The members of the OCA Ventures team have a passion for building early-stage companies into market leaders, have long histories working with one another, and share common core personal and professional beliefs, while at the same time contributing different skills and perspectives.
This cohesive group has close business and personal relationships dating back more than 25 years. John Dugan, Peter Ianello and Marc Berman were partners in the 1980s when they led O’Connor & Associates. Jim Dugan is John Dugan’s third son, Jason Heltzer joined the team in 2001, Joe Dwyer joined in 2009, David Zyer joined in 2009 and Gabe Greenbaum joined in 2011.
Craig Heimark -
Craig is currently the CEO and Founder of Cohesive FT, a company that
provides customers with the ability to create custom-configured,
container-hardened, subscription-supported application stacks. Craig is
also currently a board member for Deutsche-Bourse. Previously, Craig
was an independent advisor to Silicon Valley start-up ventures in the
area of technology planning, financial matters and growth strategies.
Before becoming a venture capital advisor, he worked at SBC Warburg
from 1990 - 1997 where he served as a Member of the Executive Board, as
The Head of Strategic Planning, and as The Chief Information Officer.
From 1986 - 1993, Craig was a General Partner of O’Connor and
Associates, a partnership engaged in proprietary options trading. He
has a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Biology from Brown University,
1977.