Stages:

• Early
• Seed

 

Industries:

Information Technology

Life Sciences & Healthcare

Medical Device

Software & Internet

 

Description:

Hawkes Financial is the Family Office of Arthur J. Samberg (born 1941). Samberg was the chief executive officer, president and chairman of Pequot Capital Management, a hedge fund which at one point was the largest in the world at over $15 billion. Through this family office, Samberg now invests capital in startups. Hawkes affiliate, Acacia Woods (see profile) has made investments in IT as well as medical diagnostics. He is a Member of the Board and Executive Committee of TAE Technologies, on the Board of Levant Power Corporation, and Chairman of the Board of JetSuite, LLC. Samberg is a Life Member of the MIT Corporation, and a Member of MIT Executive Committee. For five years he served as Chairman of the MIT Investment Management Company and currently sits on the Board of Advisor of the MIT Energy Initiative. Samberg is also the Co-Chair of the Columbia Business School's Board of Overseers. He also serves on the Board of Trustees and Executive and Investment Committees of New York's Presbyterian Hospital, the Board of Directors of Historic Hudson Valley, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. A graduate of the Columbia University Business School, Art Samberg gave his alma mater a $25 million matching grant.