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Management Team
Dominick Turiano
(Managing Partner)
Dominick is the Managing Partner for VMS
Fund Administration, Administrative Partner and CFO for
AT&T Ventures and the VMS Group. In this capacity, Dominick
has been responsible for financial and administrative functions
of private and public equity funds capitalized over $1 billion.
Dominick has over 15 years of experience in private equity
finance and administration. Previously, Dominick held various
financial positions at AT&T including business unit
CFO, controller, and auditor. Prior to his tenure with AT&T,
Dominick held various accounting and management positions
with Lear Siegler, Inc. and Walter Kidde. He is currently
a board member of the Philadelphia Private Equity CFO Association,
sponsored by Citizens Bank. Dominick holds a B.A. in Business
Administration from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. in
Corporate Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Richard S. Bodman
(Managing Partner)
Dick is Managing Partner for VMS Fund Administration
and Managing General Partner for AT&T Ventures. Under
his leadership AT&T Ventures exhibited outstanding returns
to its limited partners and was listed in the July 1999
issue of the Red Herring magazine as one of the top twenty-five
venture capital firms of 1998. The firm invested in approximately
60 portfolio companies, which were private companies in
the high technology sector. From 1990 to 1996, he was Senior
Vice President of AT&T Corporate Strategy and Development.
He served as a member of AT&T's Management Executive
Committee, oversaw AT&T's intellectual property portfolio
and was the Lead Director overseeing AT&T's management
of Sandia National Laboratories. Earlier in his career,
Dick was President of the Washington National Investment
Corporation, President and CEO of COMSAT General Corporation.
He held management positions in marketing, product management
and finance at DuPont, and served in the U.S. Government
as Assistant Director of the Office of Management and Budget
and as Assistant Secretary to the Department of the Interior.
He was a partner in the accounting firm of Touche, Ross
& Co. He is currently a Director of the ISS Group, Inc.
and several privately held companies. He is also a trustee
of the NCH Healthcare System. Dick holds a B.S. in Engineering
from Princeton and an M.S. in Industrial Management from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a CPA.
Joseph A. Pruscino
(Director of Finance)
Joseph has over three years of experience
in private equity finance and administration. He has been
responsible for the financial administration of over twenty
funds. Prior to joining VMS Fund Administration, Joseph
was an audit manager in the Florham Park, New Jersey office
of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, where he was responsible
for managing audits of both public and private companies
in the retail, manufacturing, construction, and services
industries. Joseph is a Certified Public Accountant with
approximately 10 years of experience in public accounting.
He is currently a member of the Private Equity CFO Association.
Joseph received a B.S. in Accounting from Rider University.
O. Donaldson Chapoton
(Partner)
Former Managing Partner of the Washington,
D.C. office of Baker Botts L.L.P., a Texas-based law firm
with offices in Washington, D.C., Austin, Houston, Dallas,
New York, London, Moscow, and Baku, Azerbaijan. Don specialized
in income tax matters and his practice included work on
transactional matters and the legislative and regulatory
policy implications of the federal tax law. In his practice,
he represented both public and private corporations in mergers
and acquisitions, spin-offs, partnership transactions, public
offerings, and tax controversies. During the Reagan administration,
Don served in the U.S. Treasury Department under James Baker
as the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. In that position,
he participated with Secretary Baker in formulating Reagan
Administration tax policy and he represented the Administration
in presenting such policy to Congress, testifying on numerous
occasions before the Senate Finance committee and the House
Ways and Means Committee.
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