Chair

Bruce Evans is currently managing partner of Evans Capital a family office private investment fund he formed in 2019 and a senior advisor with Summit Partners, a venture capital and growth equity focused alternative investment firm with more than $45 billion in capital under management. Evans was chairman of the Summit Partners Board of Managers for seven years, from 2012 to 2019, co-managing partner from 1999 to 2011 and a member of the firm’s board and management leadership group for 20 years, after co-leading a successful leveraged recapitalization of Summit in 1999. He was also a member of the board of directors of the National Venture Capital Association from 2009 to 2014 and was founder and initial chairman of the NVCA’s Growth Equity Group during his term on the board. He was named to the Forbes Midas List from 2006 to 2009, has been featured as the expert presenter on the topic of growth equity in the Harvard Business School Online course, Alternative Investments.

During his 39-year career as a venture capitalist, Bruce has served as a member of the boards of directors of 40 technology and other growth industry companies in the US and Europe, including 14 public companies. His prior public company directorships include Analog Devices, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance semiconductor products; Fleetcor Technologies, a provider of fleet credit cards and other specialized payment products for businesses that was later renamed Corpay; Hittite Microwave, a provider of communications semiconductor products ; optionsXpress, an online stock and options brokerage firm; and Pediatrix Medical Group, a comprehensive provider of neonatology services and other health solutions. Evans is also currently a director of three private companies—Clockworks Analytics, a provider of cloud-based fault detection and diagnostics applications for facilities management; AI Proteins, a newly founded biotechnology company that designs and engineers synthetic mini-proteins; and PlaneSense, an operator of a fractional ownership private aircraft network.

Before joining Summit Partners in Boston in 1986, he sold mainframe computers for IBM Corporation in Louisville, Kentucky. He received a BE in mechanical engineering and economics from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Bruce is currently the chairman of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and was also a member of the initial board of directors of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center after its 2016 separation from Vanderbilt University.