Hillcrest Venture Partners

Co-founder and Managing Director of Hillcrest Venture Partners, overseeing investments in companies such as Phizzle and Virtulocity, with prior involvement in firms including FastSoft, Jeda Networks, Notion, QuickFire Networks and Titan Photonics. Before venture capital he co-founded Westhold Corporation and held engineering leadership roles at Conexant Systems and Textron.

Managing Director at Hillcrest Venture Partners who was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in 2019.

Jim Dovey is a Managing Director at Hillcrest Venture Partners focused on enterprise applications, communications infrastructure, and wireless technologies, overseeing investments such as Branded Online and MomentFeed. He was previously an Operating Partner at Meritage Funds and spent over 40 years as a communications executive, including founding roles at Completel and United Cable International.

Kamran Shamsavari is Managing Director at Hillcrest Venture Partners and serves on the Board of Directors of GateSpeed, where he holds the title of Chief Speed Officer. His background includes management of multinational, multifunctional teams, work on early laser-scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy imaging systems used to study synapse formation in developing neural circuits, and the development in 2004 of an embedded Linux-based handheld device for wireless data and voice communications with a Microwindows-based interface, applied to race venue data distribution and communications.