Dror Futter

Dror Futter, General Counsel and Partner, was a founder of New Venture Partners and has been a member of the core team since 2000. He supports all fund investments through their life-cycle, is responsible for negotiating partnership agreements with corporate partners, as well as the asset transfer, intellectual property and commercial agreements that form the core of each corporate spin-out.

Previously, Dror supported the CIO, procurement and several other groups within Lucent and served as lead counsel for Lucent's $500 million Year 2000 effort. Prior to joining Lucent in 1997, he worked at the law firm of McCarter & English, LLP, where he focused on the intellectual property and computer and high technology practice groups. He has served as the co-chair of PLI's VC Law seminar and is active in the NVCA Model Document Working Group and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Dror holds an AB magna cum laude, in Political Economics from Princeton University and a JD from the Columbia University School of Law.

New Venture Partners, the global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spin-outs, has over $700 million under management. New Venture Partners provides a bridge between technology corporations and traditional venture capital. Starting in 1997 as Lucent Technologies New Ventures Group and operating as an independent firm since 2001, the New Venture Partners team has launched dozens of companies built upon innovations from Bell Labs, British Telecom, Philips, and other major technology companies.