Jim Pavlik is a Partner with Baird Venture Partners, where he focuses on early and expansion stage investment opportunities in the business services sector. In addition to being a member of the board of directors of Pinstripe, Jim currently serves as a director for ClickFuel, Coalfire Systems and InsideTrack. Prior to joining Baird Venture Partners in 2003, Jim was with Madison Dearborn Partners, where he focused on early stage venture capital investments in the communications services industry. He began his career in Salomon Smith Barney’s investment banking group, where he participated in numerous equity and fixed income financings and mergers and acquisitions. Jim is a member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, a Charter Member of TiE Midwest, an Executive-in-Residence with the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, and a member of the Leadership Council of The Posse Foundation. He received a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Duke University and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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