Our Team

The TVP Ventures investment team includes four general partners who work with our portfolio companies as board members and advisors.

Donald Gasgarth – Managing Director

Managing Director and Founder - Triton Value Partners
Managing Director - IA Tech, LLC.

Mr. Gasgarth is an active private investor and has more than 20 years of experience in the venture capital, investment banking and brokerage businesses.

Mr. Gasgarth was a partner at PtekVentures actively involved in the funding and management of start-up companies in the Internet and telecommunications space.

He was an early stage investor and founding board member of PTEK Holdings (PTEK), an early stage investor in VerticalOne (now SONE), Relevant Knowledge(now JUPM) and several other successful start-ups. Prior to that, Mr. Gasgarth was a broker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and a Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance with Dickinson and Co. Mr. Gasgarth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Emory University.

Jeffrey K. Zwitter - Managing Director

Managing Director and Founder - Triton Value Partners
Managing Officer - IA Tech, LLC.

Mr. Zwitter is an accomplished executive and with over 20 years of Senior Management and Partner level experience in Investment Banking, Venture Capital and Sales and Marketing.

In his career Mr. Zwitter has actively participated in identifying, structuring and funding over one hundred transactions providing growth capital for companies.

Zwitter's investment experience covers a wide range both Public and Private companies in industries including Telecom and Internet as well as startup and early stage biotechnology companies. Mr. Zwitter was an initial investor in Premier Global Services (PGI) and VerticalOne (SONE). He is also a Senior Level Sales Executive with experience managing sales teams ranging in size from 10 to 600 sales representatives.

Before founding Triton Value Partners, Mr. Zwitter served as Vice President of Sales for epipeline, inc. a Company providing business intelligence tools to government contractors using a SaaS model. Prior to that, Mr. Zwitter was a partner at PtekVentures actively involved in the funding and management of start-up companies in the Internet and telecommunications space.

Paul Freischlag JR. - Managing Director

Managing Director and Founder - Triton Value Partners
Managing Director - IA Tech, LLC.

Mr. Freischlag is a seasoned, "hands-on" executive with extensive experience in both US and global financial markets, business practices, strategy and operations.

He has been involved with a wide variety of business enterprises in the US, Europe, South America and the Far East, including large public corporations, private equity and start-up ventures.

Mr. Freischlag has been associated with many high profile business transactions and partners, such as Royal Ahold, Household International, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) the Stop & Shop Companies, Inc., ShopKo Stores/Provantage Health Services and Price Waterhouse, and has consummated more than $20 billion in debt and equity financing over the past 20 years.

A graduate of University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) in accountancy, Mr. Freischlag also holds a master's degree in taxation from DePaul University, is a CPA and a frequent speaker on topics of finance, accounting, corporate governance and real estate at various prominent institutions. He as served as Chairman of the Board of Junior Achievement of Eastern New England (Boston), Corporate Chair of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in both Boston and Wisconsin, and Executive Vice President of Tax Executives Institute in Washington, DC.

Steve Urvan - Investment Committee Member

CEO and Chairman - IA Tech, LLC.
Advisory Board Member - Triton Value Partners

Mr. Urvan is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with significant information systems technology background and a proven track record of success.

Mr. Urvan is an active investor and board member of several technology companies. As Founder and CEO of GunBroker.com he bootstrapped that company from a concept into one of the 1,000 largest web sites in the US.

Prior to founding GunBroker.com in 1999 Mr. Urvan served as Director or Engineering at Global Village Communications, a provider of network fax software solutions. Prior to Global Village he architected what was at the time the largest optical data storage and retrieval system for ATM and POS information for Bank of America.

Mr. Urvan sits on the board of the Hunting Heritage Trust and is actively involved in several charitable organizations.

Donald Gasgarth – Managing Director

Jeffrey K. Zwitter - Managing Director

Paul Freischlag JR. - Managing Director

Steve Urvan - Investment Committee Member

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