Management Team
Daniel Egger, Managing Partner
Daniel is the Founder and Chairman of Open Source Risk Management, LLC, bringing more than ten years of commercial software development, risk management, and finance experience. In 1992 he founded Libertech, a venture-backed database search technology company, to commercialize pattern-matching algorithms he had developed and patented while doing graduate work in statistics and mathematical modeling. After selling Libertech in 1996, he joined Eno River Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund based in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, where he is currently Managing Partner.
Daniel is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale Law School, and clerked for Judge William Bryant of the United States District Court in Washington, DC. He is currently the first Howard Johnson Foundation Entrepreneur in Residence at Duke University.
Five years ago Daniel founded what is now one of the best-known Business Plan competitions in the country, the Babcock Elevator Competition, in which students have two minutes to present their Plan while riding twenty floors in an elevator with the judges.
Daniel has served as an organizer, lead investor, Board Member, and/or interim CEO for more than a dozen venture-backed technology startups. Three years ago Digital South Magazine named him one of its “Heroes of Southern Technology.”
Bruce Boehm, Partner
Bruce Boehm is one of the best-known and most distinguished early stage venture investors in the Southeastern US. He served as a General Partner at USVP in Silicon Valley for ten years (1982-1992) before relocating to Chapel Hill, NC and concentrating on hands-on, value-added investing in locally-based technology startups. He currently serves on the board of Directors of Artecel, SciQuest [Nasdaq: SQST] and numerous other IT and life-sciences companies in the region. He received his graduate engineering and MBA degrees from Stanford University and undergraduate engineering degree from MIT. He worked in operational roles in several high tech startups before joining USVP. He currently teaches a course in Venture Capital at the UNC – Chapel Hill Business School.