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David L. Anderson
Dave Anderson is Managing Director of
Supply Chain Ventures, LLC, a venture capital and consulting company specializing in software and biotech investing and is a retired managing partner of supply chain consulting at Accenture, a $15 billion global technology consulting company.
He currently is an independent member of the Board of Directors (and compensation committees) of
Lean Logistics of Holland, Michigan, of
New Vine Logistics in Napa, California, of
Optiant in Burlington, Massachusetts, of
Aiko Biotechnology, a start up drug development Company in Maine specializing in pain management, and Chairman of Control Group, a New York City-based technology consulting and outsourcing company.
Dr. Anderson is on the Board of Advisors of Logispring Management Company s.a.r.l., Geneva Switzerland, a $200 million European venture fund specializing in supply chain investments and
True Demand Software, Inc, a Los Gatos based company using real time data to enhance supply chain management. He is also a member of the President’s Council of the
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
At Accenture, he was instrumental in building the company’s $2 billion supply chain management practice in North America, Asia and Europe. Over the past thirty years, he has helped numerous global corporations transform their supply chains into world-class organizations. He was also global lead for all Accenture alliances with supply chain software companies, including i2, Manugistics, Ariba and Commerce One.
Before joining Accenture, he was vice president in charge of logistics consulting at Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc. (now Mercer Management Consulting) and a vice president of Data Resources, Inc. (now part of Global Insights, Inc), where he founded the Firm’s transportation and logistics consulting practice. He was a founding partner of Operations Technology, Inc., a web-enabled, intelligent messaging software company (now part of Neptune Orient Lines). He has also taught classes in undergraduate and graduate level business courses at Northwestern, MIT, Boston University and Northeastern University.
Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the United Kingdom and a Member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals in the United States. He currently serves on the Technology Management Council of Boston College. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He is a frequent public speaker and has published numerous articles on supply chain strategy and business management in leading journals and websites, including the
Supply Chain Management Review, Supply Chain Practice Journal, The Journal of Finance and Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through Technology.
His past associations include the Board of Directors of Industri-Matematik-International (sold to Symphony Technology, then China dotcom), Board of Directors of
Vtrenz (sold to Silverpop), a member of the Board of Trustees of the
University of New England, the Board of Directors of
The Transportation Center at Northwestern University and a founder of the
Stanford University Global Supply Chain Forum .
Dr. Anderson received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Econometrics and Finance from Boston College and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut.
He has been married for 40 years to Melinda Anderson and has four grown children and seven grandchildren. They are co-owners of Biddeford Pool Development LLC, an environmentally-conscious residential land development company in Maine.
He lives on Biddeford Pool in Maine as well as in New York City and can be reached at 207-286-6464 or at
dave@supplychainventure.com .
Supply Chain Ventures also has a number of confidential limited partners and investors
Fund Advisors
Henry Bruce
Henry Bruce
advises portfolio companies on sales and marketing strategies. Henry is President of Rock Annard Research, a market research and consulting company that helps enterprise software companies develop and execute successful go-to-market strategies and programs, including Tibersoft, Curl and NEC Retail Solutions . Henry has over 30 years of manufacturing and distribution experience, including vice president of strategy and product marketing for Industri – Matematik International (IMI), vice president of product marketing for Optum, Inc. and field sales and marketing positions in the Computer Services Division of Xerox Corporation. Bruce has a BA in Political Science and Economics from Trinity College and lives in Wellesley , Massachusetts.

Paul Chapman
Paul Chapman advises portfolio companies on the application of decision support software to global supply chain management problems. Paul recently retired from i2 Technologies, where he was Vice President, Technical Analysis, and principal architect of i2's factory planning and supply chain network planning tools. Prior to i2, Paul held various partner-level supply chain consulting positions at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Computer Sciences Corporation and Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc. (now Mercer Management Consulting). Paul has a PhD in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Jeremy Shapiro was his thesis advisor, and a BA in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Paul lives in Hollis, New Hampshire with his wife, Marcia and their two children.
Allen Mottur
 Allen Mottur
advises portfolio companies in strategy, finance and organizational
management. He recently completed a five-year assignment as
Executive-in Residence in strategy and organization at Boston
University 's MBA Program. He has been a consultant and board member
on a variety of high technology companies, including Liveware and
Bluestreak, in the private equity sector, building value and
improving management capabilities to meet investor objectives and
ensure successful exits. Over his career, he has been on the board
and senior management teams of Arthur D. Little, Temple, Barker &
Sloane (now part of Mercer Management Consulting), Allen Mottur &
Associates and Harbridge House (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Allen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from
Williams College. He resides in Chatham on Cape Cod in
Massachusetts.
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