Pascal Luck

Pascal Luck, Managing Director, Core Capital Partners. Washington, DC-based venture capital fund Core Capital Partners focuses on early-stage growth companies and targets its investments toward disruptive, “core” technologies in high-growth technology sectors. Pascal focuses on software-driven information and networking technologies with particular emphasis on enterprise security and software solutions.
Prior to joining Core, Pascal was a Director and Founder of CrossHill Financial Group, a DC-based, private investment banking firm. At CrossHill, Pascal led merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, and advisory assignments across a variety of industries. Prior to Crosshill, Pascal was a Senior Manager in the management consulting division of Deloitte & Touche, where he specialized in finance and strategy initiatives for technology companies. Pascal began his career as an engineer with ATT IS/Bell Laboratories.
Pascal is currently a Director or Board Observer at Luminal, ZeroFox, Mobile System 7, Purewave, Triumfant, Update Logic, and V.i. Labs. Previous board affiliations include JackBe (acquired by Software AG), SourceFire (NASDAQ: FIRE, acquired by Cisco), Inlet Technologies (acquired by Cisco), Bridgewave (acquired by Remec), GENBAND, Trust Digital (acquired by McAfee), NextPoint Networks(acquired by GENBAND), and Covega (acquired by Gemfire). Pascal also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Barker Foundation, the nation’s oldest cooperative adoption agency.
Pascal is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Institute. He holds an MBA in Finance with Distinction from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics/Engineering from Loyola University in Maryland.