Tom Dann

Thomas S. Dann, Managing Director of Equity Funds, Maryland Venture Fund. Tom, an experienced venture investor and previously founder and managing director of CastleHaven Advisors oversees the 17-year-old State Venture program, which has invested into scores of start-up and early stage companies, generating a $61 million return, 2,000 jobs and more than $1 billion in private investment. He also directs investments through the State’s InvestMaryland program, which seeds early-stage companies through the Venture Fund and private venture firms.
Tom’s professional career has been focused on private equity, venture investing and public and private initiatives to foster entrepreneurship and job creation. In addition to serving on the Maryland Venture Fund Board since 2004, Tom founded ECentury Capital Partners in 1999 and served as the managing director and general counsel until 2011. Prior to that he was a partner at a Washington D.C. law firm Hewes, Gelband, Lambert & Dann from 1989 to 1999 and served as Chairman and Organizer of the Development Bank of Washington from 1989 to 1991.
Tom received a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and a Juris Doctorate from the American University Law School. He is a member of the Maryland Bar, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland Bar, District of Columbia Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.