Friday, May 15, 2009

Vulcan Capital Promotes Temple

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital, the private investment firm of Microsoft's Paul G. Allen, said late Thursday night that it has promoted Chris Temple to President. Temple has been a Vice President at Vulcan since September of last year. According to Vulcan, Temple will be responsible for overall management of its investment activities. Before joining Vulcan, Temple had served at TailWind Capital, Friend Skoler & Company, Thayer Capital Partners, and KPMG. Temple replaces Lance Conn, who Vulcan said would continue to serve as directors on the boards of several of its portfolio firms.