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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