P. Bart Stephens

Bart Stephens is a Managing Partner of Stephens Investment Management, LLC (SIM). He has a background as both an operating entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.

Prior to co–founding SIM, Bart was Executive Vice President, Venture Capital for Ivanhoe Capital Corporation (ICC), an international investment firm. He worked with ICC portfolio companies throughout their growth cycle, with responsibilities including raising capital, recruiting management teams, drafting business plans, devising strategy, and conducting corporate negotiations.

Before joining ICC, Bart was a founding investor and head of corporate & business development for Oncology.com. He helped to build Oncology.com into the Internet’s largest cancer–related web site. Bart was the principal in raising $14.8 MN from CMGi (@Ventures), Paul G. Allen (Vulcan Ventures), Michael Milken and Andy Grove. In February 2001, he negotiated the sale of the company to Pharmacia.

Prior to Oncology.com, Bart spent more than two years with E*TRADE Group, a leading provider of online financial services. While at E*TRADE he held senior positions in the Advanced Products Group and the Digital Financial Media Group, where he managed key strategic business development relationships with companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and Intuit.

Bart has been a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan Business School, NYU’s Stern School of Business, University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Columbia University. He also has testified to the President’s Council on Science and Technology (PCAST), addressing issues of government technology transfer to the private sector and venture capital. Bart sits on several technology company advisory boards and is an active member of the venture community through Stephens Family Ventures (SFV), which focuses on early stage technology investments.

Bart earned a bachelors of arts degree in Political Science from Princeton University. While at Princeton, his academic work focused on the intersection of information technology and national security issues. His work on Info–terrorism in the mid 1990’s involved consulting with the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies to analyze the Internet’s impact on national security and intelligence–related policy.