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

Pascal Levensohn has been a finance professional for twenty eight years and a venture capitalist since 1996, when he founded Levensohn Venture Partners ("LVP") in San Francisco. LVP specializes in intelligent infrastructure investments in security, cleantech, and digital media companies.

Pascal is an industry spokesperson on venture capital trends and a frequent speaker on corporate governance issues. His public policy speeches have been quoted extensively, reprinted in prominent VC industry blogs, and he has written opinion pieces and been quoted in publications including the San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal. In May 2006, Pascal established and now chairs the Working Group on Director Accountability and Board Effectiveness, a 33 member VC industry group that promotes director education and best governance practices. The group’s first effort, “A Simple Guide to the Basic Responsibilities of Venture–Backed Company Directors”, was published in January 2007. Pascal co-authored the first governance white paper in the VC industry in November 2003, "After the Term Sheet: How Venture Boards Influence the Success or Failure of Technology Companies". A second white paper, “Rites of Passage: Managing CEO Transition in Venture-Backed Technology Companies”, was published in January 2006. Pascal's VC governance work is widely used in the field and is part of the curriculum at several universities, including the Harvard Business School and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering (Department of Management Science & Engineering). These papers are freely available at www.levp.com/news.

Pascal was elected to the board of the National Venture Capital Association (www.nvca.org) in April 2007, where he chairs the education committee. He currently serves as the Chairman of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation’s Business Leadership Council (www.sfjcf.org/groups/blc/) and is a former co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society (www.aspeninstitute.org), a leadership development program with which he has been involved since 1997. Pascal is an active advocate of public policy initiatives to promote early adoption of leading technology security solutions by the Federal Government. In 2009 he became a director of the Security Innovation Network, "SInet" (www.publicprivatepartnerships.org) and LVP has been the lead venture capital sponsor of the IT Security Entrepreneurs Forum ("ITSEF"), held annually at Stanford University since its inception in 2007.

Pascal received a BA in Government from Harvard University and is a graduate of the Lawrenceville School. He is a lifemember of the Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org).

Pascal writes about current affairs and venture capital trends on his blog at www.pascalsview.com.