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Ms. Walker has over 15 years of executive management experience in technology and financial services companies. She is the Founder of The Seed Fund and Managing Director of Boston Commerce Ventures, LLC. In her capacity as Managing Partner of The Seed Fund she most recently served as interim Chief Executive Officer for PayVest, Inc., a spin-out from Federated Investors, Inc., and on the board of directors and Chief Operating Officer of MOCA Systems, Inc.
Prior to The Seed Fund, Ms. Walker was Chairman and CEO of Sanctuary Woods, a multimedia software company that she restructured, and Chairman and CEO of Martin Simpson & Company, Inc., a NYSE and NASD member firm specializing in research and investment management. Earlier Ms. Walker was a top ranked investment analyst, focused on the Computer Software and Data Services industry. She has developed financing, merger, acquisition and divestiture strategies for a broad range of companies from early stage to later stage, including public entities such as Affiliated Computer Systems, Inc., Ceridian Corporation and First Financial Management, to name a few.
Previously Ms. Walker was a Principal at Alex. Brown & Co., Inc. and Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. She has held positions as a securities analyst at L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, Wood Gundy Corporation and County NatWest Securities and as a computer software engineer for General Electric Information Services Company (GEISCO). She holds a BS degree from the University of Virginia.
Ms. Walker is currently on the Board of Advisors of Infratab, Inc. and UC How, Inc. She is a member of the Boston Club and the MIT Enterprise Forum. She also serves on the steering committee for emerging companies at the Commonwealth Institute.
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"Every company has three equally important constituencies: its employees, its customers and its shareholders. The most successful companies maintain a balance among these critical groups."
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