WRF Press Releases

March 22, 2001

CHUCK HIRSCH ELECTED TO WRF CAPITAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SEATTLE -- Chuck Hirsch, Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, has been elected to the board of directors of WRF Capital, which creates and invests in technology-based start-up companies.  

Before joining Madrona, Hirsch was Chairman of Hirsch & Co., LLC, a Bellevue-based venture consultancy that worked with select national venture firms and numerous emerging technology companies including InterNAP Network Services, Aventail Corp., InteliHealth and Unified Signal Corp. He also served as a consultant to Microsoft, General Mills and Omron Corp.

Hirsch was Co-founder and President of Dare-to-Dream Intertainment, which merged into Microsoft in 1995, where he served as Group Product Planner responsible for the ActiMates ® product line. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Washington State Alliance of Angels and the Board of Trustees of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Hirsch is a graduate of Williams College and a former White House Fellow.

WRF is a 25-year-old independent nonprofit foundation that captures and enhances the value of intellectual property arising from Washington state research institutions to support research and scholarship.

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