Aaron Cheatham has more than 15 years of venture capital, investment banking and operating experience and has worked with more than three dozen start-up companies. Before founding ASC Advisory Services, Aaron spent eight years in the venture capital industry. During the last two years, Aaron was a general partner at JAFCO Ventures where he focused on following top-tier venture capital firms by making early expansion-stage investments in their emerging cleantech and information technology companies. Prior to JAFCO, Aaron was a principal at Mobius Venture Capital where he invested in early-stage communications infrastructure, components and wireless technology companies. Aaron's venture capital experience includes board member roles at Aprio Technologies (Blaze DFM), Gtronix, Impinj and United Devices (Univa). He was also a board observer at such companies as Calypto, Danger (Microsoft), Dantz Development (EMC), HVVi Semiconductors, PocketThis, Quellan, SkyPilot Networks, Symwave, Transilica (Microtune) and XaQti (Vitesse).

Aaron's financing acumen was developed in the investment banking business, as a vice president with Merrill Lynch's Technology Investment Banking Group where he helped raise more than $5 billion for companies such as CyberSource, Internet Capital Group, Maxtor, PLX Technology, Pivotal and STMicroelectronics and as a founding employee of Epoch Partners, a technology-enabled investment bank formed through partnerships with Ameritrade, Charles Schwab and TD Waterhouse.

Aaron began his career in Silicon Valley as a technical sales engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, where he gained valuable operating experience through his interaction with leading workstation manufacturers and their contract manufacturers.

Aaron received his M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management with a focus on entrepreneurial studies and finance. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University where he concentrated in computer engineering including RISC microprocessor architectures and network protocol design. He is an avid fly fisherman and loves coaching soccer and fast pitch softball.