Fred M. Haney, Ph.D., President
Dr. Fred Haney is the founder and President of the Venture Management Co., a firm that provides assistance to high tech companies. He is the author of “The Fundable Startup: How Disruptive Companies Attract Capital,” published on February 6, 2018, by Select Books of New York.
Other accomplishments include:
Founder, Monday Club, an 850-member mentoring network (MondayClub.com). Co-founder, Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel investor groups in the U.S. Founder and manager of 3i Ventures, California, a venture capital fund that invested $80 million and produced 19 public companies and top quartile returns.
Dr. Haney has been a co-founder of five startup companies, including NovaDigm Therapeutics, the first fungal vaccine tested in humans, DRC Computer, the most powerful gene sequencing computer in the world, and NMR Finder an artificial intelligence nuclear magnetic resonance imaging accelerator. He is a director of Orange County’s Parcel Pending, a leading supplier of kiosk-based locker systems for package delivery. He has been a director of over 30 high-tech companies.
In 1999, he was selected “Mentor/Angel of the Year” by the American Electronics Association in Orange County. In 2002, he was named “Director of the Year for Early Stage Companies” by the Forum for Corporate Directors. Before 1983, Haney held senior management positions with Xerox, CSC, and TRW. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Carnegie-Mellon University, an M.S. in Mathematics from Colorado State University, and a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Connect with Dr. Haney on LinkedIn
Barbra Ella Ongwico
Barbra has taken part of Asian American Professional Association (AAPA) Board Leadership Program where she has trained to sit on non-profit boards and is open to board seats nominations.
Barbra worked as a (Clinical) Research Associate II at the Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles site (California) under a team of 5 Sub Principal Investigators of Oncologists/ Hematologists and a CRN managing over 117+ Cancer Clinical Study Drug Trials in the Oncology/Hematology department (called CCTAP). Barbra was a member of GenKP (Generation Kaiser Permanente) and KPAPIA (Kaiser Permanente Asian Pacific Islander Association) from 2018 to 2021.
In concert, Barbra Ella Ongwico still works as an Associate to Founder and CEO of Venture Management Company, Dr. Fred Haney. Some of her duties include Hosting Pitch Tips Zoom Cast, Co-founding the Silicon Beach Monday Club with Fred, deal flow, deal sourcing, entrepreneur outreach, networking website maintenance, marketing, digital marketing and branding, list management and social media strategies and promos. Barbra has been a member of Monday Club (www.mondayclub.com), a business mentorship presentation forum that helps entrepreneurs connect with funders, since 2010 during it’s inception and attends the forums helping with presentations, logistics, catering and preparation. Also mentioned as a “source of early inspiration” for The Fundable Startup Book written by Dr. Fred Haney. With a background working for Smith Barney (2002-2004) and at the Yale Club of New York as an Independent Contractor (2011-2014) for Starlight Events., Barbra worked concurrent financial events in Private Equity in NY and Venture Capital in LA amongst her contributions, ushering in contacts full of Investors and Entrepreneurs.
Barbra also works with startupclub.biz (2020) with Starlight Events. During the NY Private Equity and Venture Capital Forums held at the Yale Club of NY during 2011-2014, Barbra secured thousands of Investor relationships as well as reffered Entrepreneurs to present at these forums.
Her prior background was working in Clinical Research for South Bay Neurology Research for over 10+ years in clinical drug trials while being mentored in studies for neurological diseases such as restless leg, fibromyalgia, MS, Migraines, Diabetes etc. From there, she started working in the Venture Capital world with Dr. Fred Haney, who works with projects such as Biotechnology, Biomedicine and High-Tech.
Connect with Barbra on LinkedIn
Contact: Barbie@venturemanagementcompany.com