Thank you to all of the generous sponsors and players who made the
Third Annual VCs vs Entrepreneurs
Golf Tournament

an amazing success! Congratulations to the Entrepreneurs, led by Sung Park, Gary Mueller and John Landry who beat the Venture Capitalists, led Lou Volpe, Jamie Goldstein and Woody Benson by 48-42.


More than $200,000 was raised during the golf tournament and all proceeds benefit Raising A Reader’s powerful literacy work with low-income children ages 0-5.

In addition to the sponsors and host committee, special thanks to our incredible tournament organizers, Sung Park, Mike Trethewey and John Simon – Bravo and kudos to you!

 


For more information about GreenLight Fund events, please contact Melanie Damsker, mdamsker@greenlightfund.org,
617-252-2815.


 
 

Hole Competition Winners

Putting Competition sponsored by CDW and EMC
First place: Bob Cramer (winner of an 80G IPOD)
Second place: Ken Lavery (winner of a 30G IPOD
Third place: Michael Skok (winner of an IPOD)

Hole #1 BEAT DAN sponsored by General Catalyst Partners and Long’s Jewelers
Roy Hirschland (winner of a Breitling Wings Automatic Chronometer with a stainless steel case and bracelet and a blue dial, courtesy of Long’s, valued at $3150)

Hole #2 longest drive raffle sponsored by Bowne of Boston
Gilbert Dailey (winner of Red Sox tickets)

Hole #4 Beat the Steve’s sponsored by Deloitte Tech-Venture Center (winners will be invited to a Garden event next year)
First Place: Chip Meakem (as the closest to the pin, Chip will select an event from the following choices: Celtics, the Bruins and the Hockey East finals), Mike Armstrong, Larry Bohn, Alex Finkelstein, Darren Flutie, Blair Heavy, Jeff Hurst, Mike Lannon, Gary Mueller, John Mutkoski, Paul Sereiko, John Simon, Stefan Spacek, Michael Tyrell

Hole #7 closest to the pin sponsored by Baystate Financial and Goodwin Procter
Jeff Hulton (winner of two Red Sox tickets and a gift certificate to The International pro shop)

Hole #9 raffle sponsored by PlaneSense
David Baum (winner of a golf lesson with one of the best pros in the country)

Hole #10 raffle sponsored by Thrive Networks
Bob Lentz (winner of a Calloway Hybrid Three Club)

Hole #12 the top four foursomes that played the best at hole sponsored by North Bridge Venture Partners (winners of a polo shirt and straw hat)
First place foursome: Glen Mello, Clay Yonce, Jon Karlen and Ruben Orduna
Second place foursome: Larry Venezia, Rick Fidele, John Hanifin and Dave Kantaros
Third place foursome: Ben Fischman, Bill Sahlman, John Simon and David Skok
Fourth place foursome: Jim Daniell, Bill Seibel, Chris Greendale and Bob Hower

Hole #13 top three players closest to the pin sponsored by Capital Advisors
First place: Steve Dalrymple (winner of two tickets to the Police Reunion at Fenway Park)
Second place: Tim Call (winner of round of golf at TPC)
Third place: Jon Karlen (winner of Red Sox tickets)

Hole #16 top three players closest to the pin sponsored by Merrill Lynch and Giles Wine
First place: Jeff Hurst (winner of two bottles of Giles Fine Wine)
Second place: Bill Sahlman (winner of a bottle of Giles Fine Wine)
Third place: Jon Karlen (winner of a bottle of Giles Fine Wine)

Hole #18 Closest to the Pin after your third shot sponsored by Kodiak Venture Partners
Will Kelly (winner of a complete swing assessment performed by a trained PGA instructor using the most advanced swing analysis system available the Bentley Kinetics K-vest)

 

 
Host Committee
 
 

Woody Benson, Prism Venture Partners
Tom Burton, Mintz Levin LLP
Steve DiPietro, Deloitte Tech-Venture Center
Peter Falvey, Revolution Partners
Jamie Goldstein, North Bridge Venture Partner
John Hanifin, Summit Mortgage
Chris Kennedy, Capital Advisors Group
John Landry, Adesso Systems
David LaVallee, Revolution Partner
Glen Mello, Square 1 Bank

Sung Park
Gerard Phelan, Bowne of Boston
Dave Power, Fidelity Ventures
Bill Schnoor, Goodwin Procter LLP
John Simon, General Catalyst Partners
Stephanie Smith, Deloitte Tech-Venture Center Michael Trethewey, Merrill Lynch
Lou Volpe, Kodiak Venture Partners
Keith Watson, fama PR, Inc.

Thank you to our generous corporate sponsors