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Virginia Gambale
Virginia Gambale is a successful investor and technology leader. As Managing Partner of Azimuth Partners LLC, which she founded in 2003, Ms. Gambale operates globally, as an investor & advisor, developing growth strategies, business partnerships and orchestrating successful exits for technology and business service companies. Ms. Gambale is highly regarded for her innovative thinking, personal involvement, and ability to deliver results. Accordingly, she has garnered such prestigious awards as the Forbes Great Communicators (1999) and was named one of the top three CIO's on Wall Street (1997). Most recently, she was named by Directors and Boards Magazine as one of 12 "Directors To Watch" for their special 30th anniversary celebration publication (2006).
She has served on over 20 Public and Private boards including: JetBlue (NASDAQ-JBLU), Motive (NASDAQ-MOTV), Workbrain (TSE-WB), Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ-SNCR), ), and IQ Financial (Chairman). She often serves as Board Chair and Compensation, Transaction & Technology Committee Chair. She is a very active board member. Ms. Gambale currently serves as a Director for JetBlue (NASDAQ-JBLU), Piper Jaffray (NYSE-PJC) and three private companies: Knoa, Kurtosys Ltd. (Chairman) and 29West.
Ms. Gambale's work on Advisory Boards has been extensive and included: DB Capital Partners, FT Ventures, Apax Technology Ventures, New York City Investment Fund, Mobius Ventures, Gartner Group CIO Advisory Roundtable, and CPM Brazil,
Prior to 2003, she held senior management positions (including CIO) at global corporations including: Merrill Lynch, Marsh & McLennan, Bankers Trust Alex Brown and Deutsche Bank. Additionally, she headed DB Strategic Ventures, where she successfully liquidated their 100M investment portfolio. This lead to her appointment as General Partner in ABS Ventures where all investments she led resulted in successful IPOs; e.g. Workbrain (TSE-WB) and Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ-SNCR). She was subsequently a partner at Deutsche Bank Capital Partners for several years before establishing Azimuth Partners.
As a board director of large public corporations, Ms. Gambale focuses on the strategic importance of technology in any business and also drives at the board level the prioritization, ROI and governance of the technology spend She posses a unique perspective which combines years of experience as a former management committee member, investor, customer and shareholder.
Ms. Gambale is a member of the Mentor Faculty and Thesis Evaluation board for Columbia University's Graduate Masters in Technology Leadership. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia University and the CIO Institute.
Ms. Gambale earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Business from the New York Institute of Technology. She also studied piano performance at the Julliard School and Hartt Conservatories. She is also a Board Director of the Newport Music Festival.
