Jean C Tempel

Bio

Jean Tempel is Managing Director of First Light Capital LLC, a small venture fund, investing in early stage startups in technology related fields. Jean has been an executive in major NE banks in the investing, marketing, and information management and operations areas. During the 1980's, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of The Boston Company, where she built the systems and operations organizations, as the company became the fifth largest custodian of investments in the world. She left banking technology arena and in the early 90’s, became President and Chief Operating Officer of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., a PA venture firm and in that capacity, was a founding investor and director of Cambridge Technology Partners. In 1994, she returned to Boston and worked as a general partner with TL Ventures and Internet Capital Group. In 2000, Jean started her own small venture firm. She is a member of Walnut Venture Associates, a group of technology oriented executives, who invest in early stage technology ventures. Jean is on the Board of Sonesta International Hotels, Inc., and has been a board member of numerous public companies. As part of her venture activities, she has been a director of over 15 private companies: currently on the Board of JAZD Markets, Inc. and on the advisory board to the Adams Harkness Venture funds. She is a director of The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, The United Way of MA Bay, a founding Board member of the Commonwealth Institute, and on the President’s Council of the MA General Hospital and the Patient-Doctor Partnership of the Bulfinch Medical Group at MGH. Most recently, she has been elected to the Board of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and elected an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has been a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Boards of Connecticut College and Northeastern University, and chair of the Northeastern University Funds and Investment Committee for 9 years. She is also on the boards of Project Hope in Dorchester and St Anthony’s Shrine Guardian’s Council. Most recently, Connecticut College named the college green in her honor, the Tempel Green. Jean received her BA in mathematics from Connecticut College, MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and attended the Advanced Management program at Harvard Business School. Jean and her husband live in Brookline and S. Dartmouth, MA and in Fort Myers, FL, the home of Red Sox Spring Training.