CEO Quotes
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Dave Schaeffer
Founder CEO, Cogent
Oak Investment Partners has been with Cogent since our founding. Ed Glassmayer has provided guidance and leadership, helping us grow our company in the face of difficult market conditions. While Cogent stayed true to its original vision, our path to how we would execute that vision experienced many obstacles. Oak stood with management, helping us take advantage of the turmoil in our industry to build the world’s largest IP network and emerge as the second largest carrier of Internet traffic (15% of traffic on the public Internet) in the world. While many Venture Capitalists would have been uncomfortable with the complex financial engineering used in building our business, Oak took the lead in financing our acquisitions. Cogent is my seventh start up, in my entire carrier I have never worked with a better and more engaged investor then Ed Glassmayer and the whole Oak team.”
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Brian Bogosian
CEO, Visto
Oak has been a highly effective influence on our Board and a strong business partner to me as CEO. They truly understand the roles and responsibilities, as well as the boundaries, of being an investor board member and have contributed greatly to our success with their keen business instincts, as well as steady leadership skills. I would recommend Oak to any entrepreneur who wants an experienced and active leader around the table and a group that brings tremendous value add every day backed by a legendary track record of success."
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Eric DeMarco
President and CEO, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc.
“Bandel, Kratos cannot thank you and Oak enough for staying with us and supporting our Company a few months ago. Clearly Kratos would not be anywhere near where we are today without You and Oak, and Oak's reputation is just stellar with the Investment community. The management team here is with you as are clearly our primary institutional investors. Thank you again Bandel for doing what you did and supporting our Company, this has absolutely worked out as a win-win for Kratos and Oak (Oaks investment in KTOS), BUT, without your support there is just no way any of this would have occurred”