Jason Heltzer is a General Partner with OCA Ventures and has been working at OCA since 2001. Jason has board responsibilities for Red Foundry, Future Simple, PinPoint MD, Alert Logic, and TradeKing.
Before OCA, Jason spent three and a half years as a management consultant and technical architect for Deloitte Consulting. He also led engineering and business teams at 1stUp, a San Francisco-based startup.
Jason holds an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship, with high honors, from Chicago Booth, where he was selected as a Siebel Scholar and remains an active alumnus. Jason also holds a BS in computer science, with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan, where he founded a fraternity and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
In addition to his professional responsibilities, Jason is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, where he teaches the venture capital and private equity lab class.
Jason serves on the boards of Temple Sholom of Chicago and the University of Chicago Private Equity Network (CPEN), which he founded in 2003.