Christopher D. Brady
Founding Managing Partner

Mr. Brady is the founding partner and Chairman of The Chart Group. With over 25 years’ experience in private equity, corporate finance and capital markets, Mr. Brady focuses on identifying and building portfolio companies through his extensive industry relationships and perspective.

Prior to Chart, Mr. Brady was a partner with The Lodestar Group, a merger advisory and investment firm acquired by Societe Generale; and spent eleven years in the Corporate Finance and Capital markets Departments of Lehman Brothers and Dillon Read.

Mr. Brady is a director of Bitrage, Seamobile, U.S. Helicopter and several other Chart investments and affiliates, as well as Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC.

He earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Timothy N. Teen
Founding Managing Partner

Tim is the Co-founder of CVP, and since August 2004 has served as the President and CEO of InSitech, Inc.

InSitech represents the business interests of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) located at the U.S. Army’s Picatinny Arsenal. Tim is a member of CVP’s Investment Committee and provides corporate planning and marketing strategy to portfolio companies. Tim serves on the Board of InSitech, Inc., Remote Reality, the Picatinny Chapter of the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA), New Jersey Network (NJN) and the Morris County Chamber of Commerce.

Tim is also Chairman of the Deployed Childcare Assistance Program (DCAP), a charitable organization that provides daycare assistance to the families of deployed soldiers and is the recipient of the Secretary of the Army Public Service Award, one of the highest civilian honors given.

Tim earned a BA from Montclair State University.

Matthew J. McCooe
Founding Managing Partner

Matt joined CVP at its inception, coming from Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures (STV) where he managed a portfolio of spinout companies and the deployment of STV's highly profitable seed fund. During his tenure at Columbia, eleven portfolio companies went public or were acquired by publicly traded companies. Prior to Columbia, Matt led two startup operations, both of which reached revenues in excess of $125MM and were acquired.

In 1998, Matt co-founded Eureka Networks, a communications and application software organization. Earlier in his career, he managed product development, sales and marketing, and new product roll-outs for two Fortune 500 companies, Becton Dickinson and MCI. As a national sales leader at MCI, he rose to become marketing manager, launching MCI's flagship voice and data products for Avantel, the company’s start-up joint venture in Latin America.

At CVP, Matt focuses on early stage investments in communications, software and robotics. He represents CVP on the Board of RemoteReality, StackSafe and PacStar Communications.

Matt earned an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BA from Boston College. Matt serves on Columbia’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Advisory Board, and as an SBIR reviewer for the National Science Foundation.

Ted Hobart
Partner

Ted joined CVP at its inception in 2006, coming from The Carlyle Group’s US venture capital investment group, which emphasizes multi-stage venture and growth equity investment across many sectors in the US, including defense and homeland security markets. Prior to Carlyle, Ted was a Partner at 4C Ventures (the former Olivetti Ventures arm), an early stage technology venture investment firm focusing on international technology application. Before 4C, Ted worked with Paul Capital Partners, a leader in the secondary private equity industry, where he focused on the acquisition of direct investment portfolios in the US and Europe from corporations and traditional venture investors.

At CVP, Ted focuses on investments in communications, materials science, and power & energy. He represents CVP on the Board of Twisted Pair Solutions, and previously served on the Board of StrionAir, IntegriCo Composites, Znyx Networks, Rely Software, MobileMetrics, and Turing Capital.

Ted earned an MBA degree from Stanford University and BA in Economics from Williams College.

Cole Van Nice
Partner

Cole joined CVP in 2006 and currently focuses on investments in photonics, imaging, geospatial, and CBRNE detection (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) technologies. He represents CVP on the Boards of FortiusOne, NoblePeak Vision, Maxion Technologies, and Innovative Biosensors.

Prior to joining CVP, Cole was a Vice President of Darby Overseas Investments, an international mezzanine, private equity, and venture capital investment firm founded by the former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Nicholas Brady and eventually acquired by Franklin Templeton. At Darby, Cole contributed to the firm’s growth in assets under management from $250 million to over $1.2 billion. He co-founded the firm’s venture capital business and was involved in various capacities with eighteen private equity and venture capital investments. While at Darby, he served on the Boards of Spring Wireless, CertiSign, Jackbe, and Inova Technologies.

Cole started his investment career in telecom equity research and investment banking at Santander Investment, where he worked in the Buenos Aires and New York offices. Cole holds a B.A. from Washington & Lee University, is a CFA charter holder, and a member of the CFA Institute and Washington DC Society of Investment Analysts.

Michael Wu
Principal

Michael joined CVP as Principal in 2006 and has more than 14 years of experience from engineering and product management to venture advisory, angel investing and venture capital. In 2002, he founded Blue Angel Ventures, a Research Triangle Park, NC-based seed funding and venture advisory firm focusing on wireless IT, advanced materials, nanotechnology, and medical devices. He has served in interim management and board positions of several technology start-ups and is also a founding board member of Long Island Angel Network. From 1994 to 2002, Michael held engineering, technical sales, and product management roles in fiber optics, smartphones, public safety and next-generation technologies at Nortel Networks, Ericsson, Siemens, and Nextel Communications. He also worked as an avionics software developer at Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm / DASA, an aerospace defense contractor in Munich, Germany.

At CVP, Michael focuses on investments in MEMS and Nanotechnology as they apply to communications, sensors, and power & energy, and actively supports CVP's portfolio companies. He has led investments and represented investors on the Board of Blue Angel Ventures' portfolio companies.

Michael earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, MS in Electrical Engineering and Management of Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BSEE (magna cum laude and Eta Kappa Nu graduate) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and German.

Chris Brady, Jr.
Analyst, Chart Venture Partners

Chris joined CVP at inception in March of 2006, coming from CVP’s partner InSitech where he was responsible for supporting the advanced technology commercialization efforts and researching new technologies and industry sectors.

At CVP, Chris interfaces with new investment opportunities and on portfolio companies. He also performs in-depth industry analysis. Chris’ focus includes biometrics, robotics and geospatial imaging and services media.

Chris earned a BA from Yale University.

Back To Top