Managing Director
38 Degree Advisors
Virginia has more than 30 years of high technology, investment, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, finance and executive management experience across a variety of market sectors. The hallmark of her career has been to successfully launch new initiatives, build cohesive teams and assist entrepreneurs in maximizing value. Virginia has direct investment experience as an early stage venture capitalist, as a crossover / private equity investor and has also made personal angel investments.
Virginia is currently a Managing Director at 38 Degree Advisors, a boutique advisory services and M&A transaction firm. Previously she was Senior Vice President of Business Development
and Strategy at EAG, Inc., a global leader in outsourced high-end services. She built the fastest growing and highly profitable division from the ground up via four pivotal acquisitions and assisted in integrating the business units. She was recruited by the CEO with whom she had worked previously at American Capital. At American Capital, Virginia was Managing Director and Co-Head of a new private technology initiative launched in Palo Alto, CA and Boston, MA. She built a bi-coastal team and spearheaded the Firm’s investments in various highly successful internet and media growth businesses including industry roll-ups and follow-on strategic acquisitions.
Previously, Virginia was an early stage venture capital investor. She spent three years in NYC with Constellation Ventures II, a digital media, internet and communications focused Fund. She joined two digital media professionals and assisted them in restructuring and selling several businesses amidst turbulent market conditions and making successful new investments. Earlier in her career, in the mid-1990s, Virginia was a co-founder and partner in Information Technology Ventures and a successor fund, Infinity Capital. The Funds raised over $400 million targeted at early stage technology venture investing over a nine year span. During this period, Virginia was named to the Forbes Midas List and was recognized by Money Magazine as one of the Smartest Women in the Money Business.
Virginia’s career also included twelve years at Morgan Stanley in New York and later Silicon Valley. She helped establish a west coast technology investment practice as part of the Venture Capital group. Previously, Virginia began her business career at Ernst & Young and was a Senior Accountant and CPA for a diverse set of clients and industries.
Virginia holds FINRA Series 24, 63 and 79 licenses.