sales and Marketing as the company grew from $0 to $60 million in annualized revenues. Andy served as Vice President of Corporate Development at LHS Group, a wireless software and billing company, prior to its $4.7 billion merger with Sema Group.