Johannes C. "Hans" Severiens earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Johns Hopkins. He worked as a scientist at Perkin-Elmer, Columbia University, the Atomic Energy commission, and the Niels Bohr Institute.
He eventually began a "second" career in finance and became a Vice President in investment banking with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Merrill Lynch, and Paine Webber.
Over the last 10 years, Severiens has been an officer in three venture capital funds. In 1995, he co-founded the Band of Angels, a Silicon Valley investor group of over 100 executives, which invests in tech companies.
Dr. Severiens passed away on February 3, 2004 in Sonoma, California, after battling lung cancer for more than a year. He was 74.
We instituted some strict procedures, and one of the procedures that we instituted was the fact that every opportunity or deal as we call it that would be presented to the group who have to have a sponsor from within the group, i.e. somebody from amongst ourselves whom we trusted. So, we wouldn't a...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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