Our Team
Our team consists of professionals from a diverse range of industries and expertise . Equipped with investment experience covering entire industry value chains, and experience in comprehensive workflow management
Manish Kothari
Entrepreneur
Prior to his role at First Spark, Manish was the President of SRI International, a large, renowned research lab in Silicon Valley…
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt is Technical Advisor to Alphabet Inc., holding company of Google Inc, where he advises its leaders on technology…
Peter Richards
Notable Investments
Peter Richards is a veteran technology investor with more than 25 years of private and public market experience…
Danny Chen
Notable Investments
Danny founded his first startup as a freshman in Canada Vancouver. After making several high profile investments…
Haitao Zhu
Notable Investments
Dr. Haitao Zhu, PhD, was a partner at SVE Partners, an early stage venture fund where her focus was on biotech and medical …
Aaron Sisto
Notable Investments
Aaron Sisto Prior to First Spark, Aaron was most recently a Director at Schmidt Futures, leading early stage tech investments…
Averell H. Mortimer
Averell Mortimer is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Arden Asset Management LLC…
Teresa Teague
Teresa is a co-founder/partner of TTB and has 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry in US, Europe and Asia…