The Team

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Great Pacific Capital, Mr. Gross is also an engineer and entrepreneur. Mr. Gross has worked in the Internet, aerospace, and alternative transportation fields. He designed and produced early electric and hybrid electric passenger vehicles as well as hardware for various aerospace applications including the International Space Station, missions to Mars, and the longest rigid structure ever deployed in space.

He was the founding CEO of Fastclick, a successful Internet advertising company acquired by ValueClick in 2005. Mr. Gross also had CFO and COO responsibilities from inception through 2003. He led Fastclick with a total of $400K in capital raised in April of 2000 through a $75M private-equity recapitalization in September of 2004. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Mr. Gross currently serves on the boards of Celerus Diagnostics and BioIQ.

Mr. Reed is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Great Pacific Capital. Most recently he served in a senior finance capacity at ValueClick focusing on one of its largest subsidiaries, Commission Junction.

Prior to his position with ValueClick Mr. Reed was the Director of Corporate Development at Fastclick where he facilitated the $75M private-equity recapitalization, the Company’s Initial Public Offering and ultimately the sale of the Company to ValueClick. Prior to Fastclick, he was in the Corporate Development group at Homestore.com (now Move.com), where his team closed over $180M in acquisitions. Initially, Mr. Reed began his career on the Corporate Finance side of the Investment Banking business where he focused on capital raising for technology companies. Mr. Reed holds degrees in Psychology and Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.

Now with nearly $1 billion in financial transaction experience in the technology industry, Mr. Reed is focusing on the “high tech - high touch” investment model that he and Mr. Gross are employing at Great Pacific. Mr. Reed currently serves on the boards of Sirigen, and Procore Technologies.

Mr. Spievak is a Venture Partner with Great Pacific Capital. Mr. Spievak is a proven software industry executive with extensive strategic, financial, transaction and board experience at public and private companies.

Mr. Spievak was most recently Chief Financial Officer at CallWave, Inc., (Nasdaq: CALL). Prior to CallWave, Mr. Spievak was a Vice President in the technology mergers and acquisitions group in Broadview International's Silicon Valley office, where he specialized in enterprise software, network infrastructure and internet services transactions. While at Broadview, Mr. Spievak led or was directly involved with successful M&A transactions and private placements of over $1.25 billion in aggregate consideration. Before joining Broadview, Mr. Spievak held product management roles with Netopia, a developer of Internet/Intranet communications products where he helped the company complete its successful IPO in 1996.