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Fergal Mullen
Fergal is a General Partner focusing on e-commerce, software and business services companies with a particular emphasis on emerging growth opportunities in Europe. He currently represents Highland on the boards of Coremetrics, PhotoBox and Topica and is a former director of Eleven Technologies (acquired by Trimble) and M7 (acquired by BEA) and VistaPrint (Nasdaq: VPRT).
Previously, Fergal served as a founding Partner of RSA Ventures, the corporate venture fund of RSA Security, Inc. Prior to joining RSA Ventures, Fergal was a Senior Vice President of Cambridge Technology Partners in Europe and a member of the Executive Committee of the firm worldwide. As head of the sales and marketing functions for Europe, he was responsible for developing and executing a marketing and sales strategy across 14 offices in 11 countries. As a founding member of the firm, during his eleven-year tenure Fergal played a leading role in growing the business from start-up to profitability and over $600M in revenue establishing a global footprint with 56 offices worldwide. He was directly responsible for several country-based start-ups and the challenging turn-around of an acquired firm. In 1997, Fergal initiated and launched Cambridge Capital I, a $25M venture fund established to invest in leading enterprise software firms. To date, the fund has returned approximately $200M to investors. Prior to taking A General Management role, Fergal led the corporate business development function at Cambridge. He also spent a summer working at Morgan Stanley in the M&A group based in London.
Fergal received a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Business Economics from Brown University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
A native of Dublin, Ireland, he now lives in the Geneva, Switzerland with his wife, Jane, and four children.
