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Before co-founding GrowthPoint Technology Partners, John Savage spent nearly eight years as Managing Director at Alliant Partners. At Alliant, he worked in all phases of the semiconductor “food chain,” as well as telecom and infrastructure software. For the three years prior to leaving Alliant, he co-managed the Electronic System Team, working in semiconductor design, IP, manufacturing and test; graphics software and systems, and storage systems.

Mr. Savage has completed dozens of transactions with leading technology companies, including LSI Logic, Cadence Design, Synopsys, KLA Tencor, Brooks Automation, Mattson Technology, Novellus and ASML.

Prior to Alliant, Mr. Savage spent 18 years as a venture capitalist at Weiss, Peck and Greer and with his own firm, Glenwood Capital Partners.

In the early 1990’s Glenwood Capital was the first investment fund with a pure focus on buyouts of mature technology companies. Prior to his venture capital career, Mr. Savage headed strategic planning and business development for Four-Phase Systems, a computer systems company, which was sold to Motorola in 1982.

Mr. Savage began his business career in the first year of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, where his group was involved in establishing the first Air and Water standards. Following his plan to bring his wife to the West Coast in the early 1970’s, Mr. Savage joined Envirotech Corporation, a diversified process and environmental technology company. It was at Envirotech where he developed his interest in mergers and acquisitions by working with the founder and Chairman to build the company through an aggressive acquisition program.

Mr. Savage has a BChE. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School and is currently a director of FileNET Corporation (NASDAQ: FILE), a southern California software company. He currently serves as an office on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Peninsula YMCA, an association of 5 YMCA branches serving peninsula communities. Mr. Savage is also a member of the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.

In his spare time, Mr. Savage works out with the local Masters Swim Club, and tries to play golf when he can find partners who will tolerate his game.

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