Virginia Gambale Biography

Virginia Gambale is a successful private equity investor and technology executive. She was named one of Wall Street’s top three technologists and Forbes Great Communicators. Gambale chronicles her Wall Street heritage as CIO at Merrill Lynch, Bankers Trust, Alex Brown, and Deutsche Bank. She left the pure technology track in 1999 to become the head of DB Strategic Ventures and wind down their $100 million investment portfolio. This led to her appointment as a general partner in ABS Ventures and DB Capital Partners until her retirement from Wall Street in late 2003. Since 2003, Gambale has been managing partner of Azimuth Partners, LLC, a strategic advisory firm, developing corporate strategy and orchestrating successful exits for companies via M&A and IPO. She has served on numerous international public and private boards including Motive (NASDAQ-MOTV), Workbrain (TSE-WB), IQ Financial, and Synchronoss Technologies, among many others. Gambale is currently an active board director, committee chair and a member of the New York Economic Club, National Association for Corporate Directors (NACD), Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and Women’s Bond Club.