Bay Area Board of Advisors

Wallace R. Hawley
InterWest Partners/FaithWorks

Mr. Hawley is a co-founder of InterWest Partners (1979), one of the largest venture capital partnerships in the United States with over $600 million in committed capital, formed to make equity investments in diversified U. S. growth companies which range in size from seed-stage to later-stage investments.

Mr. Hawley's prior experience includes seven years as president of SHV North America Holding Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Netherlands corporation with $4 billion in sales and a partner in SHV's venture capital subsidiary. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc., an international management consulting firm.

Mr. Hawley's affiliations include: Vice Chairman of the Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University Guest lecturer at Stanford Business School Trustee of the Foundation for Teaching Economics Board member of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship Member of the Board of Trustees of Young Life

He also serves as an advisor to a number of financial firms including:
Wingate Partners of Dallas, Texas;
Brynwood Partners of Greenwich, Connecticut;
Noro-Moseley Partners of Atlanta, Georgia;
Rosewood Capital L. P. of San Francisco.

Mr. Hawley is a past board member of the Sanford Institute at Duke University, past president of the San Francisco chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, and past board member and officer for the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.

Mr. Hawley has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.