Susan Preston

Susan Preston serves as Managing Partner at SeaChange Fund. Preston also serves as a Board Member at Nortis and as a Board Observer at Cardiac Insight and Membrion. She served as General Partner at California Clean Energy Fund. She has spent most of her career in senior management positions in public and private companies, from general counsel to CEO. She also served as a Board Member at Alphabet Energy. She has also been a Partner in two national law-firms and is a patent attorney. She is a world-recognized expert in angel financing, and is the author of numerous articles, white papers and books on angel financing. Her most recent book, Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs, was released by Wiley Publishing. She has been and continues to be a national and international speaker on economic development, angel and venture financing. She was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the Kauffman Foundation for six years focusing on initiatives related to angel investing, angel organizations and women entrepreneurs. She is the architect of the Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Act, a bi-partisan federal income tax credit bill for private equity investing, which will be re-introduced in Congress this session. Preston received her JD, cum laude, from Seattle University and her BS, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Microbiology and Public Health from WSU. She served as Board Member at Lumetric Lighting.