Mr Paul Cleveland

KANDO id: 40641

Bio

Paul Cleveland brings more than 25 years of relevant corporate, finance and legal experience to Mohr Davidow. As Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for all finance, operations and administrative functions of the firm, and plays an active role in strategic matters relating to the portfolio companies and investor community. Paul joined Mohr Davidow from Affymax, a pharmaceutical company, where he was chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate development. Prior to that he was a managing director at Integrated Finance, Ltd., an investment bank, where he advised large international corporations on financial and mergers and acquisitions strategy. Previously, he was managing director and head of West Coast mergers & acquisitions for JPMorgan (formerly Hambrecht & Quist). While there, he was responsible for more than 50 completed transactions involving healthcare and technology companies ranging in size from $100 million to more than $20 billion. Earlier in his career, Paul was a corporate lawyer at Cooley Godward in Palo Alto, Calif., and Sidley & Austin and Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Paul currently serves on the boards of Sangamo Biosciences and Grace Cathedral, the Episcopal cathedral of San Francisco. He earned his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago and his A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis.


Career


Mohr Davidow Ventures

Venture capital firm in California that focuses on early stage technology-based startups.
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Education