Treehouse Capital LLC is a personal investment vehicle founded and managed by Robert J. Majteles. Treehouse’s portfolio of private and public technology companies have been very successful in a wide array of markets and circumstances. Mr. Majteles often serves as an active and involved board member for the companies in Treehouse's portfolio, is a venture partner with Oak Investment Partners, and also serves as an advisory partner to a variety of investment funds.
Mr. Majteles seeks to be invited into great opportunities to add value as a board member utilizing his experiences as a chief executive officer, where he succeeded twice in generating superior returns for his shareholders and failing once, and his experiences as an investor and as an active board member of public and private companies.
The primary focus for Mr. Majteles on the boards in Treehouse's portfolio is to embrace and extend the teams leading those companies as they work to scale strategy and operations. Mr. Majteles has extensive public board experience serving and chairing full boards as well as serving and chairing all board committees: Audit, compensation, and nominating and governance. In addition, Mr. Majteles has great experience working through SoX implementations, compensation issues, proxy matters, and other complex aspects of public company life -- both for newly public companies as well as for more established public companies. He also has extensive private company board experience for both start-ups and later-stage companies, serving as both chairman of these boards as well as serving and chairing all relevant committees. In all cases, Mr. Majteles' goal is to be an active and involved board member and to add value to the teams involved in any way possible. Mr. Majteles pursues board of director and fund advisory responsibilities primarily in order to create investment deal flow, insight, and investment opportunities for Treehouse, in addition to earning the appropriate “sweat economics” for taking on these responsibilities.
In addition, to Mr. Majteles' entrepreneurial, investing and board activities, he has also been a Lecturer with the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Berkeley and has served as the Director of Entrepreneurship at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business & the Economy. In addition, Mr. Majteles has been an investment banker and a mergers & acquisitions attorney. Mr. Majteles received a law degree from Stanford University in 1989 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1986. He lives with his wife, Pamela, who is a writer and a columnist, and their three children in the Bay Area of Northern California.
