Edward C. Williams, III
Partner
ewilliams@brookventure.com
(781) 295-4000 ext. 203
Brook’s approach to venture investing lets entrepreneurs do what they love: build their businesses. We provide the capital to help the entrepreneurs execute their business plan and the guidance to help them think through issues. We do not expect control of the entrepreneur’s company; rather, we want to help the entrepreneur maximize his business’s potential and realize its full value at the time of a liquidity event. We strive for a “Win-Win.”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ned has spent a total of 20 years in private equity investing and has been responsible for dozens of rounds of financing in both early and expansion companies. Ned joined Brook Venture Partners in 1999 as a General Partner and a member of the fund’s Investment Committee and is an active investor in and serves on several of Brook’s portfolio company board of directors in both medical and information technology. Ned is a steering committee member of The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, which offers inventors and executives of the state’s smaller medical device company’s easy, affordable, and coordinated access to world-class researchers and resources. Ned is also an active member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Regional Association of Small Business Investment Companies (NERASBIC).
Prior to joining Brook, Ned was a Managing Director at Saturn Asset Management, a Boston-based private equity firm. He was involved with all aspects of the firm’s investment activities, including leading the financing on both Constant Contact (CTCT) and FreeMarkets Online, a Pittsburg based company that was brought public by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs and closed on it’s first day of trading with a market capitalization in excess of 10 Billion Dollars.
Earlier in his career he was with Morgan Stanley in New York City where he was involved with over 25 Initial Public Offerings including the Netscape IPO as well as the spinout of Lucent Technologies from AT&T.
EDUCATION
Kents Hill Preparatory School,
University of Massachusetts; BS
LESSONS LEARNED
Having the best product or service is wonderful…the question is: “Can you sell it?”
Business is basically very simple; it is often the people who make it confusing. Pick your partners carefully.
OUTSIDE INTERESTS
Upland game shooting; fly fishing; cycling; skiing; good food; spending as much time as I can with my family.