Brad Hanson

Brad began his professional career with Salomon Brothers Inc., in New York, in their Merchant Banking Group where he worked on a variety of leveraged buyout transactions, high-yield debt offerings, “bridge” loan financings and equity investments deploying the firm’s own capital.

In 1988, Brad joined E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc. in New York, a global private equity firm which has invested $35 billion in 650 companies in 30 countries around the world over the last forty years.  The firm continues to successfully invest across all stages of a company’s life cycle in a broad range of industries and countries around the world with a long-term orientation.

In 1991, Brad joined Warburg’s London office where he made and managed investments at a time when Europe was beginning to undergo structural, regulatory and financial change.  Brad worked throughout Europe with a concentration on publishing, cable television, telecommunications, nursing home and retail investments and served on numerous Boards of Directors.

In 1996, Brad was recruited to build and manage a global business development and acquisition group for Reuters Holdings plc in London, a global provider of news, information and transaction products.  Brad built and managed a transaction team and acquired six companies in the U.S., France, Spain, and U.K. in line with an approved strategy.  Brad was the Chairman of four of these growing companies and managed these stand-alone subsidiaries.  During his eleven years in Europe, Brad worked with companies in Germany, U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Czech Republic.

In 2006, after relocating back to Seattle with his family, Brad joined the Sienna Group, a Seattle-based investment firm.

Brad enjoys traveling and exploring a variety of outdoor activities and sports with his twin boys where he can teach them some of the things he learned as a summer commercial fisherman in Alaska from 1976-1984.

Brad graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Oregon in 1985 with a B.S. in Finance and Economics.

Jim Mullen

Jim is a seasoned finance executive and investor with decades of experience driving growth and transformation of businesses. Jim specializes in aligning financial strategy with business growth objectives, ensuring organizations are well-positioned for scalability, operational resilience, and investor confidence. Jim provides his expertise to Lighthouse Ventures, its portfolio companies, their management teams, as well as third – party advisory clients. As an Advisor or fractional CFO, Jim serves as a trusted strategic partner to CEOs to drive company strategy, operational excellence, and enhance financial performance.

Jim brings extensive corporate finance experience to companies including mergers, acquisitions, sale transactions, reorganizations, and equity & debt financings including IPO’s. Operationally, Jim is adept at planning & forecasting, cash flow management, financial performance reporting and the design and implementation of financial systems. Jim, a CPA – Retired, brings extensive experience as a board member and corporate officer with expertise in corporate governance and compliance matters.

Prior to co-founding Lighthouse Ventures in 2012, Jim was the Chief Financial Officer of The Sienna Group, a private Seattle-based investment firm, where he developed strategic growth objectives, evaluated acquisition opportunities and was a partner with, and advisor to, portfolio companies and their management teams. During his tenure, Jim engaged in the start-up or management of sixteen different investment and operating entities.

Jim was Vice President of Finance at aQuantive, Inc, a publicly- traded digital marketing services & technology company (later acquired by Microsoft for $6 billion). Jim was recruited to prepare aQuantive for its IPO and thereafter managed the global finance & accounting organization, including financial planning & analysis, treasury management, financial reporting, accounting, tax, credit, collections, insurance & risk management, and all financial systems. Accomplishments during his tenure included: a $144 million IPO, a $80 million convertible debt offering and the acquisition of nine domestic and international companies. Jim advised on transaction structures, negotiated purchase agreements, critiqued acquisitions, and determined financial reporting and accounting treatment of proposed and completed transactions. Jim also managed investment bankers, legal counsel, tax, audit, and insurance professionals to the company’s benefit.

As Corporate Controller of Teledesic, Jim created a finance & accounting organization to support Teledesic’s mission to develop the world’s first global broadband, low-earth orbit satellite system. Among other accomplishments, Jim implemented a complex restructuring of Teledesic to facilitate global equity and debt investment which provided international investors tax optimization. These efforts enabled the Company to secure funding and commitments in excess of $1B.

Jim began his professional career with international accounting firm Arthur Anderson & Co. where he focused on technology and emerging growth companies, practicing in both the Boston MA & San Francisco CA offices.

Jim graduated Cum Laude from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst earning a B.B.A. with a concentration in accounting.