Matt McCall

I work in the Windy City and am a co-founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners. I am or have bben responsible for managing the firm’s investments in Cognitive Concepts, Everdream, Feedburner, Imago Scientific, Lefthand Networks, Siimpel & TicketsNow.

I have served on the advisory board to the Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors in Chicago as well as on numerous other regional high technology advisory boards. I am a board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association. I also serves on the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board, Northwestern McCormick MMM Advisory Board and ITEC-UIC (Illinois Technology Enterprise Corporation), a University of Illinois sponsored state funded incubator. I have been honored by Crain's Chicago Business on its annual "40 under 40” list of leading Chicagoans under age 40. He has also been named as one of top 100 most prominent members of Chicago's technology community. I am a founder & trustee of the McCall Family Foundation, focused on improving early childhood development in Chicago’s disadvantaged communities.

Previous to 1995, I worked in the Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office, where I managed consulting and client teams on projects in the telecommunications, health-care and financial services industries. During and after college, I worked for Bankers Trust in Merchant Banking as well as at Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust.

I hold a B.A. in Economics and History from Williams College and an MBA with honors from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. I also hold a Masters in Manufacturing Management from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering.