John Scull

Bio

Founding Managing Director of Southern Cross Venture Partners, based in the Silicon Valley. Previously, he was a Venture Partner and member of the investment committee of the venture capital firm Allen & Buckeridge for 6 years. He was or still remains a Board of Director member of the following A&B portfolio companies: Aurema, ekit, Wedgetail/Vintela, Fultec Semiconductor, Fiberom, and VaST Systems. As an active board member and investor, he brings a wealth of operational experience to the management and board of an investee company, helping them transition their operations and headquarters to the United States, build their management teams, secure follow-on funding, define their strategy and improve their sales and business development efforts. Prior to A&B, John had a successful 20-year operational career with leading edge technology companies primarily in Silicon Valley. He has been the CEO of two successful venture backed software companies (Macromind, which merged to form Macromedia (MACR) and PF.Magic, which was successfully sold to The Learning Company). John was also an innovative marketing executive at Apple Computer, where he helped launch the Macintosh personal computer and then started and grew the company's Desktop Publishing business to over US$1B in revenues. MBA from Harvard University. Bachelor degree from the University of Oklahoma.