W. Bradford Stephens

Brad Stephens is a Managing Partner of SIM. His diverse background in domestic and international finance includes sell–side securities analysis, hedge fund management and venture capital. While co–founding SIM, Brad helped manage a 14 year–old hedge fund with his father, focused on neglected microcap public equities.

Prior to the fund, Brad worked as the senior analyst at Fidelity Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments. At Fidelity, Brad focused on the areas of Internet Security and New Media, leading investments into e–Security, Sanctum and Managed Objects. He also founded Fidelity’s Biometric Consortium, a cutting edge collaboration of all Fidelity’s business units designed to explore, pilot and implement biometric security systems within Fidelity and eventually its consumer clients.

Brad also worked as a research analyst in CSFB’s Technology Group, specializing in Internet Security and Internet infrastructure software. While at CSFB, Brad helped raise over $1.3 billion for companies under coverage. Prior to working at CSFB, Brad worked as a research analyst at Furman Selz (later acquired by ING Barings), where he co–founded their Internet Research Group and co–authored the first financial industry piece on Internet Security.

Brad has a bachelor of arts degree from Duke University where he was an economics major with an emphasis on China. This work included direct venture capital experience in Beijing, where he helped seed–finance SRS, the first outside technology investment into China, which later became Sina.com (Nasdaq: SINA).