The First Light Capital Team

Managing Directors

Jean C. Tempel: Managing Director. Jean C. Tempel is an investor and a venture partner of Internet Capital Group. Jean has been an executive in major NE banks in the investing, marketing, and systems development and operations areas. During the 1980's, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of The Boston Company, where she built the systems and operations organizations, as the company became the fifth largest domestic custodian of investment in the world. From 1992-1993, she was President of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., and was a founding investor and director of Cambridge Technology Partners. In 1994, she returned to Boston, has worked with TL Ventures and Internet Capital Group on early stage technology companies as investor, and/or director. She is also a member of Walnut Venture Associates, a group of technology oriented executives, who invest in early stage technology ventures.

Jean is on the Board of Sonesta International Hotels, Inc., and is a trustee of the Scudder/Kemper family of mutual funds. As part of her venture activities, she is a director of five private companies: Aberdeen Group, Event Zero, Marathon Technologies, The Reference and XL Vision.

She is a Trustee of Connecticut College and Northeastern University, and a member of their executive committees. She is a director of The United Way of MA Bay, the Commonwealth Institute and the Women's Committee of the Pine Street Inn.

Jean received her BA in mathematics from Connecticut College, MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and attended the AMP program at Harvard Business School.

Lucinda Linde: Managing Director. Lucinda invests in early stage information technology companies. At First Light she has performed due diligence on prospective investments and worked with portfolio companies at First Light Capital. Strong Numbers was acquired by IDI Systems.

She was an investor in Visualization Technologies Inc. (acquired by GE Medical Systems), Viveca (acquired by Open Pages) and Collego (acquired by MRO Systems). Lucinda recently co-authored an in-depth study on angel investors, VSS Project: Report on Angel Investors, for Professor Howard Stevenson at HBS and Ken Morse of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

Previously, Lucinda helped build a management consulting firm focused on the telecommunications industry, COBA Boston, which was acquired by Renaissance Worldwide. Start-up experience includes operations and marketing positions at Molten Metal Technology and Ceramics Process Systems. Both were venture-backed companies that went public.

Lucinda is a past-president of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston generating the highest event attendance of the decade; and was President of the MIT Class of 1982, helping drive the highest 20th reunion attendance ever at MIT. She holds an SB and an SM in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.