PALOMAR TEAM > Randy Lunn
Randy is a founding partner of Palomar Ventures. He began his venture capital career in 1979 as a founder of Harrison Capital, the venture arm of Texaco. At Harrison Capital, he was responsible for investments in such companies as RF Monolithics, Iomega, Amgen, Compression Labs, MCC, Summa Four, and Synercom. He then went on to become a founder and general partner of Fairfield Venture Partners and made investments in Symbolics, Applied Digital Access, and Life Technologies.
In 1990, he joined TVM Techno Venture Management, an international venture capital firm, where he was Managing Partner of US operations. He helped grow and profitably liquidate a legacy fund and also built a highly successful portfolio of investments that included Pairgain, SCM Microsystems, Concerto (AnswerSoft), Benchmarq Microelectronics, InVision (Quantum Magnetics), Dura, and CollaGenex.
Randy has sat on numerous boards of both US and European companies, helped establish US subsidiaries (SCM Microsystems, Sequenom, ATecoM, Dalim), took interim management positions, and helped advise companies as they navigated the IPO process both in the US and Europe. He currently sits on the board of seven Palomar investments: Akonix, Continuous Computing Corporation, Incuity, Inovys, Datallegro, Newport Imaging Corporation and Network Physics.
Randy graduated summa cum laude in engineering sciences and holds BA, BE, and MBA degrees from Dartmouth College. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.
