Peter van Oppen

Managing Director, Founding Partner at Trilogy Equity Partners

Peter van Oppen is a member of Trilogy’s investing team. He served as Chairman and CEO of Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) and its predecessor companies from 1989 to 2006. Previously, he worked in the medical electronics industry and as a consultant at Price Waterhouse LLP and Bain & Company in New York, Boston, and London. A data storage company, ADIC grew from sales and valuation levels of below $10 million to annual revenue of nearly $500 million and a cash sale price of about $800 million in 2006. He was an initial investor in companies that became Voicestream and Western Wireless and served as a director of related entities at various times between 1992 and the sale of Western Wireless in 2005. In addition to ADIC and Western Wireless, he has served on numerous public company boards including Level 3 Communications and Isilon Systems through its sale to EMC as well as many private entities. He is currently board chair at Impinj (NASDAQ:PI).

Peter served as Chair of the Whitman College Board of Trustees and as Chair of its Investment Committee as well as Vice Chair of UW Medicine. He was formerly an Advisory Board member and director of the Seattle Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is currently a director and Investment Committee Chair of Group Health Foundation. As a public company director, he has participated in panels related to effective Corporate Governance and was named a Director of the Year by NW Chapter of NACD. Peter holds a BA in Political Science from Whitman College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.


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