Frank Foster

Managing Director Santa Barbara, DFJ Frontier

Frank Foster is a Managing Director of DFJ Frontier. He also manages the Gideon Hixon Fund, the venture capital investment vehicle for the Hixon Family. Prior to that, he was a General Partner of Allen & Buckeridge PTY LTD, a leading Australian venture capital firm with approximately A$250 million under management. At Allen & Buckeridge he led investment efforts into Hitwise, eKit, Wishlist and Next Generation Entertainment. Mr. Foster has extensive operational experience through his roles at Virtual Music Entertainment (sold to NAMCO), Contexture Systems and  rophecy Development Corporation. Recently, he acted as an independent Director and consultant to YellowPages.com through its successful sale to SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC) and Bell South (NYSE: BLS) in November 2004. He was also Director of Cogent Data technologies through its sale to Adaptec Inc (NASDAQ: ADPT) in June 1996. He received his MBA from The Harvard Business School and a BA cum laude from Harvard University.