Exceptional Management Team with Expertise in Life Sciences
The Saratoga Ventures team brings specific expertise in medical devices, medicine, venture finance, business development, client relations, engineering, and fund administration. The complementary skills and backgrounds of our fund partners have made Saratoga Ventures more successful in finding new opportunities, and in deciding on investments and funding allocation.

In addition, Saratoga augments our own management team with services from top professional firms. For example, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati -- one of the top venture law firms in Silicon Valley -- acts as legal counsel for the funds.

General Partner for Saratoga Ventures 5, LP & Saratoga Ventures 6, LP:

Gwen Watanabe, General Partner
Gwen joined Saratoga Ventures in 2004 after working as a Managing Director & Founder for Lava Ventures, a private equity medical device and high technology investment fund. Gwen has also been a serial entrepreneur with early roles in AneuRx (acquired by Medtronic), Bacchus Vascular (acquired by Covidien), and Nellix (backed by Essex Woodlands). Gwen has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Gwen currently serves on the Board of Directors for both Catharos Medical and Hotspur Technologies. In August 2008, Gwen was inducted into the Cambridge Who's Who Registry.

Advisors include:

Richard M. Ferrari, Business Development Advisor & Founder
Peter Fitzgerald, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific & Clinical Advisor

Administration include:

Cindy Boone, Accounting Manager

Lisa Riedmiller, Acting CFO

Trevor Lofthouse, IT Support