John Oppenheimer is a successful serial entrepreneur having completed a wide range of corporate strategy, finance and business development activities for 13 companies over the past 18 years. His extensive investor relations experience includes designing and facilitating business strategies that have raised over 500 million dollars of investment capital for profit and non-profit ventures. These ventures were all early-stage, start-up opportunities in technology, publishing, import/export, and bio-technology.

While serving as either CEO, President, or Board Member, John built and led management teams responsible for the successful growth and profitability of the following companies: Omnipod, Monkey Rock Ventures, Kosmo.com, International Arts Associates, and Liquid Magazine/Movie Magazine. John is Co-Founder and acting CEO of VeriFIDES Technology Corp, a a Beechtree portfolio persistent file security company that works with General Dynamics to sell file security solutions into the US intelligence community. www.verifides.com Before these entrepreneurial ventures, John has served in senior leadership positions at several prestigious non-profit organizations including the Hispanic Policy Development Project, the International Institute for the Arts, and the Aspen Institute.

As a Beechtree Capital partner, John is corporate strategist for Beechtree investments in technology and marketing,