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Bill Trainor is a co-founder and Managing Director of MCP and MCPF. He is also co-founder and Managing Director of C&T Access Ventures Fund LLC ("C&T AV")(www.AccessVentures.com), a venture capital fund focused on co-investing in early-stage companies with whom Christian & Timbers, a Cleveland-based retained executive search firm, has business or professional relationships. Since its inception in late 2000, C&T AV has invested in seven portfolio companies and one venture CEO side fund. C&T AV no longer makes new investments (other than follow-on investments in its existing portfolio companies), and Bill manages the portfolio of companies on a limited, part-time basis. Until starting C&T Access Ventures, Bill was Senior Vice President-Head of E-Commerce Investment Banking at McDonald Investments, an investment bank acquired by Key Corp. At McDonald Investments, he focused on consumer, retail, healthcare, and service companies working closely with companies that were using technology to expand and complement their existing business structure. Bill joined McDonald Investments in 1994 after graduating from Columbia University with an A.B. in Political Science. His MCPF board seats include Improvita Health Products (and was CFO during 2004), and TGX Medical Systems and board observation rights for OrthoHelix Surgical Designs. Bill also serves on the non profit boards of: (i) SayYES! to Cleveland, an organization that connects current and former Clevelanders in cities across America to build relationships that will create opportunities for economic growth and development for Northeast Ohio; (ii) ShoreBank's ShoreGrowth Fund, a $2.85 million fund that provides start-up and expansion capital for entrepreneurs who are in the early stages of business development; and (iii) University Hospitals Health System's-Ireland Cancer Center's National Leadership Council, a group of prominent and influential leaders advising and advocating UHHS. Bill resides in Lakewood, Ohio. |
Bill Trainor