Welcome New Board Members

We welcome our two newly elected board members Joel Kaplan and Drew Smith.

Joel joined SVPP in 2004 and served on SVPP's Investment Committee which led to the selection of CASH Oregon (Creating Assets Savings and Hope) as a project. He served as the team lead for this project from May 2005 through May of 2006 and has been involved with all significant decisions affecting CASH Oregon. Joel is a partner with Foster Pepper Tooze, a Portland and Seattle-based law firm. His practice includes real estate transactions and finance, corporate finance and securities, and general corporate counseling and contracts. In his career, he has worked with several Portland law firms and served in executive management positions with a financial services company. Joel and his wife, Pat, who is also an SVPP partner, have lived in Portland nearly 25 years. They have two daughters, both in college. Joel's hobbies include tennis, gardening and woodworking. His specialty is baseball bats.

Drew and his wife, Barbara Resnick, have been SVPP partners since 2002. He has served on an Investment Committee and is currently chairing the Partner Education Committee. His day job is making venture capital investments for Intel Capital and he is currently overseeing Intel's investments in mobile computing technologies. Prior to joining Intel, Drew was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, as well as other semiconductor firms. He has an MBA from Cornell and a degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. Drew and his family have lived in Portland for 11 years. Barbara is a dermatologist in private practice in northwest Portland. They have two school-aged children, Ian and Lauren. They enjoy biking, hiking, skiing and other outdoor pursuits.