
*I don't check LinkedIn messaging* Hadley is a co-founder and General Partner at Eniac Ventures, where his investment areas include AI (application and tooling layers), data/dev tooling, SaaS, and healthcare. He also takes the lead on developing the firm’s long-term strategy. Before becoming a VC himself, Hadley built two successful, VC-backed startups. He joined Vlingo in 2007, working with talented AI founders out of MIT to manage aspects of the business across product, strategy, and marketing, until the company was sold to Nuance for $225M. He then became Chief Business Officer at Thumb, a real-time recommendation app that reached user engagement levels second only to Facebook and was ultimately acquired by YPulse. He began his career as a developer and engineering team lead at Pegasystems, later taking on roles as a product manager at Microsoft and strategist at Samsung (where he realized that big company life isn’t for him). Hadley grew up in downtown Boston, where he started his first company Beantown Odd Jobs at the age of 13 (ask him about the marketing campaign that involved fake parking tickets!). He now lives in New York City with his wife and sons, and outside the office, he enjoys yoga, meditation, mixing music, and beating Nihal in tennis. Hadley is passionate about improving the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a passion stemming from his close relationship with his brother Traves. He is a Board Director for Cardinal Cushing Centers, which serves adults and children with intellectual disabilities across 4 campuses. He’s still paying off student loans for his MBA from Wharton and bachelors in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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New York, New York, United States
Founding General Partner
ENIAC Ventures
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• Full-time
Sep 2010 - Present
New York, New York, United States
Chief Business Officer
Thumb
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Jul 2011 - Jun 2013
New York City
Vice President & Head of Business & Market Strategy
Vlingo
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Oct 2007 - Jul 2011
Cambridge, MA
Summer Associate
Charles River Ventures
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Jul 2007 - Aug 2007
Manager
Samsung Global Strategy Group
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Aug 2006 - Apr 2007
Product Manager
Microsoft
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Jun 2005 - Sep 2005