Managing Partner
Current Board Seats: Akros Silicon, Consolidated IP Holdings, ShotSpotter (Chairman), Ubicom

Pascal Levensohn is the Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners LLC (LVP), a San Francisco-based early stage venture capital firm that he founded in 1996. For over 15 years, LVP and its affiliate, Levensohn Capital Advisors LLC, continuously advised a select group of clients, providing best practices solutions in the areas of fiduciary oversight, philanthropy, and board governance, as well as leadership development programs to empower the next generation of fiduciaries in family and other closely held enterprises.

From April 2010 to July 2011, Mr. Levensohn established and was the Managing Director of The Presidio Group's Family Enterprise Strategies (FES) team, providing similar advisory services to those outlined above. At Presidio Mr. Levensohn also served as a one of the five voting members of the firm's Executive Committee. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Levensohn was the Chief Investment Officer for a Forbes 400 family. He currently serves as a strategic advisor to several branches of this family.

A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Government cum laude, Mr. Levensohn has been a professional equity investor since the early 1980s, when he invested in merger risk arbitrage and special situations for seven years, principally at the First Boston Corporation (acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988). He moved to San Francisco in 1990 to join the merchant-banking firm of Richard C. Blum & Associates as a Managing Director and Partner.

Mr. Levensohn is a former director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA, 2007-2011), where he served as the chairman of the NVCA's Education Committee for three years. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a native of Puerto Rico who is fluent in Spanish and French.

Continuing Education and Thought Leadership<

Mr. Levensohn is a former co-chairman of the Socrates Society Forum of the Aspen Institute (2007-2009). He is currently co-chairman of the Aspen Institute's endowment campaign for the benefit of the Socrates Society. In the area of venture capital education, he is currently a Class 14 Mentor and member of the faculty in the Society of Kauffman Fellows, where he has lectured on venture capital board corporate governance best practices since 2006. Mr. Levensohn has been a guest lecturer on venture capital at the Harvard Law School (October 2010). He completed a series of lectures on venture board governance best practices in China in November 2010 at Beijing University, Renmin University of China, and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, as part of its Distinguished Speakers Series. Most recently he lectured in Singapore at the Wee Kim Wee Center of Singapore Management University (May 2011). Mr. Levensohn is a frequently published contributor to national newspapers and trade publications in the venture capital industry.

In November 2010 the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Organizing Committee of the China Entrepreneurship Incubation Programme appointed Mr. Levensohn as a member of the Experts Committee to the China Entrepreneurship Incubation Committee.

Publications

Mr. Levensohn has been a director of both public and private companies since 1993. He currently serves as a director of three venture-backed operating companies: Shotspotter (Chairman); Akros Silicon; and Ubicom. He is also the Chairman of Consolidated IP Holdings, Inc. This powerful base of knowledge and experience has enabled him to publish numerous articles and white papers that have been incorporated into the venture capital curriculum at several prominent U.S. business schools (including Harvard Business School, Dartmouth, and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering). Thousands of copies of Pascal's whitepapers have been downloaded from the LVP website, as well as sites of other organizations ranging from the NACD to PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Levensohn is the principal author of three authoritative white papers on venture capital board governance best practices (see below) and is the co-author of the undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory and Practice, with Professor Liu Manhong (Mannie Liu) of Renmin University of China (2011). This book is one of "China's National College Major Investment Textbook Series for the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan'" and is the first book of its kind to be published in China in Chinese.

Community Leadership, Philanthropy, and Family

Mr. Levensohn is one of the original members of the group of San Francico business leaders that established the Business Leadership Council (BLC) for the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation in 2005, and he served as the BLC's chairman from 2007 through 2008. He served in various positions on the board of directors of Congregation Emanu El in San Francisco for six years (1994-2000), including chairman of the board nominating committee and Vice President of the congregation.