James has over twenty years of experience as an investor in private and public companies. He is a partner in Windcrest Partners and from 2002 through 2008, he was a partner at Windcrest Discovery Investments where he focused on technology and business services investment. James was an early investor in a number of infrastructure software and business application companies including GoodData, SmartRecruiters, Wyng, Systinet (acquired by HP), TransactTools (acquired by NYSE) Netbeans (acquired by Sun Microsystems). James is a graduate of Harvard University.