Roland Oliver

Bio

Roland Oliver founded Monumental Venture Partners, LLC, the general partner to MVP America, LP. Mr. Oliver recruited all of the founding partners, including MCI's New Ventures team, raised capital for the partnership and formed the fund's Advisory Board. Mr. Oliver has experience in corporate governance, private equity, venture capital, endowment investing, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansion in the wireless, telecommunications and information technology industries. From 1993 through 1998, Mr. Oliver was the Group Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Comsearch and Grayson Wireless, acquired divisions of Andrew Corporation, a NASDAQ listed firm with annual revenues of $1.4 billion.. During his tenure with these divisions, Mr. Oliver identified and recruited the management for a new venture that grew from an initial $1 million investment in to Andrew Corporation's Geometrix division, which has posted more than $500 million in highly profitable revenue in 8 years. Earlier at Comsearch, Mr. Oliver held profit and loss responsibility for the secure communications division and directed the division's design and test labs. Mr. Oliver has held management positions at Verizon, Storage Technology, Cable & Wireless, and Centel prior to its merger with Sprint. He attended Lynchburg College, and the University of Virginia, and has lectured at George Mason University on strategic planning for emerging companies. In 2005, Mr. Oliver joined the Board of Trustees of Lynchburg College where he is Chairman of the investment committee and a member of the executive board of the Claytor Nature Study Center. Mr. Oliver serves on the boards of two of MVP America's portfolio companies: Digital Sandbox, Inc., and SonoMedica, Inc., and is Advisory Board Chairman for JB Cubed, Inc. In addition, Mr. Oliver served on the board of Telverse Communications, Inc., through its acquisition by Level 3 Communications, Inc., and directed MVP America's investment in Cinea through its acquisition by Dolby Laboratories in 2003. Mr. Oliver has completed executive development programs at the University of Kansas and Oxford University, and in 2006 he completed the Endowment Institute program at the Yale School of Management.