Impact Partners

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Jim Swartz has been active in venture capital for four decades. Experienced in the operating needs of young companies, he particularly enjoys working with start-up teams that are defining new industries. He has served as a Director for over fifty successful companies and has been closely involved as lead investor with the emergence of numerous industry pioneering firms including Avici Systems, BroadBand Technologies, FastForward/Inktomi, FVC.com, Illustra/Informix, Medical Care America, Netopia, PictureTel, Polycom, Remedy Corporation, Riverbed Technology and Ungermann-Bass. Jim is former Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and a former President of the New York Venture Capital Forum. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a concentration in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics (he mostly remembers something about playing football) and holds an M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

Susan Swartz has been painting for more than 40 years. Trained in watercolors and oils, she now expresses herself in acrylics on large linen canvasses, with a particular love for landscapes and the natural world she has experienced. She was commissioned to create commemorative artwork for the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games and was the recipient of the "Mansion Artist of the Year" award by Utah Governor Michael Leavitt. Honors and awards include exhibitions at the Garden State Watercolor Society Show, the National Audubon Society, Salmagundi Club of New York, and the Grand National Exhibition of the American Artist Professional League. She published her first book "Natural Revelations" in November 2007. In January through April 2008 she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She exhibits at the Elliot Yeary Gallery in Aspen, Carol Craven Gallery in Vineyard Haven, and the Phoenix Gallery in Park City. Her paintings are included in the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Salt Lake Olympic Museum, Salt Lake City; and the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame & Museum in Michigan. Swartz co-produced the 2005 Academy Award—winning documentary BORN INTO BROTHELS and is actively involved in numerous social interest documentaries through Impact Partners. She currently serves on the Dean's Council for the Harvard Divinity School and the Board of Directors of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/de Young and Legion of Honor, the Salt Lake Film Center and is Co-Chair of the Park City Christian Center.